Federation Commander

Nerroth

As posted at the online store:

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HappyDaze · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 1:17 pm Post subject:

I wonder if the ISC booster will give some people the idea (or reinforce it) that the booms are the engines and that the ships are "backwards" since the other fleets are presented as flying towards the viewer. I know a few people that thought that after seeing the minis without seeing the SSD in SFB.

wedge_hammersteel · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 2:17 pm Post subject:

No, I dont think it will do either.

DirkSJ · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 08 Jun 2010 Posts: 239

pinecone · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:51 am Post subject:

Yeah, it does look like the engines are the "fingers"

Maybe it's supposed to be disquised that way to trick empires that have never encountered the ISC Wink

Nerroth · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 5:46 am Post subject:

I can't picture that ship as flying backwards, sorry.

But then, I originally got into the SFU via Starfleet Command back in the day, so I had to get used to how the ISC ships look here, as opposed to they way they do in that series of games...
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toastie · Lieutenant SG Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Posts: 120

Sentinal · Lieutenant JG Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 34

Once they open the package and actually see the card layout, either with the booster or with War and Peace, they'll know which end is the front and which is the back.
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Sentinal · Lieutenant JG Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 34

Any chance in getting to see what the Vudar booster looks like anytime soon?
(The one on the Alerts page doesn't look too clean)
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Hod K'el · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:56 pm Post subject:

For you young'uns that weren't there, a lot of players used to fly ISC ships backwards in SFB. Look at the weapon array, then at the shields. It was plasma F's launched followed by phaser fire on the next one or two impulses. Then you got your rear shield shreaded as they passed by because the forward firing phaser suite (now used as rear firing) followed up. As soon as the ISC were at viable range, they opened up with their heavy weapons; all this on a weak rear shield. Your ship ceased to function at this point in the game.

Ah, memories!
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Bolo_MK_XL · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:05 pm Post subject:

Who the hell closes like that during a battle, flying straight at your opponent, the worst tactic (except maybe Hydrans), sounds like they spent a lot of time fighting newbies ---

Perfect tactic for suicide against Andromedans also ---

Klingon of Gor · Lieutenant SG Joined: 01 Jun 2011 Posts: 150

Flying backwards? For all we know, the ISC ships could be under reverse thrust to hold the range open for just one more impulse so that the PPDs can get in just one more volley. Granted, the yellow glow from the engine ports might be taken for windows by thos unfamiliar with ISC ships. A result, I guess, of unconventional design, though I have always found the look of ISC ships appealing.

Whatever one thinks of the cover, I am going to be very glad to have these cards. There simply aren't enough ISC ships.
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Bolo_MK_XL · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:04 am Post subject:

Don't believe his comments related to the picture on the booster, mine didn't ----