Anyone played Star Trek: Tactics by WizKids? I was wondering what the game was like and if you enjoyed it?
I bought the starter, and I didn't like it at all.
The game engine is Heroclix. It is UNMODIFIED Heroclix. No tweaks for starship combat were added. So, the game is a man to man small skirmish game played with starship miniatures. To me, this is wrong.
The ship mix of the starter wasn't interesting to me. The maps didn't play interestingly with the figures provided.
Most starters of this nature would have a feeling like, "This is fun, but it would be more fun with more ships." This starter had a feeling like, "This isn't fun at all, but it might be barely acceptable with more ships."
I haven't even found it useful for cannibalizing for other games. The maps use square grid, with effectively renders them useless for any other starship combat game. The desirable miniatures which are difficult or impossible to get as Micro-Machines (Ent-E, Nebula, Voyager) have what I consider unreasonably high secondary market prices, so it's not even worth following for the minis.
I use the rulebook and power card to play regular Heroclix, but that's the best I can say for the starter.
I'm in the middle of a Heroclix love affair right now, but the Star Trek Tactics starter certainly didn't have anything to do with it.
There are a million and one places doing unlicensed StarTrek minis, but I have no idea how easy it is to hack the Clix bases. Anyone know what would be involved with this? I really like the idea of the miniature keeping track of everything for you, but could you kitbash your own Clix minis without breaking the bank?
I happen to like Trek Clix Tactics.
I'd only played one demo game of regular Hero Clix at a Gen Con.
I think it is easy silly fun and the models look great.
If I wanted more complexity, I'd go with Federation Commander. If I wanted to bash my own head in with a rulebook, I would go with Star Fleet Battles.
This game was just pure Beer and Pretzels kind of fun. The little bits about each ship were neat to.... like Enterprise-E having a regeneration ability that represented Scotty fixing her up. That kind of stuff is fun.
I gather this was released a while back. I haven't even seen it in the shops. Although I'm still waiting for Monsterpocalypse!
Quote from: daniel_ream;535959There are a million and one places doing unlicensed StarTrek minis, but I have no idea how easy it is to hack the Clix bases. Anyone know what would be involved with this? I really like the idea of the miniature keeping track of everything for you, but could you kitbash your own Clix minis without breaking the bank?
You could probably pick up a bunch of old commons relatively cheaply, remove the figs, and then produce replacement stickers for the dial. You'd also need to either paint or sticker over the information on the top piece of the dial.
This (http://toymania.com/features/heroclix.shtml) link is out of date on Heroclix (Almost a decade out of date...), but explains the base and dial features. Basically, as long as you can print off circular stickers easily enough, hacking clix is pretty simple.
Quote from: Ghost Whistler;536136I gather this was released a while back. I haven't even seen it in the shops. Although I'm still waiting for Monsterpocalypse!
That's been out a LONG LONG while. My local shop had them two-three years ago...:D
To Ghost Whistler: Trek Tactics came out in February of this year.
It is Trek ships in heroclix which is good and bad. Easy to play esp. basic game but I'm not fond of the power cards preferring Star Wars Minis' all on the figure card approach.
Personally I'm reusing the ships and maps for Full Thrust and the new A Call to Arms : Star Fleet. The first is free the 2nd a very streamlined Star Fleet Battles.
Quote from: PaladinCA;536394To Ghost Whistler: Trek Tactics came out in February of this year.
These games just don't seem to find a home in LGS here.
I bought it, but I haven't played it yet. I haven't played a Clix game before but I thought my wife (a Trekkie) would give this a go just based on the easy rules and the Trek theme.
However, when my starter set arrived the Enterprise was broken. I emailed customer service and they basically told me that the starter set wasn't covered on their replacement policy. The said they only covered rare minis. Their advice was to go buy a bunch of blind boosters until I get an Enterprise.
So basically, instead of sending me a 28 cent piece of plastic they decided that they didn't want any more of my money.