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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8276671" data-attributes="member: 508">I had a friend who loved Star Fleet Battles.&nbsp; He'd set up these specific scenarios - three Klingon vessels attacking three comparable Federation vessels, say - and we'd play through it, and I'd beat him.&nbsp; So then we'd play the same scenario over again, only this time swapping who was running which side - and I'd beat him again.&nbsp; The next day, he'd have set up a scenario with him running a pair of Orion raiders attacking my Federation cargo ship with its security escort, and I'd run them off; then we'd switch sides and when I was running the Orions I defeated his security vessel and successfully overtook the cargo ship.&nbsp; This used to tick him off to no end, since he was much better versed in the intricacies of the game than I was.&nbsp; (I remember him pulling off some little-known maneuver where the Orion ship could burn out one of its own engine squares by doing a full 180-degree turn, while I - not aware of any of these fancy maneuvers - was getting by with the &quot;basic game&quot; tactics I'd picked up playing the game with my cousins.&nbsp; These were the same cousins who introduced me to AD&amp;D 1st Edition when we were in high school.)Good times.Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8276671, member: 508"] I had a friend who loved Star Fleet Battles. He'd set up these specific scenarios - three Klingon vessels attacking three comparable Federation vessels, say - and we'd play through it, and I'd beat him. So then we'd play the same scenario over again, only this time swapping who was running which side - and I'd beat him again. The next day, he'd have set up a scenario with him running a pair of Orion raiders attacking my Federation cargo ship with its security escort, and I'd run them off; then we'd switch sides and when I was running the Orions I defeated his security vessel and successfully overtook the cargo ship. This used to tick him off to no end, since he was much better versed in the intricacies of the game than I was. (I remember him pulling off some little-known maneuver where the Orion ship could burn out one of its own engine squares by doing a full 180-degree turn, while I - not aware of any of these fancy maneuvers - was getting by with the "basic game" tactics I'd picked up playing the game with my cousins. These were the same cousins who introduced me to AD&D 1st Edition when we were in high school.) Good times. Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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