Federation Commander

For you young'uns that weren't there, a lot of players used to fly ISC ships backwards in SFB. Look at the weapon array, then at the shields. It was plasma F's launched followed by phaser fire on the next one or two impulses. Then you got your rear shield shreaded as they passed by because the ...

Terry, you have a good point there. Yes, I said 4 minutes and meant it. Now that you have brought my attention back to the basics, I think you are right.

I think I should be looking at 4 seconds per sub-pulse, 16 seconds per impulse, and 128 seconds per turn.

Why these numbers? It takes 3.6 ...

I believe my background as an engineer influences my writing and I want to be as precise as I possibly can so I use terms like ATG & MR-C, but I understand where you are coming from with respect to generic terminology, therefore, I will use it in the future, if I can catch myself before I write it ...

Drones should never have been allowed to be on fighters in the first place. It doesn't fit the pseudo science and they are wildly unbalancing. ATG drones DO NOT work in federation commander because there is no way to deal with that many drones. No t-bombs, no wild weasels, and no lock-on to break ...

I do not have a proplem because there are restrictions on how many drones can be launched from a given ship drone rack or fighter during a turn. The real trick usually comes from Orions when they use MR-C racks.

Each impulse is logged as a four minute span of time. (Yes, this was arbitrary.) So ...

'The problem, dear Jane, is in ourselves.'

Look at your profile. No location, no email address, no occupation, no website, no interests listed, no MSN / YAHOO / AIM addresses, nor ICQ number.

I think it is not that you can not find an opponent, but rather, you are making it difficult for them to ...

We'd all like to see the results. More than a few people think they will rig the vote to come out their way.

I hate to say this, but this is typical of management. Ignore the details and sweep on to the Grand Fallacy.

It happens so many times...and then they wonder why they didn't sell a certain ...

You know, that's a good idea! There could be tours of ADB and live question and answer sessions! I think sleeping in the warehouse is a bad idea, but group discounts at local hotels would be handy; using rooms for gaming and eating in their in-house restaurants to increase the hotel revenues. We ...

Taking this one at a time...

Mike: It was not directed towards you, but at Wild Card. I think the Kzinti ships do not need 'help', even with the robot rules.

Nerroth: I think you might be right on that. I was thinking Kang was the Commander of the Admiral Kang. I'm going to have to go and re-read ...

The way you speak of changing the scenario makes me think that you do not know the entire story behind how Kang, in a lone C8 dreadnought, outwitted and out fought the Kzintis in his escape from the deception of their so called truce. It is one of the reasons he was considered to be a Dahar Master.

Bigger ship moves first. NCL vs NCA, if all were equal, the NCA would move first as its class is bigger. Higher BPVs are usually assigned to larger ships.

I know everyone saw that I wrote "House Rule", right?

You assume too much, Grasshopper. Who said they could read? Who said they could ...