Federation Commander

You can only tractor one ship at a time (5D6B) - you could release a ship and tractor it or another later that turn, but you'd need a fresh Tractor box - each one can only be used once per turn.

What I mean is that I thought HETs were announced in place of a normal move

HETs are announced at the start of the sub-pulse - 2D2a - and executed during it in move order.

What kind of scenario could you find yourself where you declare and cancel an HET in the same sun-pulse?

Actual example: I had a Destroyer in a hidden-objective multiplayer scenario where my targe ...

By my reading of the scenario, you become a Free Agent by "drawing" your own target marker - ie. getting it in the pre-scenario draw NOT by acquiring it in the game. So B would not become a ...

Coming back to this after a holiday ...

I still disagree that the FF will win every time.

1) Just because the enemy is in my FA arc doesn't mean I'm in his FA arc.

In the situation we are ...

Without the planet, the target ship player could choose either shield facing through which to take the fire. There seems to be two possible outcomes:
1. The fire would not be able to occur if the t ...

The Saber Dance is the Klingon tactic of choice. I found it difficult to believe that saber dancing at range 15 against a Fed leads to your death. The Fed can't hit a barn at range 15 (1 out of 6 to ...

All true in Squadron scale, as well, and the F5 always loses. The one minor disadvantage the FF has on the fleet scale conversion is that it has no Fleet Scale representation for the P3s (but it does ...

The F5 is better in Fleet scale.

I doubt it. The FF has the same decisive advantage in both scales - it's paying half as much as its opponent for movement. It can do maximum speed holding full ov ...

Well, going by the list in (1E1), and the wording of (1D2), I think that choosing your baseline speed comes before anything else in energy allocation.

The Player Reference Card list 'pay to continu ...

junior, when we have multiple ships moving simultaneously, we scribble a quick note on the ship card (using the dry erase marker):
SL - slip left
ST - Straight
TR - turn right
CX - cancel move
HE ...

the battle was ruthless, the Romulans entered cloaked

If I were the Klingon, I would be rapidly re-considering my alliances:

Transmission intercepted:

"Captain, I confirm that we are now ...

should this thread, stop?

there are 14000 views, but I am not sure if anyone gets any value from it any longer.

I read the turn reports and battle reports with interest, but the frequent re-post ...

the +4 to the range and die roll...the bolt still has to roll to hit and will suffer the +4 to die rolls

Cloaks don't affect die rolls, though, just range and damage.

The Gorn shouldn't have f ...

The Gorn admiral must be kicking himself for that.

One query:

The romulan flagship had completly restored thier front shield at the end of turn 1

Don't shield repairs happen at the start of t ...