New Starships Released
STEVE COLE WRITES: We just released five new Starline miniatures. All of them are available at our on-line store (which has photos).
The FEDERATION COMMAND CRUISER is a new version of our existing Federation Heavy Cruiser. The difference is the saucer, which has a great deal of detail. (The Heavy Cruiser saucer is almost smooth.) We did a survey some months ago and there were players who wanted both versions (smooth and detailed) so we issued both versions. (The hull and engines are identical.). The ship is stock number 0211 and costs $7.95. It is available on both shopping carts, and appears in FC: Booster Pack #1. You can, of course, use a heavy cruiser for a command cruiser and a command cruiser for a heavy cruiser. Our policy is to give players as many options as possible.
The Orion OK6 cruiser is a unique ship in Star Fleet Universe history. The ship was built as the Klingon D6 heavy cruiser Anarchist. Sent to investigate pirate activity in a remote sector, the ship fell into a trap. The crew separated the boom section and escaped, leaving the abandoned rear hull with the self-destruct systems counting down rapidly. The Orions beamed an elite engineering crew on board and disarmed the bombs. The problem was that having captured the rear half of a Klingon cruiser, what could they do with it? Without a boom section (which the Orions did not have and could not build, and could hardly expect to purchase) the rear hull was not stable in flight. The Orion solution was to mount a raider cruiser (without its engines) to the front of the hull. The result was, for many years, the largest and most powerful ship in the Orion pirate fleet. This ship is scheduled to appear in FEDERATION COMMANDER: ORION PIRATES and just might sneak into an issue of Communique. The stock number is 0815, the price is $7.95.
Warships cost lots of money, several times as much per ton as commercial cargo ships, and with good reason. Warships are expected to move around at high speeds and to fight in dozens of battles over a service life of several decades. Because warships cost so much, they are never around when a local government needs them, and even the military doesn’t have enough ships to do every job that needs doing. The solution is the Auxiliary Warship, a commercial freighter to which a few weapons have been added. For the cost of one cruiser, an empire can have five or ten of these Auxiliaries, and they serve in no end of useful roles as troop transports, convoy escorts, and even as pseudo-warships in less threatening regions. We offer a package of two such ships (large and small) for $14.95. The stock number is 0113. These ships are scheduled to appear in FEDERATION COMMANDER: ORION PIRATES and just might sneak into an issue of Communique.
The Heavy Freighter (which has four cargo containers, the large freighter having two and the small freighter just one) is also known as the Large Ore Carrier, which is the most common use of this ship. It is the super-tanker of space, hauling the largest of loads. The stock number is 0123 and the price is $12.95. This ship was in FEDERATION COMMANDER: ROMULAN ATTACK.
The FEDERATION COMMAND CRUISER is a new version of our existing Federation Heavy Cruiser. The difference is the saucer, which has a great deal of detail. (The Heavy Cruiser saucer is almost smooth.) We did a survey some months ago and there were players who wanted both versions (smooth and detailed) so we issued both versions. (The hull and engines are identical.). The ship is stock number 0211 and costs $7.95. It is available on both shopping carts, and appears in FC: Booster Pack #1. You can, of course, use a heavy cruiser for a command cruiser and a command cruiser for a heavy cruiser. Our policy is to give players as many options as possible.
The Orion OK6 cruiser is a unique ship in Star Fleet Universe history. The ship was built as the Klingon D6 heavy cruiser Anarchist. Sent to investigate pirate activity in a remote sector, the ship fell into a trap. The crew separated the boom section and escaped, leaving the abandoned rear hull with the self-destruct systems counting down rapidly. The Orions beamed an elite engineering crew on board and disarmed the bombs. The problem was that having captured the rear half of a Klingon cruiser, what could they do with it? Without a boom section (which the Orions did not have and could not build, and could hardly expect to purchase) the rear hull was not stable in flight. The Orion solution was to mount a raider cruiser (without its engines) to the front of the hull. The result was, for many years, the largest and most powerful ship in the Orion pirate fleet. This ship is scheduled to appear in FEDERATION COMMANDER: ORION PIRATES and just might sneak into an issue of Communique. The stock number is 0815, the price is $7.95.
Warships cost lots of money, several times as much per ton as commercial cargo ships, and with good reason. Warships are expected to move around at high speeds and to fight in dozens of battles over a service life of several decades. Because warships cost so much, they are never around when a local government needs them, and even the military doesn’t have enough ships to do every job that needs doing. The solution is the Auxiliary Warship, a commercial freighter to which a few weapons have been added. For the cost of one cruiser, an empire can have five or ten of these Auxiliaries, and they serve in no end of useful roles as troop transports, convoy escorts, and even as pseudo-warships in less threatening regions. We offer a package of two such ships (large and small) for $14.95. The stock number is 0113. These ships are scheduled to appear in FEDERATION COMMANDER: ORION PIRATES and just might sneak into an issue of Communique.
The Heavy Freighter (which has four cargo containers, the large freighter having two and the small freighter just one) is also known as the Large Ore Carrier, which is the most common use of this ship. It is the super-tanker of space, hauling the largest of loads. The stock number is 0123 and the price is $12.95. This ship was in FEDERATION COMMANDER: ROMULAN ATTACK.
posted by Federation Commander at 9:30 AM
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