Star Trek Free Print&Play

Here is a scenario based on “Balance of Terror” from the original series.  grimwolfuk (thank you) gave me a good idea for cloaking that would work for a scenario.

In the scenario one player must destroy the cloaked ship before the end of turn 6 and the other player with the cloaked ship must survive. I recommend 2 ships for every cloaked ship. The cloaked hip can be any ship with a cloaking device.

For the scenario you will need all the regular documents (you can find them in the previous post) a grid mat and a way to track the movements of the cloak ship.

I have only tested this scenario twice and both tests were a failure.  The cloaked ship easily evaded the other ships. I since added some more actions like a scan and a detection grid to correct this, but I have not yet tested the changes. I am quite sure the additions will work well so I decided to publish it anyway as I don’t know when I will be able to do more testing.

As always your input and ideas are always appreciated.

Please have fun.

I finally update the game to a D10 system along with many other changes. I took me longer than I planned.

Here is a list of changes:

• Changed from D6 to D10
• Added two types of cloak
  • Cloak (Klingon) hit on 8+
  • Cloak II (Romulan) hit on 9+
• Added type 8 phasor and type 10 phasor
• Cleaned up the ship templates
• Moved the charts from the dashboards and placed them on their own sheet
• Rewritten some of the rules
• Added some Federation and Borg ships.

Below you will find the links for the updated files.

Manual
Ships
Dashboards
Charts
Quick Reference

If you have any comments, suggestions or questions they are much appreciated.

Please have fun and enjoy.

Here are the files for the D6 system for the game, if anyone wants to play it. I updated and corrected some files.

Manual

Ships

Dashboards

If there are any problems let me know. Have fun.

For the battle it was the Federation (2 Miranda class Destroyers and 1 Excelsior class Heavy Cruiser) against the Romulans (4 D7 class Heavy Cruisers).

I was testing some new mechanics. The cloak ambush and the new Romulan cloaking mechanic. See previous post for the information on these two ideas.

The Romulans did not deploy as normal, because they were setting up an ambush.

Turn one the Federation ships activated and moved.

Turn two the Romulans deployed, two on each flank, and started their attack run critically damaging one of the Mirandas. The damaged Miranda survived by transferring power to the downed shield, but was then destroyed on turn 4. On turn five the Excelsior managed to destroy on Romulan D7.

The game ended on turn six with no other losses resulting in a Federation win, 42 to 37.

Update

I will be scrapping the idea of the Romulan ship being replaced with Ping Tokens when they cloak but keeping the Ambush idea, which I like.

I think that I will reluctantly change the system from a D6 to a D10. The only reason I was using D6 is because it is a die that most people have. Unfortunately I feel that the D6 is restricting the game, and the D10 will allow more room. For example it will make the cloaking system easier, hitting cloaked Rolmulans on a 10 and cloaked Klingons on a 8. Transferring power to systems (Sensors, ECM etc) will be more advantageous.

That being said it will take me a while to update the rules and ship information. I am also reworking the ship dashboards to make it easier for me to update, so maybe I will be done in a month or so. The core of the game will not change, just the details.

Any suggestions is much appreciated.

Thank you for good suggestions for cloaking ships. I decided to make some additions that will make cloaking more useful.

• Ambush: before deployment the player with cloaked ships may place his ships  in reserve, then during any turn (except turn 1)  before the Initiative Phase they deploy all ships up to 8″ from any board edge excluding the opponents. This can be done on any turn after turn 1. The ships then can each make one free move and one free attack.
• The other variation is instead of the board edge, they would deploy 12″ from all enemy ships.

So I need to test to see which of the two will work better.

The other idea was for Romulans only as they have a more advanced cloaking device.

• When a Romulan ship cloaks it is replaced with 2 Ping Tokens, these tokens move like the cloaked ships but must stay up to 3″ from each other. When an enemy ship successfully hits one of the tokens (needing 6’s to hit) the tokens are flipped to reveal the location of the real ship; replace that token with the actual ship, removing all tokens associated with that ship. If it is the ship that was hit, then damage is applied; the ship remains cloaked. During the ships activation if it remains cloaked it is again replaced by 2 Ping Tokens.

Below is an up to date file for the ships.

Ships

Thank you for your interest and suggestions.

Here are the ships and their dashboards. I plan on adding some Borg ships by the end of next month.

I’m very open to any suggestions you may have.

Please have fun!

Thank you for your interest.

Here are some screen shots of the information on some of the ships and weapons that I am currently working with, along with a dashboard template. These will give you an idea of what the player and the ships are able of doing.

This week, I will finish correcting the dashboards that I have created and next month I should have a couple Cardassian and Borg ships. It takes me a while just to research the ships, weapon types, weapon locations, etc.

Here is the rules for the game. I’m happy were the rules are in general but I might still tinker with the details. Soon I will publish the dashboards for the ships and the tokens once I’m finished making some corrections.