http://wizkidsgames.com/blog/2014/02...r-update-2314/

Star Trek: Attack Wing

Admiral’s Order Update—2/3/14

We have carefully considered the feedback that we have received since posting the Admiral’s Orders and would like to give our sincere thanks for all the comments we received from Star Trek: Attack Wing store owners, players and tournament organizers.

For The Dominion War storyline organized play event series, our design team crafted different scenario play for each month that strived to bring the excitement of The Dominion War to the Star Trek: Attack Wing battlefield. While we feel that Admiral’s Orders were a success in that they spurred players to assemble new fleet builds to bring to Star Trek: Attack Wing tournaments, we also want to ensure that the Admiral’s Orders are closely tied to events and do not detract or add an unnecessary layer to the storyline organized play scenarios.

We are going to look at possibly implementing Admiral’s Orders as part of future OP kits with the goal of ensuring that they are integrated as part of the play for that month. However, given lead time for playtesting and production of organized play kits, it will be quite a while before we see them again.

One change we are implementing now (direct from feedback received), is that we are changing the rules for Admiral’s Orders so that only one Admiral’s Orders can be assigned to a fleet. See revised Admiral’s Orders Reference Card below.

Please note: Given the fact that Admiral’s Orders are intended to promote different styles of play, it is recommended that the Admiral’s Orders that have been posted thus far are only used occasionally moving forward by store owners/tournament organizers.

Wow just saw this and came to post. I feel as little loss as it didn't help enough people at my venue and hurt way to many.

Pulled it over to News.

We just played them this past weekend for the first time.

I think the "One-Per" ruling is a good one. Going forward, I'm not even sure how often they will be needed. When the game was in its infancy, I can see how this would be needed to help bolster certain builds. However, now that we have a greater variety of ships and resources, they may not be as needed.

I'll still likely use them from time to time but I'm not sure how closely "tied" to Month 4 those two particular orders were as it was stated in the article. Maybe they could have been considered tied to the Dominion War as a whole?

Either way I like the option as the TO to have these in my arsenal to use to shake things up a bit from month to month.

Interesting.

Well I'm happy we'll be seeing them again in the future.

I didn't see the problems locally with the pairing of the 2 Admiral Orders.........but I know from reading some different area feedback that it was an issue. So good on WKs to take that into consideration.

I also like the sounds of them being designed for specific month/scenarios....might make for some even more interesting build possibilities.


All in all........I look forward to seeing where this continues to go.

I am somewhat sad to see them go. Klingons, and to a lesser degree Romulans, are the dominant builds around here. I had really good results with two ship Dominion and Fed builds going up against those sneaky powerhouses. This will cut down on that a bit.

Slightly off topic follow up, BigDuke.....but why do you think the Klingons and the Romulans are the dominant builds in your area?

Was it during the first few OPs that had people valuing cloaking more heavily, was it because the Valdore and the Neghvar being better for fronting their offence (maybe the Koranak's arrival will alter things)........or something else?

I've heard of some areas that were all Romulan and Klingons early on have seen that lessen a lot since more ships have dropped.

Just curious.

Good to see WizKids try the Admirals Orders to balance the game.
Good to see WizKids listening to feedback.
Good to see WizKids limiting Admirals Orders to one per squadron.

Yesterday we set that limit at our venue. Today WizKids announces that for all. Coincidence? Or do we have a mole? :>)

Never had chance to use them. Month 4 in December

January came and went with no event.

Month 5 is in 2 weeks...

Are Admiral Orders legal for month 5? Reading some posts it seems they aren't allowed...

Up to the individual venues if they want to use them.

But if they do the new rule is 1 Admiral order/force......I have to double check with the locals but I think we'll be using them again.

I have decided against it myself. I have two or maybe even three new players coming next week and this might be more trouble than it is worth.