Federation Commander

However, note while that canceled movement from deceleration counts towards turn modes, it does not count towards side slips; so the example with

1.2 Side Slip to C move 1
1.3 Decelerate
1.4 Side Slip to C move 1

is technically illegal, any movement after 1.2 would have to either be straight ...

In example #2, since the damage to the #1 shield was from 2 volleys, could the firing player decide to have the volley from the phaser resolved first in an attempt to reduce the #1 shield to the "weakest"?

Jay,

One thing that you might want to look at for ecnounter resolution
is farming out the scenarios to an independent group (possibly with "orders" or guidance from fleet command). This would give more of the feel of a commander seperate from the fleet he's commanding.

Of course, this might be ...

Hey I'd like to throw my hat in for this!

I'd love to be in it too!

So if the controlling ship were destroyed, the sattelites would (esentially) go inert?

Just to confirm, a planet (since there are no ground bases if FC yet) could not provide control?

The DDM was in Communique 37, complete with all 8 labs and no drones

SVC,

Don't know if this was brought up (didn't find it in the CRUL), but 5L6 in Orion Attack doesn't list the weapons for a Lyran Monitor

Just wanted to chime in as one of the groups playtesting the VBAM system (titled Federation Admiral). It does allow quite a bit of depth and detail if you want it. As Scoutdad said, the current rules are big, but they includes a lot of extra detail that players don't have to use if they don't want ...