My Federation for A Call To Arms: Star Fleet

[Darren]

As Raif has done such sterling work on his Klingons in another thread, I thought I should pull my finger out and get building my Federation fleet to balance things up.

As you can see from the image below, I have quite a few to be getting on with :



First finished model is a Burke-class Frigate - the USS Jellico.  The decals nearly killed me...

[DowVooVoo]

very nice did not know they had decals sooooooo small

[styx]

Great job, I was showing a friend the fleet boxed sets with the rules in them.

[Darren]

After a brief diversion to paint a Dreadball team, I'm back painting starships.  Here's a Federation-class Dreadnought, the USS Directorate...

[Elbows]

I've always wanted to do some kind of starship game.  Not a fan of Star Trek, but you've done some great work there.

[styx]

nice this may be a future game to invest in!

[styx]

I would like to hear more about the rules. A buddy is looking at the Romulans and I am looking at the Klingons.

[Darren]

This is a fairly nice synopsis - I've still getting toys painted ready to start playing so I've not yet rolled a phaser dice in anger so far 

http://federationcommander.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/about-call-to-arms-star-fleet.html

There's a cool Facebook group for this game started by the author of the above text  - worth a looksee for sure if nothing else than to see lots of nice spaceships.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/297457383658326/

[raif]

Oh, these are very nice enemy eh federation ships 

[The_Beast]

This is a fairly nice synopsis - I've still getting toys painted ready to start playing so I've not yet rolled a phaser dice in anger so far 

You should not be ashamed in not having fired!

But we all know the Federation is built peace and harmony; the fleet should NEVER be used for anything other than exploration and making new friends! 

q' Pla!

Doug

[sundayhero]

Really nice !

I always wanted to play startrek games, but I alwas has been a bit lost in rulset choice, where I can find minis, etc...Since it seems several companies offert startrek stuff.

[styx]

Really nice !

I always wanted to play startrek games, but I alwas has been a bit lost in rulset choice, where I can find minis, etc...Since it seems several companies offert startrek stuff.

I have been reading and the Call to Arms seems to be a nice choice, not as complex as Star Fleet Battles...which had to do allocations and a ton of management to even do a turn. Fun, but also boring as hell at points. The CTA looks prospective. I keep sweeping around the boards and Ebay for a good deal.

[sundayhero]

What about star trek tactics (heroclix) ?  Probably simple and cheap.


I played heroclix marvel in the past, I liked the system a lot (perhaps also because we never searched for powerfull combos).

[styx]

What about star trek tactics (heroclix) ?  Probably simple and cheap.


I played heroclix marvel in the past, I liked the system a lot (perhaps also because we never searched for powerfull combos).

It is somewhat popular, the models look ok for Clix stuff and from what I understand the game is rather simplistic like other Clix games with not much depth.

[The_Beast]

What about star trek tactics (heroclix) ?  Probably simple and cheap.

I played heroclix marvel in the past, I liked the system a lot (perhaps also because we never searched for powerfull combos).

The Heroclix version was temporarily popular with the locak Clix fanboys, but only a short time. Several of us bought into it, but never appreciated same. I figured I'd just repurpose figs for Full Thrust, for which I've plenty o' MicroMachines ST, but the new X-Wing based version may have more staying power. The Heroclix lacked 'swoosh', but there's an abundance of same in X-Wing.

Won't have the Star Wars fanboys, of which I do count myself in, but may draw the ST fanboys; oh, heck, I'm one of those as well. 

Doug