Yeah, my "purity" extends to the movies also. I'm such a #####!

The nice thing is one can buy multiples of the ships. No reason the Federation can't have a fleet of 3 Constitution class ships: USS Enterprise, the USS Constellation and the USS Thugit.

U.S.S. Thugit just might be the best ship name ever.

Nice! Well yeah, then you've got plenty of options. In fact, doesn't TOS-era Federation currently have more, at least in crew options, than TNG-era Federation?t

ToS:

Spock
McCoy
Uhura
Sulu
Scotty

TNG:

Data
La Forge
Worf
O'Brien

The Nebula class was started after the Galaxy class hence the saucer section. They built it up on the Galaxy that they liked it an with the right upgrades they made the new ship class.

I've taken to naming my generic captains on the tournament sheets. Month 2 saw the Romulan captain Bob do quite well, although he paled in comparison to Month 3's OdeMan aka Gramps, the Romulan captain of the Praetus. For a ship I considered utter dreck, it was wildly effective in month 3, leading the troop attacks and was incredibly elusive. Gramps shocked me with his ability to get evasions after evasions when not even cloaked.

An update:

Since starting this thread, I've played four tournaments, going 9-2 (had a bye once) with two tournament wins. (I have won a Sutherland and whatever the name of the LE Romulan ship is!)

What do I build with every time?

Enterprise 22
Kirk 6
Spock 5
McCoy 3
Scotty 5
Sulu 3
Fed Talent 3
Fed Talent 3


So, I'd say the 1701 is waaaaay better than Boardgame Geek forums would lead you to believe.

Kirk FTW!

Glad to see that you are doing well with Kirk and Co.

Wish I could be saying the same with Dukat :/

I don't get to play in tourneys (I'm a t.o. In our area) but every time we play a casual game I whip out my Kirk, and it is awesome how often he does well

Glad he works out for you as well. Can't wait till you can ally Kirk with a gorn ship in a little post arena Alliance

Well in their defense, you are a specialist at this point in running the 1701.........and many of the posters only really look at attack dice and hit points as the strategy they pay most attention to.

Now there are also many players who also look at more strategies as well and looking to really getting a deeper game out of it.

And a lot of us are still learning the strategy that the game has.......people will always gravitate to the 'easy' point and shoot strategy first.

Most people see the value in the crew they just prefer to run them on a different ship.......from the times I've used it, I've found it to do quite well.

Well you are limited.....you can only play as condescending as a human being.

What are you running with him?

Yeah, that's mainly my point. Hit points and dice are very important, no doubt...but that's not the beginning and end.

Most posters over there don't look any farther than Attack dice.

Load the 1701 with its Crew, and it can hang with anything.

At this point I'm willing to take suggestions. Dukat with the Koranak is what I'm running, but I may switch him over to one of the Jem'Hadar Battleships.

I don't want to drop non ToS stuff in Thugit's thread, so we can start a new one or you can PM me if you want

Good point, you can start a new one.


On topic........Thugit, are you looking forward to the 'refit' as more of a potential replacement or a potential sidekick to the Enterprise we have now........in theory as we don't have any info other than the sculpt pic yet.

I'm not sure. I imagine it will sacrifice Crew for more firepower (either in Rear Arc or Tech), so I don't know how often I'll use it.

It will need to be quite impressive to pry me away from the original.