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ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

I never bothered with the grease pencils and transparent sheets though, I jsut paid the $$$(it was expensive then) for xerox copies of SSD's.

ORIGINAL: DerekP

I normally played the "good guys" since the kilingons were always bagged by my opponents. The Fed CVL was nice especially if you could convince your opponents that it could operate first line fighters.

Mind you the easiest ship to win with in my opinion was a D7C - you could always dictate the range of the battle to a Fed CA/NCL/CC and you either blitzed them with the drones / scatterpack or ran away

ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Any of you guys that played the Starfleet Battles series ever get into "Starfleet Command"  PC game? Also "Renegade Legion Interceptor" was pretty good also for a computer version of turn based space combat sim. I like that game most because if you can survive long enough you can customize a really awesome ship to fly.

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Any of you guys that played the Starfleet Battles series ever get into "Starfleet Command" PC game? Also "Renegade Legion Interceptor" was pretty good also for a computer version of turn based space combat sim. I like that game most because if you can survive long enough you can customize a really awesome ship to fly.

Starfleet Command had great potential and i quickly bought the original and then the later Empires at war and Orion Pirates. Unfortunately it proved unplayable to my great and bitter disapointment. The primary reason? The AI is useless. I mainly play solitare and had not the time for online play. I quickly found out that the "AI" only has one move......close with your enemy and stay there. That might work for a B-10 Battleship but hardly works for a Klingon D-7 or an ISC CA. Basically the AI acts like it's always flying a Federation CC trying to set up a point blank range Alpha strike regardless of weapon type or warship class.

Also didn't like the fact that they doubled the durability of all the ships so that even a Fed overloaded Photon enhanced Alpha strike or Romulan R-torp hit at close range does little more than cause moderate damage. Finally the Romulans were screwed by the absence of the Plasma bolt option creating a serious loophole and exploit to their defense. I recall a number of very bitter threads about that on the useless Taldren website.

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Any of you guys that played the Starfleet Battles series ever get into "Starfleet Command"  PC game? Also "Renegade Legion Interceptor" was pretty good also for a computer version of turn based space combat sim. I like that game most because if you can survive long enough you can customize a really awesome ship to fly.

Starfleet Command had great potential and i quickly bought the original and then the later Empires at war and Orion Pirates. Unfortunately it proved unplayable to my great and bitter disapointment. The primary reason? The AI is useless. I mainly play solitare and had not the time for online play. I quickly found out that the "AI" only has one move......close with your enemy and stay there. That might work for a B-10 Battleship but hardly works for a Klingon D-7 or an ISC CA. Basically the AI acts like it's always flying a Federation CC trying to set up a point blank range Alpha strike regardless of weapon type or warship class.

Also didn't like the fact that they doubled the durability of all the ships so that even a Fed overloaded Photon enhanced Alpha strike or Romulan R-torp hit at close range does little more than cause moderate damage. Finally the Romulans were screwed by the absence of the Plasma bolt option creating a serious loophole and exploit to their defense. I recall a number of very bitter threads about that on the useless Taldren website.