"2 ACTA:SF games I ran this last weekend" Topic

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Nice reports, Bill. I am not surprised the Feds died to plasma with no IDF. It's one of the things they really need to fix. Win or lose vs Gorns or Roms always comes down to how many IDF rolls you make. Otherwise a Snipe can cripple or destroy even a CA.

I thought that removing IDF would make the game go faster, since ships would die faster, getting in more turns and allowing some of the larger ships to be used. But it turns out that removing it was too powerful. :(

The one thing I am wondering is whether that even helps in a free for all. If we are all for ourselves, who is going to sacrifice a special order to help his enemy, especially when it only has a 50/50 chance to work? I think in the current state of ACTA:SF the plasma ships are just too good for 1v1 duels. Drone ships are pushing it, but if someone can unload 7-12 dice of plasma on me, and I have 2-3 phasers to respond, there's no hope.

The two Fed players were sorta allied, and it's possible they might have helped each other out, but we'll never know about that.

There was one time when a Fed was trying to stay out of 8" of the Gorn BC and ended up eating 8+ dice of plasma. I was looking at the positioning and I thought he might have done better if he'd gone All Power to Engines, over-run the Gorn and rear centerlined it with 6 phasers. He would have avoided the Plasmas, and done nice shield damage without taking more than maybe 4 dice of phasers in return. Even less if he'd fired his 2 Combined Drone racks as drones to absorb some of the phasers.

In any event, plasma is going to be redesigned by ADB as well.

Yep, ADB has some nice plans for making plasma slow the game to a painful halt.

Are you privy to some information that the rest of us don't have Emckinney? Or are you just talking out your butt?

Is there going to be a new edition coming out soon?

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