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By MARTIN HALL (Martinhall) on Sunday, August 20, 2023 - 07:10 pm: Edit

OK I can't see this anywhere. I buy hard copies of near enough everything (infact everything) but for the e - product only bits I want to produce my own counters - and matching, as best as possible, everything else

Are there any guides on here?

The biggest issue is what thickness cards to use as I am in the UK and everything sold here is metric.

Steve, Leanna (or anybody ) what thickness card do you use for the hard copy products?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, August 21, 2023 - 12:29 am: Edit

I will try to remember to check tomorrow. I know that over the years we have done counters with various thicknesses. We never really get a choice; the printer/die-cutter does what they do and we take what they give us. Most of the time we don't even know the number that defines the thickness.

By Ahmad Abdel-Hameed (Madarab) on Friday, October 27, 2023 - 02:19 am: Edit

What supplement is the Fed CLX in?

By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Friday, October 27, 2023 - 02:42 am: Edit

Ahmad,

Captain's Log #36

By Ahmad Abdel-Hameed (Madarab) on Friday, October 27, 2023 - 10:26 am: Edit

Thank you, Alan!

By David Finan (Bbanzai) on Saturday, November 04, 2023 - 11:40 am: Edit

Hi need help tracking down a ship and the product it is in (if it even exists). I am looking for a Federation Fast War Cruiser, CWF. I couldnt find it in the annex's, so it may not exist. Any help would be appreciated.

By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Saturday, November 04, 2023 - 12:47 pm: Edit

David,

I think the problem is that you are looking under the wrong name. The Feds call their "war cruisier-equivalent" an NCL (New Light Cruiser) rather than a CW. They do have a fast version of their NCL and it is called NLF rather than CWF. It is Module R11.

By David Finan (Bbanzai) on Saturday, November 04, 2023 - 01:18 pm: Edit

Thanks thats what I needed to know found it exactly wher eyou refrenced!

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Saturday, December 30, 2023 - 06:05 pm: Edit

Working on a loose concept, want to make sure it's not been tried before: Fed tug pod with four (or six) drop boats each carrying 50-100 Marines who want to stop by and say "Why, hello there!"

Thoughts??


Garth L. Getgen

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Sunday, December 31, 2023 - 09:01 am: Edit

It sounds more or less to me like you're talking about a conjectural PF tender pod (R2.72) with a flotilla of conjectural Thunderbolt-G commando PFs (R1.PF3) (each of which carries 10 boarding parties, fitting the low end of your Marine requirement).

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, December 31, 2023 - 10:20 am: Edit

Yeah, that will work. Thanks. And that's why I posted in this thread first rather than opening a whole new discussion topic.


Garth L. Getgen

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Sunday, December 31, 2023 - 12:06 pm: Edit

Except the Feds don't use Gunboats.

However, I do recall they have a special ship listing for a variant on the Skiff for just this purpose.

My "Concern" is that Our Hosts might see it as a back-door way to try to give the Feds a PFT pod for their tug.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Sunday, December 31, 2023 - 06:19 pm: Edit

Thus why I repeatedly used the word "conjectural", Jeff. And while there is the Stryker landing boat (R1.87), there are no provisions to carry skiffs in a deployable fashion on a ship, either via mech-link or some sort of internal bay. Your option is not merely conjectural (S8.411); it is impossible (S8.443).

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, December 31, 2023 - 07:08 pm: Edit

The "drop boats" I had in mind would only have (maybe) Impulse but NOT have any Warp engines. They would only be able to be used to drop onto planets, and maybe take off again back into orbit.


Garth L. Getgen

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Sunday, December 31, 2023 - 09:36 pm: Edit

There *is* an option that fits that bill, Garth: a troop transport pod (R2.53), which is impulse-capable and can land using the gravity landing system (P2.432). Essentially, the entire pod is one big "drop ship" in this respect.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Sunday, December 31, 2023 - 10:27 pm: Edit

By putting all your eggs in one basket?

Jessica, have we been unintentionally misspelling your name!?!

Should we be spelling it ‘kessica’, perhaps of the imperial Klingon Empire?

What a gift to Empire! Giving them the ability to destroy an entire Star Fleet Marine Assault Battalion! And not only that, but you made it possible to kill it with one shot!

(Joke! Joke! I was making a Joke! How could you even think I was making any kind slur! I want my lawyer! (Sounds of the Slirdarian security Squad frog marching a resisting (and vocal) suspect to the security post.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Monday, January 01, 2024 - 01:36 am: Edit

Maybe not quite the same, but if the Feds were to modify a double weight carrier pod (the one that normally will deploy two dozen fighters, usually F-18s) to service HAS shuttles, how many Marines could they land in a single wave?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, January 01, 2024 - 04:50 am: Edit

Drop boats are backdoor gunboat-Gs.

Gators incoming!

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Monday, January 01, 2024 - 09:27 am: Edit

Jswile: If you want to really do it right, there would be eight "baskets"... because the tug would have two such pods, and they'd deploy their two GAS and one HTS shuttles each before landing (so as to be able to land troops to form an effective perimeter prior to the pods themselves landing). Mind, they'd also have used their eight combined transporters to land an advance scouting force before any of their craft even hits the atmosphere; if doing so while the pods are still attached to the tug (or by moving a few Marine squads to the tug before pod separation), add two more transporters to the mix.

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Monday, January 01, 2024 - 09:45 am: Edit

Ideally your pod would deploy a Wild Weasel too.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Monday, January 01, 2024 - 12:50 pm: Edit

Nine.

What Klingon worth his salt would let a Federation TUG escape the massacre?

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Monday, January 01, 2024 - 04:50 pm: Edit

uhmmm

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Monday, January 01, 2024 - 10:13 pm: Edit

Jswile: And what Federation flag officer worth their salt would order a tug on this mission without a proper escort force? There's no way this thing is just hanging around out there alone, waiting to be picked off; fleet tugs are too valuable for that.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Monday, January 01, 2024 - 10:57 pm: Edit

Screwball thought (as if I have any other kind) that'll keep the tugs safe and accomplish the Troop Drop mission.

Use Free Troopers with maybe a Free Tanker.

These buggers can land on planet surfaces to directly unload their troops, just like the Drop Pods you brought up at the start of all this, plus they have a couple GAS each.

Okay, maybe they won't bring as many Marines in as what you originally envisioned, but if you need more Marines, you use more Free Troopers...

OR you have a Large Armed Troop Freighter or three along with them to bring in even MORE Marines!