Federation Commander

I hate to resurrect an old topic but I am a long standing Romulan and would like to know if any one has been play testing these changes. I would like to see at least some of these but would be leery of all of them being implemented without extensive play testing (not something I really think would ...

As a followup question to Paul, which part do you want me to ask about? The "firing a drone at a friend drone" part or the "drone hitting an impacted drone held in a tractor causes both to explode" part? I went ahead and asked about both, but I am curious as to which was actually bothering you ...

As a follow up (again not having my rule book) if (4F5c) really actually says -or if A hits B- then I believe this makes drones way over powered. For example say I am closing with a drone user with 4 drones between us that he fired this turn. I want to close and do maximum damage. To get through the ...

I also question how this situation can result in the target ship taking any damage. I do not have my rule book with me right now but earlier Scoutdad put this qoute in -(4F5c) ...If seeking weapon A is targeted on seeking weapon B, and B impacts its target before A reaches it, then A is removed and ...

If If you guys are going to fight this battle on FCOL can you post what day and time here. I would love to be able to watch it. I need to learn FCOL and watching the fight will be a great intro. Plus I think the Skyhawk should eat that fed destroyer for lunch, even if it is the refitted version. The ...

I am not sure why one would say that you must decide to cloak out on impulse one. Since other functions come before launch a ship planning on cloaking can do it the impulse before they enter 25 hexes. For example on impulse three say the range is 26 hexes, the ship that wants to cloak announces ...

Phaser damage, as you mentioned, is applied where every 2 points of damage reduce the warhead by 1 point. So in your example of 7 damage to the S and 5 damage to each of the F Torpedoes your damage is 27 from the S and 18 from each of the Fs. However the extra point of damage to each torpedo is not ...

I would have to go dig out my SFB stuff for exact relative dates (the two games use different dating systems) but yes the Klingon D5 and the Lyran CW were both deployed at the start of the invasion. I can't remember the Kzinti and Hydran production dates on there war cruisers but if they were ...

Also remember that no rule operates in a vacuum, they all interact. In this discussion the other rule that seems to be the key point (forgive me I do not have my book with me to site the rule number) is the rule that limits firing to 3 units in a hex. Note earlier the talk about trying to nail the ...

It does have to be pointed out that like other weapons the batteries used to arm that second turn of arming would not exceed the energy actually needed. For example a King Eagle would only need to start a battle with 2 less power in the batteries. I hate to point this out as it seems very obvious ...

Also beyond just the timing (first full power launch turn 2, 2nd launch turn 5) is the mind set that not having fully armed weapons imposes on one. Not having fully armed weapons forces me as a plasma boat to give up the middle of the map without a fight simply to arm my weapons. I have some ...

The other thing that might occur is more aggressive play by plasma ships. I know some people were concerned that plasma was 'boring'. If you can have plasma armed on turn 1, even if only to pay holding on turn 2 then it might result in more aggression early on and set the tempo for the game.



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While it does not explicitly say that recovering a satellite ship costs the same as launching it one would have to assume it does. Thus by (5V1b2) 'Launching a small satellite ship costs three points of power; a medium one costs four points of power; and a large one six points of power.' The ...

If I recall right the Andros were not that great at dishing at a lot of damage. Sure the TRH do a lot of damage but they are two turn arming weapon and there are not a lot of them. Plus they only have phaser-2's and not a lot of them. What the Andros were really good at is taking a pounding and ...

I hate to mention another company’s product on this forum but HappyDaze (or really any of you out there reading this) have you ever play Warhammer or Warhammer 40k or just read their rules? Right in their rulebooks they admit that their rules can not possibly cover every contingency that may come ...