20% off for army surplus

When John and I first discussed this idea, it was from the notion of using it to make it a bit cheaper to buy replacements when things got desperate.

However, it seems to have spawned a bit in people's minds and the position now is that anything which is any existing fleet book design, the UNSC designs already referenced and the "additional" pseudo fleet book designs I referenced in the same post can be used to buy a fleet made completely out of army surplus at the outset. The first fleet actually filed with me was put together on this assumption, so the rest of you should be treated equally.

This has the unfortunate effect of letting people effectively have starting fleets of 5000 pts, something which I actually changed the rules to prevent because it seemed like too many ships.

However, although you're buying them at 20% off, the maintenance bills come due on the actual build cost, something which I am now going to have to spell out to one overly optimistic player who didn't read the rule properly.