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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9641746" data-attributes="member: 19675">I have my own copies of Starfire, and damn near everything for SFB.  Oddly, I got into it living in Manhattan, KS- home to K State and a 30 minute drive from Fort Riley (home of The Big Red 1).  There was a large thriving SFB community there.Then I moved to Irving, Tx, and somehow found a small group of SFB and Federation & Empire superfans.  We played some very cutthroat games, and each of us specialized in mastering 1-2 races.  One guy rocked the Federation and Klingons, another guy usually ran Romulans & Kzinti, I was primarily into Hydrans & Tholians.  But one of my greatest wins was in a duel between a Federation Dreadnought and my Gorn Dreadnought.  I suckered the Fed player into trading alpha strikes head to head at short range.  We had both overloaded weapons, and reinforced our front shields; both ships lost their front shields and suffered some modest internal damage.  The next turn, I risked a 180deg high energy turn (successfully!) and took off, with my rear shields as reinforced as possible.  And he followed right after me…into the field of nuclear space mines I’d dropped in my hex through my completely absent rear shields while photons, phasers and plasma torps were going off.  All his ship could do was run away after that.I’m not 100% sure, but it may well be sessions like those that really refined & honed my instincts for developing and using unexpected tactics.  I really like to innovate.  Over the past 30+ years, I’ve earned surprise victories (or forced improbable ties) in chess, SFB, M:tG and other board games in private, public, club and small tournament play.  Some of what I did in local M:tG tournaments showed up in later rounds of tournaments- including a couple wins- for players who’d seen my decks.** Note: I never won any major tournaments due to a combination of bad draws and bad play on my part.  I once got knocked out of a tournament because I didn’t adapt to my opponent’s deck, despite having a sideboard 2/3 devoted to counteracting his deck’s design because I had foreseen his deck’s existence.  I realized my error when I had walked about 15 feet away from the table after my loss.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤦🏾‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f926-1f3fe-2642.png" title="Man facepalming: medium-dark skin tone    :man_facepalming_tone4:" data-shortname=":man_facepalming_tone4:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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