"Thomas, stop being a munchkin and flying cheesy fleets against your opponent," said the Fat Troll. "You are a very naughty warp engine."

Jean wrote: it isn't a grand conspiracy
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That's what THEY want you to think.

Ryuokami is correct.

Accurate adds to your to-hit roll. Only natural rolls of 6 get past the shields.

Precise adds +1 to the roll for each hit to see if it hits a bulkhead or not. In effect, Precise weapons will never hit bulkhead and score critical hits on a 5 or 6.

The battlestation has cleared the planet

Thats not a moon its a battlestation

No, battle station is two words. As is base station. Starbase is one word, however. And you're quoting from the wrong franchise.

GalagaGalaxian wrote:Aye, but its a lot harder to get onto a single target 1000 points of F arc, 15 inch hits on 4s or 5s photons that shoot every other turn at best than 36 inch T arc drones that shoot every turn.

...and the drones aren't all the weapons those frigates have.

For what it's worth, I agree.Two different versions of the arcs would tend to fracture the player base, and that would be bad. SFB experiences fracturing of the player base with its optional rules, for example groups that use electronic warfare vs. those that don't. The ninety-degree arcs decision h...

I interpreted "ignore" to mean "apply no effects of impulse criticals whatever".

Deadhane, its your own fault if you can't hit an evading target. As D-FENS said to the guy with the bag full of guns in the movie Falling Down:

Get some shooting lessons, a******e.

It was a mistake because that opened the doors for fighters and carriers, which came to dominate the game. As for removing it, there was a period where ADB issued raftloads of rules changes and "errata", which drove a lot of gamers away and those who remember it and still play are allergic to change...

At the moment, almost everyone here is armchairing the Gorn. That ain't gonna work.

Quite the contrary, Gornhide leather makes an excellent covering for armchairs.

From our point of view, you can ignore most of the errata and will find the game balanced. It is not us that is insisting on these additional changes. And that's an excuse for doing a sloppy job? Adding the wrong phasers in, then deleting the wrong phasers in an attempt to correct the error? Gettin...

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Puss in Boots.
Pink Panther.
Sher Khan (spelling?) from the Jungle Book.
Midnight Louie (from Carole Nelson Douglas' detective novels, he's a cat who is a detective).

Deadshane, the Critical Score is simply a way of tracking how severe the critical is. You do NOT take extra damage based on the number in the Critical Score heading on the table, only on the Extra Damage entry for that Critical Score. It's that simple. This is the example, its very clear in the book...

The Federation Commander sets had megahex counters, so you can get those as spare parts from ADB if you are looking for particular ships or empires. [As an old FC player I have many megahex counters. What I'm still waiting for is a %^$#@!!! rulebook . I can live without minis as long as I have RULES...

Alpha Complex is like Springfield in The Simpsons. It has whatever is required for the needs of the plot, whether it's Springfield Gorge, the Monsterhorn mountain, only one bridge out of town, etc. And these geographical features are completely ignored in any subsequent episode they are not needed. ...

We also assumed (quite wrongly, it now seems) that ...ex-SFB/FC players would not come back to Star Fleet in large numbers, and that even if they did, they would continue to use their existing collection of 2400's. When Federation Commander was released, Steve Cole believed that the new game (FC) w...

"So what is the official worf on SF: ACTA on PDF"

Worf is outside ADB's license.

The official word is that it is delayed, it's on one of the threads round here somewhere...

Equally, it could be argued that since it takes power to arm a SS, and Gorns don't get twice the power to arm SS as everyone else, you only launch one.

Remember that shuttles aren't just used for suicide missions, you also use them to move Marines around, and Gorns got plenty of those.

Suicide freighters don't ram, the hold is packed full of atomic bombs (according to the FC rulebook), and when it gets close enough to its target, it blows up. "Close enough" in this case is still far enough away that no defensive fire is possible, unlike a drone or plasma torpedo. If you wanted to ...

I believe that, in regard to the "do you know if it's an SS?" question, everyone would know. Everything else in the rules is open information.