Recent content by Nomad

Bill, what I've observed is that the combination of strong forward shields and long-ranged, accurate Disruptors results in the Klingons sitting still and bombarding at long range. Any Fed ship trying to close to effective torpedo range risks being outflanked. To an extent this can be offset by...

Cheers, Bill. A friend told me they'd been withdrawn and I noticed that they seem to be absent from the Mongoose web store.

Are the Squadron boxes still available? If not, will they be coming back?

Signal close action!

Right, thanks, I'll see if I can re-download it. On second thoughts, I'll ignore it for now. I was going to use the Kzinti DND and some ships with Armoured Drones in an upcoming campaign, but TBH they do look pretty broken.

A couple of questions about the Drone variants in Update 2. Apologies if these have already been answered. 1) Armoured Drones take two phaser or ADD hits to destroy. Can ADDs only score one hit against each drone in a salvo (leaving the drones damaged but still flying), or do they re-roll...

On the subject of Fleet Update 2 points costs... Kzinti DNH - 325 Kzinti DN (post errata)... 330. Shome mishtake, shurely?

Narada from the first Abrams film.

Lee, we can argue past each other all night. The only way to resolve this will be playtesting. If fusions and gats carry all before them, fair enough - but I'd still rather see that addressed through the points values rather than by fiddling with the stats. Thanks for the stimulating debate...

I like this, and the ship's point values should reflect it. A Ranger cruiser with a full Stinger2 loadout is about 33% more costly than a Klingon D7 in FedCom. I like this too.

Discounting their fighters, true. Personally, I think using carriers without their fighters is an abuse (In ACtA:B5 they were factored into the ship's priority level, which solved that problem. I'd gladly make Hydran fighters compulsory). And the damage comparison at knife range is valid - *if*...

Storey, I do recall seeing SVC's 'list of regrets', IIRC including, amongst other things, the Jindarians, the Positron Flywheel, the Ion Cannon and the Temporal Elevator. The Gatling was not on that list. I'd remember if it was. The Gat has been in the SFU since 1980. SFB E 2.15 describes it...

Sorry, but supposed by who? I'd say gats are exactly as effective in SFB and FC as they are meant to be - a balancing factor for the generally weak Ph -1/2 batteries Hydran ships carry wrt their opponents, class for class. Hydran ships - fusion ships in particular - are meant to be ineffective...

I'm prepared to agree with you concerning the fusions, except to note that in ACtA:SF photon to-hit scores are never better than 4+ so they certainly can miss in this game. But; Simply not true. After all, you yourself contradict this; Which does not sound very defensive. I've not used the...

In FC, Stingers may have two fusions, but they may only fire one of their fusions per turn. A late and rather arbitrary nerf from SVC himself: Emphasis added. The One Shot rule seems reasonable, if only because Stingers (or their targets) rarely live long enough for a second to be either...