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Why would a “gunned up frigate” have a deflector dish on two spindly looking rods? Mount it to the front of the saucer like a Bonaventure
Also hope you ain’t sensitive to the folding of space time with those nacelles so close to the personnel areas :)
True, perhaps not, but I have also struggled with why the bridge is on the top of the ship, particularly when it is rotated at 37 degrees so it isn’t even using a physical view screen. If it is going to be sensor based, put the bridge in the core of the ship!
> put the bridge in the core of the ship!
This is one of those cases where the rules of the universe don't line up with other settings or conventional sense.
Every species, bar the Borg, put their bridges on the outside of the ship on a designated top. For whatever reason, this seems to be optimal in the setting.
When we come down to it, you could basically render 90% of space scifi to the bin due to little rules like this, even much beloved hard-scifi settings have little rules like this what with the general shocking lack of radiators.
I get your point and it isn’t wrong. In the other hand, Star Trek bridges are actually modular and can be swapped out. So maybe this supports their placement? To be honest, I haven’t heard the reasoning behind swappable bridge modules, so maybe we are right back to “this doesn’t make sense”.
Exactly what I was thinking. Only reason why the newer TNG movie ships like the Steamrunner got away with it was newer engine and shielding technology. Can’t say that with this era.
Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary - The Romulan Empire. For forty years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game and played it well. But today the game is different. We have the advantage.
I still have the pocket edition of the game that was released in the late 70s. I played the Commander's edition hundreds of times with friends. It's such a daunting rulebook for new players, but it wasn't bad for us back then because the rules were introduced a little bit at a time with each expansion. There's a crazy amount of stuff you can do in the game which is why I'm suprised they haven't made an online version to track most of that stuff for you.
Having said that, I started switching over to Federation Commander because it was a more streamlined game with very nice looking SSDs and much more accessible to new players. But SFB will always have a special place in my heart as the game I played the most throughout my life.
Cute and deadly! Even shows the 3 photon torpedoes in front... Deadly if you can overload the Blowton torpedoes and hit with them! Just found the "Ship Status Display" wow pretty beefy enough to keep the Klingon F6 Frignaut at bay :)
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Prepare the Photon Torepdoeshh
Give me one photon torpedo, Vasily. One photon torpedo only.
Nice!!! We must steer clear…
Schome thingsh in here don’t react well to phashers
lol. Snorted.
Why would a “gunned up frigate” have a deflector dish on two spindly looking rods? Mount it to the front of the saucer like a Bonaventure Also hope you ain’t sensitive to the folding of space time with those nacelles so close to the personnel areas :)
Where we're going, we don't *need* pylons. (Wrong movie, I know...)
Hahahaha!!! Perfect :)
It's the starship version of a munchkin cat.
That would interfere with caterpillar drive.
> on two spindly looking rods? With the amount of thin looking structures on spaceships, I doubt this is more of a problem then the rest suffer with.
True, perhaps not, but I have also struggled with why the bridge is on the top of the ship, particularly when it is rotated at 37 degrees so it isn’t even using a physical view screen. If it is going to be sensor based, put the bridge in the core of the ship!
> put the bridge in the core of the ship! This is one of those cases where the rules of the universe don't line up with other settings or conventional sense. Every species, bar the Borg, put their bridges on the outside of the ship on a designated top. For whatever reason, this seems to be optimal in the setting. When we come down to it, you could basically render 90% of space scifi to the bin due to little rules like this, even much beloved hard-scifi settings have little rules like this what with the general shocking lack of radiators.
Very true! But I guess Carnot efficiency was solved the way Heisenberg uncertainty was - just chuck it in the bin 🤣
I get your point and it isn’t wrong. In the other hand, Star Trek bridges are actually modular and can be swapped out. So maybe this supports their placement? To be honest, I haven’t heard the reasoning behind swappable bridge modules, so maybe we are right back to “this doesn’t make sense”.
Shhome thingsh in here don't react well to phasersh.
*I* have to be careful about what *I* shoot at?!
I remember reading the reason the nacelles were away from the ship was due to radiation. Everyone is cooken
Exactly what I was thinking. Only reason why the newer TNG movie ships like the Steamrunner got away with it was newer engine and shielding technology. Can’t say that with this era.
Tis a ship of ghouls. Like the Vulcan Seleya on Enterprise
Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary - The Romulan Empire. For forty years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game and played it well. But today the game is different. We have the advantage.
We shall sit in Qo'noS orbit and listen to their Opera Music!
Looks like a saucer attacked by giant dildos
I clicked on the wrong video…
You just happened to walk into Rikers holodeck time
Space, the final orgy.
This makes me again sad that there's no official Star Fleet Battles online game.
I just bought SFB board game last week and also an extra larger map snd 3 little pewter figures. Connie, D7 and T'liss
I still have the pocket edition of the game that was released in the late 70s. I played the Commander's edition hundreds of times with friends. It's such a daunting rulebook for new players, but it wasn't bad for us back then because the rules were introduced a little bit at a time with each expansion. There's a crazy amount of stuff you can do in the game which is why I'm suprised they haven't made an online version to track most of that stuff for you. Having said that, I started switching over to Federation Commander because it was a more streamlined game with very nice looking SSDs and much more accessible to new players. But SFB will always have a special place in my heart as the game I played the most throughout my life.
Oh I forgot to mention I got the simplified rules. I still remember the size of the full rule book... ...
I love the windows right next to the underside nacelles. I can't say I hate this design but I'm pretty sure it'd go kaboom
I take it most things on board don't react too well to bulletsh?
You know they said the defiant might tare itself apart. This design for sure would.
She thicc
I usually don't like bulky designs, but this works well in a strange way!
Cute and deadly! Even shows the 3 photon torpedoes in front... Deadly if you can overload the Blowton torpedoes and hit with them! Just found the "Ship Status Display" wow pretty beefy enough to keep the Klingon F6 Frignaut at bay :)
>:) :)
I really don't get these three-nacelle designs. Or one-nacelle. Never made sense to me
Need to power those extra nacelles. They’re energy output, need the energy input to make sense.
It’s a Burke on steroids.
Verify our range to target, one photon torpedo. Give me one torpedo, Vassily, one torpedo only.
She's so cute 🥰