Well, the headaches from Sunday night have passed away and I am feeling better. Sadly it still meant that there was no Sunday Night Movie this week, but what the hell it’s a holiday week anyway.

My boxed set of Federation Commander: Klingon Boarder arrived Friday at work, but as we did not work friday I did not get it until yesterday. Federation Commander is a board game of starship combat in the Star Trek universe. It is very similar and can be compared to a cut down and simplified Starfleet Battles.

To comare the two look at one stat, Starfleet Battles has a rule book that is 400 pages longs, while Federation Commander has a rule book that is 60 pages long.

I used to play Starfleet Battles quite a lot, before it grew to the monstrous size it is now. It was a game that brought lots of enjoyment before the session stretched to teach its players the meaning of infinity. Serious it would take hours to resolve a single turn of combat, and trust me a single turn did not decide a game. Eventually me and my friends stopped playing and I disposed of all my material.

There was a brief flirtation Babylon 5 Wars, a board game of ship combat in the Babylon 5 universe, but I did not enjoy that game as much as I did SFB.

Federation Commander promises a return to the ship combat I truly did enjoy. I will find out for certain on Saturday. I have arranged a small game, 4 ships, 2 on each side fighting for possession of a planet.

We shall see, we shall see.