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Scoutdad Commodore
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:49 pm Post subject: Awesome post on Mongoose Forum |
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Trying again... _________________ Commander, Battlegroup Murfreesboro
Department Head, ACTASF
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Steve Cole Site Admin
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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Tony, check your post, something happened. _________________ The Guy Who Designed Fed Commander
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Scoutdad Commodore
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Attempt #2:
Spence wrote: |
Played my first actual game last night. Since we were basically just doing a learning scenario, we used ships from the Sqd boxes we had. Dan played Romulans and I played Klingons. He used three ships, War Eagle, Battle Hawk and Sky Hawk. I used the D6 and D7. I played SFB a lot back in the day and am familiar with FC. Dan has played SFB/FC but not that much.
Here are a few observations.
1. You are not playing SFB/FC
2. The rules are very simple and actually mean what they say.
3. You are not playing SFB/FC
4. DO NOT interpret or read into the rules. They are simple. Play as written.
5. You are not playing SFB/FC
6. Leaky Shields + Criticals = very bad day.
7. You only get ONE special action per turn. Meaning many tactics developed playing SFB/FC simply don't work, especially if they involve simultaneous anything. .
8. If you are playing against the Romulans, cloaks s*ck...
9. You are not playing SFB/FC
10. If you get carried away and swoop in using you tried and true SFB tactic, you may remember too late that you are not playing SFB/FC and discover you placeed your ships in a really bad place
11. Multiple Plasma's up the tail pipe are BAD...
12. Did I mention you are NOT playing SFB/FC?
All in all we found the game to be very fun and fast. But I also realized that those of us who fall into the old grognard category and have fairly extensive familiarity with SFB or FC can actually be at a disadvantage. I found myself constantly over thinking details that didn.t even exist.
I had a blast... |
Whew.
Had to completely re-type this one. I didn't realize the formatting set-up was so differnet betwee nthe two forums. _________________ Commander, Battlegroup Murfreesboro
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Aabh Lieutenant SG
Joined: 27 Aug 2011 Posts: 134 Location: Arvada, Colorado
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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It sounds strange (And maybe counter-intuitive for us...grognards), but this actually makes me want to play ACTA! _________________
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DHarris Ensign
Joined: 02 Jan 2012 Posts: 9
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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Good when you get to Birmingham from Colorado I will have the table set up for us to play on. |
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Aabh Lieutenant SG
Joined: 27 Aug 2011 Posts: 134 Location: Arvada, Colorado
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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You are ON! _________________
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Scoutdad Commodore
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 4754 Location: Middle Tennessee
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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Hey! Birmingham is only 3 hours from us.
We had 6 guys playing CTA: SF Saturday after our big SFB game. You should have driven up.
We're going to start playtesting ACTA: Battleships in three weeks. Those sessions usually start early Sat morning and go until early Sat evening. you should consider joining us some Saturday. _________________ Commander, Battlegroup Murfreesboro
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Sgt_G Commander
Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 530 Location: Offutt AFB, Nebraska
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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Why re-type by hand? Next time, copy/paste to Notepad, then copy/paste to the other board. _________________ Garth L. Getgen
Master Sgt, US Air Force, Retired -- 1981-2007 -- 1W091A |
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DHarris Ensign
Joined: 02 Jan 2012 Posts: 9
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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I live another hour past Birmingham, so 8 hours of driving time is quite a bit to play a game. Maybe one of these days I can work it out though. I would like to try some of the ADB games in the SFU sometime too so that may be a good reason to get me up there also. |
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Scoutdad Commodore
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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Sgt_G wrote: | Why re-type by hand? Next time, copy/paste to Notepad, then copy/paste to the other board. |
dang it!
Well,
I know that next time. _________________ Commander, Battlegroup Murfreesboro
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djdood Commodore
Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 3414 Location: Seattle, WA
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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OK, I was gonna post exactly that, but decided Tony might know it.
Yup. Notepad is your friend. It's so simple and stupid, it can't handle *any* formatting . Because of that, any text you paste into it is stripped of all tagging, styles, etc., which you can then paste into a new context without problems. _________________
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