{"id":1003,"date":"2025-04-14T20:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T03:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2025-04-14T21:23:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:23:45","slug":"a-long-time-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/2025\/04\/14\/a-long-time-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"A Long Time Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe 45+ years ago…<\/p>\n

A couple of years before I picked up the Star Fleet Battles Designer’s Edition boxed set, and a couple of years after I had the Star Fleet Battle Manual rules down, I picked up a very odd looking miniature, followed by a couple more from what I assumed was the same line.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"Roach?<\/p>\n

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\nLocust, picked up a pair of them for pretty obvious reasons.<\/p>\n

Cool as I thought they were to my pre-teen mind, I never found the rule set to go with them.<\/p>\n

I painted them up but for the most part just used them as toys instead of game pieces, flying them around the dining room or coffee table.<\/p>\n

Flash forward to the mid 2000s, and Monday Knight Productions picks up the miniature line and releases a ruleset to go along with them.<\/p>\n

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\nGalactic Knights, which I believe is what the original miniature line was called.<\/p>\n

20 years later, I finally decide to picking up the rules and some ships to go with them.<\/p>\n

The deluxe game comes with two starter fleets, consisting of 2 destroyer-class ships and a destroyer leader-class ship.<\/p>\n

\"\"Terran Swiftsure-class destroyers and a Samurai-class destroyer leader.<\/p>\n

\"\"Avarian Hawk-class destroyers and a Screech Owl-class destroyer leader.<\/p>\n

The deluxe set also comes with a 3′ x 3′ playmat, which I was planning to pick up for Starmada, so it’s a two-in-one win-win for me.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

As I browsed the site, I remembered the ships I had from childhood, so I decided to get those, plus the additional rules for this new fleet.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

So in addition to the two ships I was familiar with, I picked up a pair of Entomolian destroyers and a destroyer leader.<\/p>\n

\"\"Entomolian Wasp-class destroyers and Mandible-class destroyer leader.<\/p>\n

\"\"My humble Entomolian fleet.\u00a0 The Locust is actually a transport ship, while the Roach is a battlecruiser-class ship.<\/p>\n

The ships appear to sit on a flat surface fine, but they came with stands, even though the miniatures do not have a hole to mount them with.<\/p>\n

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\nStarter set stands (plastic)<\/p>\n

\"\"Entomolian ship stands, including a heavier metal stand for the battlecruiser.<\/p>\n

Depending on how this game plays I may get a couple more ships for each fleet.<\/p>\n

Stand by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe 45+ years ago… A couple of years before I picked up the Star Fleet Battles Designer’s Edition boxed set, and a couple of years after I had the Star Fleet Battle Manual rules down, I picked up a very odd looking miniature, followed by a couple more from what I assumed was the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[141,24,41],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galactic-knights","tag-miniature","tag-space","tag-tabletop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}