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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 a 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.)
[No copies of the maps for Sidi Rezegh have been found so far but they will be added... [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] |
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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] |
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Take a journey with us back to 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 a watershed in many ways, and might be considered the Bronze Age of JagdPanther. The cover was actually a photograph taken during World War II, but the cover was still black and white (as were all the... [click here for more] |
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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] |
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The Klingons are coming and they are loaded for bear!
A meeting of empires as a famous game system joins the Star Fleet Universe. Klingon Armada was done as a joint venture between Amarillo Design Bureau and Majestic Twelve Games. This 86-page rulebook includes the Essential Starmada Rules, 46 starships (Klingon, Federation, Tholian, Orion, Kzinti), and complete rules... [click here for more] |
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The Klingon G1 gunboat is a workhorse of the Deep Space Fleet. Once used during the General War as a patrol ship, it was sold by the thousands after the war. Stripped of its weapons, it was... [click here for more] |
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Roleplaying on the Final Frontier using the d20 modern rules.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Empire of Steel, but now in MODERN d20 format. Government, how the emperor is selected, why there are always three princes, why the empress is not always the wife of the emperor but sometimes his daughter or sister, the military nobility, military academies, the difference between warriors and... [click here for more] |
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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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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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Return to 1980 when Task Force Games was thriving and releasing all sorts of games. The Vietnam War was in the very recent past. Enter Perry Moore with a concept and design and Stephen Cole to develop the game and the combat system. They consulted with others who had been in the military. The result? Operation Pegasus.
In the spring of 1968 two full North Vietnamese divisions surrounded and blocked... [click here for more] |
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The original Prime Directive (called Prime Directive One by some) expanded its horizons with this sourcebook. New character types, new skills, more equipment, new species, and lots of information, especially about the Vulcans and their psionic skills and disciplines. There's even a rundown of the important crew members aboard the USS Agincourt in Y172. You will need... [click here for more] |
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"Two trails diverged in a yellowy green jungle and I took the one less traveled by. That has made all the difference ... as I am now completely lost!"
Graduation Exercise supplements PD One, the original RPG from ADB. It includes everything you need to create a trifold screen for the gamemaster. It also has an adventure suitable for beginning prime teams (and sample characters)... [click here for more] |
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Originally meant to be an ongoing magazine, Prime Adventures 1 started and ended its run with this issue. It is chock full of great information, stories, adventures, and even two deck plans!
• A preview of the never-published Empire of Steel, the Klingon Sourcebook, including details of Klingon Warrior Philosophies, the Klingon Berzerker skill and two exciting... [click here for more] |
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The original Prime Directive core rulebook, sometimes called PD1, lets you roleplay in the Star Fleet Universe. Using its own game engine, you could be a member of a Prime Team, the elite of the Star Fleet Operations Corps. This core rulebook codified the many species found in the Star Fleet Universe, listed equipment which can be adapted to most gaming systems, has adventures... [click here for more] |
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The issues of this rare newsletter were recently found by a fan. The newsletter is dedicated to ADB’s PD One: Prime Directive game system. All six issues are included. There are new skills and new equipment, along with looks at more species (most were included in the Federation Sourcebook, but the Vudar were new). ... [click here for more] |
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The original Prime Directive (called Prime Directive One by some) added an exciting adventure with this module. Not only did it introduce a new Federation Associate Member species -- Prellarians -- but it also included the first glimpse of the Orion Skimmers -- Orions who are living on the edge of society, but not part of any pirate cartel. Can your Prime Team survive on... [click here for more] |
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$7.95 $7.00
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Roleplaying on the Final Frontier using the d20 modern rules.
The universe you love comes to the game system you already know! Brilliantly compiled by Jonathan M. Thompson, Prime Directive PD20 Modern allows you to take the heroic role of a starship captain, a commando, a diplomat, a spy, or a trader flying a shuttle of tribbles from planet to planet.
This book requires that you have the d20 Modern... [click here for more] |
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Explore More Worlds! Discover More Species! Find out about the Brecon, four-armed humanoids who live in the Federation. There are also Deians, who are extremely beautiful. Prellarians are masters of high-grav and null-grav technologies. The Klingon Empire has more species: Yitlians who are fierce warriors and Zoolies who are highly perceptive and sought out for Klingon commando teams. ... [click here for more] |
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Hitler's Last Chance!
Prochorovka: Armor at Kursk is a game depicting the largest tank battle in the history of warfare on July 12, 1943, between the German SS Panzer Korp and Russian 5th Guards Tank Army. This battle was the climax of the Kursk campaign. Over 1500 tanks were involved (700 German and 800 Russian), and losses exceeded 300 tanks on each side.
Armor at Kursk... [click here for more] |
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THE SIXTH WORLD WAR!
The Third World War destroyed the armies; the Fourth World War destroyed the cities; and the Fifth World War destroyed all life on Earth. The space colonies survived, however, and two hundred years later man returned to Earth but not to stay — only to plunder the riches of his former world. Robots were used to salvage the ancient technological sites. One day the Robots... [click here for more] |
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Uncloak and Strike from the Shadows!
A meeting of empires as a famous game system joins the Star Fleet Universe. Romulan Armada was done as a joint venture between Amarillo Design Bureau and Majestic Twelve Games. This 84-page rulebook includes the Essential Starmada Rules, 37 starships (Romulan, Federation, and Gorn) and eight bases (Romulan, Gorn, Federation, Klingon,... [click here for more] |
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Newly updated for Prime Directive PD20M, this module has everything you ever wanted to know about those distant cousins of the Vulcans. The royal family, the role of the praetor, the great houses and how they wheel and deal in the back hallways of the palace, the role of the Intendance Department, intelligence services and praetorian teams, colony planets, the previously-unknown suppressed races along... [click here for more] |
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“Yof-Pintre shall be MINE!”
But whose shall it be? Darman, Sharn, Algona, or Umaron? Or will Yamantsar return and defeat them all?
Spellbinder is a fantasy wargame of wizards and armies designed for two-to-four players. Use spells, make and break alliances, and command your armies. Only one wizard can be the most powerful wizard in Silomant and lay claim to Yof-Pintre,... [click here for more] |
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Update #1 simply brought the Rev. 0 of Commander's Edition of Star Fleet Battles up to Rev. 1. Update #2 adds substantially to the core rulebook. Ground combat, boarding parties, more weapons, more ships (and names for them), the introduction of the Lyran Democratic Republic, scenarios, and the Bargantine Campaign are all in this update.
D16 Advanced Boarding Parties:... [click here for more] |
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Star Fleet Battles is still going strong today, but take a trip to the past with us.
It is 1983, and it is time for the phenomenon that is Star Fleet Battles to get organized. The game had grown through four expansions, and new material is being released every month. The structure of the original 1979 pocket game could not contain, control, or even keep track of the game as it had... [click here for more] |
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Star Fleet Battles is still going strong today, but take a trip to the past with us. Expand the Commander's Edition from the 1980s with Volume II.
Four New Star-Faring Empires
The Hydrans
The Andromedans
The Lyrans
The Wyn Star Cluster
150 New Starships, including fleets for the new empires. Dreadnoughts, Scouts, NCLs, Fast Patrol Ships, and Minesweepers for all... [click here for more] |
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Take a trip to the past and expand your Commander's Edition with Volume III.
A Major New Starfaring Empire: The Inter-Stellar Concordium, complete with all new ship classes and weapons.
A New Tholian Fleet: The 312th Battle Squadron from the Tholian home galaxy.
200 New Ships: Including Police ships, Exploration Cruisers, Defense Monitors, the new ISC fleet and... [click here for more] |
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"Prepare to offer battle. Make the signal to all ships: 'The Federation expects every sentient being to do his duty.'" -- Vice-Admiral John “Cracker Jack” Radley
Welcome fighters and their carriers to Star Fleet Battles Commander’s Edition. From rules for dogfighting to direct-fire drones, Supplement #1 has the rules you need. Big carriers (CVAs),... [click here for more] |
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