Federation Commander

Thanks, everyone.

Is the answer to question 2 in the rules somewhere, and I overlooked it? If so, can someone point me to it?

I'm still kind of new to FC, and one thing I haven't used much yet are tractor beams. After re-reading the rules, I still have two questions:

1) 5D6a says, "A ship does not need to use a tractor beam to generate "negative tractor". Does this mean that any ship, even one without any functioning ...

Okay Mike, it's been one week. What did you decide to do?



Hi. Just got back from vacation. Probably gonna pick up Romulan Border tomorrow. Maybe get Klingon space as well. I like the older ships; the old CL, the DDs and the famous Constitution class. All of which are not included in Romulan ...

Okay Mike, it's been one week. What did you decide to do?

FYI, when I started FedComm I started with Romulan Border. In retrospect, I think that worked out well. Romulan Border has a tighter topical focus than Klingon Border does, in that the ships are all Federation, Romulan, and Gorn. Klingon ...

True... But BA has three of the best-est scenarios ever written for Fed Comm, selected from a pool of literally hundreds of submitted scenarios, from some of the best scenario writers out there!!!

BA....Battleships Attack?

It's likely I'll go this year, at least for a day. Picking up a new RRB6 from the ADB booth is added incentive.

So I propose you look at the tournament balance conversation from a different angle. Most players don't play tournament, but tournament play is the laboratory where there are enough repetitions with enough control to be able to draw some meaningful conclusions.


I do not doubt that there's a ...

I just finished listening to episode 141 of the Star Fleet Universe On Call podcast. The entire episode is pretty much devoted to a discussion of plasma torpedoes in FC, and what might be done to fix them. And by "fix", I mean balance plasma-armed ships vs non-plasma ships in tournament-style play ...