Federation Commander

[mjwest]

[semperatis]

Now here's a slightly different take on the overload question. Can you still dial an overload in this version? i.e. make 9;10;11;13;14;15 pt warheads.
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[Dal Downing]

[semperatis]

That would be if you added an extra 2pts/photon 2+2(+2)=12pt,but would be a max of 16pts on full overload,2+2(+4)or,4+4/tube=16pt. It's a pity that,because it used to work well for the smaller ships i.e. pol's & FF's.
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[USS Enterprise]

Who cares? Who doesn't load them to Warhead 16 Anyway? Fire!!!!

Lol.
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[Scoutdad]

[mjwest]

In SFB, one of my favorite things in a late battle was to use 9 point overloads to defeat the myopic zone (range 0-1). Especially if I was able to use reserve warp to do it, so my opponent thought I only had normal loads.

In Federation Commander, you can only overload in two increments. You can spend two points of power to get a "+4" overload, which is 12 points of damage, or you can spend another two points of power (four total) to get a "+8" overload, which is 16 points of damage.

So, it is still "dial-a-photon", it is just that the dial only has three settings (8, 12, 16) instead of nine settings (8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16).

(And, there are no myopic zones for normal loaded photons. So, my old SFB tactic is irrelevant in Federation Commander. And, you are limited in the type of power you can use, either.)
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Hooray,no feeback anymore either.
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[Mike]

Okay. Pooh-bear.

[Savedfromwhat]

Mike if you did that and tried to keep your speed up it would fail flying a fed. The Fed's can only do this tactic of scout dads when they r on the defense going speed 16.

[semperatis]

I think that the fast cruiser is set-up for doing exactly that though.She only has 2 photons,but has 10 Ph-1's and 2 drone racks,and with her power curve,she can do speed 24,normal load her photons,arm all 10 ph-1's and still have 6 pwr & 4 btty's available.
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[Wolverin61]

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[Mike]

Strange as it may seem, I believe you can apply overload energy at the end of a turn of pre-loading photons. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I remember reading somewhere about that being one of the reasons why there is a phase in the end-of-turn procedures for applying overload energy to photons.

For a ship that is strapped for power, this can be an alternative to trying to overload on the firing turn. If the ship can come through a turn with power to spare and the player thinks (s)he will be likely to fire the photons on the next turn, then some or all of the overload power can be applied. The interesting thing about this technique is that it doesn't require any holding energy. Since the photons aren't fully armed, the next turn's arming will only be 2 points apiece.

There are several special rules that are unique to photons.
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