Federation Commander

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I'm with Steve on this. If someone finds a "perfect" tactic that seems a little sleazy, there's probably something wrong with it. Find the flaw and punish him for getting predictable.

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Think of Zero movement as not stopped on a fixed point but rather moving around a little, not leaving the hex, so the ship can still do Evasive Maneuvers.

Would you modify a Klingon D7?

Get rid of the forward and aft Phasers, and replace them with Photon torpedoes? One forward and one aft.

It would make it a much stronger ship, I'd think. Which the Klingons would like.

But what disadvantages would it have?

Or would it be better just to create a ...

A long long time ago, I wrote an article for "random minor modifications". the idea was for a campaign, but it could be used for a pick-up game.

For each ship in the fleet, you would cut a deck of cards, then check a table to see what minor mod the ship has. For example, the Ten of Clubs might say ...

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MLJ: Your profile says "Nebraska" .... where in Nebraska? I'm in Bellevue, just south of Omaha.

They were just passing thru. The Klingon happened to be in the way.

Odd name for that module. Shouldn't it be Tholian Defense??

RE: Overload to +6 .... I'm thinking SFB rules.

Why go to Range 0?? Range 1 has the same 1-6 To Hit odds. But at Range 2, with 1-5 odds, you're more likely than not to get all four to hit. Even at Range 4, with 1-4 odds, still fairly likely to hit with all four, or at least Three of Four**, and even if you don't, you're not running into a ESG ...

It probably would not be overly hard to create a whole set of scenarios under the heading of The War That Never Was depicting the alternative-universe where the Fed & Gorns do not become friends.

Of course, there would be no tech exchange, so the Feds can't have Plasma torps.

1) I would like to buy a 1:7000 scale Federation Police squadron with 1x FLAG, 3x Callahan cutters, and 3x Masterson cutters. Or maybe swap one Masterson out for a three-engine cutter.


2) Federation police cutter carrier, either the one with hanger modules and/or the one with enlarged shuttle deck ...