Federation Commander

I'd be in for all three.

Ealing? Just a no 65 bus ride away!

While our campaign games don't always take place there, and there's not necessarily FC played every week, we tend to be at the regular meetings of Kingston Games Group in the Willoughby Arms. Tuesday evenings, Sunday afternoon/evenings.

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I think this would be less of an issue at all if the controller of the drones had any control, but he doesn't.

If we assume you have 20 points of ESG damage to assign amongst 11 drones...

you could do this:
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 _ _
or this:
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
_ _ 1 1 1 1 ...

You know, the more I think about this change, the more I like it.

It shifts the burden of planning onto the player who wishes to truly benefit from using EM, where previously the mere threat of EM was enough to place this burden (which is a problem of anticipation really) on the opposing player.

I ...

hould be able to launch seeking weapons during the Launch Phase at the end of the Impulse.
erm no, that's not how I read it.

In this case, I take 'the end of the subsequent Direct Fire Phase' to mean 'the end of the subsequent Offensive Fire Phase', i.e. the one in the same Impulse as the ...

Superb as ever, Mr Turner!

One question, though: what is that vicious green death the pirate is dealing?
Disruptors? (What is a pirate doing using these in Romulan space?)
Plasma Carronades? (Please no!!!)
or simply vicious-looking Phasers?

This ruling does come as a surprise, I must admit. We tend to make fairly extensive use of EM in our group, so I guess we'll find out how big a difference it makes before too long. We already time our declarations of EM with a view to the timing of when it may be cancelled, which tends to mean ...

Thanks for the numbers, Paul - but I'm not sure how much mileage there is in this kind of comparison.

Don't forget Disruptors and to a lesser extent Hellbores (not to mention Photons) tend to feature in large numbers, being also seen on small ships, where PPDs seem very much equivalent to S-torps ...

I honestly have no problem with treating each pulse which hits as belonging to a separate volley (although I would like to see the first such pulse count in the same volley as any other weapons fired by the PPD-owning ship that impulse); the ability this might give the target to reinforce against ...

I don't like the idea of resolving fire from a PPD over multiple impulses; it seems contrary to the "simpler is better" philosophy of FC.

I'm strongly in agreement with a prohibition on PPDs using Directed Targetting, not least because Hellbores have the same issue.

I'm in two minds regarding ...

Thanks. I'm slightly disappointed because I hoped it would be a restriction which only applied to the Fusion which fired on the same turn (that's how it reads to me), but there you go. :?

For example, if you Fire a Fusion beam on a Stinger on Impulse 1 of turn 2 and land it on say impulse 4 of ...

A question just occurred to me... is the limit on re-arming a Stinger Fusion applied per weapon, or per fighter? What is the last "it" in rule 5Q2d:

A fighter fusion beam may not be recharged in the same turn in which it was fired, so if a Stinger fires a fusion beam and lands, it cannot be re ...

The single most important race we don't have yet is the ISC. The sooner we see them, the better.

I'm open to persuasion on Andros, but have never really liked them.

It always seemed to me that one of the give-and-take conditions of allowing the later, better Andro units was X-ships.

That said, in ...

Thanks guys, that's pretty much what I thought.

Following up, while staying on the theme of Plasma-D-to-Drone similarities:

Do D-torpedoes require the launching unit to control them, or are they self-guiding like their larger brethren?

Can I ask for a clarification on the timing aspect of an ESG's anti-Hellbore mode?

To be precise: is the decision made after all Direct Fire is announced, or is it effectively part of the me-too 'bidding' process?

(I think I already know the answer, but it seems worth getting confirmation ...