{"id":1485,"date":"2016-12-30T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2017-05-30T12:38:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T16:38:34","slug":"picked-up-federation-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/30\/picked-up-federation-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"Picked up Federation Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been realizing that if I want to find people to play boardgames with, I need to be looking at somewhat less heavyweight games than the stuff I played in college with friends who had also been playing for years<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161230_163455-e1483135224153.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1484\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/30\/picked-up-federation-commander\/img_20161230_163455\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161230_163455-e1483135224153.jpg?fit=2793%2C3461&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2793,3461\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Pixel XL&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1483115697&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.67&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;346&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008328&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_20161230_163455\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161230_163455-e1483135224153.jpg?fit=242%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161230_163455-e1483135224153.jpg?fit=474%2C587&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1484 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161230_163455-e1483135224153-242x300.jpg?resize=242%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161230_163455-e1483135224153.jpg?resize=242%2C300&amp;ssl=1 242w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161230_163455-e1483135224153.jpg?resize=768%2C952&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161230_163455-e1483135224153.jpg?resize=1653%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1653w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161230_163455-e1483135224153.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161230_163455-e1483135224153.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a>. I just picked up a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.federationcommander.com\/\">Federation Commander<\/a>\u00a0which is a lighter\u00a0weight take on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starfleetgames.com\/starfleetbattles.shtml\">Star Fleet Battles<\/a>. Hoping this will make it possible to setup some gaming and perhaps work up to the more complex Star Trek themed games (and others). I&#8217;ve got a broader library, but many of the games I loved years ago are now far out of print. We&#8217;ll see what the new year brings&#8230;hoping to find time and an opponent or two&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">I have the Klingon Border version on order but from a slower source (this one was available with Amazon Prime so quick). I think that the Klingon\/Federation match up is a little less complex and expect that will make for a better introductory scenario once it arrives.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been realizing that if I want to find people to play boardgames with, I need to be looking at somewhat less heavyweight games than the stuff I played in college with friends who had also been playing for years. I just picked up a copy of Federation Commander\u00a0which is a lighter\u00a0weight take on Star &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/30\/picked-up-federation-commander\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Picked up Federation Commander<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Picked up Federation Commander","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-games","category-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EWhb-nX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}