Star Fleet Battles

[RedArgo]

Has anybody played Federation Commander? It is supposed to be a streamlined version of SFB. I thought it might be a good Christmas present for my boys.

[Phatguy]

Played it in the mid-late 80's..wore out two photocopiers back then.....

[ilovestrategy]

ORIGINAL: apathetic lurker

Played it in the mid-late 80's..wore out two photocopiers back then.....

My dad was always grumbling about having to copy my SSDs at work....[:D]

[E]

ORIGINAL: RedArgo

Has anybody played Federation Commander? It is supposed to be a streamlined version of SFB. I thought it might be a good Christmas present for my boys.

I've got it, but haven't played it. It's a whole lot "prettier" than SFB. The SSD's are laminated and all systems are color-coded. There is no use of the Energy Allocation form, as all energy expenditures are done on-the-fly, while moving paperclips (or some other marker) up & down the side of the SSD's to indicate remaining energy.

[wodin]

Here you go for the PC version

Download here

http://ststcs.slightlysilly.com/

Webpage of game

http://www.anzwers.org/free/fasa/JRSTCSComputerPort/



more stuff

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

[wodin]

just tried to install on a win 7 os and it crashed..

will download from this link

http://slightlysilly.com/STSTCSv205Beta3.zip

JUST FOUND OUT IF YOU HAVE WIN& OR VISTA DOWNLOAD THIS FIRST and with windows XP SP2 compatibility mode

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q180071/

[wodin]

sorry fixed the install see above

[wodin]

found another download site....has an earlier version aswell..will try that

http://anthscoststtcs.proboards.com/ind ... y&thread=4

[E]

ORIGINAL: wodin

Here you go for the PC version

Ah, a conversion of FASA's answer to ADB's Starfleet Battles... but with the ugliest miniatures.

[wodin]

Well got it working I download more scenarios and ship grapics...looking great so far.....if you liked star fleet battles then down load it follow my instructions above for Win 7 and vista...

[ilovestrategy]

Dang, Wodin, I spent a good half hour looking through that site! [:D]

[wodin]

enjoy the game...it's good fun and in no way amatuer

amazing the things you can find hidden away on the net...

[wodin]

Big thanks to NefariousKoel who pretty much found the game...I just dug abit

[Erik Rutins]

Thanks for the links, Wodin. On a related note, did anyone here play "The Warp Factor" or "The Cosmic Balance" by SSI (Strategic Simulations Inc.)? Those were my favorites on the computer back then.

Regards,

- Erik

[ilovestrategy]

1981? The graphics were pretty good for back them. Klargon Empire. I love it! [:D]

[RedArgo]

I played both of those. I'm suprised there were never really any successors to them. Maybe the market is too small.

If that STCS plays is good as it looks that will be great. If it is good, I wonder why he didn't dump the Star Trek and try to sell it.

[wodin]

not enough to it to be honest for a sale...tis a very well made game though...but would need alot more content...like being able to target individual parts of the ship would be good...also a vertical axis

[NefariousKoel]

It's still missing some game mechanics, such as being able to overload shields, but it's kinda fun and the AI has beat me twice in a row in the Enterprise vs Romulan V-30(?) scenario.

[E]

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Thanks for the links, Wodin. On a related note, did anyone here play "The Warp Factor" or "The Cosmic Balance" by SSI (Strategic Simulations Inc.)? Those were my favorites on the computer back then.

Both are still on my hard drive. As is Cosmic Balance II, which I have yet to get around to playing. *sigh*

Note that The Warp Factor was released in two versions. While both had the aforementioned "Klargons," as well as the "Alliance" and "Remans," the later version did not have the SFB/Star Trek silhouettes (I assume SSI learned that race names weren't the only thing Paramount owned).

[jwilkerson]

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

I'm just curious, how many people here have played Star Fleet Battles?

Oh man, I sound like a bot! [X(][:D]

I played SFB a lot in the 80s and even played two moderated campaign games - with about 8 players total. Since we had a moderator, we could tweak the production rules - and IIRC we could remove about 10% of the "cost" of the ships and add back in 20% ... in other words you could make changes to the ship designs but you had to stay within +/- 10% of a given published SSD which you used as a base line. Allowed lots of customization. I named all my ships - and cared about what happened to them. I think I was the Klingons in the first campaign and the Hydrans in the second. Both were enjoyable - but people tended to drop out when they lost their first big battle. I used a retrograd tactic for fleet engagements that no one managed to counter.