We had our first battle today:
Mike had a Fed Light Cruiser...
I had a Tholian War Cruiser...
Mike's 9 year old son had a Klingon D7...
and Jennifer (his daughter) had a Lyran Heavy Cruiser...
It was every man (or child) for themselves...
John started North center ofthe map
Mike was East Center...
I was at South Center...
Jennifer was at West Center.
The kids both turned towards Dad, Mike slowly slipped north as he approached the Klingon ship, while I slipped west and tried to get behind the Lyran.
John couldn't wait to fire at something... anything...
Offensive fire phase of 1-1 came up and he's counting ranges to all three other ships...
He wanted to fire 2 disruptors at the Fed... two disruptors at the Tholian... and phasers at the Lyran! We finally managed to convince him that he'd get closer and have more opportunities.
During Offensive fire of 1-4, John was 12 hexes from the Fed. We tried to explain the "sabre-dance", but John only wanted to get close and blow something up. He fired two disruptors and a couple of phasers and turned away.
Mike fired 4 photons and 6 phasers. One photon missed. Total damage result, 1 point of burnthrough on the Fed - 14 internals on the Klingon.
The quote of the day came from John during damage allocation. Mike had hit a Klingon lab and as John marked it off he remarked:
"It's only a lab, who cares... we don't use them anyway!" 
After that the Fed turned north to reload and the Klingon and Lyran closed in on my Tholian.
On 1-5, the Lyran fired 4 overloaded disruptors from 8 hexes at the Tholian, so I me too'ed my photons I'd wanted to hold for a different target... along with 5 phaser ones.
The Lyran missed with 3 of the dirptors and hadn't fired any phasers. The Tholian on the other hand hit with 3 photons and all phasers. This urged the Lyran to turn away from the Tholain which let me get into a pursuit pattern. This also saw the Klingon and the Lyran in a head-on approach.
John's already damaged D7 soon succombed to the close approach of the Lyran ship... 4 OL disruptors, a few phasers and an ESG ram to finish it off.
This left a damaged Lyran sitting between the Fed and the Tholian, both of whom had reloaded photons. Jennifer didn't last long and since I made a huge tactical blunder and had to spend all of my remaining energy to attempt to recover.. turn 3 ended with a heavily damaged Lyran (a dozen or so boxes remaining) and my damged Tholian's #4 shield (half-strength) facing the Fed's undamaged #1 shield...
We called the game and declared Mike the winner.
A fun time was had by all and John spent the last turn of the game pouring throug the ship cards repeating, "I want to play this ship in our next game. No, I want to play this one... no, this one..."
Looks like another convert or two has been won over.
