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The title and this link says it all, I read on Beasts of War that it's comming in Feburary.

http://heroclix.com/announcements/boldly-go-where-no-clix-have-gone-before/

w00t! it's Next Generation Trek! Not that crappy Abrams stuff with the chubby Enterprise.

Very, very nice.

I saw Bill Shatner live in Melbourne this year.

Live long and Prosper fellow Trekkers!

Must resist pick and play Klingons...

So this game is compatible with all other heroclix games. I can't wait for spiderman to beat up the starship enterprise.

ShumaGorath wrote:I can't wait for spiderman to beat up the starship enterprise.

Finally -- Star Trek becomes interesting!

Not interested in this at all.

seems to have TNG + TOS/TMP + Voy

and if your not interested either don't post or explain....

This is neat, i might get a starter and try it with the kids.

btw why would you open thread and then post how you are not interested. Only wasting your time foo.

Of all the ships to include in the starter, they choose a Nova-Class. How strange.

Has anyone played Heroclix recently. Last time I tried it, I was pretty bored. I prefer the rules from the Star Wars CMG game.

Anung Un Rama wrote:Has anyone played Heroclix recently. Last time I tried it, I was pretty bored. I prefer the rules from the Star Wars CMG game.

I played a Superman release event on Saturday - I'd say it is still pretty fun, though I'm not sure how seriously I'd take it as a tournament game.

I'll be interested to see how the rules represent the different ships within ST, though I'm not sure this is a license I'll be buying (in the same way I'm not fussed about Gears of War, Halo or Lord of the Rings as Heroclix licenses).

H.B.M.C. wrote:Of all the ships to include in the starter, they choose a Nova-Class. How strange.

No doubt they wanted to give players something "sleek" and "new" shipwise... and yet save the classes of ships that were centerpieces to the franchise as "rares."

Now, let's see how long it takes for them to do a Borg cube.

I wonder how well these would work with the ACTA Starfleet Battles. Not all that keen on the whole 1 ship per booster bit. With 28 ships and $5-10 bucks per random boost that would get ridiculous to actually get the whole set.

Yeah really each booster should be a Fed and Klingon ship.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Yeah really each booster should be a Fed and Klingon ship.

Agreed. With this setup on boosters the games success is really dependent on how quickly the second-hand market jumps on supporting it.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Of all the ships to include in the starter, they choose a Nova-Class. How strange.

and including the oberth as well makes just as much sense

I'm interested, but never played a clix game. Anyone want to do a rundown of how the system works?

Ahtman wrote:Not all that keen on the whole 1 ship per booster bit. With 28 ships and $5-10 bucks per random boost that would get ridiculous to actually get the whole set.

They've been doing that with a lot of sets lately. Captain America, Street Fighter (amazingly popular - sold out everywhere in about a week), Gears of War, and Green Lantern have all been sold in single figure boosters. Street Fighter seems to have demonstrated that how well a "1 figure per booster" set sells will largely depend on the subject material. And Star Trek is pretty popular.

This appears to be a version of the board game Star Trek Fleet Captains, which uses those exact minis, but as a board game.

Will be watching this, as a full clix game makes me think that they will be expanding past the 24 ships included in the board game.


Also of note, if those 4 ships in the starter are the ones in the picture its a bit unbalanced...as a Neghvar and a Raptor will kick the hell out of the Enterprise E and an Oberth.

I'm personally hoping for a Romulan or Dominion release.

Sgt.Roadkill wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:Of all the ships to include in the starter, they choose a Nova-Class. How strange.

and including the oberth as well makes just as much sense

The starter set pic shows a Constitution class ship. In general I think we should look at the fact that they chose to only do Federation and Klingon ships... the two Star Trek factions with the largest varieties of ships and there are still only ~30 ships. Could the choice have been better?-Yes, but given the relatively small number of ships in the set, no doubt anything more interesting or recognizeable is "rare".


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Small, Far Away wrote:I'm personally hoping for a Romulan or Dominion release.

It'll be interesting to see how they do both of those factions... the Romulans had 2 classic series ships, 2 from the classic motion pictures, another 2 from Enterprise, the Scout/Science vessel and D'daridex from TNG... the ship from Nemesis (valdore?)... and the thing from the newest movie which I think would get left out... some of which are common to the klingons.

That's close but not as many as the Klingons and Federation... so it'll be interesting to see what filler they use; whether is some proper named versions of those ships or some made up or obscure class references.

The Dominion actually seems more difficult. There were only 3 maybe 4 ship classes shown... my guess they'd have to include the 2 Cardassian ships and 2 or 3 Breen ships just to fill out their numbers.

I'm buying the entire set. Enterprise vs Dark Phoenix. I'm down.

Cool...But wish there had been a little more variety for races. Like maybe three races to start...but anyway.

Make the more basic, generic, ships commons and uncommon and the more specific ships, and lesser detailed races, rare. That's my hope.

I was expecting Kirk, Uhru and klingon figures, not ships. Yawn!

They could do a release that features several of the aliean races. That would make the most sense, since as other have pointed out many races had only a couple types of ships.

They could cover Romulan, Cardassian, Dominion, Breen, Borg, and several others in a 28 ship set.


I was just about to buy some Firestorm Armada ships to use for Full Thrust, but with this coming I may wait...but then again we are talking almost 5 months...

Mad4Minis wrote:They could do a release that features several of the aliean races. That would make the most sense, since as other have pointed out many races had only a couple types of ships.

They could cover Romulan, Cardassian, Dominion, Breen, Borg, and several others in a 28 ship set.


I was just about to buy some Firestorm Armada ships to use for Full Thrust, but with this coming I may wait...but then again we are talking almost 5 months...

Romulans have about enough ships... Cardassian, Dominion, and Breen collectively do as well... there are also enough random space entities and unaligned ships to fill out a set as well. Who wouldn't want a Husnock Ship?

The borg would be difficult... a borg cube would have to be in the vein of the "Sentinels" for the X-men heroclix, with traditional and voyager style armored version... that they'd have a scout cube and a sphere. I could also easily imagine the borgs use of "assimilated" ships... but that wouldn't necessarily add new models... reused models at best, more likely just different special rules tagged to the model of their choosing.

It'd be nice to see more Delta quadrant races, but most were so insufficiently shown to be represented in this type of game, beyond a single token ship.

In total there seem only enough ships in the franchise to do two more sets like this first one. I think before it gets to that point though, we'd probably see a large number reissued models as named for specific ships.

One Borg cube against how many Starfleet ships to make a balanced scenario? C'mon, I remember seeing the wreckage that was floating around at the beginning of Star Trek: First Contact. Even the Defiant was nearly destroyed.

warpcrafter wrote:One Borg cube against how many Starfleet ships to make a balanced scenario? C'mon, I remember seeing the wreckage that was floating around at the beginning of Star Trek: First Contact. Even the Defiant was nearly destroyed.

Just like the other Hero Clix games, there are liberties taken for the sake of game play.

In the battle at Wolf 359 there were 40 federation starships involved, all destroyed. While in First Contact , the "Battle for Sector 001" there were supposed to be 60 ships with only half destoyed.

There are a couple of justifications... maybe it would just be a battle damaged Borg cube... say representing the Borg cube in First Contact right before the Enterprise arrives where seemingly 4 or 5 ships were able to finish it off; maybe the non-borg player's ships are representative of "hero" ships... with extreme macguffin plot armor... just as the Enterprise single handedly held the Borg at bay and avoid destruction through the use of metaphasic shielding, had their been a fleet with them they might have done better; or its just a game and we have to accept its imperfect.

Had a stray thought...

So if the upcoming Clix ships are compatible with regular Heroclix figures...

Is there currently an Apollo Heroclix figure?