Federation Commander

You're right, of course. Bad math on my part. He did 56 damage, not 48.

But essentially, I have the ESG rules right?

And yes, I warned him that he didn't really want to go to range 0 or 1. But he didn't want to take ANY chance at wasting the energy. Bad strategy on his part, I believe.

One ...

Just want to make sure I have this correct. I just played my first game with Lyrans and ESGs last night. My opponent had federation.

So, he has 4 photons, and I knew his favorite (only) tactic was to run to range zero and fire all 4. Which he does, but due to lack of energy, he overloaded 2 at +8 ...

I’ve seen a few cases (probes, banshees) where there is a reference to the “closest approach during a turn�. For instance, Banshees do 5 damage to the closest mobile armed unit during a turn.

I was playing with 4 gunboats and 20 banshees. Trying to track which unit each banshee came closest ...

I order 3 fleet sets of minis from Shapeways in the 7000 scale. I decided to use the Tan Fine Detail plastic and unfortunately, the minis have proven to be very brittle. After talking to Shapeways, it appears that is a known issue and they advised that if I am looking to use these for gaming that I ...

I found some references to this from a few years ago, but I’m still a bit unclear.

If a ship moves into the same hex as a seeking weapon (drone), does the drone count as impacted?

Every reference we could find in 4F4 says “when the seeking weapon enters the hex�, which seems to say it only ...

I’ve never played SFB and I’m just getting back into FC after a few years. I just purchased the Gunboats Attack PDF and notice the Romulan Centurion shows 5 boxes of “DISR-FA�, but I assume by looking at the rest of the card that those should be “PL-F�. Is that correct?

So, it seems like each game in the SFU has its own "niche", starting with SFB as the most complex with the most options and choices, then going to FC with its streamlining to still give the feel of the strategy options, but making the game faster. Then we have ACTA, which is much faster and allows ...

I swear I typed more than this, not sure what happened.

My actual question is that it goes on to say that this causes 12 points of damage, 2 of which bypass the shields.

I would think it is only 1 to bypass the shields as there is only 1 natural six.

Sorry for the confusion.

I'm not sure if I found an issue or if I don't understand something. In the example of play, there is a paragraph that says:

The results are 3, 4, 2, 5,
6, and 5. With an accurate +2 modifier all six phasers hit and they are
well inside the Kill Zone range of 8

So, I just played the Space Boar scenario for the first time and I feel like I must have done something wrong, but no idea what.

My wife and I played in Squadron Scale. She was the Orion Raider.

She starts turn #1 8 hexes from the first buoy, running speed 16. On impulse 4 she gets to range 0 and ...

Thank you very much. I swear I feel really stupid right now. I read that over 3 times and missed that sentence every time. Sorry.

Point taken. I don't want you to change everything based on just my opinion. I seem to be in a minority here, so I will say do what is right for the community not for me.

On my previous question though, I think you may have missed my point. I'm fine not having a ship card for the Cyndarian ship ...

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I don't believe there is an actual Cyndarian ship card anywhere that I can find listed. That's fine except that in Special Rule #2, it mentions capturing the ship by marines but doesn't say how many marines are on the Cyndarian ship. It lists phaser counts and everything else I would ...

You are correct. I was misinterpreting the rule. In 4F2 it says

When a seeking weapon
is launched, it is placed in the same hex as the ship
or other unit which launched it with the target in its FA
arc and (in the case of plasma torpedoes) within the
tracking arc of the launcher)

I was reading ...

So I actually used some shuttles last night. Still got beaten but I'm getting the idea.

One question. What is the "firing arc" of a shuttle? For drones the enemy has to be in the FA arc. Is that true for shuttles? Also, from watching the show I made an assumption that the shuttles would start ...