Inside GMT Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsAfter finishing off a game of France ’40 Mark and I recently an SFB scenario, which featured far from expert play, but certainly taught some good lessons. We went with “The Derelict” from Module S2, as the more interesting looking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing up the latest adventure in Hatten, Patch and I turned to Star Fleet Battles. For our look into Y163, we went with “The First Carrier”, which is the demo scenario for the Kzinti DDV. They started fielding tactical[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With other opportunities having passed it by, I decided to try soloing “My Brother, My Enemy” for SFB from Module S2 during the holidays. It’s an interesting situation that had caught my eye when I first went through S2. Mind-controlling[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our Graveyard Shift, Patch and I went on to SFB, where we tried out “Flight of the Audacity” from Captain’s Log #3. It’s certainly an interesting idea. A Klingon frigate (IKV Audacity, me) works through a large and dense[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This report has sat for way too long, but Mark and I got to the Region 5 battle in our SFB campaign a while back; this is the primary base battle, where I am attempting to clear one of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark and I have been playing a heavily rewritten form of “The Admiral’s Game” campaign from Advanced Missions. This is based on a version played on the SFB forums… nearly two decades ago. I’ve thought about those old campaigns a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After our latest fight in Hatten, Patch and I turned to SFB for our next main fight. Patch settled on an unusual fight with the Jindarians as our next scenario. In “Incident at Morkedia”, a Jindarian caravan does a rare[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back at the end of June, Mark and I got to playing the first region of the second year of our SFB campaign. The available fights are two base battles and three open space ones, and we started with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With six victories, and two defeats, I had no trouble passing to the second defense line in Mark and I’s modified Admiral’s Game campaign. No ships were destroyed, but three bases were. Five of my ships were damaged (including two[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark and I spent a little time with a “modern” SFB scenario away from our Early Years campaign, with a Y162 scenario. This one features an early ISC force trying to rescue a colony (troop) transport from a pair of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…