Federation Commander

BadSyntax · Ensign Joined: 15 Dec 2011 Posts: 8

Any possibilities when this comes out it will include a few special SSDs that allow you to fight out marine battles on ships with more detail? Perhaps just a blown up Fed-CA with all the transit tubes drawn in, and boxes placed for guards and such, allowing one to use the SFM counters to more slowly and with more detail take over a ship? Maybe a few of these turns = 1 SFB turn sorta scale?

Seems to make it fit better in the universe.

I saw the demo game on youtube, and it looks like it has potential, but would really like to see units be a bit different and have more armor/artillery type options (starships aren't always in orbit). Say 1 strength point in SFB is a 5, and a GCV is 1 strength point. In SFB it could be from 3 to 7 actual strength points... if that makes sense. Just enough detail so a Klingon tank may be better than romulan tanks, or gorn marines tougher, or whatever. This could help explain out that whole "gorn/kzinti/lyran get more BP cuz they are tougher" explanation. I dunno, I want it as its SFB, but I really think it needs quite a bit more than what I saw to justify a standalone product over something in the next captain's log.

Steve Cole · Site Admin Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 3821

No, none at all. (And this has already been asked and has already been answered. Check for that topic for more info.)

The Marines combat system uses 200m hexes. A ship is one hex. Marines INSIDE a ship is a whole separate game system. SFB has such a system and KRAG (to be done in two years) may be more what you're thinking of.
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BadSyntax · Ensign Joined: 15 Dec 2011 Posts: 8

Oh ok, Krag, got it, sounds great, can't wait!