Federation Commander

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1) For VPs, it's unclear how to handle fractional VPs in general. Some places explicitly tell you where to round or drop fractions, but other places don't. For example if you earn 5 VPs in the 3rd cycle, do you get 2, 2.5, or 3 VPs for that objective ...

Looking for Fed Commander opponent in central NJ. Haven't played in awhile since my regular opponent stopped playing. May be interested in Federation and Empire as well, but not SFB.

How about something extremely simple with cloak? Direct fire weapons simply do 3/4 damage during fade and 1/2 while cloaked. Seeking weapons do 1/2 damage during fade and 1/4 damage while cloaked. Instead of +4 range, simply increase 2 columns to the right for direct fire weapons. I never liked the ...

I can't speak to US law, but in the UK that is still not theft that I'm aware of, I would assume it would be prosecuted as a fraud (specifically obtaining services by deception).

In the US, sneaking into a theater without paying would be considered 'theft of services'. It would be charged as a ...

So in some campaigns it may be that BPV is of some concern, but seldom to the level you think. In either case, a difference of 5% on an individual ship is seldom an issue when it comes to balance. The game has so many BPVs that just don't make sense when compared to other ships that reliance on ...

In a campaign where players can build whatever they want, they tend to build the best combat designs, which usually means the war classes. If there is reason to build other ships, then you may see other designs, or "the best of the rest".

True, but you still need DN, BCH, and FF level ships. It's ...

Why?

I don't mean in legal terms, but in terms of right and wrong.


I view it as the equivalent of someone sneaking into a theater without paying, even if the theater isn't full.


Copying is not theft. The copy did not exist upto that point so the 'owner' did not lose that. The 'owner' was ...

Sorry, I was out of town for awhile.



I thought we were talking about klingons and long range fighting generally, I didn't realise you were only talking fleets. Not that it is overly relevant, even sqaudron/fleet comparisons shoud be based on fleets you will face, few campaigns I've seen go by a ...

You are talking about something difference to what I was talking about.

Theres a difference between 5% difference between 2 ships in a 1 vs 1, which is where I was explicitly saying it makes little difference and a 5% difference in points allowed in a tourney. A 7pt difference in a cruiser ...

5% is very significant. It's enough to get plenty of people to change their empire choices in the online tournament. 2% is more balanced. If you just want to use modern ships, then let's compare DNH, BCH, and NCA (596 pts) to C8, C7, D5W (596 pts). A completely equitable matchup of equal point ...

There are infinite potential rules for CGs. It's possible that given some combination of rules that one fleets ships will be matched with other fleet's ships of higher or lower BPV. However I think generally speaking, most CGs of any sort have a budget of some sort. I think it's unfair to compare ...

I think you still have a BPV budget even for campaign games. A Kzinti DNH and Klingon C8 consume roughly the same resources but the DNH is definitely much more effective (at both short and long range). I think comparing like BPV to like BPV is certainly more accurate than comparing similar hull ...

You should compare equivalent BPV ships whenever possible.

The Kzinti DNH (261) is much closer to the C8 (256) point value than the DN (244). 5 pts away rather than 12. The DNH has 6 dis, 11 PH1, 8 drones with double drone control. The C8 has 6 dis, 10 ph1 and 6 drones with single drone control ...

The problem with Klingons is that they're simply not as good as Kzinti, Orion, or Wyn in a drone/disrupter fight regardless of map size. If you want to play a long range sniping fight, the other 3 races are simply better.

Orions generally have a little less base power, but they have stealth and ...