Federation Commander

Is anyone actually playing by email? If not, any ideas why not -- is it just to lengthy and involved?

I'm intrigued by the idea, but would obviously would need to find an opponent and a moderator. And a post or two every year or two is not encouraging

We finally got a chance to play this -- and stumbled upon an ambiguity in the rules:

Player A held the card for Player B and so could attack freely and did so. Player B could then attack back and did so. The two of them battled it out a bit and after successfully using the Gorn Anchor and then ...

Thanks for the report. Our group has been planning for about three weeks now to play this scenario at next opportunity (postponed twice now, due to health-related absence of the player who proposed it). As a fairly new player who's only done duels, free-for-all battles, or team battles, this sounded ...

I almost never read this part of the forums... wish I'd done so a few hours earlier -- I'd have joined you too. Maybe next week.

I'm wondering when an official decision on this will come down? It seems non-controversial and has been posted for discussion for nearly two months with most people in favor of it.

Looking at the stats, the difference in damage seems inconsequential while the simplification of game-play is ...

Wow...just wow. The weapons chart is a nice touch too.

Yeah... we were frequently scrambling to find the right card for the tables we needed and thought it would be nice to be able to just look up and see them. I designed the poster in OpenOffice and exported it to PDF. We were going to have it ...

I was in some intensive training over the course of this discussion and unable to monitor or respond to the forum so, even though I'm late to the "party" I'd like to register my thoughts -- take them for what they're worth.

I'm a relatively new player (<1yr, >6mos) and have only recently been ...

... are hard to break...

We had a new player (old SFB player) play with a couple of us this week and he felt compelled to use die rolls to choose which phaser he'd mark out. We assured him it wasn't necessary, but that's how he preferred to do it...

Yeah its a fairly good tactic, the drawback is that you yourself have to move through the asteriods at 0+1 or 8+1 which then limits your manuver options.

We have all used it since I have at least 4 panels of asteriods in each fight (they are wicked fun to play with).

Wicked annoying, I'd say ...

Nothing more satisfying than to see the look on a Tholians face after he throws up a WEB and then moves up next to it to hit you with phasers thinking he's safe from return fire, only to see you plunge into the WEB and hit him with full overloads at range 1 or 2 :)

That actually is one of the ...

I think we've been misinterpreting the ship cards of Kzinti ships in our little battlegroup. We saw below each drone rack (on most ships) a block of boxes with numbered rows with four empty boxs in each row. Four drones in each rack -- ah! Must be reloads for the rack above! So we used those boxes ...

Played a couple of duels on Saturday against a Neo Tholian, once in a Fusion/Fighter Hydran ship and once in a Gorn ship. My opponent is experience in SFB and FedCom, but inexperienced with Neo Tholians (as was I with the Gorn).

In the first matchup, I got the better of him (with the Hydran) but it ...

My friend who hosts our games was really resistant to this rule interpretation. I think I have him persuaded, but he raised an objection that touches on a different rule:

When I tried to use this maneuver I was sitting in a dust cloud for a little protection from the overloaded photons of an ...

Scoutdad wrote:This has led some in our local group to adopt the following strategy when flying Kzin ships...

I had settled on the same strategy for the next time a fly a big kzinti ship. I've been playing Hydrans my last couple of games.

Forgetting to reload drone racks

It sucks to be on turn four, firing a wave of drones from your undamaged ship, and realize that your racks are now empty. If you fire drones at all in a turn and don't have high priority repairs to do, reload a drone rack.

But... just to clarify (and I'd like to ...