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Initial publication of the games in the Star Fleet Battles series. This was one of the first Task Force Games Pocket Games. It was re-implemented and expanded several times after the original "Pocket Game."
This is the classic game of tactical Starship combat set in the Star Trek universe (the original TV show), though you will never see "Star Trek" anywhere in the game (licensing limitation). Players command one or more ships from the Federation, Klingon, Gorn, Romulan, or Kzinti fleets, sporting all of the expected Star Trek weaponry like phasers, disruptor bolts, photon and plasma torpedoes, and tractor beams. Also includes other weaponry not commonly seen such as drones (homing missiles).
Players allocate energy and plot movement before each turn, then move all of the ships simultaneously. Weapons are fired at will during the turn (i.e., not plotted before-hand like movement). Ships have shields and armor for protection. When these are breached, various ship systems are damaged, potentially crippling the combat capability of the ship, and eventually resulting in ship destruction.
Game comes with various scenarios for players to reenact battles from the TV series, or provide for solo play.
Re-implemented by:
Star Fleet Battles (Designer's Edition)
Star Fleet Battles (Commander's Edition)
Star Fleet Battles Captain's Edition (Current Edition)
This page includes videos and mentions from the whole Star Fleet Battles family. Drill into a specific game below.
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- The Experience doesn't start when they start playing the game The First Time The Experience starts when you open the box
- I like Zone movement because if you if you think about it like I don't know why we have such tightly grided uh games where you're counting out your character's movement spaces
- The app really does for us is it um that barrier of Entry that I talked about earlier um the app really helps with that because what it does is it'll just walk you through the setup process which makes it really easy
- It's going to be more like a you know like a classic pulp sci-fi Adventure it's always going to be a lot of pew pew going on
- Your character starts off you have a deck of 10 cards it's a deck builder and so oh cool you have you start off with 10 cards
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- please explain painting Optical camouflage on spaceships I know rule of cool I don't know it just looked neat I guess that's the same thing
- all the stls that you buy or whether you buy the stuff through uh only games like if you get them printed like if you don't have a printer yourself they can do print on demand as well with those with those same six figures basically it's a 50/50 split
- it's literally you take off the little silicone kind of cover that goes over the whole nozzle thing so you don't burn yourself on it I guess you take that off you pop off the plastic thing there's a little clip little metal clip you uncp it and then you pull the nozzle out and the nozzle is magnetized so it doesn't like fall out as soon as you uncp it
- I saw a thing on Facebook about a machine that you just dump all your old pla into and it'll melt it all down and then create a new pla spool which I'm like well that sounds like an awesome idea
- I think they're that scared of 3D printing I think they don't want to do it
- I don't think that's really that's not the point is to to beat Games Workshop
- you create a game like Vince and I do or like fat dragon games does or like lots of different companies you create a game because you want to do it you're not out there to be like the best you're out there to put out a game that you enjoy and then hopefully people will pick up and enjoy as well