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    Noble Armada: League?

    Good question, don't you think? Been a week, no comment from Mongoose? Pipe up, please - even bad news is better than none at all.
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    Question for NA Fans (it is about Fleets)

    And how long has this been going on? Chris got back to me within 24 hours, and I was a nobody using the contact form from the Holistic website, not the largest licensee of one of his IPs. From reading other forums dealing with Holistic, that level of responsiveness appears to be the norm...
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    Question for NA Fans (it is about Fleets)

    I contacted Holistic directly and Chris Wiese tells me That sure doesn't sound like the holdup is at Holistic's end, Matt. What's up with that? You got a communications issue there? Final draft of the pdf version sitting in a spam folder somewhere, or unsent in drafts?
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    New Ships for Noble Armada

    If you interpret "as if they were actually mounted upon it" literally, then look at what happens when you have two ships flying parallel within 4" range, both of them Escorts. If they're on the same course, and a volley comes in through the (say) port arc aimed at the more distant ship, then...
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    Squadron Boxes

    They don't work very well for either, which is one basis of the local dislike. Much too big for small hex grids, and not everyone owns larger ones. Then again, a lot of the local ADB guys are cheap too - they'd rather play with counters any day. Not ACTA's target audience - I used to get odd...
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    Squadron Boxes

    Ironic that everyone's having such problems getting these. The local store can't sell a thing - the game's being blackballed by the SFB crowd, apparently. I'm thinking he's glad he shaved his order down 75% due to the release delays - bet he's switched the fleet boxes (if they ever come out)...
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    Has Anyone in the US Received Their Rulebook?

    A laudable sentiment. Well done, sir. Support your local game store.
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    Lets talk Gorn

    Closely parallels what I'd take as an ideal Gorn force at that level. The Panty-K variant seems very attractive to me - the R torp has better long range, gives you way more punch when you have only a single weapon system available to fire, and it costs less. You lose out on arc coverage, which...
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    Official A Call to Arms: Star Fleet Update

    ADB's actually been quite good since Doomsday. You're right that they learned their lesson from the Bad Old Days. FedComs seems to have slightly more errors than SFB, but that be my imagination - or a side effect of accidentally lapsing into "SFB-think" while writing parts of FC. Even then...
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    First Battle with Romulans

    Oddly enough, I've seen that style of glue bottle kitbashed into a very convincing spaceship hull. Lot cheaper than that Rom ship, too. :)
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    Official A Call to Arms: Star Fleet Update

    Aw, you haven't seen anything yet. Anyone who lived through the TFG era of SFB knows the SFU has a long tradition of errata for the errata on the errata of their errata. Nexus magazine and the pre-Doomsday edition Captain's Log used to devote a large percentage of their page count to it every...
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    Lets talk Gorn

    Apparently no one in any group actually used a freighter either. Those initial damage scores would never have made it past a single playtest. They're fixed now, but should never have made it to print in the first place.
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    Any news on the fleet boxes

    That's pretty good, HermitBob. Would you like to do a similar timeline for the Fleets of the Fading Suns book? :roll:
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    Lets talk Gorn

    Oh right, might as well choose the phasers option. My bad. Makes it even better for the Gorn, anyway, since you can maybe control the range a little better on the Reload turns.
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    Lets talk Gorn

    Surely you only need to Reload weapons that have been fired? That would allow a cycle of: Turn 1: Fire (say) port plasmas while performing whatever special action desired (Boost Shields?) Turn 2: Turn, fire starboard plasmas, again with choice of SA Turn 3: Reload everything, slowing to 6"...
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