Recent content by gord314

I play federation (in a campaign) and I use overload when I can, which is very rare, boost shields if I can afford to move 6" or less, IDF if I moved over 6" and I don't need to engage tractor beams, engage tractor beams if I need to for a scenario, or in there very rare case I am trying to hold...

Since pre-measuring is specifically allowed our group allows people to move a ship say 6" to see what that looks like before deciding if they want to take a power drain, or even move 12" before deciding if they want to all power to engines or do something else. Though technically this is against...

I can't really say much about the gorn, I've only played 4 or 5 games involving them, as opposed to around 50 games with the Federation, Romulans, and Klingons. I like that they took out lumbering, most of the things that had it didn't warrant it and I don't think the pointing on most of the...

The changes seem reasonable to me. The D5 and D5W are great ships, still easily worth their new point values. Also, the Romulans can probably use the help. They arn't that strong to begin with and as people develop more and more anti-Romulan tactics things will only become harder for them.

Check out Federation and Empire http://www.starfleetgames.com/federationandempire.shtml by ADB.

You're right that perfect game balance is impossible. Allow me to revise my position. There are currently serious pointing issues with many of the ships, the D5 and D5W among them. While I think that force selection limits can make a game interesting by demanding variety, we should not give up...

Agreed, if people want to take tons of command ships there is probably something wrong with the pointing since command doesn't stack. Also, a fleet heavy in D5s is realistic fleet for the Klingons since these were designed to be cheap, so putting limits on them doesn't seem like a good plan...

both explosions are the same size, half starting hull max 20.

I don't really see Klingons being jealous of Federation shield boosting. The D5 and the D5W are very good ships, and if a Klingon player wants 2 die shield boosts, he can get them without much in the way of sacrifice in other areas.

Can a war eagle take move only 6" as a power drain and still fire its type R torpedo? Logic says no, but rules as written don't seem to forbid it.

The war eagle was the ship I used in the example, you were clearly being fired at by a KR out of either its port or starboard arc, since it was 3 phaser-1s and a type S plasma torpedo, or as you said two ships :)

At under 18" 3 federation battleships could land 27 drones on a target, which would likely kill without extra defensive fire, but then again we are talking about 3 battleships here.

I'm not to worried since the battleships are looking to be in the 500 pt range, so fleets of them are unlikely. A fleet of 3 federation battleships would cost about 1500 pts and at over 18" would land 9 drones (or 14 drones if drones don't suffer the -1 to hit at over 18") on a target each turn...

You calculate hits first, then roll stealth, for example: You get hit by 4 phaser-1s in kill zone, 3 impact on the shields, one bypasses shields, this generates 6 hits on the shields (from killzone) and 2 rolls on the damage table. Before these are rolled, you roll for stealth. Say you get a...

Luckily for me, we have a crack team of gamers and mathematicians working on developing our own pointing formula which does account for drones in a non-linear manner. Granted this doesn't help for tournaments or pick up games, but it will be a while before we have either of those in Southern...