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Not an empire at all, but instead a network of criminal organizations, the Orions are involved in piracy, smuggling, and no end of other criminal enterprises. The Orions have divided the Alpha Octant into several territories, called cartels. Each is run by a crimelord. Over time, the borders between these areas shift as one crimelord bullies his neighbor, strong cartels dismember weak ones, or a dead... [click here for more] |
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Back in 2006, ADB decided to produce a Federation Commander ship card for Santa’s Sleigh. This became an annual tradition and scenarios were created for the “ships.” All these appeared in various Communiques until eventually we suddenly had ten ships and one base. We decided to convert the ships and base to A Call to Arms: Star Fleet and added two scenarios written especially... [click here for more] |
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Have you ever wondered what Federation & Empire is all about? This booklet is designed to tell you more about the wide-ranging game that so many now enjoy. While you cannot play Federation & Empire with the information you will find here, you can make an informed choice about whether you would enjoy the game.
Here you will find an explanation of what the game entails and... [click here for more] |
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This 8-page booklet includes interesting and useful information about the main Captain's Log #45 issue, as well as new materials.
Included are:
Two-and-a-half pages of designer's notes.
Notes from the staff members.
After-action reports for Captain’s Log #44, SFB modules R3 and T2012, and Marine Assault.
Rejected papers for SFB, F&E, SFB Galactic Conquest,... [click here for more] |
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This 8-page booklet includes interesting and useful information about the main Captain's Log #46 issue, as well as new materials.
Included are:
Over two pages of publisher's notes.
Notes from other staff members.
After-action reports for Captain’s Log #45.
Rejected papers for SFB, Star Fleet Marines, and A Call to Arms: Star Fleet.
... [click here for more] |
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This 8-page booklet includes interesting and useful information about the main Captain's Log #47 issue, as well as new materials.
Included are:
Over two pages of publisher's notes.
Notes from other staff members.
After-action reports for Reinforcements Attack, Captain’s Log #47, Operation Fetch, and Origins 2013.
Rejected papers for Star Fleet Battles, Federation & Empire,... [click here for more] |
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This 8-page booklet includes interesting and useful information about the main Captain's Log #48 issue, as well as new materials.
Captain's Log #48 has the exciting story "The Battle with Tribbles." Come find out all the back story of the issue. It has Publisher's Notes, Editor's Comments, Proofreader's Notes, rejected tactical papers (and why they did not get published), color... [click here for more] |
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The Captain’s Log #49 Supplemental File gives a behind-the-scenes look at the issue, and this time we have included three pages of previews. Find out all about Captain's Log #49!... [click here for more] |
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Captain’s Log #50 is a special issue, so its supplement is as well! The Captain’s Log #50 Supplemental File has 16 pages of information including the publisher’s behind the scenes tour of Captain’s Log #50, the Captain’s Log #49 after action report, an article about workboats, more about the Zosman stealth field, additional rules for the Federation &... [click here for more] |
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Captain’s Log #51 has a lot of features and this supplement walks you through them while providing some additional information that couldn’t be squeezed into Captain’s Log #51. Steve Cole writes about each aspect of the issue, Steven Petrick writes about SFB, and Jean Sexton mentions her favorite parts, including Prime Directive. Some of our volunteer staff members... [click here for more] |
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Captain’s Log #52 is an exciting issue and this supplement tells you all the background about the features while providing some additional information that couldn’t be squeezed into Captain’s Log #52. Steve Cole writes about each aspect of the issue, Steven Petrick writes about SFB, and Jean Sexton mentions her favorite parts, including Prime Directive. Some of our... [click here for more] |
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This 8-page booklet includes interesting and useful information about the main Captain's Log #53 issue, as well as new materials.
Included are:
Over two pages of publisher's notes.
Notes from other staff members.
Star Fleet Battles scenario (SL354.0) A Confusion of Objectives.
Rejected papers for Star Fleet Battles and Federation & Empire.
... [click here for more] |
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This countersheet is included with the PDF of Captain’s Log #50. It includes the playtest counters needed to play the Romulan Civil Wars scenario in that issue. ... [click here for more] |
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This 20-page booklet includes interesting and useful information about the main Captain's Log #54 issue, as well as new materials, namely proposals for various ships for Star Fleet Battles.
Included are:
Over two pages of publisher's notes.
Notes from other staff members.
14 pages of Star Fleet Battles ship proposals
... [click here for more] |
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You pointed out that you would like counters for the ships we have released without them. Until we do a new product with die-cut counters and can add all of the ships from newsletters, ePacks, and Captain’s Logs, we offer this PDF countersheet (in both 1" and half inch) with counters for the ships from Communique #133-#168 (our free newsletter), Captain's Log #53, as well as... [click here for more] |
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Star Fleet Marines: Counter-Attack has empire-specific counters for the Federation, Klingons, Romulans, Kzintis, Gorns, and Tholians. Each empire gets 140 counters for a total of 840 counters. These will be the first Gorn and Tholian counters for this game system.
On close inspection, you will find that while the types of counters are the same for each empire, the art for the counters is... [click here for more] |
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Star Fleet Marines: Counter-Punch has empire-specific counters for the Lyran Democratic Republic (LDR), Vudar, Paravians, Seltorians, Carnivons, and Jindarians. Each empire gets 140 counters for a total of 840 counters. These will be the first of these empires’ counters for this game system.
On close inspection, you will find that while the types of counters are the same for each empire,... [click here for more] |
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Star Fleet Marines: Counter-Strike has empire-specific counters for the Interstellar Concordium, Orion Pirates, Hydrans, Andromedans, Lyrans, and WYNs. Each empire gets 140 counters for a total of 840 counters. These will be the first Interstellar Concordium, Orion Pirate, Andromedan, and WYN counters for this game system.
On close inspection, you will find that while the types of counters... [click here for more] |
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When we were working on the Kzinti Master Starship Book, we discovered records for some ships that had never before been published. Six of these are included in this pack, which has the traditional B&W SSDs.
Six Star Fleet Battles SSDs for the Kzinti Hegemony, including:
Improved Warp-Refitted Dreadnought
Improved Warp-Refitted Command Cruiser
Improved Warp-Refitted Commando... [click here for more] |
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While the Covid-19 situation is ongoing, this will be a "Pay What You Want" product.
For many years our fans have asked for a collection of line art. Now it is available to you! The drawings range from fairly simple to more complex, so there is something for every skill level.
This first book focuses on starships and includes the following starships.
Federation: Heavy cruiser,... [click here for more] |
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While the Covid-19 situation is ongoing, this will be a "Pay What You Want" product.
For many years our fans have asked for a collection of line art. Now the second volume is available to you! The drawings range from fairly simple to more complex, so there is something for every skill level.
This second book focuses on the people of the Star Fleet Universe and includes crew... [click here for more] |
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While the Covid-19 situation is ongoing, this will be a "Pay What You Want" product.
Our fans have continued to ask for even more line art of ships. In the Star Fleet Universe Coloring Book #3 we present Kzinti, Lyran, Hydran, and Orion ships! The drawings range from fairly simple to more complex, so there is something for every skill level.
Kzinti: Battlecruiser, Dreadnought, Medium... [click here for more] |
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The Tholians occupy a small territory on the edge of the galaxy, south of the United Federation of Planets and blocking most of the pathway between the Klingons and the Romulans. The Tholians are a crystalline life form that exists in high temperatures. Tholians consider carbon-based life to be on the same level that humans consider bacteria.
Tholians are, in fact, refugees from the M81 Galaxy... [click here for more] |
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The ships presented here are intended to represent abstractions of dozens of different (but similar) designs in use by all fleets for a variety of functions. Form follows function, and as these ships (for the most part) are cargo haulers, they can functionally be divided into these types. Outwardly, the various “Class-One Small Freighters” may look very different, but their ship rosters would be... [click here for more] |
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Finally an end to the tedious die rolling to resolve damage in Star Fleet Battles! Now you can use this fast and easy card system to resolve damage in a fraction of the time it took before. A deck of cards, using a one-hit per card system, provides an innovative damage allocation procedure which includes eighteen different critical hits.
Battle Damage: Code Red is a play aid for Star... [click here for more] |
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Merchants of the Federation is a trading game for two-to-five players that is based in the Star Fleet Universe. The United Federation of Planets has just opened development of a new sector of space right on the Klingon border. Here you will find unexplored worlds, many of which contain resources for which the Federation will pay top credits. You run a recently charted trading company... [click here for more] |
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NEXUS: The bond, link or tie existing between members of a group; a means of connection.
The word "nexus" doesn't come up in conversation very often. Its most common use is also its most dramatic: "the nexus of events," where great actions come together to form a point in history.
The first issue of Nexus, published in April-May 1982, is wide ranging. From the historical to the... [click here for more] |
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“A large part of any game’s flavor is a product of the game system’s inherent realism (or the appearance of the same).” – Michael Anderson
It is 1984 and Nexus #10 has just been released. This issue focused on the Star Fleet Universe, Starfire, and History of the Second World War.
This issue starts with variants for Germany’s Eastern... [click here for more] |
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“If you find any Klingons, don’t go heroic on me. Keep that ship intact until you get her overhauled. Don’t run; the Klingons will smell blood and hunt you down. Instead, show a good front and hope they’ll take the hint and leave.”
It is 1985 and Nexus #11 has just been released. This issue focused on the Star Fleet Universe, Starfire, Musketeers, and... [click here for more] |
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“Go out there and take a look, Brian. If it’s a Klingon, kill it; if it’s natural, study it; if it’s dangerous, cut and run back here.”
It is 1985 and Nexus #12 has just been released. This issue focused on the Star Fleet Universe, Starfire, and History of the Second World War.
The Star Fleet Universe section starts with information... [click here for more] |
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“We are all good soldiers. But this war has gone on too long, and the Empire is consuming itself in the fire. What new Empire will rise from the ashes we have yet to see.” -- Marine Major Ardak Kumerian
It is 1985 and Nexus #13 (the Holiday Issue) has just been released. This issue focused on the Star Fleet Universe, Starfire, Battlewagon, and History of... [click here for more] |
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Pirates! The Scourge of the Galaxy!
It is 1985 and Nexus #14 has just been released. This issue focused on the Star Fleet Universe, Starfire, and History of the Second World War. Battlewagon, Musketeers, East Wind Rain, and 4th Reich also have materials included. And “Arrgghhhh! Here there be pirates!” is a thread running through the issue.... [click here for more] |
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For years, through hijackings and kidnappings and savage massacres, the West has been helpless before this bloody foe: the international terrorist. Until now. Now America has Delta Force.
It is 1986 and Nexus #15 has just been released. This issue focused on the Star Fleet Universe, Starfire, and Delta Force. Battlewagon, Duel for Kharkov, Counterstroke... [click here for more] |
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“We’re here to look for pirates and Romulans and Gorns and anyone else who happens to show up! Our job is to stop them before they can get within detection range of you. Failing that, we have to destroy them before they can report back.”
It is 1987 and Nexus #16 has just been released. This issue focused on the Star Fleet Universe,... [click here for more] |
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The position given for the disabled ships was off their assigned patrol route. Too far off. The possibility of a trap occurred to him, but he could not afford to ignore the message. His Commander’s Oath demanded that he investigate.
It is 1987 and Nexus #17 has just been released. This issue focused on the Star Fleet Universe, Starfire, and Delta Force. Viceroys!,... [click here for more] |
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You have probably noticed by now that the title of this column has changed from “Opening Lines” to “Closing Lines.” The reason is that this is the final issue of Nexus magazine.
It is 1987 and the final issue of Nexus, Nexus #18, has just been released. This issue focused on the Star Fleet Universe, Starfire, and Delta Force. Musketeers,... [click here for more] |
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He who travels changes only his skies, not his soul. -- Horace
Ever since the legendary Icarus took to the skies on his wax and feather wings, Man has desired to fly. And for nearly as long, he has wanted to expand that flight to the planets and the stars beyond. With that in mind, it is not surprising that the highly popular Starfire was featured in this issue.
Doubtless, Horace’s... [click here for more] |
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“The Greek heroes are ... treacherous and self-sacrificing, generous and greedy, vengeful and just, humorous and gloomy -- in other words human, and many times all too human.”
Join us in 1982 when Nexus #3 was published. It focuses on the “new” Heroes of Olympus roleplaying game based on Greek mythology. Here you will find an Aegyptian extension to the game, as well as... [click here for more] |
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Jardine crawled out of his lifeboat, his head still reeling from the impact of the landing. “Guess I better check out this vacation paradise,” he said aloud.
It is the start of 1983 and Nexus #4 has just been released. It focuses on the “The Savage Jungle” which combines Ultra Warrior and Survival to create a new solitaire game.
Of course there... [click here for more] |
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Actually, there is a kind of magic in a historical game. It’s not the blatant kind: no thundering giants are summoned, no demons appear, and no dragons spit fire. Instead, it’s the subtle magic of being transported across time to stand in another man’s shoes.
It is 1983 and Nexus #5 has just been released. It focuses this time on historical boardgames, starting with... [click here for more] |
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Not all of the drama nor all of the heroes are on the Bridge. – Stephen V. Cole
It is 1983 and Nexus #6 has just been released. It focuses this time on Star Fleet Battles, with the lead story of “Behind the Glory of the Heroes” by Joseph McCarthy. (The story was reprinted in Captain’s Log #13.) Play by mail was arriving for Star Fleet Battles... [click here for more] |
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However, not counting playtest sessions, I can count on both hands the number of times I have played an adventure game with an opponent. The point of this is that I am not alone! – Allen D. Eldridge
It is 1984 and Nexus #7 has just been released. It focuses this time on solitaire gaming. Of course there is a section on the Star Fleet Universe, too. In that section you will find... [click here for more] |
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Silence. I remember the silence the most. – Dennis R. Ricketts, “Patrol.”
It is 1984 and Nexus #8 has just been released. This issue has “History of the Second World War” which is background for a game of the same name and Starfire with a history of their Orions. Of course there is a section on the Star Fleet Universe, too. In that... [click here for more] |
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“A Klingon warship is not something that fights an enemy, but something that happens to an enemy.” – Commander Mizia, DSF
It is 1984 and Nexus #9 has just been released, with an additional eight pages more than the last issue. This issue focused on the Star Fleet Universe and also on Starfire.
There is a list of Klingon ship names.... [click here for more] |
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When we were working on the Kzinti Master Starship Book, we discovered records for some ships that had never before been published. Six of these are included in this pack, which has color SSDs to let you find systems more easily.
Six Star Fleet Battles SSDs for the Kzinti Hegemony, including:
Improved Warp-Refitted Dreadnought
Improved Warp-Refitted Command Cruiser
Improved Warp-Refitted... [click here for more] |
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Mars was dying. Martians were resigned to their fate. Then some young Martians had a radical idea: invade the nearest planet. The biggest problem: Earth was inhabited and the Humans might object!
The War of the Worlds is based on the novel by H.G. Wells and is a two-person game that recreates the life-and-death struggle between the Martians and Humans. Can the Martians eliminate the Humans facing... [click here for more] |
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Humans were ready to colonize the planet Cerberus. The problem? Cetians, a reptile-like species had arrived there first and didn’t want to share! So on June 10, 2096, the human force arrived at Cerberus, ready to take over the planet. Can they do it?
Return to 1979 and try an exciting, two-player game of fast maneuvers and action, sure to excite new and experienced gamers of all ages.
Cerberus... [click here for more] |
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It is our honor to bring glory to the Empire!
This is the Star Fleet Universe, based on Star Trek: The Original Series. Meet Klingons who have missions, wars, and battles of their own to fight!
In “For the Good of the Empire” Klingon military intelligence hires an Orion ship (Orions are notoriously known for skirting the edge of the law) to carry their agents into enemy... [click here for more] |
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Starmada Nova players, you asked for it and now you have it. You wanted the pages from Captain’s Log that were about Starmada and you wanted the ships as well. This booklet has those, including the Federation battleship and the Klingon B10 battleship. We included the information pages from Captain’s Log #40-#42, even though those were primarily about the Admiral edition.... [click here for more] |
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These are the charts needed for Federation & Empire. With this PDF version, you can print your own and forget about finding a photocopier or scanner before every session.
Included are:
Fleet charts and capital charts for each empire
Maps in two scales
The combat damage results table
The battle board
And all of the forms:
Economics
Base status
Partial supply grid
Command point
Planetary status
Survey... [click here for more] |
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