Federation Commander

De nada. Mi Espanol es muy malo.

Pinecone - When did you start playing FC and how did you get started?
I don't want to put any sort of pressure on my 8 yr old, that'll take the fun out of it. But I did come across Cadet rules for SFB. There are a lot of 1 player scenarios that I was thinking of starting him off with, with my help, of course. Could those rules be converted to FC?

tip o' the hat to you pinecone.

I was 15 when I started playing SFB..it took until I was 39 to figure it out.

LOL

PallidaMors wrote:I was 15 when I started playing SFB..it took until I was 39 to figure it out.

LOL

I think I was about 13 when I started playing SFB, but I never really got the hang of the advanced rules, and to be honest I never used some of the features like special sensors and the like, as I stopped playing for a while when I was 16 or so. FC has given me the opportunity to play on the sort of (tactical but not too complicated, full of features yet fast-paced) level I want to with the same ships and in the same universe and with mostly similar gameplay as I grew to love from playing SFB when I was younger.

I think I started playing about two years ago, I'm not sure. I'll ask my dad if he remebers.

I got started after I had seen Klingon border in a game store. It looked quite like a simple space battle game that me and my Dad had invented not to far back (with hexes), so it caught my eye. I went home and reasearched it on Memory Alpha (a wikipedia website devoted to star trek), and found out what it was. Then I came to this website to further reasearch it, and found the First Missions rules. Me and my dad played a game with that and had fun (Note: In that game, I played the D7! I've never played the klinks since). I asked for it as a birthday present. Then I got it. Such is the story of how I got into FC.

Maybe if playing on the team of a more experienced player (If a smart 8 year old) they could use their own ship but have a more experienced player helping them out.

I know some smart people.

Most likely though, it is not logical.

My seven year old son understands the ruls perfectly well. He is still working out tactics...

If you can play chess, you can play FC.

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I first introduced my son to FC when he was 8 and he loved it. I usually give him an advantage, like I will take a Klingon F5 against a Fed CA, or some other mismatch, etc.

My nine year old daughter has taken to FC like a duck to water.

I announce each step of the play sequence for her and she does the rest.

I think any motivated player should do just fine. If they want to play, they will learn. FC seems a lot easier than Pokemon and Magic.