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In This Issue. . .• Battle Group North Dallas
is Live!• Battle Group North Dallas
Battle Report• What’s Next?• What is Federation Com-
mander?• Favorite Session Quotes
Join Battle Group North Dallas!
1. Download the FREE Feder-ation Commander First Mis-sions rule set.
2. Read the rules, print themaps, print the chits, andfamiliarize yourself withmovement and combat.
3. Visit the Battle GroupNorth Dallas Star Fleetwebsite to check for any up-coming events.
4. Contact the Battle GroupNorth Dallas coordinator torequest a game.
5. PLAY!
Current Win/Loss Statistics
For a complete battle reportand more in depth informationplease visit the Battle GroupNorth Dallas hope page athttp://www.blazehex.com.
Win/Loss Record
Name Record
Last First W/L/D
Shifflett Shawn 0/0/1Motzny Brian 0/0/1
Battle Group North Dallas is Live!
Welcome to Issue 1 of the official Battle Group North Dallas newsletter. Thisnewsletter will be a monthly publication sent to all current battle groupmembers completely free of cost.
Several weeks ago Shawn Shifflett contacted Amarillo Design Bureau, thecreators of Star Fleet Battles and Federation Commander, in an effort to createan officially sanctioned Star Fleet Universe play group in the North DallasArea. Amarillo Design Bureau approved the request last week, and the BattleGroup North Dallas was launched.
Battle Group North Dallas’ inaugural event was Sat-urday, November 1st. Co-Founder Brian Motznyand Founder Shawn Shifflett met in the early after-noon to begin combat. As this was the first officialrecorded scenario it was mutually decided to usethe introductory "Duel" scenario from the FederationCommander: Romulan Border set.
The first event was a great success, and Battle Group North Dallas is excitedto be able to provide regular meetings for all Star Fleet Universe gamers inthe North Dallas area.
Battle Group North Dallas Battle Report
• Scenario: Duel.• Federation War Destroyer DW (Shawn) vs. Romulan War Eagle Cruiser
WE (Brian)
The Federation and Romulan ships circled each other for the first turn withoutallowing a decent shot. On the last impulse of Turn 1 the Fed DW was able tosweep in and fire 2 photons, and a RS Ph-1 doing minimal damage.The FedDW suddently detected an incredible power buildup within the Romulan WE.Plasma! The Fed DW was able to route all energy into engines, and put somedistance between itself and the charging Plasma-R torpedo. The Romulancaptain saw that the Fed DW attempting to evade, and decided to move theWE towards towards the fleeing Fed DW in a pincer maneuver. The Plasma-Rwas bearing astern, and the Rom WE was bearing around to the port bow.
The Fed and Rom ships played chicken until range 2 FA when both shipsunloaded alpha strikes. Three Fed photon torpedoes hit the Rom WE droppingforward shields and causing moderate internal damage. The Rom alpha strikehit the Fed DW with all forward-facing Ph-1s and Ph-3s dropping the forwardshields, and causing moderate internal damage.
The Rom WE was not without a final tactical surprise. The Rom WE veeredhard starboard with the Fed DW closing fast and released a nuclear suicideshuttle directly in front of the pursuing Fed DW striking the ship on its portside. The nuclear blast was enough to deliver internal damage to the warpdrive and science labs after dropping the left-front shields.
At this point both captains decided to live to fight another day, and disnengagedtheir crippled ships from battle.
What’s Next?
Battle Group North Dallas is look-ing for new members, and is plan-ning for their second organized ses-sions. At this time the game will beheld at Shawn’s house, but this canbe changed to Madness Games andComics based on possible new userturnout.
Ownership Federation Commanderproducts is NOT a requirement formembership and/or playing, althoughit wouldn’t hurt. Shawn and Brianhave copies of the full rule book, anda house rule book will be availablefor other players. There are enoughmaps for three concurrent games, and
plenty of ships and scenarios for 1, 2,3, and even 4 player games.
If you’ve ever been interested in StarTrek, the Star Trek universe, or ifyou’ve just always wanted to be thecaptain of your own starship this is afantastic opportunity to give the gamea try. Best of all, unlike Star FleetBattles, all of the Federation Comman-ders rules fit in a 100 page documentwith maybe an 8th of those pages usedduring an actual game. The remain-der of the rules are set aside for veryspecific situations, and various racialabilities.
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What is Federation Commander?Federation Commander is a tactical starship combat board war gamesystem, produced and developed by Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. (ADB)It is designed to represent combat between vessels of various factions inthe Star Fleet Universe, such as the United Federation of Planets and theKlingon Empire.
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Favorite Session Quotes
“Dilithium crystals do NOT power a starship!!” — Brian Motzny
Wanted:1. Players, players, and more
players!!2. Content and submissions
for the monthly newsletter.These newsletters are re-viewed by Amarillo DesignBureau, and new and excit-ing content is a plus so thatwe can maintain our BattleGroup status.
3. New modules! Currentlywe are playing with the Ro-mulan and Klingon Bordersets. If there are any spe-cific races that players areinterested in you can al-ways just buy those mod-ules, and bring them togame days for your ownuse. The club will be ex-panding their sets accord-ingly, but everyone maycontribute.
4. More one-off games. Play-ing formally once a monthis fun, but we’d like to seecasual game nights outsideof scheduled events.
5. Miniatures: Would there bemore of an interest in play-ing Federation Commanderif there were actual paintedminiatures to use insteadof cardboard chits? Thoseare also an option. Just letBrian or I know, and we canmake that happen.
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Contact Information:Battle Group North Dallasc/o Shawn Shifflett6813 Curry DriveThe Colony, TX, [email protected] Group North Dallas HomeBattle Group North Dallas StarFleet Games Page
