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None of the ships in ACTA-SF are original designs by Mongoose. They are all conversions of ships from Star Fleet Battles (SFB) and its successor, Federation Commander (FC). So if I were to dig out my old copy of SFB and look at the ship sheets, I would expect to see a correlation between the...

As far as I can tell, the safest place to be on a ship is sitting in a shuttle that stays in the shuttle bay. After the shuttle is launched it is easy to kill, but while it is in the bay it can't be harmed by anything short of the destruction of the ship carrying it. Marines can be killed by...

In the section titled Crippled Ships on page 7 it says "In addition, a Crippled ship may only move a maximum of 6 inches in a turn and only one weapon system may be used while attacking." Do the words "while attacking" imply that the rest of the weapon systems can be used for defending the ship...

If we're gathering tidbits for the next update to the errata, I have three issues: 1. For almost all of the ships, the Crippled threshold is one-third of the Damage rating, rounded up. There are five ships which don't follow this rule: Romulan NovaHawk & RoyalHawk, and the Kzin NCA, NCC & BCH...

Zocchi made eight ship models for use with his game Star Fleet Battle Manual. There were five Fed ships in white plastic and three enemies (Tholian PC, Klingon Battlecruiser & Romulan Warbird) in lead. The models I bought from Zocchi in the 1970's represent a significant fraction of my...