Soooo......about 50 years ago when I was a teenager I played a Starfleet game of some sort that needed a lounge floor or garden as a playing area. The ships were flat black silhouettes and were printed on a cardboard circle, they were about the size of a saucer I think. A string that must have been about 8 feet long extended from the centre and around the edge of each circle 360 degrees were marked - a bit like a 360 degree protractor. To fire at and hit an enemy ship you had to guess its bearing on the protractor, extend the string along that bearing and see if it crossed the silhoutte - so you might say "Fire two banks of phasers 60 degrees to port..." etc. Can't remember much else about it - but thanks for invoking the fond memory recall.....
Wow, that sounds fantastic! And has spurred my own memories about the WW1 air combat games we used to play, with the models attached to 4' poles! Nice one, thank you!
@@DragonsTeeth2I have the FASA version of Star Trek Fleet Battles box set. I think it was released in 2003… How different is this from the box set you are demoing?
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Controversial opinion. Federation Commander > SFB. 😆. FC was my first proper designer game and I discovered it in 2009. As a child of the 90s i grew up with the PC game Starfleet Command, which i later learned was the digital version of SFB. I haven't looked back since!
Now I think about it a lot of video games were based on board games and have influenced my gaming life. Starfleet Command was SFB Close Combat was based on a digital version of Advanced squad Leader. Shogun Total War was a version of the 80s game Shogun, now Ikusa. Europa Universalis, was a board game then a video game and now another board game, which is amazing btw. And now they make board games of everything from Rainbow Six, to Rome Total War, Hogs of War and Worms. Anyway, enough of this tangent. Kzinti and Gorn all the way!
@@picton101 that's very true. I still have a copy of SC but never actually got round to playing it! To be honest I'm on the PC so much during the day, if I game it tends to be on the Xbox whilst sat on the sofa these days. Yes, some games even had hexes AFAIR. I did play the Dune PC game a lot back in the 90s, that was a good one. Cats and lizards - an interesting alliance!
Great game and a true test of intellect to play well! It is still published and a large number of people still play it regularly in the U.S. It is hardly unplayable and has relatively simple mechanics. Like Chess, it is easy to learn and difficult to master.
That would be great. I had a copy back in the day. We took a few looks at it but never quite got round to playing. If the SFB takes off, I'll look at getting it again in the future.
Soooo......about 50 years ago when I was a teenager I played a Starfleet game of some sort that needed a lounge floor or garden as a playing area. The ships were flat black silhouettes and were printed on a cardboard circle, they were about the size of a saucer I think. A string that must have been about 8 feet long extended from the centre and around the edge of each circle 360 degrees were marked - a bit like a 360 degree protractor. To fire at and hit an enemy ship you had to guess its bearing on the protractor, extend the string along that bearing and see if it crossed the silhoutte - so you might say "Fire two banks of phasers 60 degrees to port..." etc. Can't remember much else about it - but thanks for invoking the fond memory recall.....
Wow, that sounds fantastic! And has spurred my own memories about the WW1 air combat games we used to play, with the models attached to 4' poles! Nice one, thank you!
@@DragonsTeeth2I have the FASA version of Star Trek Fleet Battles box set. I think it was released in 2003… How different is this from the box set you are demoing?
It's the same set as far as I can tell - looks like the same box art at least.
You explain SFB so well that your video deserves far more views than the 183 it currently has.
Well done. 🙂
Thank you, that's very kind. Just need to find some players now!
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Brilliant, thank you!
@@DragonsTeeth2 You're welcome. :-)
Controversial opinion. Federation Commander > SFB. 😆. FC was my first proper designer game and I discovered it in 2009. As a child of the 90s i grew up with the PC game Starfleet Command, which i later learned was the digital version of SFB. I haven't looked back since!
Now I think about it a lot of video games were based on board games and have influenced my gaming life.
Starfleet Command was SFB
Close Combat was based on a digital version of Advanced squad Leader.
Shogun Total War was a version of the 80s game Shogun, now Ikusa.
Europa Universalis, was a board game then a video game and now another board game, which is amazing btw.
And now they make board games of everything from Rainbow Six, to Rome Total War, Hogs of War and Worms.
Anyway, enough of this tangent. Kzinti and Gorn all the way!
@@picton101 that's very true. I still have a copy of SC but never actually got round to playing it! To be honest I'm on the PC so much during the day, if I game it tends to be on the Xbox whilst sat on the sofa these days.
Yes, some games even had hexes AFAIR. I did play the Dune PC game a lot back in the 90s, that was a good one.
Cats and lizards - an interesting alliance!
Same here! I've only ever played Federation Commander and never got into SFB. It's a solid system
@@WilliamBrothers I shall no doubt have a look at it some time!
Great game and a true test of intellect to play well! It is still published and a large number of people still play it regularly in the U.S. It is hardly unplayable and has relatively simple mechanics. Like Chess, it is easy to learn and difficult to master.
Good to see that is still has a following. Ah, chess! That's a great analogy, very true. Thanks!
SFB,.. next up for review -> Federation and Empire!
That would be great. I had a copy back in the day. We took a few looks at it but never quite got round to playing. If the SFB takes off, I'll look at getting it again in the future.
@@DragonsTeeth2we play an online version @STNewWorlds. We even have some tutorials on how to play.
Nice one, I'll check those out!