Going Olde School: Federation Commander

Started by LongBlade, August 23, 2012, 11:16:00 PM

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DV8

I just got back into town and look what the kind folks from Amazon brought me.






"Most of my cliches aren't original." - Chuck Knox

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

LongBlade

Sweet!

I've got the primer on my two minis. Tried to hand brush some white on the heavy cruiser but it was terrible, so I washed it off. I'll have to break out the airbrush and see if I can get a better coat on it.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

DV8

Excellent.  I'm going give the rules a good read during the holiday.
"Most of my cliches aren't original." - Chuck Knox

mirth

You guys are killing me. I so want some Starship combat love.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

DV8

"Most of my cliches aren't original." - Chuck Knox

mirth

Portland, Maine. A little out of your neighborhood I think ;)
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

DV8

Just a bit.  We'll have to give Federation Commander Online a try in the future.

http://www.sfbonline.com/fc.jsp

"Most of my cliches aren't original." - Chuck Knox

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Martok

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

DV8

Well,  Jim and I got our first real game in this afternoon.  What a hoot!  I'll post the pics and Jim can do the commentary.












"Most of my cliches aren't original." - Chuck Knox

TheCommandTent

^Looks like fun, looking forward to the commentary.


Btw, you avatar scares the crap out of me.
"No wants, no needs, we weren't meant for that, none of us.  Man stagnates if he has no ambition, no desire to be more than he is."

LongBlade

#42
This was a ton of fun today.

I was running a Romulan War Eagle, DV8 was running a War Destroyer from the Federation - we used the Heavy Cruiser mini because that's all we have right now.

This was our first run at the edit: full Federation Commander rules, and for the sake of simplicity we were using the Fleet Scale as it still provides plenty of realism without tons of overhead.

We tangled for three turns with his War Destroyer gradually blasting away at my shields. Here you can see the damage done as I've checked off the shields and then the internal damage. Fortunately nothing critical was destroyed, although I did take some damage to my warp engines on both sides.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

LongBlade

In that shot you can see him slowly turning to starboard at the end of Turn 2. On turn three my plasma torpedoes are finally fully armed and ready to go, and he is close. I'm stoked as this is my turn for payback.

However, he knows it's coming and diverts all power to engines, maxing out his speed and pouring excess power into extra movement to get as far away from my plasma torp as he can get.

He does successfully outrun it by the end of the turn but it was a hoot watching him sweating bullets about the middle of the turn.

At the end of the turn you can see how much distance he's put between me and him...and my plasma torpedo.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

DV8

Quote from: TheCommandTent on September 02, 2012, 07:53:39 PM
Btw, you avatar scares the crap out of me.

I know.  It's freaking me out so much that I might have to change it.

"Time for Teletubbies bye-bye..."
"Most of my cliches aren't original." - Chuck Knox