I’d love to go back to FanExpo again- alas I have two kids and I work on boats and it’s hard to imagine actually having time to go to Conventions again until I have… well they’re 2.5 years and 8 weeks old now. So… older
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@Canadian_Errant you’re a naval historian?
Yes, handwaves I’m not paid to do it. I’m paid to work on boats. But my PhD is naval history. (Okay, it says War Studies on the tin, but blame KCL for that)
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We should really talk about the Washington Conference
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Funny you bring that up- my period is specialization is actually 1660-1749, but I wrote a paper in my MA about how the Washington Conference was an effort to set up a new common language for naval armaments discussions as part of diplomacy.
Of course, language is absolutely the wrong term- framework is much more the concept that I was working on, but at that point I wasn’t bothering to actually read social sciences stuff and so I did a lot of bad floundering/reinventing the wheel when I should have been engaging with social sciences/theory. My friend Alan Anderson does a lot of work on peace treaties and the Royal Navy, but he’s much more 1890s than post WW1
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Actually, I’ve decided that I’m going to put that Washington Conference paper up on my website. It’s not very long, and who knows, maybe somebody will see how to avoid the mistakes I made
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My interest (other than the centenary) is that it’s been turned into a very elaborate committee game.
https://megagamemakers.uk/MemberPages/DaveBoundy/WashingtonConference/
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I see how that could work.
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Happy Birthday @RossM ! I hope you have a great day.
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Happy birthday, @RossM ! May the odds be ever* in your favour!
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Just- a thought.
I wonder … if how we’ve played the game so far (i terms of exploration etc) – or rather- how much it’s been influenced by the knowledge of the Borg. The way that we’ve built the space lanes etc. I wonder how much it’d be different if the knowledge of Borg was single-blind, or if we knew there wasn’t borg.
I’m still trying to get a feel for them. I’ve found them (using Unofficial Rules) hugely overpowering if they show up too early…
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Perhaps the Federation player did not know. It only takes a minimum of building 3 ships to be able to put them into a fleet automatically and does not take a command token. You can do that after declaring the other fleet to disband.
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To summarise:
- disband a fleet at any time as long as it’s not at warp, no cost
- add ships to a fleet at any time as long as they’re in the same place and not mid-move, no cost
- commission a fleet by having 3+ ships at homeworld or starbase and spending a Command
- commission a fleet by building 3+ ships at once and declaring it, no extra cost beyond the building
(ETA: “at any time” excludes “in mid-battle”. You can’t shift ships into the extra-shooty fleet once the shooting has started. 
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The romulan fleet is in the one sector prior to the system. He can’t enter the system because an enemy ship is in the system. Even coming out of warp. I’ll check my references when I’m able.
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Time to crack out
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Reference 8.3 and
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I’m not sure I’ve seen this in the rules- but is 6 the maximum for a fleet? Or can I put like, 24 ships in a fleet?
your fleet card shows you the maximum ships.
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Ah okay. So in the case of battle fleets, 6 rather than say, as many as I can build