Anyway..after sitting down at long last, and reading over the rule in FC 1st Missions, I am like "Why o why did you guys not do this 20 years ago??" I mean really..SFB became less of a game and more of a simulator administered by lawyers. (it was a rare thing to make it past turn 2 w/o at least 5 rules lookups and at least one dispute over interpretation, and we wont speak of addenda..ok we will Nexus #6..gah..its ALL addenda..
I say this as I glance at my binders of Commander and Captains edition rules, the size of NYC phone books, which have become a object of loathing to me (and as one who never cared for the Commander's SSD format (I did not like having the page cluttered up with tables that can already be found in the Master Weapons Chart., and I was really happy with having 2 SSDs per page like in the original SFB Vol I set)
However I am even happier with FC SSDs, especially the squadron scale as SFB made operating more than 1 ship a logistical headache of paper shuffling. (I do not know how people ever could stand to do Assault on a Starbase with such limitations). The fact I can run small fleets pretty easy is a wonderful thing.
Anyway, you sold this ol SFB'er...FC is gold imho, enough to make me retire the old SFB materials for good.
I especially like the "power track" concept, reminds me a lot of the old FASA STSCS which I felt worked quite well, and yea these new SSDS are quite the eye candy.
Might actually have a shot at getting my kids to play FC where as they laugh at me when they see my SFB stuff.
Yeah, this is a good clean system and is so much fun to play. Sure, we have rules lookups but not as often as in SFB by any means.
