ACTA: Starfleet Miniature-sized Counters

[Harbin]

Hello,

Is there any interest from anyone and/or are there any plans by Mongoose and/or ADB to produce miniature-sized cardboard counters for ACTA: Starfleet?

About twelve-plus years or so ago, Fantasy Flight Games produced a couple of starship combat games (Star Trek: Red Alert and Twilight Imperium Armada or something like that) that used large-ish cardboard counters to represent the ships in each game.

If these were produced for ACTA, with thicker materials, I would definitely buy them.

Cheers!

Scott

 

[bcantwell]

This is exactly how I play, but I've made my own counters using various images from the web as well as the 3D ship models people made for the Starfleet Command computer game. I print these out and mount them onto 1/4" foam core. Once the edges are painted black, the counter mostly disappears and the "ship" floats a little above the table.

My goal with the project was to add a game to my stable on the cheap, but it has a very nice added benefit that I'm freed from the production schedule and can make any ship I want. The visual is not a great as with miniatures, but it still looks pretty good. My cruisers are about 1.5" - 2" long.

 

[astronomypete]

You might want to look at Module H1 from SFB http://store.starfleetstore.com/mer...re_Code=S&Product_Code=4501&Category_Code=SCR

 

[Captain Jonah]

H1 is well worth the cost, you get a huge number of ships covering every possible fleet and in a good mix of FF/DD/CL/CA types.

For anyone wanting to use all possible fleets and who doesn't live near Scoutdad it is very useful.

 

[Harbin]

Astronomypete and Captain Jonah:

I actually have a set of the megahex counters that ADB makes and you are right in that you get a really good variety of ship counters.

What I was originally asking about, and maybe I didn't expand on it very well, is whether there are any plans to produce large counters that are the size of the new production miniatures. If you remember the original ACTA Babylon 5 game, there were cardstock counters (roughly 1" x 2" for many of the ships and 1" x 1" for fighter flights) included in the box set that you used for your ships. The counters were published and used because Mongoose hadn't yet acquired the old B5 Wars miniature molds from Agents of Gaming.

If you do a search on Boardgamegeek for Red Alert Disk Wars or Twilight Imperium Armada or something to that effect (I don't remember the exact names), there should be images of the counters from those games that I mentioned. I'd include the link but I'm on my lunch break at work and don't have access to Boardgamegeek's site right now.

Hope that explains what I'm asking about and looking for a little better

Scott

 

[Nerroth]

I'm not a hundred percent sure exactly what size they would end up being, but there is talk over on the ADB BBS of potentially doing a series of six-sided cardstock "box miniatures" in order to support the upcoming adaptation of Ad Astra Games' Squadron Strike 3-D space combat engine to the Star Fleet Universe.

(The main advantage of box miniatures is the ability to use them with appropriate play aids to keep the ship held at various angles, in order to better represent the incorporation of the Z-axis into Squadron Strike game play. But the box minis could just as well be used on a strictly two-dimensional plane, too.)

At the moment, ADB are looking for people to post in this thread about whether or not they would be willing to go for such box minis; be they for use with SFSS in particular, or just to use them for more general game play.

So, if you think such box minis might be of use, feel free to pop over and add your name to the list.