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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 4618483" data-attributes="member: 2020">As in D&D, there were multiple editions of Star Fleet Battles, and the Klingons evolved substantially with each change (especially with those B10s ...)  There were:  The Star Fleet Battles Pocket Edition  The Star Fleet Battles Designers Edition  The Star Fleet Battles Commanders Edition  The Star Fleet Battles Captains Edition (also known as the Doomsday Edition)  As with D&D, each had their errata and corrections, and added material (supplements, in D&D terms.)  My favorite race, the Hydrans, were in one of those supplements, for the Designers Edition.    It is possible to play any edition of Star Fleet Battles.  What is it not possible to do?  It is not possible to play any edition of Star Fleet Battles without memorizing one heck of a lot of rules, then having an arbitrator to make rulings on the rules because nobody understood what they read, can't agree on what to do in the midst of the game, and nobody likes an argument (hopefully.)  Without these things, nasty things occurred ... like someone taking the 120 points allocated to him to build a Heavy Cruiser, and instead welding 6 Large Freighter Hulls together, replacing all Cargo with Battery and APR (Auxillary Power Reactor), sticking 3 Warp Engines at one end, a Bridge at the other end, and adding one giant gun - a super Mauler - thus creating the first (and the only) Star Fleet Battles Death Star (it did up to 800 points of damage in a single shot, enough to destroy a Heavy Cruiser 4 to 8 times over, or mess up a planet real badly.)  Now, the fact that this cannot actually be done, because Freighter Hulls cannot be used for this purpose, could not withstand the shock of firing even an ordinary weapon - much less a giant gun, and Maulers cannot be stuck on Freighter Hulls by any race except the WYN, wasn't relevant ... because when the referee says spend 120 points and Build What You Want, ANYTHING You Want ... then anything can happen.  : D  Nuts.  It almost worked.  My brother beat me to the punch before I could zap everyone on the board, all 12 of them (running like the scared chickens they would have been!) with my giant fiendish monstrosity.  (sighs)  Ah me.  Now, tell me about editions.  And I can tell you a lot of stories about various editions of various games.  So many stories.  So many ...  (My brother, for anyone interested, took a large Andromedan ship, the Intruder, put a small ship with a Mauler known as the Terminator on it on a rotating platform, and the it acted as a 360 weapon, parked on top of the Intruder (which protected it with it's giant Power Absorbers.  Probably the one ship I could not have easily zapped, but the mess that caused when it appeared, upstaged me.  I regret it to this day.    Why?  Because it was *MY* day to shine, to run around and zap everyone!  Not his!  My day.  My day to chase them all down and kill, kill, KILL, KILL, KILL!!  They would have gotten my ship in the end (of course, I expected that, and planned to go out in a mighty explosion of glory.)  But, by God, it would have been so fun, playing Death Star on them.  Curses on that clever Andromedan (if I ever get a rematch, I will destroy any and all Andromedans *first*, and then no more upstaging of the one and only Edena_of_Neith!)</blockquote>

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