"Full Thrust Tournaments" Topic

Anyone have experience running full thrust tournaments? Was wondering about the format, ship points etc.

Be careful thee are a number of "chessy" Designs to win tournaments.

Example NO engines but come on the board at max speed and cover the ship in sub munitions packs.

There's a reason ADB developed SFB tourney designs for their Star Fleet Battles tournaments. AND varying scenario designs.

I'd rather distribute pre-built scenarios and ships, but that's my pref.

Wackmole9: Starting speed is usually so low, and blast packs range so low, I'd think they'd be easy to avoid. Still, if I were running, if it has no engines, the player has no initiative. Sets up first AND I set the direction up.

Complaint? I'd make a roll to see if a navigation error the ship could have avoided with engines caused it to miss the battle altogether.

But, a set of good scenarios with varying victory requirements REALLY negates fromage. 'Stay within X mu's of randomly moving "beast" to scan for Y turns' makes that design mostly useless.

Doug

FB standard designs would be the norm for me. Ships would need to be from the same faction

We ran FT Tournaments at GenCon for several years. 1500 point fleets using Fleet Book ships. Pre-made fleets were available with control sheets ready to use for players to pick from but they had to pick a different fleet each round. They could design their own but they had to be pre-approved before they could be used.

Rules, fleets and everything are here – link

Oh, sure, use experience and knowledge to answer a question. We see how you are. ;->=

Another thing comes to mind, Dean.

'Thus the fleet a player chooses in Round 1 many not be used by that player in any other round…' means I make a rule that every player that comes up with special fleets has to face same fleet later in the tournament. *mua-ha-ha-ha*

Doug