Federation Commander and Year in Service

macdrack · Post by **macdrack** » Fri Oct 28, 2016 10:19 am

On my old SFB SSD's I seem to remember that a Year in Service is given for each ship.
My Federation Commander ones don't (that I can see) probably because of space requirements.
Is there a consolidated document anywhere that has that info against the ships currently available in FC?
I'd rather not dig out the SSD's and build something if it's already out there.

Cheers.
Gav.

Sgt_G · Post by **Sgt_G** » Fri Oct 28, 2016 10:54 am

FedCmdr doesn't use the YIS date. It would be easier to pull out the G-3 Master Annex book, if you have a copy. That lists all the YIS dates and a ton more data all in one place.

mjwest · Post by **mjwest** » Fri Oct 28, 2016 12:41 pm

As Garth states, Federation Commander doesn't have the concept of "Year in Service". Basically, if there is a ship card for it, it is available.

The concept of "eras" was introduced in Federation Commander, so you do have "Middle Years" era ships available that are intended to be used in the Middle Years, rather than in the era the main game portrays. (Middle Years is presented in Briefing #2.)

Also, all of the ships portrayed are basically their "fully refitted" versions from SFB. So, the Federation Commander Federation CA is the Federation CAR+ in SFB. The Federation Commander D7 is the D7K in SFB.

Post by **Steve Cole** » Fri Oct 28, 2016 6:07 pm

As others send, Fed Com doesn't do YIS dates, nor does it bother with conjectural and limited and so forth. You can have an entire fleet of OK6 cruisers if you want to do that.

I might comment that the F&E SITs are on line (in the BBS) and give you access to YIS dates at no cost. Now, SFB uses the "squadron service date" but also has the "prototype exception" and F&E uses the "Prototype date" not the "squadron service date."