Federation Commander

Itharus

My question is: do any empires use these as heavy weapons on their larger (DN/BC) star ships? Just thought that would be kind of cool if any of them did.

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djdood · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 10:44 pm Post subject:

Nope.

Phaser-4 are specifically forbidden on ships. The game fluff says they need special positional stabilizers to make them workable.

They're tailored to help things that are immobile (bases, planets) better defend themselves against things that can move around.

If you want to try them on a mobile platform, the Juggernaut "monster" uses the phaser-4 table to represent its giant energy weapons, as do some other monsters, IIRC.

[caveat: the Borak (recently introduced to FC in Captain's Log) do all kinds of odd things with phasers]
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Itharus · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 10:55 pm Post subject:

Ah, bummer Sad

I was half expecting Tholians to have something like it.

Itharus · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 11:25 pm Post subject:

Six legged dragon things with a phaser fetish? I like.

djdood · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 11:47 pm Post subject:

The Tholians have tricks enough, with web, cast web, web fist, etc. There's more rules to cover their gimmicks than any other single empire.
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Scoutdad · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 1:15 pm Post subject:

ACTASF Book II web rules are 6 pages long... with no illustrations or examples included yet.
And the Webcaster / Web Fist is separate.
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mjwest · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 2:50 pm Post subject:

Wow. In Federation Commander, web rules (including snares, but not web casters) is five and a half pages. Even ugly rules like tractors are only two and a quarter pages.

So, yes, the Tholian web device is probably the nastiest rule in all of the Star Fleet Universe, irrespective of rules set.
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djdood · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 3:55 pm Post subject:

Sooooo many interactions. It's both imposed terrain and a damage cause-er - and that's just basic, "as seen on tv" laid web.

The SFB group I was in shied away from Tholians because of it (and because maneuver fights were more fun to us). I was very happy when things got streamlined for FC and looking forward to seeing what Tony is doing for ACTASF.
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Scoutdad · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 8:59 pm Post subject: