A Call to Arms: Star Fleet

Due the Star Fleet theme, I wanted to like this game very much and tried playing even after my poor first experience. However, the game is so broken I just cannot see ever playing this version again. While I applaud ADB and Mongoose for trying to make a faster play version of SFB that works for fleets, this game suffers from massive design failures that render the game unplayably awful and not at all fun. Klingons maneuver like speed boats while the Federation putters around the board like Death Stars. Gorns are even worse in the maneuver department. Trying to replicate Klingon weak rear shields, the designers inexplicably gave them super strong front shields. This, coupled with the aforementioned Klingon maneuverability, turned the game into something that did not at all play like the Star Fleet Universe and, more importantly, was completely unbalanced. A very disappointing game that desperately needs to be reworked. Thankfully, that has happened with the 2014 revision done by ADB cutting Mongoose and their poor quality out of the loop.

A game rushed into production to sell miniatures the company can't even produce, that is a poor representation of the Starfleet Universe, arbitrarily assigns advantages/disadvantages to empires for no in universe reason, and with a balance weighed heavily towards fleets of smaller ships.

Sadly, a very disappointing game. It is not Star Trek. It is not balanced. It does not serve Val.

Miniatures rules. Being an SFB purist this version with no energy allocation (the heart of SFB and Fed Commander) makes this a very vanilla set of minis rules to capitalize on the new 2500 series of sculpts.