Call to arms Starfleet Intro games

[Zarathustra Suicune]

My uni gaming club is doing wargame intro games on friday and I have volunteered to do Call to arms ones if needed, I am not sure which ships which would be best for this though, I have the federation Fleet and reinforcement boxes, and two Romulan ships, I amy be able to contact the guy who has Klingons, but I may not be able to either. So which ships would be best for doing a Intro game where both fleets are federation?

 

[Da Boss]

Fed v Klingon Games are in my expereince pretty balanced - Romulans can be a bit of pain for beginning games if most of the game they stayed cloaked - which is likely

I would suggest 4 or 5 ships each - a coupel of cruisers and some escorts - haev some terrain a couple each of dustclouds and asteroid fields to give people a chacne to do some maneuvering.

If you have not got the exact ships - proxy them

 

[scoutdad]

I've had luck using 3 Feds and 3 Klingons.
With a two page summary of the rules / charts, I can get two brand-new, never played before people through a game in about 45 minutes.

If I'm guess demo'ing / teaching, I use a 3x3 map with 6 inch deployment zones and then put a dust cloud and a small asteroid field near the center of the table.
The small size map gets them into combat range quickly, even if one (or both) chooses to move slowly. and with only three ships (usually identical cruisers), there's not a lot of flipping to the ship stats to see which wepaonsthis ship has that the others don't.

 

[scuy]

Done Fed frigates vs Klingon frigates fights, 500 and less. It was easy to learn and play the game without having to deal with so much damage output.

then just adding one cruiser to the mix to get a feel for that size of ship.

 

[Zarathustra Suicune]

So a texas and two burkes vrs the same on a board with a small dust cloud and asteroid feild would be a good idea then?

 

[scoutdad]

So a texas and two burkes vrs the same on a board with a small dust cloud and asteroid feild would be a good idea then?

It would certainly be balanced.
I try to avoid "civil wars" for demos as the players often have enough trouble learning the rules without having to worry that every ship on the board is the same shape/color... but there's no real reason it can;t be done that way.

 

[Zarathustra Suicune]

I left all but too of my Romulan ships at home and can't contact the Klingon player And this was supposed to be why I had Romulans The Gorn box looks nice, wander if eclectic could get it in for friday morning... though unpainted models would probably be as bad as a civil war game.