Federation Commander

You know, in War, the odds are just not fair sometimes. Ask the Captian [sic] of the USS Hood.

I think the introduction of Federation Admiral by VBAM will produce a lot of scenarios like this, but it will supposedly have a very quick way to resolve them. Battles that are more even will be fought using FC. FA could even replace the need for specialty scenarios to be submitted/published by ADB anymore (other than porting over the old SFB scenarios).

The Coming of the Meteor is in Briefing #1, not #2. Checking the "Towing" section it says,

Simultaneous towing attempts would both move the meteor and both ships and could actually move the meteor closer to the planet!

Two sentences later it says,

The effect of this movement is solely to move the meteor onto a path parallel with its original path; the meteor still moves one hex in direction C each turn regardless of anything else.

I don't understand what that first quote means. Surely both ships would not attempt to tow the meteor in the same direction.

The second quote says the meteor can only move 1 hex in direction C each turn. No amount of tractoring by either or both ships can change that.

Simply trying to understand this...

Mike : To answer your original question, I have played it a few times. This was definitely a fun scenario, but nowhere near balanced. IOHO. After we each got clobbered being the Klingon, we just gave the Fed a smaller ship -- (a CL maybe?) to fix it.

Eblack: Just curious -- did you actually win as the Klingon? Or are you simply theorizing. (Nothing wrong with theorizing. )

Kang: I had the same idea as you as the F5 and (rightly or wrongly) pulled the Asteroid one hex closer to the planet. But on turn 10 I was kicking myself because the Fed had pulled it away, and I just needed 1 more turn to pull it back into position. So I lost because of my turn 1 “bright idea�.

I played the SFB version a long time ago and won as an F5 (or whatever ship was used in that scenerio). So I am mostly theorizing.