Federation Commander

The Federation doesn't use gunboats (they have the "third Way" instead)

The newest Captains Log will have Borders of Madness playtest ships cards for a Federation and a Klingon Carrier. T ...

Those appear to be very close to the drawings in the Star Fleet Technical Manual.

This was the first time we had used a mauler weapon and it brought up a question, so I'll ask it here.

We assumed that the Mauler ship had to actually store energy in its batteries like batteries s ...

As a former SFB Hydran player I almost never flew fusion ships. I'd rather have hellbores for the ships, fusions for the disposable Stingers, and keep the number of fighters per ship small exactly as ...

To tell truth, I woulda been happy with the no fusion/yes hellbore hydrans and if possible, no fighters.

So if frigates are so good, I bet orions must be pretty tough.

They actually are like big frigates. Twisted Evil

Are there nimble ships in FC?

No. There is no such thing as "nimble" in FC.

Excellent. At least there will be no super cheap EM or 2 free HET's then.

Yup.

Battleships do NOT get a free HET!

Add that to "Rules that Kill"

Twisted Evil

Are there nimble ships in FC?

Of course, as I think I mentioned above, if the CR had remembered to double his engines on the first turn, then he would have been able to completely ignore the damage from the Stingers by using shiel ...

In exchange, though, Orions can rebuild their shields at a truly frightening rate.

>.<

Unlike in SFB, there's no limit to the number of shield boxes that you can repair in one turn. And w ...

Well the only other disadvantage that the Orion's have is in FC they can't double their engines and 'tank it up' with massive shield reinforcement.

Try a good shot to eliminate the LR as fast as yo ...

Well done!

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Orions and Kzinti.