Federation Commander

Sneaky Scot wrote:Or even Fleet Scale ships from Fed Cdr, or is that way too radical a suggestion?

I've not tried the other scales, though I'm sure they wouldn't be too bad. It still would be a long game as a traditional F&E game always took me a very, very long time anyway.

See you in a couple of months, then ;) Exactly. I actually would like, and have always wanted to do at least once, a Federation & Empire Campaign played with SFB for the battles. I told my son he might be my age when we finally complete the game, but we would have some good memories.
Haha, I ...

I find using the Klingons a challenge. I'm not a super patient player and end up trying to alpha strike way to early in the game. It's a curious thing, but I think I've actually bought into the newer (than TOS) TV shows depicting Klingons wanting to get into knife-fighting range and feel I should be ...

Welcome Boogaboo to the Forums and to the FC game. Yeah, I can't echo enough how much I like the relative simplicity of FC to my old days of SFB. I hope you have continued enjoyment in the game as I have.

I too am an old SFB player (I'd guess most of you guys are) and I don't know if I have the same issues of being in the SFB mindset at Squadron Scale. I've certainly thought, a couple times, "wouldn't a Romulan Space Mine be really cool now", or "wouldn't that T-Bomb work wonders here". It's almost a ...

Although I always try Fleet Scale to get in more play time, most of my opponents prefer Squadron Scale. So, it's mostly Squadron with Fleet for the larger engagements.

I'm ok with the fact that the battleships generally don't have fighters. Fighters are yet one more headache and detail that I'd rather not deal with. For me the golden years of naval warfare were before fighters were introduced. Nothing brings out the glory of naval combat like fleet formations and ...

And a welcome to the forums Ogdrklein. Took a bit to make sure I spelled your name right.

It would have to be the Fed GSC for me as well. The Feds have always had an eye for comfort and versatility. I mean, I'm running around without any real purpose. So please, give me the works. Options with sensor power to find it and the fire power to destroy it (if needed).

Lots of hull space so ...

So far, my favorite is still ISC. Love the whole eschelon concept. After that, it's probably the Klingons and then probably the Hydrans.

Heh, as you can see from this forum, that's something we'd all like to see. The reality of the market, costs, and level of interest might keep this in the wishful thinking category though.

I can see where this is a problem, as an escort ship. Yeah, we give up some of this in FC, it seems. However, in this case, I would probably still use the drone racks in the drone mode to fire at the other drone. There aren't as many drones in these racks, but it can still help out quite a bit. It ...

Me too!

I couldn't help it as we were talking about that rule specifically.

Again, my group has never had a problem with this.

Hey Kang,

I tried to think through when or why one would need to know the why on this. Maybe my memory on this rule is fuzzy, but I thought it was the stricken ship paying it and if so, why would you care if it was 1 point or all remaining power? Either way, the ship is done.

I'm guessing the ...

Thanks everyone for the replies....we put the rule nazi out of our misery and the game proceeded quickly from there!

There's always one in every group. I've not had a problem with this at all, but being a previously SFB group we're used to declaring each weapon and target without thinking about ...