SFU Horror stories...

Dan Ibekwe · Post by **Dan Ibekwe** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:42 pm

A club SFB game, many years ago.

It's a base attack mission, Romulans attacking a Fed BATS.

At one point, my BH, having unloaded her plasmas and phasers on a different target, is being charged by a Fed FF with both photons fully overloaded.

At range 2, I launch a shuttle at speed 5. My opponent asks his (more experienced) mate if he should phaser it; his mate replies 'Nah, wait until next impulse, when you move closer to it'.

So on the next impulse, the FF moves...and the Suicide Shuttle *also* moves and blows down his forward shield.

Smarting, he alpha-strikes me at range one..and rolls boxcars, both photons miss and my No 1 shield stops his phasers.

A few impulses later, he ran over the NSM I'd laid just before launching the shuttle, the blast going straight through the shield the shuttle had removed...ouch.

We got the base

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:43 pm

Sneaky, sneaky Romulans.

USS Enterprise · Post by **USS Enterprise** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:45 pm

Sneekiness is cowardly. But it doesn't work when Kirk comes to town.

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:54 pm

Kirk, Kirk, KIRK!!!

Why does every comment / response include a reference to someone who never has, never will, and never should exist in the Star Fleet Universe???

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:02 pm

sneakiness = cowardice is non sequitor

shuttle launched:
The player had an opportunity to lab it... he had an opportunity to fire at it... he had an opportunity to tractor it. It's not th Romulan's fault that he chose to ignore what may very well have been a suicide shuttle.
Remember, this is SFB we're tallking about. The type / target of any seeking weapon is not openly declared and all such devices must be assumed to be bad and directed at you until it's otherwise determined...

NSM:
Hidden deployment of a Nuclear Space Mine meshes perfectly with the Romulan's biggest tactic advantage - the Cloaking Device. Anyone who's played SFB against a good (that's GOOD... not sneaky, not cowardly) Romulan knows to track every hes he's moved through and then to advoid them like the plague if at all possible.

The tactics described in the referenced post exemplify the way a Romulan should be played... and also exhibit the incredible bad luck that occasionally arises in a game of SFB... either through inexperience, bad karma, or just not remembering the little things like don't follow a Romulan.... or in this case, a combination of all three.

USS Enterprise · Post by **USS Enterprise** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:03 pm

Including yours?

JK.

And who says Kirk doesn't exist in the SFU? The ideas came from TOS.

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:09 pm

USS Enterprise wrote:Including yours?

Touche'

And who says Kirk doesn't exist in the SFU? The ideas came from TOS.

Paramount...

Perhaps he does exist, but the license ADB has with Paramount (and Steve will correct me if I get this wrong), specifically precludes the use of one particular Federation Heavy Cruiser and seven particular members of Starfleet in any scenario or fiction...

USS Enterprise · Post by **USS Enterprise** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:13 pm

He's out there, somewhere. Everybody knows it, and everybody watches Generations saying "When is that book that Kirk wrote about himself coming back to life coming out." (If you get the pun.)

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:11 pm

I prefer Tony Stocker.

Wolverin61 · Post by **Wolverin61** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:28 am

I always liked Commodore Wesley.

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:00 am

Wesley is cool, but Stocker rocks the 'stache.

Nerroth · Post by **Nerroth** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:11 am

All this talk about Kirk, and not one request for Christopher Pike.

(As an aside, I thought Bruce Greenwood was great as Pike in the new movie.)

Sgt_G · Post by **Sgt_G** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:31 am

Reminds me of a duel using tourny ships. I had the Orion, and my enemy was the Andro. I had hit him hard in the front and turned away to run like heck. He was in hot pursuit but didn't have enough speed to catch me. Over the turn break, I overloaded the disurptors and had to slow down. I figured I'd get him off my tail by dropping a dummy T-bomb. Much to my surprise, he displaced over it and closed the range big time. Natually, I dropped the real T-bomb. He guessed wrong and ran over it, at which point I snapped a 180 HET. We exchanged alpha-strikes at range 2. My shields held (barely), but his panels were already full from the previous turn. Didn't quite kill him but the game was pretty much over right there.

terryoc · Post by **terryoc** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:27 am

Re: the captains: What about Bruce the Fierce?

Garth,

The Orion had a T-bomb? I thought only the Andromedan had a T-bomb? And dropping a fakey out the hatch has no effect, you have to use a transporter to make a fake T-bomb look real? Was this using an earlier version of the rules?

Sgt_G · Post by **Sgt_G** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:54 am

Terry, It was several years ago. I thought it was tourny ships but perhaps not. {shrug} I do remember, however, that I had T-bombs.