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Topic: Federation NCL with two freighters attacked by Klingon D6! |
Davec_24
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Forum: Tactics Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:51 am Subject: Federation NCL with two freighters attacked by Klingon D6! |
Thanks for sharing this with us. Sounds like the D6 really got unlucky with his die rolls! Sometimes that can be really annoying as you keep wondering how it might have turned out if you'd all rolled ... |
Topic: happy new year |
Davec_24
Replies: 5
Views: 11067
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:44 am Subject: happy new year |
Happy New Year to all from myself too! I did indeed get something FC for Christmas, in this case Booster #4. |
Topic: Tractor Question |
Davec_24
Replies: 11
Views: 12860
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Forum: Rules Questions Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:26 pm Subject: Tractor Question |
Sorry, still confused.
Here are the possible cases.
1) Neither ship accelerates.. Nobody moves and nobody has the possibility
2) Both Ships accelerate. Nobody moves and nobody has the p ... |
Topic: Tractor Question |
Davec_24
Replies: 11
Views: 12860
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Forum: Rules Questions Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:35 pm Subject: Tractor Question |
I think where it says it "cancels its movement" by decelerating, it doesn't so much cancel a move that would have physically happened on the board, but cancels the effect of the decelerting ... |
Topic: Tractor Question |
Davec_24
Replies: 11
Views: 12860
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Forum: Rules Questions Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 1:37 pm Subject: Tractor Question |
1) Yes, this situation will only occur if both the tractoring and tractored ships have spent the same amount of energy on their baseline movement.
2) If both ships are due to move on the same sub- ... |
Topic: Rule 5P3c Cloaked (vs Direct Fire Weapons) |
Davec_24
Replies: 11
Views: 12201
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Forum: Rules Questions Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:08 pm Subject: Rule 5P3c Cloaked (vs Direct Fire Weapons) |
I think of it as something like that, where (for whichever reason) the weapon does not score a direct hit on the target because the cloaking device prevents the firer from seeing exactly where the clo ... |
Topic: Hydran Heavy Cruiser vs. New Heavy Cruiser |
Davec_24
Replies: 12
Views: 19943
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:26 pm Subject: Hydran Heavy Cruiser vs. New Heavy Cruiser |
NCAs were (as SVC says) were never meant to be better than CAs as such, but were meant to be bigger/better than the "war" cruisers (or "new light cruisers") so that they could perf ... |
Topic: Hellbore volleys |
Davec_24
Replies: 8
Views: 9937
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Forum: Rules Questions Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:14 pm Subject: Hellbore volleys |
Yay, common sense prevails! Good to know we've been doing it right, anyway... |
Topic: Hellbore volleys |
Davec_24
Replies: 8
Views: 9937
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Forum: Rules Questions Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:02 pm Subject: Hellbore volleys |
As a side issue, somethign that is also unclear in the rulebook is whether you add the "other shield" (as opposed to "weakest shield") damage of all hellbores fired from a particul ... |
Topic: Hydran Attack |
Davec_24
Replies: 39
Views: 56285
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:34 pm Subject: Hydran Attack |
I have already picked the booster cards. Deep dark secret.
Fair enough - keeps us on our toes. Will the booster cards be made known at a later date but before release like the other "bonus ... |
Topic: FC for kids? |
Davec_24
Replies: 24
Views: 28315
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:27 pm Subject: FC for kids? |
I was 15 when I started playing SFB..it took until I was 39 to figure it out.
LOL
I think I was about 13 when I started playing SFB, but I never really got the hang of the advanced rules, and to ... |
Topic: Thankyou all and a merry Christmas |
Davec_24
Replies: 2
Views: 8965
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:19 pm Subject: Thankyou all and a merry Christmas |
Thanks Zero, I'm really glad you're enjoying the game. It's good to see people who wouldn't necessarily try SFB willing to pick up FC - this is in part what FC is all about, as it's designed to be mor ... |
Topic: Solitaire Training Scenarios |
Davec_24
Replies: 17
Views: 19084
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:16 pm Subject: Solitaire Training Scenarios |
Great idea Mike! I was a little bit disappointed at the lack of solitaire scenarios in Federation Commander myself, because I also don't get many chances to play with other people (and so don't get ma ... |
Topic: Hydran Attack |
Davec_24
Replies: 39
Views: 56285
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:11 pm Subject: Hydran Attack |
There's a direct-combat version of the Pegasus that was brought into the game later.
I wasn't aware of this either. Sounds like it might be interesting though... |
Topic: Taming the Hellcat...or not. |
Davec_24
Replies: 38
Views: 45196
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Forum: Tactics Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:27 pm Subject: Taming the Hellcat...or not. |
16 for speed...
Also the Lyran started at speed 24, forgot to mention that!
I think also Kang made a minor mistake in closing to range 10-12 in the first place, rather than firing at 14-15 and ... |
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