Star Trek: Into the Unknown - Match Mode Battle Report

[@acebadgerboy]

Great to see Match Mode/incident missions Ben - good job 👍

[@ericdimeck4481]

Great to see the all the dynamics of the game applied in this match. It' seems pretty rules dense.

[@Downsizeit]

It is a high initial rules curve, however I remember that also being the case with Armada. It took about a year before I became really comfortable with the Armada rules and even then, I was still getting some interactions wrong up to last Adepticon!

[@chiju]

I'm nearly halfway through and I am enjoying this so far. I'm looking forward to starting my campaign this weekend (and of course finishing the video when I have time). You knew this comment was coming though... In the spirit of increasing understanding of this admittedly complex game, there are some things I want to point out. 1) Daring First Officer's stats add up to 3, so his Flex cost would be 3, not 1 (Additional Rules, page 51). 2) For the Tactical Sweep action on the Hostile Raiders situation card, the Analysis kicker effect is part of the blue field, which means that the test must be successful to use it. By contrast, the Sensor Sweep action on the Neutral Zone Survey overture card has it in a yellow field, which means it can be used pass or fail. 3) You had said something to the effect that distance across system boundaries is infinite and that ships cannot affect each other across these boundaries. I have had this question myself and tried to find a rule, but could not find one. If you (or anyone) has a citation to share with me, please do so. However, the best clue I could find was in the Combat section of the Learn to Play Guide (page 24) which says "The attacker and target cannot be in different systems, but *either or both* can be outside a system (in deep space)." So a ship in deep space could attack a ship in a system and vice versa. My assumption has been that any range can be measured across system boundaries, but some actions specify that units must be in the same system. Thanks for all the work you have put in to this and please don't take this as criticism except of the most constructive sort.

[@Downsizeit]

Thanks for some of the callouts. For 1, you are correct. I did know that and just had a brain lapse when explaining to Bodhi and later editing. For 2, the color of the text doesn't matter for the analysis and is probably a misprint. The analysis rules on page 22 step 7 of learn to play do not have any restrictions. Whereas Breakthroughs do. For 3, page 14 "measuring between areas" of learn to play covers the "infinite range" (my wording) rules minus attacking. It appears attacking is an exception. I just had a long discussion with Ken from Ion about this and he is going to ask the Devs.

[@chiju]

Wow, thanks for the citation on #3. That spells it out quite plainly. That might have changed some things in my last game. It will be nice when all the rules are finally put up in one place. I'm still not sure about #2. Partly because it seemed like the Influence marker was bouncing around way too freely and randomly to truly be called "influence," but it could also be interpreted that the Analysis result in question is "unlocked" as part of the "Success" effects mentioned in step 6 since it is part of that box. I guess we will find out if it is really a misprint or what the intention is.

[@casonwatkins3781]

Keep em coming! I thought I heard guys in the background chatting about MCP. Was that the case?

[@Downsizeit]

I can't remember what they were chatting about but they were playing 40K.

[@MajorBorris]

Nice job nice job guys, become experts at the rules so you can help the rest of us.

[@Downsizeit]

Doing our best! Still missing things here and there, but so far getting the hang of most things.

[@MajorBorris]

@Downsizeit well it really helps especially since they don't have the learn to play guide available to download

[@MajorBorris]

​@Downsizeit I think you have the best videos demoing the game and its rules. It would be great if you actually did a rules video that shows virtually every option in a situation. So if it was combat all the different options for combat or movement, all the different ways you can move and all of the tests, every single thing you could do in a given situation. Outlining all of the dice rolls and why's and hows the dice work. I suppose it would be breaking it down in the phases. You know better than almost anyone else by creating a sort of rules compendium you could help the Game grow and it's players flourish. Thank you for all of your hard work!

[@dsp5196]

In the rule it seems to allow for multiple rerolls ( you can roll a dice multiple times), am I missing something?

[@Downsizeit]

The question is if multiple re-rolls are allowed from the same source of the re-rolls.

[@chiju]

Just keep focusing on what the Federation lost and how Weyoun's obedience brought victory and life. I'm sure the existence of an omnipotent being the Founders can't touch won't shake anyone's faith. 😏

[@Downsizeit]

The entire incident has been thoroughly buried and a standard propaganda piece put out to the masses.

[@mattsomes]

Filming first game on tape. Ballsy. I have attempted two match play games, and I can't count all the rules I have messed up.

[@Downsizeit]

That is a risk putting it out there, but it also helps for others to catch what I may have missed.