BR Stoke On Trent's War Games Group First ACTA battle.

[astronomypete]

Tonight Stoke On Trent War Games Group played A Call To Arms Star Fleet, for the first time.

Federation Fleet
CC - Charles
CC - Charles
CS - Huw
FFG - Ethan
FFG - Rosie (Daughter)
Total Points 785

Klingon Fleet
D7C - Austin
D7 - Pete (Me)
D6 - Tommy
D6 - Joseph (Son)
F5 - Pete (Me)
Total Points 780.

First turn lots of reading of rules.
Klingons opened fire against Fed CC. Mostly Deshielded it.
Feds Out Ranged returned fire with drones only, all bounced with Anti-Drone fire.

Second Turn.
Klingon Flank (D6-Joe) attacked FFG-Rosie (brother vs sister stand off) Shield damage
Klingon Fire attacked Fed CC causing significant damage critting Impulse drive to level 3 (plus some other crits)
Federation return of fire minor damage due to extreme range.

Third Turn
Klingon flank attacks reduced sheilds of FFG
Klingon main task force crippled CC
Federation FFG opened fire against Klingon D7 (mine) (previously untouched) and due to many penetrating crit roles, ie 6 after 6 after 6 after 6 and so on. Caused it to blow up still with 13 shields left. (that was one un-happy Dad as his daughter was reduced to her gloating look).

Fourth turn (last due to time)
Klingon's lose D6 (Tommy's) went bang, to Federation photon and massed phaser fire.
Federations CC finally blows up, causing minor shield damage to F5.

Overall well received as a game. I think when we get to know the rules better and we did pretty much by the end of turn 4. We'll be able to play the game quickly and efficiently, but fun was had by all. Including me with my blown up ship. All want to play again next week. We'll probably do Fed's vs Roms.

 

[Renny]

Interesting batrep, thanks for taking the time to write it up for us.

 

[astronomypete]

You're welcome, we're battling again tonight. We really like the game. Plus we have some kids in our group who aren't so good at maths so would struggle with the complicated Star Fleet Battles rules. This seems to suit them down to the ground.

 

[Commander Kretok]

The easier rules are something that I think will help people get interested in the game.

Star Fleet Battles has a reputation for having a very complicated rule set, while Star Fleet A Call to Arms is really a rather simple and easy to understand system.

Even playing the game myself, there were people asking if it was SFB and asking how we could memorize all those rules. The I'd show them the SFACTA rule book and they'd be surprised by just how simple the game's rules are.