As you can probably tell, it's been quite a while since I made a post. It's been really rather a long time since I played a game to be fair. When I was clearing out my attack wing case a couple of weeks ago I found a ship registry from January 2017... And I think that was the last event I played in, which was either Tin Man or Doomsday Machine, I can't quite remember which.
I know that around the time I last seriously considered Star Trek Attack Wing, the card packs had just been announced, and I was vaguely aware that a Ferengi faction pack was on the way. But I didn't really pay much attention to it.
I'd recently got married, and had my first child on the way, my local venue had stopped hosting OP events and after 4 years of living and breathing STAW, I guess I was just burned out.
I didn't completely stop following STAW, I was vaguely aware of changes to generic ship costs and the rule of three, but with no regular opponents to practise for, and other games (namely Warmachine and Hordes) pressing on my time, I packed away my collection and left it in the garage.
It was Lower Decks that piqued my interest again. Watching something that seemed so similar to the series that I'd grown up loving, yet gently humorous and slightly iconoclastic at the same time made me think about the old STAW missions and fleet building. I missed it all, and nostalgia dragged me back again.
So I went into the garage and pulled out the old STAW collection. I still had a couple of expansions new in box (Weapon Zero, IKS Amar, IRW Algeron) and a few bits of unpunched cardstock (USS Cairo) and flicking through the 6 card binders that I keep all the cards in and the memories came flooding back.
But boy, is it difficult to find the stuff I'd missed out on! Once I'd decided I was definitely going to make an effort to start playing again, I promised myself that I wanted to be at the same position again that I'd been in before, that is to say, I owned all of the expansions and could choose from anything when I was building a fleet. I have literally everything, often in multiples, that was released between the Original Starter and wave 29. Every blind booster, every prize ship, DS9, both oversized cubes, the cloaked ship pack, GenKhan. Everything. To get back to that state again would take some effort....
From a couple of British retailers I managed to get the QVP, Gorn, Grissom and fighter squadron 6 card packs. A reseller on eBay had the new starter, the Federation, Cardassian, Vulcan, and Klingon Faction packs seemed to be still in print so I got those fairly easily, the Borg one took a little searching for, but I eventually did manage to get one reasonably coated from Germany. What I'm most interested in getting my hands in right now is the Dominion faction pack that was all Jem Hadar ships. There are a couple of line of communication open, but things that initially looked promising have fallen through.
Then there is alliance: What a wonderful idea! I can't wait to get started on that campaign. It seems there are loads of things for me to look into and lots of new and exciting things to investigate and test. I'm very much looking forward to jumping back in with both feet,
But I'm still not Picard.
