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mdauben · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 12:50 pm Post subject: Romulan "Queen" Eagle?

I was browsing through the 2500 miniatures section of the online store recently, planning my next order when I ran across a miniature listed as the "Queen" Eagle. The listing described it as a King Eagle, but with an Plasma-S instead of the Plasma-R of the King.

I was wondering if and where this ship appears in FC? I've got the Romulan Attack and Romulan Border modules and I didn't see a card for this ship in either product. Is it in another supplement or maybe in Captain's Log?

Thanks! Very Happy

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Steve Cole · Site Admin Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 3828

Queen Eagle is not in FC at this time, although it would be easy to juse use a King Eagle and remember not to fully load the torpedo.

Sounds like a laughably easy ship for me to do for CL something or Comm something.
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mdauben · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 4:02 pm Post subject:

mjwest · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 4:16 pm Post subject:

Not to contradict the game designer or anything, but ...

I think there are two ships being confused here. The two ships are:
- A War Eagle that has 2xPl-S instead of 1xPl-R.
- A War Eagle with King Eagle engines, but no other improvements.

I am pretty sure that the second is the Queen Eagle. I don't remember the name of the first one, though. But, the one ship I am pretty sure isn't out there is a War Eagle with just a single Pl-S.

(Bigger explanation on the second item: The King Eagle not only provides the bigger engines with Pl-F on them, but adds a few boxes to the base hull, too. The idea of the Queen Eagle is that only the engines are improved. To make the ship card, just take a War Eagle and paste the King Eagle engines over the engines it would normally have. This is an entire series of ships that was published in Captain's Log that improves all of the War Eagle variants with King Eagle engines, resulting in the series of "Queen Eagle" variants.)

EDIT: Storm Eagle. I think the version of the War Eagle with 2xPl-S in place of the Pl-R is called the Storm Eagle.
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Nerroth · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:52 pm Post subject:

mdauben · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 2:15 pm Post subject:

Scoutdad · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 3:14 pm Post subject:

Mike: I'd have to go back through various Starline 2500 / ACTASF emails to confirm, but IRC - The Queen Eagle was being discussed back when Mongoose was working on a three piece version of the King Eagle miniature.

The three piece version was to have 'beefier' wings, but the attachment was an issue [for anyone not willing to drill / pin the attachment point and use a super-strong, 2-part epoxy resin to assemble said miniature...)

It was theoretically designed to remediate the issues with casting the one piece mini. The three piece mini had more issues than did the one piece mini - so that idea was scrapped.
Had it gone into production - one mini would be the Queen Eagle and the other a King Eagle.

A Queen Eagle for ACTASF would be easy enough to do... and probably for FedComm and SFB as well, if needed - or desired.
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mjwest · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 4:13 pm Post subject:

mdauben · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 5:56 pm Post subject:

Magnum357 · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 223

I think MJWest is correct. I remember in SFC that the Vulture had that kind of configuration.