Federation Commander

If you mean Star Fleet Battles modules, they are in Module J. But those are SFB style counters as far as I know.

If you mean Federation Commander, then fighters for most empires have not yet been published in a module. Hydran Stingers are in Distant Kingdoms, which has Hyrans and counters for them ...

Don't blow each other up before I have had time to get some popcorn ready!

Defense Satellites can't use DB racks. But AFAIK that's the only unit currently in FC that can't.

In the Lost Empires preview pack, (4GD1b) notes that Death Bolt racks can't be mounted on any unit smaller than size class 4. This seems to be an SFB-ism because AFAIK the size class rules don't appear in FC. So that will need to be addressed when the rules are made ready for more formal publication ...

According to my understanding of the rules, that is correct, yes.

The attacker does lose 8 points of damage. The fighter swarm rules do give the fighter-owning player a slight advantage in exchange for operating fighters in swarms.

If you have no other option, you can always order directly from ADB. Although with the UK still being part of the EU for the time being, there may be import tariffs to deal with, IDK.

Haven't heard any more about it. Sounds like ADB don't know who to contact about it and the proposal is stuck in limbo.

Thanks Mike, I somehow missed that when I was re-reading the rule.

Can a ship dock while cloaked? Can it cloak after docking?

(8CM98d) tells us how to calculate the score for Lyran excessive losses, but nowhere in the scenario do I see how many points are required to drive off the Lyrans.

I recall reading about an Orion player in the tournament who tractored an opponent's ship with his dreadnought and hit it with suicide shuttles until it blew up. The Orion DN has a crazy amount of power when it doubles its engine output.

Not an official answer, just my understanding...

4) Yes, a plasma-D would take out a Death Bolt.

5) Yes, I think that paying for acceleration would cancel the lost hex of movement. But AFAIK you can only accelerate once per impulse, so even if you pay to accelerate you will not be moving faster ...

You can't draw LOS through a black hole hex; fire through hexes near the hole have a (4A4) modifier to accuracy.

I'm glad it's turning into a full-on SFU festival, I'm sad I'll not be able to go.

The deckhouse destroyer and the other one both have appallingly bad (2-6) HET numbers in SFB. This reflects the fact that they had serious dynamic balance issues. In FC, I think you'd need to give them no free safe HET like the BBs.