Federation Commander

It may be posted somewhere, but I did not see it on a cursory glance.

What is the best way for hydrans to tackle plasma armed enemies?

Is there a convenient link to go to in order to get copies of the imperial seals?

My plan is to print them out on index cards so I can tape them to the wall when I referee a campaign. That would give me a nice visual of where everyone's ships are (aside from having them listed in my notes and an ...

Well, I tried again. This time I tried editing a little at a time into the post. Previewing the post shows the edits there, but once submitted it refuses to show anything beyond what you see above.

Is there a moderator I can email the entire thing to and have them try posting it?

This was written in March of 2009.

EMPIRES AFLAME: A Federation Commander Campaign Game

This is a set of campaign rules for playing wars between multiple star-faring empires from the Federation Commander game. These rules handle the strategic and economic elements that tie the tactical combats ...

Unfortunately I cannot make it this year or I'd gladly join in the fun.

I'll have to see what next year brings.

Hey rfeceo, glad to see your game moving along well. I'm interested to see how it progresses, especially the way you are using a timeline for when different ship types become available.

It also sounds like the Kzinti desperately need an ally or two. That player should get on the horn and see if ...

I tried using notepad and it failed again. I'm able to paste it and modify before hitting submit, but once I do that it cuts the post short as above.

I think I'll try adding additional material to the post above and see if it allows it.

EDIT: I keep trying to past the full thing into here and then save it, but it only displays this small amount for some reason. Will keep working on it.

This was written in March of 2009.

EMPIRES AFLAME: A Federation Commander Campaign Game

This is a set of campaign rules for playing wars between ...

Peter,
The idea of having the Empire committing commerce raids choose a slot and having the defending Empire place their convoy defenders in slots is an interesting idea and may make it into the next version as an alternative method.

The reason bases aren't a concern with commerce raids is that the ...

Once I get more done with re-writing the rules I also plan to post bits of an example turn here to help illustrate how it is supposed to work.

Thanks to everyone that has checked the rough draft out. Please chime in with comments and questions. The feedback is proving very helpful.

Hi OSRbaron!

I've got a few questions about your rules, and intent behind some of them. Please note these are not criticisms, just trying to understand where you were trying to go with rules (i.e., #2 below, perhaps you are encouraging smaller battles more often, or slowing conquest so you have ...

Terry's question:

"question: if I attack a system and there's nobody there to defend it, can it send out a distress call for reinforcements? I'm thinking yes it should be able to, because in doing so there's the risk that the reinforcements will show up piecemeal and get defeated in detail ...

Hi Terry, thanks for checking the rules out. Double thanks for getting into the spirit of naming in your question. :)

Mike West is right about you being a loophole seeking missile. Good find.

Your question about the raid having two raiders randomly roll the same defender happens to be one of the ...

I think the version I put up might be missing the updated comerce raid rules. There were a bunch of drafts without version numbers.

We started playing through commerce rais to try and work things out since that plays a bit differently. We discovered that the normal map we were using makes escape ...

I was working on a rough draft of campaign rules back in March of 2009 for a game that didn't end up taking place.

I have just posted the unfinished draft on my blog thedicearealie.blogspot.com for folks to read and use if they wish.

Please let me know what you think of what was written so far and ...