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USS Enterprise Lieutenant Commander
Joined: 27 Feb 2009 Posts: 376 Location: Vulcan
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject: Plasma Bolts |
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Are there Plasma Bolts in SFB or is it a FC thing. If there are, I'm wondering why the bolt option is unavailable in Starfleet Command? _________________ "The good of the many outweighs the good of the few"
"Since my customary greeting would seem entirely self serving, I will simply say good luck."
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Scoutdad Commodore
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 4754 Location: Middle Tennessee
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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Yes. There are Plasm Bolts in Star Fleet Battles.
Off the top of my head, I can't thnk of anything (except Battleships for every empire) that are in Fed Comm and not in SFB.
As for Star Fleet Command, it's probably not there because Taldren never coded for it...
Actually, I don't know. SFC is a reasonable facsimile of SFB - but it's not an exact duplication. _________________ Commander, Battlegroup Murfreesboro
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djdood Commodore
Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 3413 Location: Seattle, WA
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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They probably decided it "didn't work" in the game design they had and dropped it. They skipped some things from SFB and included some things I was really surprised by.
SFC is it's own game. Kissing-cousin to SFB, but distinct. _________________
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pinecone Fleet Captain
Joined: 03 May 2008 Posts: 1862 Location: Earth
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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In SFC, you can't fire Pl-D at enemy ships, and there is only one photon overload setting.
And Scoutdad: Web snares aren't in SFB, right? |
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Scoutdad Commodore
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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pinecone wrote: | In SFC, you can't fire Pl-D at enemy ships, and there is only one photon overload setting.
And Scoutdad: Web snares aren't in SFB, right? |
Yes, they are.
Webs, Web Snares, Web Casters, and Web Fists are all present. _________________ Commander, Battlegroup Murfreesboro
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USS Enterprise Lieutenant Commander
Joined: 27 Feb 2009 Posts: 376 Location: Vulcan
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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Which Empires in SFB have Battleships? _________________ "The good of the many outweighs the good of the few"
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Scoutdad Commodore
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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Klingon. They have the B-10.
Other races felt it was prohibitively expensive to produce such a beast and thye therefore remain conjectural for all other races.
The Seltorains do have a Hive Ship. It's an 8 bay version of the FC Battle Wagon... but still not classified as a battleship (at least I don't think it is).
The Andromedan Devastor was a pretty massive piece of hardware, also... _________________ Commander, Battlegroup Murfreesboro
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djdood Commodore
Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 3413 Location: Seattle, WA
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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pinecone - Everything starts in SFB. Whatever the item may be (plasma bolts, BB's, whatever), it might be conjectural in SFB, but it will be there along with rules to cover it's interactions with every other thing. The whole game system derives from that original game. It's also why there are hundreds of pages of SFB... _________________
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Scoutdad Commodore
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 4754 Location: Middle Tennessee
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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djdood wrote: | ... It's also why there are hundreds of pages of SFB... |
there's only 498 pages of actual rules. The rest is merely:
Ship descriptions...
Scenarios...
Mini Campaigns...
Annexes...
Master Ship Charts...
and SSD's... lots of SSDs (about 2000 pages so far!) _________________ Commander, Battlegroup Murfreesboro
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MikeBurke Lieutenant SG
Joined: 14 Nov 2008 Posts: 129 Location: Frederickburg Virginia
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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USS Enterprise wrote: | Which Empires in SFB have Battleships? |
SFB Module R5 is really cool you know.
_________________ "This Ship Was Built To Fight- You Had Better Know How" - Adm. Arleigh Burke - USN
Mike Burke
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