Recent content by carbon_dragon

I'll have to check my SSDs but I don't remember any great superiority in forward shield power. As it stands now the Klingons are pretty much unbeatable. I figured the designer had lots of Klingon costumes and spent a lot of time learning to speak Klingon. it was the only way I could explain the...

I do think that the feel is pretty good though and I like simpler games so I think there is definitely something there that is worth saving. I'm just not sure it might not be easier to learn and play Federation Commander. I'm not sure it would play that much slower than ACTA SF. It seems like...

I'm still working with the original game. It's hard to "edit" the game without being able to reprint it. Typically I want the original game to work but here it clearly doesn't. It's not just nits, it's fundamental. Feds vs. Klingons is the fundamental reality of the SFB universe. Yes ditch the...

I'm an old SFB player. I haven't played Federation Commander yet though I have bought it. I've played ACTA in a few other forms. We played two games of ACTA SF over the last few weeks (myself and a friend of mine). The first game was Constitution vs. D7 and the second was two 5 ship fleets. The...

Got them thanks. I wonder though WERE they intended to be in the book? Were they just left out of all the books. Glad I asked too because the turn gauge IS different from Age of Dreadnoughts. That seems odd in and of itself.

Just bought the book which is very nicely done, except that there are no copyable turn gauges or counters or firing arc diagrams that I can find in the book. Shouldn't there be? I don't need the counters and I can use the stuff in Age of Dreadnoughts but do I have an early edition that is...

Never heard of Gigabytes before. Are they a store? Do you have an address? Are they a game store? We don't even have a small game store around me anymore except for Hobbytown on Barrett Parkway. I play there with a friend now and then. Is the Treefort place a house or is it a game store? It...

You're in Atlanta? I'm in Marietta.

I just spent an hour trying to assemble some fiddly Mongoose B5 Vorlon ships and it made me remember the days when we had both FASA and SFB ships to buy. What I liked about the SFB/ADB ships was that they were easy to assemble and sturdy and they seldom broke. The FASA ships were often difficult...

If I remember right, the Saladin had 15 power rather than the 30 (2 nacelles) that the CA had. I actually liked in SFB how the number of nacelles really mattered like this. With 15 power, it did kind of work like a power drain. BUT the Saladin could, for significantly lower point cost, deliver...

To some extent, the ships that appeal to me are the ships I already have purchased, painted, and in my case. Also as I said, I really like the Saladin/Nelsons. I may eventually buy some 2500s if I end up finding an opponent to play a lot, but I have SO many Star Trek miniatures from all sources...

I would think the ships SFB has the strongest rights to was the original licensed ships from the Starfleet Reference Manual. Anyway, it's more about aesthetics to me. Actually I always found the FASA designs were much prettier. The Romulan Nova and Whitewing, the Larson and Locknar, etc. The...

The Saladin has almost been my favorite ship (well second favorite) and I was dissapointed to see that it wasn't in the initial Call to Action Star Fleet. I always found it interesting (and occasionally frustrating) to play as well. Basically it had the firepower of a cruiser but with inadequate...

Thanks for the clarification. I notice that they go to the problem of showing how scouts work, but they don't show any scouts in the book (no ships with the scouts trait). That's odd because SFB comes from the Star Fleet Reference Manual which only has a few ships anyway, the Constitution, the...

Wait. Plasma torpedos and drones are seeking weapons which don't roll attack dice and don't roll to penetrate shields either, so it wouldn't roll anything to get through shields, it never gets through shields does it? Sorry if I'm being dense. I'm an old SFB player, then FASA and even a Call to...