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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 #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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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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TEST DRIVE A STARSHIP
This is the free demonstration version of the Federation Commander game system, a tactical space combat game based on Star Trek. (Yes, we have a legal contract with Paramount to do this.) This simplified demo includes the basic rules (some of them simplified or abstracted) and two sample ships.
You will need this PDF, a couple of six-sided dice, a hex map (use any game and ignore... [click here for more] |
Amarillo Design Bureau |
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Back in 2006, ADB decided to produce a 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 11 ships and 11 scenarios. We talked it over and decided to create counters for the ships. We gathered up all the ships and all the scenarios (all newly edited for this pack),... [click here for more] |
Amarillo Design Bureau |
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Wolves among Lions!
Screaming Space Birds!
Star Fleet Battles Module C6 covers the extinct Paravian and Carnivon empires, presented as their ships and weapons would have been by the time of the General War (except for that annoying extinction thing). Each empire is presented with multiple alternate histories, although players can ignore both and write their own if they wish.... [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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The sixth historical scenario for Battlewagon has been released from the vaults of Nexus!
Historical Background: Between August 1942 and the end of 1943, Japanese and Allied naval forces clashed in more than a dozen nighttime surface actions. These battles were generally the result of attempts to land, supply or evacuate troops in the Solomon Islands. Although Guadalcanal... [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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HISTORICAL NOTES: In 1944, McArthur returned to the Philippines. His return precipitated the greatest sea battle in history: the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The battle consisted of four separate but interrelated sea battles, one of which was the Battle off Samar.
Published in May 1983, this scenario was written for the first edition of Battlewagon, but can be easily adapted for the second... [click here for more] |
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Historical Notes: On April 1, 1945, allied forces assaulted Okinawa. The assault was not unexpected by the Japanese, hence extensive defensive positions had been prepared on the island and plans for naval and air attacks on allied ships had been developed.
On April 5,1945, the Yamato in company with a light cruiser and eight destroyers — the last functional naval units of... [click here for more] |
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Historical Notes: On December 31, 1942, a German force consisting of the pocket battleship Lutzow, the heavy cruiser Hipper, and two divisions of destroyers intercepted the British convoy JW51B. The convoy was defended by five destroyers and four corvettes. In addition, two light cruisers were 30 miles away and closing to join the convoy.
The battle began as the HMS Obdurate,... [click here for more] |
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Historical Background: As part of Operation SHO-I, intended to disrupt the American landings at Leyte Gulf, the Japanese intended to send two groups through Surigao Straits. These ships were to link up with others off of the beaches and destroy the landing forces. The American planes spotted Admiral Nishimura's two battleships on October 23rd, and the Allies moved six old battleships under... [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-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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On April 1, Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc. released four “April 1” ships in our shop on Shapeways. These are the Gorn Bubble Dreadnought, Kzinti Tri-Maran, Tholian “Crown of Tholia” Hexagonal Battleship, and WYN Heavy Auxiliary Mauler. People started asking for the information to play the ships. This ship pack is the answer.
In this pack are the ship descriptions and history, as well as information... [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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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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Keep the peace!
Or else!
-- The Inter-Stellar Concordium
At the end of the General War came the ISC War. The Inter-Stellar Concordium concluded that the rest of the Alpha Octant was criminally insane and had to be protected from their own dangerous ideas and violent impulses.
The chart book includes:
• Three (different) ISC... [click here for more] |
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Take a journey with us back to July 1975, when a small wargame club in Amarillo, Texas (led by Steve Cole) produced an award-winning magazine filled with articles, variants, and reviews. This issue marked another improvement in production, going to a cardstock color cover and professional binding. The "Iron Age" of JagdPanther had arrived. The editorial said that the wild child of JagdPanthers... [click here for more] |
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Take a journey with us back to April 1976, when a small wargame club in Amarillo, Texas (led by Steve Cole) turned into a real company that produced an award-winning magazine filled with articles, variants, and reviews. The "Iron Age" of JagdPanther continued with color cardstock covers, one-piece multi-color maps, and die-cut counters.
The game in this issue was SIEGE OF LENINGRAD, a typical... [click here for more] |
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Take a journey with us back to July 1976, when a small wargame club in Amarillo Texas (led by Steve Cole) turned into a real company that produced an award-winning magazine filled with articles, variants, and reviews. The "Iron Age" of JagdPanther continued with color cardstock covers, one-piece multi-color maps, and die-cut counters.
The game in this issue was WARSAW PACT, a World War III game... [click here for more] |
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Take a second journey with us to an ancient age, just one step up from carving game rules on clay tablets. The year 1973 was at the very dawn of the independent wargame publishing companies. Typesetting was done with a manual typewriter, print-on-demand meant the photocopier at the library, counters were printed on paper (and drawn by hand), page layout was done with scissors and cellophane tape, and... [click here for more] |
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Take another journey with us back to 1973, when a small wargame club in Amarillo, Texas (led by Steve Cole) produced a magazine filled with articles, variants, and reviews. Production values had not improved, and we still printed on that insane 14" paper.
ARTICLES included a puzzle, some club news, editorials, minis vs counters, armor miniatures, tactics in Diplomacy, some business experiments that... [click here for more] |
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Take another journey with us back to 1974, when a small wargame club in Amarillo Texas (led by Steve Cole) produced an award-winning magazine filled with articles, variants, and reviews. Production values had not improved, and we still printed on that insane 14" paper. (The pages are divided in half for this 54-page PDF version.)
This issue includes several features:
Cover art of Zeppelins by James... [click here for more] |
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Take another journey with us back to 1974, when a small wargame club in Amarillo Texas (led by Steve Cole) produced an award-winning magazine filled with articles, variants, and reviews. Production values had not improved, and we still printed on that insane 14" paper. (The pages are divided in half for this PDF version.) Cover art by James McNease (aka "The Wazoo").
This issue includes several features:... [click here for more] |
Amarillo Design Bureau |
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Take yet another journey with us back to 1974, when a small wargame club in Amarillo, Texas (led by Steve Cole) produced an award-winning magazine filled with articles, variants, and reviews. Production values had not improved (layout was done by hand with glue sticks on cardboard; some of the typewriter produced pages printed better than others), and we still printed on that insane 14" paper. (The... [click here for more] |
Amarillo Design Bureau |
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Take a journey with us back to April 1975, when a small wargame club in Amarillo, Texas (led by Steve Cole) produced an award-winning magazine filled with articles, variants, and reviews. This issue continued the "new" production methods and standard started in JagdPanther #8. The cover was another World War II photo, and the magazine was again 11x17 paper folded and stapled into a book. Counters... [click here for more] |
Amarillo Design Bureau |
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Two brigades of Brigadier General John Buford’s First Union Cavalry Division had been bivouacked on McPherson’s Ridge, northwest of Gettysburg, when Heth’s Division of Hill’s Corps (Army of Northern Virginia) approached from Cashtown on July 1st. Realizing that this was the first element of the entire Confederate Army, and that the commanding heights of Cemetery Ridge (1.25... [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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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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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] |
Amarillo Design Bureau |
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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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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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A Galactic Smorgasbord of new empires, rules, scenarios, and weapons:
Paravians with quantum wave torpedoes
Vudar with ion cannons
Megaphasers
Stonefish drones
High energy decelerations
Comets
Drag space
Hispaniolans
New ships for empires in Module C4 (Flivver, Delta, Britainian, Canadi'en)
Frax X-ships
Orion Rank Insignia
Skill modifiers for Prime Directive One
Outlines of future products
And... [click here for more] |
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“Sir, it looks like a dragon!”
“Ensign, hush! It is a Borak and we need to stay on good terms with them. No need for them to ally with the Hydrans.”
The Borak Star League existed beyond Hydran space and was conquered by the Hydrans in the Early Years.
The Hydrans later used the existence of the Borak to trick the Coalition into believing that the Hydrans... [click here for more] |
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Often known simply as “the Federation,” this empire is the strongest and most economically aggressive. Without a few wars to slow them down, the Federation (due to its booming economy, the result of freedoms not seen elsewhere) might make enough profit to simply buy the other empires in a century or two. The Federation has never invaded another empire and only fights defensive wars; then again,... [click here for more] |
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The Gorns border both the Federation and the Romulans. The Gorns met (and fought several wars with) the Romulans before discovering the Federation in a famous incident in which two brash young captains shot first and faced embarrassing questions later. After this incident, the Gorns discovered they had much in common with the Federation (including previous wars with the Romulans) and the two empires... [click here for more] |
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Regarded by the Federation as one of its two primary enemies, the Klingons are a military dictatorship. With less territory than the Federation, the Klingons feel threatened and can only match Star Fleet’s combat power by keeping their civilian population on the brink of poverty. The Klingon government is corrupt and paranoid, and legions of secret police watch for any sign of disloyalty among... [click here for more] |
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The Kzintis look like eight-foot-tall tigers. Their empire is smaller than that of the Klingons and (to hear the Kzintis tell it) about half of Kzinti territory was stolen by the Federation when it first declared its borders 68 years before the General War.
Relying on drones and disruptors more than phasers, the Kzintis build their ships to fight their most deadly foes — each another!
This... [click here for more] |
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The Romulan Empire is run by an emperor, with the support of the great houses (the 21 powerful families who control most of the Romulan economy). This creates a great deal of inefficiencies and waste as each great house is more interested in its own advancement than in progress for the entire empire. The refusal of the great houses to work together (along with a few Gorn commando raids) delayed the... [click here for more] |
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The SFB SSDs and FC ship cards from Captain’s Log #36 are now available in color. Check out these ships:
Star Fleet Battles: Federation Advanced Technology (Old) Light Cruiser; Klingon D6L Command Cruiser and C10V Heavy Carrier; Romulan ViperHawk Interdiction Carrier, SkyHawk-R Fast Carrier Resupply Ship, K4F Fast Carrier Resupply Ship, and KRU Interdiction Carrier;... [click here for more] |
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