wizkids star trek: attack wing

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

Just out of interest, are they correctly scaled?

No :/

The TOS Enterprise is quite small compared to the Enterprise-D, and the forthcoming Borg Cube is supposed to be a big ship (like the Millenium Falcon from X-Wing, maybe?), but otherwise most ships are roughly similar in size.  Not that that stops me from enjoying the game, although it's odd to say the least that they only made an attempt at scaling the Enterprise, which therefore ends up being really small next to everything else.

I want some Borg Cubes... and then do the Borg Vs Species 8472 now that will be fun.

Supposedly a Borg cube is due out with wave 5, so some time after April, although I can't say I'm sure when.  I think it's going to be the first big ship for this game, though.

[Lord GreyWolf]

Dam Skippy I'll be getting one of those Cubes....

giggity giggity giggity giggity goo....

LGW

[Lord GreyWolf]

ok I crumbled and for my birthday I bought the Star Trek Attack wing starter box.

Fingers crossed I'll get a game with the kids some time this week.

LGW

[Commander Roj]

I am pretty disappointed that the Romulans aren't getting a mid-size ship before they switch away to Borg releases. As-is, they are sorely lacking in that regard.

In the cannon, i am not sure the Romulans had a mid sized ship. I bout some non-cannon Griffins vis SCN in resin for my (non Attack-Wing) games.

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

ok I crumbled and for my birthday I bought the Star Trek Attack wing starter box.

Fingers crossed I'll get a game with the kids some time this week.

LGW

Nice!  You can play some decent 3-way battles with the starter contents, all three ships are solid, and embody the strengths and weaknesses of their respective faction.  Hope you guys have a blast with it.

I've since built up my Federation fleet a bit, but I'm kind of considering grabbing a second starter to double up on those ships (although I won't need/be able to use duplicates of a lot of the cards ).  A second D'Deridex and Vor'Cha would be nice, though, and I might field two Galaxy-class ships from time to time, or in large battles.  Plus I've needed extra dice on at least one occasion in every game I've played so far.

I wonder if the other starter contents could be sold/would be worth selling, to someone who wanted the rules but was not interested in collecting the starter ships...

[Lord GreyWolf]

After muching debating the merits of each ship we decided That my Daughter [7] will be the Federation, my Son [5] will be Klingon and I'll be the Romulans.

I'll be giving the rules a good read over today. Need to get my head around how cloaking works, Echo, disabling shields.

If I disable a card [eg like torpedos] do they come back or are they discarded like how it works in X-wing?

Not sure how the ships get destroyed in this game when at the end of the turn you get them back.

unless I've missed something important... will know better once I've gone over the rules.
I promised the kids they can choose an expansion pack each in the new year.

LGW

[emperorpenguin]

If I disable a card [eg like torpedos] do they come back or are they discarded like how it works in X-wing?

Not sure how the ships get destroyed in this game when at the end of the turn you get them back.

If you disable a card then you cannot use that card again until you spend an action to remove the disable marker

I presume you meant "shields"? Shields are destroyed when hit and gone for the game UNLESS you have a card allowing replenishing. Shields can be flipped to their red side for cloaking/transporters etc but flip back to blue at turn end. Very important to note this difference

[Lord GreyWolf]

ahhh that makes loads of sense.

I wish there were more upgrade cards in the packs.
Only issue I am going to have is that I won't be buying all of the expansion packs so will miss out on a lot of upgrade cards. or are the cards with each expansion really suited for the ship they come with?

LGW

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

Upgrade cards are usually thematically tied to the ship with which they're packaged, and will definitely work with that ship, but only a very small few are actually exclusive to or only useful on that particular ship.

Some upgrade cards include an extra point cost to be played on a ship other than the one with which they're packaged. For example, the Federation's cloaking device costs an additional 5 points for any ship that's not the USS Defiant.

I think each ship comes with 9 or 10 cards, though, including captains, crew, weapons, and tech.

[Lord GreyWolf]

I am getting into the Star Trek game a lot.

We had three games today

felt sorry for the lad the first game we had his Klingon ship suffered 2 critical hits and one normal both crit hits caused an additional damage which went through as he was cloaked [he had rolled really badly on his defence rolls]

I didn't even use my upgrades just to help him... then when my daughter played with us  she rolled 3 blanks on defence followed by me rolling 5 BLANKS!!!!!! on attack....OMG!!!!

it was embarrassing. The other game was a close call son had me down to 1 hull point but again I was lucky with my roll and got him first [Romulans Vs Klingons]

Really looking forward to playing more games hoping to have a game on Saturday against my Brother in law.

whats a good ship to get for the Federation, Romulans and Klingons.
I promised the kids a ship each and one for me.

Cheers
LGW

[emperorpenguin]

Of the ships released so far the best Romulan ship is the Valdore - no argument whatsoever.

For the Klingons it'd be the Negh'var, there is a sculpting error with the bridge of the D7 and K'tinga models but the bird of prey has just been released too

For the Federation it's tougher. The Constitution is a teeny-tiny model so I'd suggest Defiant then Reliant. Or just get the just-released Excelsior if it's in your nearest shop

Also the dominion are getting some really nice ships now..... 

[Lord GreyWolf]

The Romulan Valore was at the top of my List
Will get my Daughter the Defiant as she thinks it looks cute. [Girls think everything is cute]
My son wants the Bird of Prey but I think any ship will be awesome for him [he's only 5]

he even tries to speak like a Klingon when he attacks my ship.

Its a fun game and one I think will be played far more then X-Wing... which I may have to thin down and replace with Star Trek [Shock horror... many Star Wars fans just ground their collective teeth at that comment]

LGW

[Bergil]

Doubt anyone cares... I've been collating scaled ships to colour, stat and print off for games of Full Thrust. For the most part I just enjoy spending the odd 'hobby' hour designing ship stats, partially from canon sources and partially what I want the ships to do game-wise.

Hoping to drag my poor son into a bit of gaming with his old man at the end of the day, but I'm enjoying collating all the ships and stats too much so far to do any gaming 

Anyway, got a load of ship pics and data from here, pretty useful and fun for geeks/nerds etc:

http://home.comcast.net/~ststcsolda/index.html

[Agis]

The TOS Enterprise is quite small compared to the Enterprise-D, and the forthcoming Borg Cube is supposed to be a big ship (like the Millenium Falcon from X-Wing, maybe?), but otherwise most ships are roughly similar in size.  Not that that stops me from enjoying the game, although it's odd to say the least that they only made an attempt at scaling the Enterprise, which therefore ends up being really small next to everything else.

The non existent scale prevents me from really diving into this game.

I like the X-Wing rules, and what I saw from ST:Attack Wing it is a good transition to the Trek universe.
BTW - Are the rules somewhere to download as the X-Wing rules?
Edit: Found them: http://wizkidsgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/STAW_Rules_WEB_11sep13.pdf

[obsidian3d]

Don't let the scale stop you from playing the game. It's such a minor quibble once you start playing that it doesn't matter. It's not as if the movement is really in any kind of scale either. I tend to think of the ships as markers on a viewer map. As a commander of a fleet directing battle all of my ships should represented as dots the same size. I don't want to squint around trying to find the minuscule dot for the Defiant just so I can issue it an order.