"A Call to Arms Star Fleet" Topic

My group and I found this game about 5 months ago and have played several games. We really like it! I'm suprised that I do not see more posting here on TMP about it and wondered why? I look forward to the eventual addition of additional Empires to the game.

The game had a lot of interest initially, which died off after awhile due to a lot of factors. In no particular order:

1) The resin miniatures fiasco.

2) The rushed rulebook release with tons of errata, typos, poorly edited, with grossly inadequate play testing (this is mainly Mongoose's fault because they rushed the game for a Xmas release and it was not ready).

3) Problems with miniatures availability, eventually culminating with ADB taking over miniatures production via a contractor that they use for their other minis.

There were other issues, but those come to mind most readily. You could go and read what is on the Mongoose A Call to Arms forum, if you want to. Dig back to near the beginning, say page 30 and newer.

Many people didn't want to get involved with another Mongoose fiasco. I failed to heed the warnings, and turned into a fanboy of the game, ran many demo and convention games, etc. Got burned by Mongoose like many others, don't have a lot of interest in the game anymore.

The rules appear to be greatly cleaned up, work better apparently, but I have moved on, as have many other folk.

The updated rules are great! Highly recommended.

We've played a few games with the updated rules and ADB has done a very good job making a fun game.

That said, as with Billco, I'm still dealing with the lingering bad taste in my mouth from the initial release.

I think it is a fun game, even with the old rushed rulebook, and have collected fleets for both Feddies and Romulans. I'd like to collect fleets for Klingons and Gorn after a while too. I haven't done much with it recently, but I still have a Feddie CA, 3 FFs and 3 WDs on my painting bench awaiting completion…

Not a lot of local interest, so this might be another game I play primarily solo…

Damon.

Billclo, maybe I'm just a lucky recipent of the initial issues being corrected and lucky in my time of becoming aware of and familar with the game.

What billco said.

+1 and then some.

John T

We have a new wave of interest in ACTA:SF with a group friends. Mind you with the older scale ships as I have a ton of them. The rules are good and playable. Book 1.2 the revised and much improved rules are out as a PDF and will soon be out in book from. Book 2 is in the works. No new races yet. That will have to wait for book 3.
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Check out the forum on the rules.
starfleetgames.com/discus

I have the 1.2E rules and like them. I'm not a fan of the 2500 models and prefer the smoother 2400.