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By Eric Snyder (Esnyder) on Thursday, February 26, 2026 - 04:09 pm: Edit

I hyperlinked the x-refs in my Reference Rulebook and found a number of errors.

I didn't see an After-Action section for this, so please let me know if this should be posted elsewhere:

(5M2k2) has x-ref to 8B2e (which does not appear to be an existing rule #), probably supposed to be 8B2. [x-ref appears to have been added after printed Tholian Attack]

(5U7b) has x-ref to 5U6f1 (which does not appear to be an existing rule #), probably supposed to be 5U6e1. [same error in printed War & Peace]

(6G3h) has x-ref to 6G1a (which does not appear to be an existing rule #), probably supposed to be 6G2a. [correct x-ref in printed Hydran Attack]

A couple of words were consistently misspelled, but I only wrote down one of them, "satellite". Recommend rechecking with a clean dictionary file.

By Eric Snyder (Esnyder) on Tuesday, March 03, 2026 - 02:03 am: Edit

I started updating and adding scenarios and ships to my Reference Rulebook and wrote down another batch of corrections:

Battleships Attack:
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(8BA4c) rule number is written as (8B4c)

Tholian Attack:
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Neo-Tholian Frigate (NFF): doubled words, "all of which were were destroyed in combat"

(8TA2c) x-refs in Alternate Victory written (8B) & (8Ba), should be (8B2) & (8B2a)

(8TA6b) Kzinti spelled "Kzint"

Under SPECIAL RULES FOR M81 GALAXY in Scenarios, it erroneously lists (8TA11) [Death Probe] as taking place in the M81 Galaxy

By Eric Snyder (Esnyder) on Monday, March 09, 2026 - 04:32 pm: Edit

Line of Battle (rev 6)
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(8BA13e) "Or, use the inactive system rules about plus rule (5X)." The word "about" should be "above".

Orion Attack (rev 0)
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(7E) in description for (OK6) "Pharaoh" is misspelled in "Orion Pharoah Cartel"

War & Peace (rev 0)
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(7N) "Not only where there other empires" should be "Not only were there other empires"

Transports Attacked (rev 6)
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Fed (TUG), (T6), (T7), (KRT), Gorn (TUG), (TGT), and (TGC) - all have x-ref for (5T2c1) or (5T2c2) which are not designated rule numbers under (5T2c), but appear to reference paragraphs inside that rule. Shouldn't these paragraphs be given rule numbers if they are x-refed?

(8TR3b) x-ref to (8TR3d) should probably be (8TR3d1)

(8TR9) the sub-rules start at (8TR9b) instead of (8TR9a) and continue thus to the end

Gunboats Attack (rev 3pm 23 Feb 2023)
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(8GA5d1) "Territor:" likely meant as "Territory:", also "topmap" should be "top map"

(8GA7) The designer's notes rule is written (8RE1f) rather than (8GA7f)

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, March 09, 2026 - 10:33 pm: Edit

Pharaoh is misspelled just about everywhere we ever used it. Sigh. Hundreds of corrections in Orion MSSB.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Monday, March 09, 2026 - 11:56 pm: Edit

For the MSSB, hopefully it is just a search-n-replace for an easy fix, other than the re-read through to make sure.

Or ... intentionally leave it misspelled. Just like a lot of different products intentionally misspell words or product names, perhaps this clan decided to intentionally misspell "Pharaoh" for some effect that has since been lost. (It made sense at the time.) However, even though the reason has been lost, the name has stuck and has never been changed.

By Eric Snyder (Esnyder) on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 02:43 am: Edit

Mike, that reminds me of the game Fallout, where the post-apocalyptic Roman-philes called their leader something that sounded like "Kie-Zar" haha...

By Eric Snyder (Esnyder) on Thursday, March 12, 2026 - 06:04 pm: Edit

A question regarding the Heavy Freighter (Large Ore Carrier): SFB has the Large Ore Carrier and I could not find just a vanilla Heavy Freighter, so I was wondering why FC named it this way. Is there a distinction between Heavy Freighter and Large Ore Carrier, or is Heavy Freighter just a description of the general type?

By Steve Stewart (Stevestewart) on Monday, March 16, 2026 - 09:26 am: Edit

I think it was a legacy thing - We had small freighters and large freighters. Then a F-OL was added, and some time later, a "3-pod" design called the jumbo freighter was added. I think the F-OL is just the heavy freighter. Happy to be corrected of course.

By Eric Snyder (Esnyder) on Monday, March 16, 2026 - 09:32 am: Edit

I appreciate the reply, Steve. That sounds about right to me.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, March 16, 2026 - 12:45 pm: Edit

It is a legacy thing. In game terms, an ore carrier and a heavy freighter are the same thing.

Any freighter can carry ore.

Any freighter can carry anything, although in “reality” most freighters are configured for either liquid bulk (oil, gasoline, hand lotion, things that can be pumped and poured), solid bulk (ore, wheat, sand, things that can be poured) , or break bulk (cardboard boxes of F&E counters stacked on pallets).

You can also configure a freighter to carry people in various levels of comfort or luxury.

By Eric Snyder (Esnyder) on Tuesday, March 17, 2026 - 08:24 am: Edit

Thank you Steve. Now I can't get the vision of F&E counters on pallets out of my head, and I must go and sit down for a while.

By Eric Snyder (Esnyder) on Saturday, March 21, 2026 - 08:56 am: Edit

Another Correction:

Battleships Attack: Neo-Heavy Dreadnought is listed as (DNH) in rulebook (Ship Card and SFB R7.74 list as (NHD)).

By Eric Snyder (Esnyder) on Sunday, March 22, 2026 - 03:24 pm: Edit

I am unsure if this is an oversight or not, but it seems odd to publish units without the rules to use them:

Reinforcements Attack: the ship card #193 (Ground Bases) x-refs rule (5L9c), which is published in CL43. Shouldn't rules (5L9) Ground Bases from CL43 be included in the Reinforcements Attack rulebook?