Federation Commander

Is anyone actually playing by email? If not, any ideas why not -- is it just to lengthy and involved?

I'm intrigued by the idea, but would obviously would need to find an opponent and a moderator. ...

We finally got a chance to play this -- and stumbled upon an ambiguity in the rules:

Player A held the card for Player B and so could attack freely and did so. Player B could then attack back and ...

Thanks for the report. Our group has been planning for about three weeks now to play this scenario at next opportunity (postponed twice now, due to health-related absence of the player who proposed i ...

I almost never read this part of the forums... wish I'd done so a few hours earlier -- I'd have joined you too. Maybe next week.

I'm wondering when an official decision on this will come down? It seems non-controversial and has been posted for discussion for nearly two months with most people in favor of it.

Looking at the ...

Wow...just wow. The weapons chart is a nice touch too.

Yeah... we were frequently scrambling to find the right card for the tables we needed and thought it would be nice to be able to just look up ...

I was in some intensive training over the course of this discussion and unable to monitor or respond to the forum so, even though I'm late to the "party" I'd like to register my thoughts -- ...

... are hard to break...

We had a new player (old SFB player) play with a couple of us this week and he felt compelled to use die rolls to choose which phaser he'd mark out. We assured him it wasn ...

Yeah its a fairly good tactic, the drawback is that you yourself have to move through the asteriods at 0+1 or 8+1 which then limits your manuver options.

We have all used it since I have at least ...

Nothing more satisfying than to see the look on a Tholians face after he throws up a WEB and then moves up next to it to hit you with phasers thinking he's safe from return fire, only to see you plung ...

I think we've been misinterpreting the ship cards of Kzinti ships in our little battlegroup. We saw below each drone rack (on most ships) a block of boxes with numbered rows with four empty boxs in e ...

Played a couple of duels on Saturday against a Neo Tholian, once in a Fusion/Fighter Hydran ship and once in a Gorn ship. My opponent is experience in SFB and FedCom, but inexperienced with Neo Tholia ...

My friend who hosts our games was really resistant to this rule interpretation. I think I have him persuaded, but he raised an objection that touches on a different rule:

When I tried to use this ...

This has led some in our local group to adopt the following strategy when flying Kzin ships...

I had settled on the same strategy for the next time a fly a big kzinti ship. I've been playing Hydr ...

Forgetting to reload drone racks

It sucks to be on turn four, firing a wave of drones from your undamaged ship, and realize that your racks are now empty. If you fire drones at all in a turn and d ...