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Title: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: W8taminute on July 11, 2017, 08:41:03 PM
Hi folks,

Over at the Table Top Simulator identify yourself thread there was discussion on playing Forbidden Stars.  I've come here to this forgotten area to invite up to 3 people to join me in a let's play Forbidden Stars and learn how to play.  If you are interested post here. 

I plan on either using the in Steam voice chat option.  I also use Discord so friend me there if you use Discord as well.  My username on Discord is W8taminute #4522
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: JasonPratt on July 11, 2017, 09:06:08 PM
Whoops, needs your 4 digit tag so Discord knows which one you are!

Steam chat is fine with me, tho. I just happen to have Discord so I figured I might as well. (Kushan does, too, if he wants to learn.)
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: JasonPratt on July 11, 2017, 09:09:54 PM
Also, I call the Tau.

If the expanded factions aren't available, I'll call the Eldar and be the squishie elves.

(Standard factions are Space Marines, Chaos, Eldar, and Orks. I think. Expanded factions should include Tyranids, Imperial Guard, Tau, and Necrons.)
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: PanzersEast on July 11, 2017, 09:14:54 PM
I'm in, death to heretics......


Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: JasonPratt on July 12, 2017, 08:05:42 AM
Chaos: "YOU SHALL DIE BY TRAITOR HANDS!"

Me, playing as the Necrons, at least once a match: "You shall die by trapdoor hands."
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: W8taminute on July 12, 2017, 10:27:51 AM
Quote from: JasonPratt on July 11, 2017, 09:06:08 PM
Whoops, needs your 4 digit tag so Discord knows which one you are!

Steam chat is fine with me, tho. I just happen to have Discord so I figured I might as well. (Kushan does, too, if he wants to learn.)

Ooops you're right.  Here is my username and 4 digit code:  W8taminute#4522
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: W8taminute on July 12, 2017, 10:29:34 AM
Quote from: JasonPratt on July 11, 2017, 09:09:54 PM
Also, I call the Tau.

If the expanded factions aren't available, I'll call the Eldar and be the squishie elves.

(Standard factions are Space Marines, Chaos, Eldar, and Orks. I think. Expanded factions should include Tyranids, Imperial Guard, Tau, and Necrons.)

Oh I didn't know there was an expansion to the game.  The version I have on TTS only has the standard factions i.e. Space Marines, Chaos, Eldar, and Orks.  I'll look at the Steam Workshop to see if there are expansion races we can add.
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: JasonPratt on July 12, 2017, 11:03:25 AM
There are indeed! -- a 6-player map and two or four other factions.
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: W8taminute on July 12, 2017, 12:26:03 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on July 12, 2017, 11:03:25 AM
There are indeed! -- a 6-player map and two or four other factions.

Found it!   :)
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: Nefaro on July 13, 2017, 02:41:27 PM
Doesn't TTS have built-in Voice? 

I saw the PTT hotkey in-game, along with some options. 

I don't have Discord.  It's just another VOIP client? 




Anyway.. I'd like to jump in, if there is room.  Not too picky about faction although I'd take Chaos->Eldar->Tau->Orks->Necron,  in that order of preference.
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: W8taminute on July 13, 2017, 03:35:57 PM
Hi Nefaro,

Last night Jason and I tried out Steam voice chat and were successfully able to communicate in that fashion.  We had a good educational run through of the game.  Nice thing about Steam chat is all you need is a headset and microphone.  We could use that. 

Feel free to message me in Steam if you are online at the same time I am.  I will happily stop whatever I might be doing and go over the game mechanics with you.  I'm usually online in the evenings during the week from 6pm onwards (GMT-5 timezone).
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: JasonPratt on July 13, 2017, 05:09:11 PM
We forgot to test whether the TTS voice chat worked. I don't recall seeing it in the help menu, but I've heard TTS has it.  ???
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: Nefaro on July 13, 2017, 08:35:58 PM
Quote from: W8taminute on July 13, 2017, 03:35:57 PM
Hi Nefaro,

Last night Jason and I tried out Steam voice chat and were successfully able to communicate in that fashion.  We had a good educational run through of the game.  Nice thing about Steam chat is all you need is a headset and microphone.  We could use that. 

Feel free to message me in Steam if you are online at the same time I am.  I will happily stop whatever I might be doing and go over the game mechanics with you.  I'm usually online in the evenings during the week from 6pm onwards (GMT-5 timezone).



Wonder if we will have more victims volunteers joining us. 

I can wait for any others who may need a rules primer along with me.  Supposing I'm the only one who needs it right now.

Are we currently at four people?
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: W8taminute on July 13, 2017, 11:11:13 PM
^No we just need one more player though!  Correction; we have 4 players!

We have:

Jason - Tau
Nefaro - Chaos
PanzEast - Space Marines
W8taminute - Orks (just called it now but if the fourth player would rather have them I'll pick another faction)
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: JasonPratt on July 14, 2017, 06:07:05 AM
Didn't PanzEast go for the Space Marines earlier?
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: W8taminute on July 14, 2017, 01:26:45 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on July 14, 2017, 06:07:05 AM
Didn't PanzEast go for the Space Marines earlier?

oh yeah you're right.  Sorry about that PanzEast.  I'll update my post above. 

I guess that means we have 4 players.  Now to arrange a schedule that we can all meet up with.
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: JasonPratt on July 14, 2017, 04:29:58 PM
Chaos dictates failure for this plan.  :D

(I won't be available until tomorrow morning sometime, possibly not until early tomorrow afternoon.)
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: Nefaro on July 14, 2017, 05:33:39 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on July 14, 2017, 04:29:58 PM
Chaos dictates failure for this plan.  :D

(I won't be available until tomorrow morning sometime, possibly not until early tomorrow afternoon.)

I'll check in sometime tomorrow afternoon then.
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: W8taminute on July 14, 2017, 06:47:05 PM
Quote from: Nefaro on July 14, 2017, 05:33:39 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on July 14, 2017, 04:29:58 PM
Chaos dictates failure for this plan.  :D

(I won't be available until tomorrow morning sometime, possibly not until early tomorrow afternoon.)

I'll check in sometime tomorrow afternoon then.

Same here.
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: JasonPratt on July 15, 2017, 09:15:46 AM
Does look like afternoon at the moment, although should be early after-noon. (I'm passing through, and letting my ARK: SURVIVAL EVOLVED update.)

I added PanzEast to my friend's list, or invited rather (I'm "Sabreman" on Steam), since I hadn't done that yet somehow.
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: W8taminute on July 15, 2017, 04:32:20 PM
Nefaro, Jason, and I met up this afternoon and had a pretty good session.  We're almost done setting up the board I think. 
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: PanzersEast on July 16, 2017, 09:30:54 AM
Sorry I missed, was out of town.  Are we going to have a regular time to meet?  I am reading up on the rules.
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: JasonPratt on July 16, 2017, 10:05:24 AM
Since we rather badly botched and then hotchpotched setting up the board, I don't think anyone would complain much if we reset. :) But we could also splice in your three board pieces somewhat easily as things are.

The main thing atm is to get together with W8 and let him walk you through the pieces and what's going on. It doesn't have to be with all of us.

Fortunately, I think turn resolution doesn't need everyone present at the same time. Unfortunately, I do think how turns are set up needs everyone together at the same time.
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: W8taminute on July 16, 2017, 11:57:43 AM
Quote from: JasonPratt on July 16, 2017, 10:05:24 AM
Since we rather badly botched and then hotchpotched setting up the board, I don't think anyone would complain much if we reset. :) But we could also splice in your three board pieces somewhat easily as things are.

The main thing atm is to get together with W8 and let him walk you through the pieces and what's going on. It doesn't have to be with all of us.

Fortunately, I think turn resolution doesn't need everyone present at the same time. Unfortunately, I do think how turns are set up needs everyone together at the same time.

There are three phases of the game:

1.  Planning phase:  everyone needs to be present in order to have everyone secretly place order tokens on the map
2.  Execution phase:  depending on how the secretly placed tokens play out we may not need everyone present
3.  Refresh phase:  not everyone needs to be there to execute the refresh phase
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: JasonPratt on July 16, 2017, 01:31:01 PM
^ Right, that was my understanding, too.
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: Nefaro on July 16, 2017, 04:42:25 PM
I'm good with starting the map setup again, for PE to join.  I'm sure we would've made different decisions if we had done it in proper order.  ;D

At least we know how to do it now.   <:-) 

Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: JasonPratt on July 16, 2017, 05:53:57 PM
...we think.

.........maybe.  <:-)
Title: Re: Table Top Simulator: Forbidden Stars university!
Post by: W8taminute on July 16, 2017, 09:53:16 PM
Ok then it's settled.  All we need to do is find the time and day to meet up to setup the board.