Hi guys
I went to the Games Expo to help run demos for ACTA: Star Fleet. I thoroughly enjoyed it and talked to a bunch of people about the system. Because the ACTA system is so easy to learn the basics of that generally after the first turn people needed very little help.
We had a few SFB people playing, and as someone who used to play it back in the day we talked about the differences, the most important one being you can turn up to your local club with ACTA:SF and get a game whereas with SFB for a pick up game you really need players who've put the time in, or are willing to put the time into learning a very thick rulebook.
We had five games where almost no one had even glanced at the rules previously and after turn 1 we only needed to answer occasional rules questions or clarify things. Leaving plenty of time to chat and offer people Ribena.
I picked up two Federation reinforcement boxes, a Fed new fast cruiser (meaning I now have 1 of every Federation ship). a FD7 (to give the Klingons two fast cruisers) and a sheet of the Federation transfers. I've been over the ships, very pleased with them so far, and I'm halfway through doing a review of the box, that I'll get finished tomorrow when I have light to take pictures by and a charged camera battery.
Lessons learnt - next time I'm doing demos, laminated ship sheets are a must. Also possibly base the demo forces on squadron boxes 1, 2 or 7, because once the points were evened up in the last battle, the Romulans cloaking for a couple of turns meant the Klingons took a bit of a pasting without equivalent firepower to throw back.
The Demo forces were:
Fed - Prometheus Class Strike Cruiser, 2 x Constitution Class Heavy Cruiser, Ramius Class Battle Frigate
Klingon/Romulan - C7 Battlecruiser, D6 cruiser, Novahawk command cruiser, Battlehawk destroyer
For the final game I added a couple of my ships (Klingon E4 and Federation Burke class Frigate) and changed the Strike Cruiser to a Kirov class BC.
And what report would be complete without pictures?
The last demo game of the weekend
Previous demo games on Sunday
Alan minding the Mongoose stand. From my casual observation a lot of Star Fleet stuff went at the weekend.
Feel free to add your 2p worth on what you enjoyed.
I went to the Games Expo to help run demos for ACTA: Star Fleet. I thoroughly enjoyed it and talked to a bunch of people about the system. Because the ACTA system is so easy to learn the basics of that generally after the first turn people needed very little help.
We had a few SFB people playing, and as someone who used to play it back in the day we talked about the differences, the most important one being you can turn up to your local club with ACTA:SF and get a game whereas with SFB for a pick up game you really need players who've put the time in, or are willing to put the time into learning a very thick rulebook.
We had five games where almost no one had even glanced at the rules previously and after turn 1 we only needed to answer occasional rules questions or clarify things. Leaving plenty of time to chat and offer people Ribena.
I picked up two Federation reinforcement boxes, a Fed new fast cruiser (meaning I now have 1 of every Federation ship). a FD7 (to give the Klingons two fast cruisers) and a sheet of the Federation transfers. I've been over the ships, very pleased with them so far, and I'm halfway through doing a review of the box, that I'll get finished tomorrow when I have light to take pictures by and a charged camera battery.
Lessons learnt - next time I'm doing demos, laminated ship sheets are a must. Also possibly base the demo forces on squadron boxes 1, 2 or 7, because once the points were evened up in the last battle, the Romulans cloaking for a couple of turns meant the Klingons took a bit of a pasting without equivalent firepower to throw back.
The Demo forces were:
Fed - Prometheus Class Strike Cruiser, 2 x Constitution Class Heavy Cruiser, Ramius Class Battle Frigate
Klingon/Romulan - C7 Battlecruiser, D6 cruiser, Novahawk command cruiser, Battlehawk destroyer
For the final game I added a couple of my ships (Klingon E4 and Federation Burke class Frigate) and changed the Strike Cruiser to a Kirov class BC.
And what report would be complete without pictures?
The last demo game of the weekend
Previous demo games on Sunday
Alan minding the Mongoose stand. From my casual observation a lot of Star Fleet stuff went at the weekend.
Feel free to add your 2p worth on what you enjoyed.
