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by Shadow Warrior
Tue Nov 06, 2012 1:58 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

"We are committed to publishing this" is, I am afraid, publisher speak for "we have no idea when we will get around to this, but our aspiration is that it will be before the sun runs out of hydrogen." Having seen the 2013 schedule I would expect this will not even be looked at ag...
by Shadow Warrior
Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:31 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

SVC has just published ADB's release schedule through to September 2013 on his day blog... http://federationcommander.blogspot.co.uk/2012_10_01_archive.html - November 2012: Federation Commander Reinforcements Attack, Booster #34, Booster #35, Booster #36, Battleships Starmada Nova, Battleships Star...
by Shadow Warrior
Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:45 am
Forum: Second Edition Development Archive
Topic: Concerns ...
Replies: 9
Views: 5592

Re: Concerns ...

Which is me in a nutshell as I don't want to plug in a tactical system (I largely play VBAM by email so tactical resolution is rarely a practical proposition for my group).
by Shadow Warrior
Fri Sep 21, 2012 11:22 am
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

If it's true that the F&E-ification of FA has been largely abandoned, then I pronounce myself officially much more interested in the project once again. :D After all, SVC didn't insist that Mongoose's Star Fleet Call to Arms adhered to every rule, tiny piece of errata and off-hand comment ever m...
by Shadow Warrior
Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:27 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

The last I saw on an SVC update was "end of 2013". Mind you, it has been forecast as "end of current year + 1" for three years now, so I wouldn't read anything definite into that. As SVC seems intent on turning Jay's work into "F&E Powered by VBAM" my interest level...
by Shadow Warrior
Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:03 am
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

Seconded. That would truly rock (even without Tholians)
by Shadow Warrior
Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:10 am
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

I won't call it dead, but it's not very alive. Regardless of whether FA ever sees the light of day, the Local Campaign, which was the big feature of the rules will get reworked and likely see release as an expansion for 2E. Jay and I have also talked a little bit about adapting the Local Campaign i...
by Shadow Warrior
Wed Oct 05, 2011 11:59 am
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

zyffyr wrote:It has been pushed back to "Some time in 2012"
There's a shocker. Not.

:cry:
by Shadow Warrior
Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:27 am
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

That is music to my ears! VBAM 2 would be a wonderful panacea to the FA blues. :-)
by Shadow Warrior
Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:11 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

Gosh, I hadn't even thought of that. If SVC (PE) is busily turning it into a product neither F&E nor VBAM players actually want, is it worth investing any further intellectual capital in it at all? I mean, sure, there will be some curiosity buys from VBAM players (and I'll surely be one of those...
by Shadow Warrior
Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:38 am
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

I'm very intrigued by the idea of a "director's cut" so that we can see Jay's original vision for what an exciting FC campaign system looks like.
by Shadow Warrior
Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:00 am
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

I think everyone here appreciates and respects both your and Jay's professionalism, which is in stark contrast to SVC's spoilt child public antics. There is obviously some odd thinking going on somewhere over at ADB because Bruce Graw's Star Fleet Warlord (in my view an order of magnitude more super...
by Shadow Warrior
Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:38 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

According to the latest ADB newsletter, FA is now officially on hold until the autumn.

:(
by Shadow Warrior
Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:22 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

I didn't think ADB had a license with Paramount but had one with Franz Joseph via the Technical Manual. I don't know though, just my no doubt ill-informed impression. :-) I think the thing is the original brief was "do a campaign system for FC using the VBAM engine" and at the last minute ...
by Shadow Warrior
Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:36 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177325

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

I'm behind you all the way.

Let's just hope that itself doesn't into weeks of "this couldn't happen in F&E so I'm re-writing it" agony.