Federation Commander

Listening to players, it has come to our attention that those not buying KB or RB do so because of cost. Some say that a friend has KB or RB so they don't need to spend that much but would like something besides just the rulebook. FC: Academy is the answer to that! FC: Academy will be an introduction version (not a demo like First Missions) giving enough to play. A break down of what will be in Academy: 4 SSDs (Federation Heavy Cruiser, Klingon D7 Battle Cruiser, Gorn Battle Cruiser, and Romulan King Eagle), color paper map, 1/2" counters, 1 reference card, Klingon Border Rulebook...exciting new coverart done by Adam Turner. There will also be a squadron box miniatures release specific to Academy. An Alert should go out sometime next week with the coverart for final announcement of the product!

That is great news! Is the MSRP decided?

Retail will be $24.95.

Awesome. I think that's going to be huge. At least I hope it is!

I saw the announcment over at TMP and all I can say is very cool!

Trying to get my FLGS to order a few copies of this to have on habd when we are running our demos and our bi-weekly OPL games.

Can a FC reference card be purchased individually?

Is it still too early to tell about how well FC: Academy is doing?

How it is doing? It probably just reached the first half dozen stores this morning. Way too soon to tell.

We sold a lot more FC:As than we expected to sell. Ran us out of maps and we had to print more to send with the overseas editions, which had to be delayed a week. (The old and new maps are identical.)

The restocks will tell.

I hope I get to be one of those guys who pushed hard for what turns out to be a *good* idea.