Federation Commander

mike_espo · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:22 pm Post subject: Federation NCA

Wow! What a ship! Very Happy

Played a few scenarios from Briefing #1 over the weekend: The Critical hit scenario and Pandora's Box.

I played the Federation in both and flew the NCA in both. Never played this ship before. Nice improvement over the CA. More Power and IMHO, very versitile.

In Critical Hit, the Hornet took about 10 internal hits from asteroids and a pesky Romulan War Eagle. Luckily, on the last turn of the scenario before the Hornet disengaged, the R Bolt missed at range of 5 due to asteroid interference! Shocked

Interesting scenario though!

In Pandora's Box, the Hornet did not take any internal damage as the Klingons were more interested in destroying/capturing the C7. The Federation managed to cripple the D7 and damage the F5. There was no hope to capture the C7 with the Hornet 10K klicks off the starboard bow, so I was conceded victory after 7 turns. Laughing

I am playing a "Captain's" campaign of sorts with this ship: The Hornet is going into spacedock after the Critical Hit scenario, so Ill have to wait till next weekend to continue the adventures of U.S.S. Hornet. Wink

Just a play note: This scenario would have probably taken all night and only played maybe 3 turns in SFB. However, we were able to play both scenarios in 5 hours! Bravo FC!! Very Happy

mojo_billbo · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 5:10 pm Post subject:

Yes, the Fed NCA is a nice ship...

When I can, I usually run the Fed NCC, which is that plus a little more.
I've taken tons of damage in FCOL running the Fed NCC, (U.S.S. Tokyo) and I still had working photons to reload and fire back.

So if you got the points, the little bit more for the NCC is an impressive addition.

Likewise, I run NCL's as well as support ships. I like the CL, it's a fun ship and the little armour helps, but the NCL is way more powerful to ignore.