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LMC Playtest P rulebook U WAR IN THE CLOUD! Even the most experienced Captain of an Alpha Welcome, Commander, to the Lesser (or Octant (or Omega Octant, or M81 Galaxy) ship B Small) Magellanic Cloud. Whether you sign up will have to adjust his tactics in order to survive with the fleet of the Baduvai Imperium, Eneen and succeed as a Magellanic Commander! L Protectorates, Maghadim Hives, or any one of the other factions out here in the LMC, your NOTES ABOUT THIS E-Book I skills at the helm of a starship or squadron will Federation Commander: LMC Playtest be put to the test. Rulebook is a pre-production playtest module S Both the Baduvai and Eneen have for the Federation Commander game system. alternated between hot and cold wars for This module requires one of the Federation H much of the late 2400s and early 2500s. Their Commander Core rulebooks (Klingon Border, E southern fleets stare at each other across Romulan Border, Academy, or the Reference the Line (a row of fortifications running along Rulebook) to play. R’ the border) while the northern fleets jockey A note on the use of Magellanic ships in for position in the strategically-vital Neutral duels with Alpha starships: Modern warships S Worlds. emerged in the LMC earlier than in the Alpha The Maghadim have used their position Octant. Almost all of the ships shown in this within the radiation-shielded Core to gather file were active in the Cloud by the early-to- their forces for incursions into the outer mid 2500s. However, due to the impact of the I Cloud… when they have been able to avoid Andromedan conquest on Magellanic research bitter internecine warfare, at least. efforts, the pace of technological advancement N In addition, other powers have sought in the Cloud was severely curtailed. to protect their holdings, such as the Uthiki In general, the ships as presented should F Harmony, or regain those lost to their enemies, be considered broadly compatible with Main such as the Jumokian Resistance. Era Alpha Octant starships class for class. O And in the wake of a devastating One is welcome to experiment with other Andromedan invasion, the course of Operation cross-setting match-ups based on Point Value R Unity will see the allied powers of the Alpha comparisons. Octant unite with the surviving Magellanic M forces to liberate the Cloud from a common TABLE OF CONTENTS foe! Sample file A The unique weapons and ship-borne CHAPTER 1: Magellanic Introduction systems of Magellanic starships provide a CHAPTER 3: Magellanic Combat T distinct challenge, compared to the way of 3MA: Magellanic Combat Operations doing things you may be used to back home. 3MB: Multi-Layer Shields I CHAPTER 4: Magellanic Weapons 4MA: Warp-Tuned Lasers O 4MB: Mass Drivers 4MC: Charged Particle Accelerators N 4MD: Variable-Focus Neutron Beams 4ME: Tachyon Beams 4MF: Positron Lancets 4MG: Boson Drills 4MH: Type-E Plasma Torpedoes CHAPTER 5: Magellanic Systems 5MA: High-Powered Reactors 5MB: Distortion Field Generators 5MC: Jumokian Option Mounts 5MD: Target Acquisition Gear 5ME: Pinnace Packs CHAPTER 6: Magellanic Terrain CHAPTER 7: Magellanic Ships CHAPTER 8: Magellanic Scenarios Ship Cards M LMC Tactics LMC 1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING A guide for star fleet FEDERATION COMMANDER: LMC PLAYTEST battles LMC players RULEBOOK and all contents thereof are copyright © 2014 Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc. All rights are reserved While many of the systems found in the Lesser under the Pan-American, Berne, and International Magellanic Cloud in Star Fleet Battles Module C5 P Copyright Conventions. have been ported over into Federation Commander, No material which is based on, for use with, there are a number which (for the time being) have U incorporates elements of, or is derived from Federation been streamlined, or left to one side. Commander, Star Fleet Battles, Federation & Empire, The Capacitance Bank has been kept out of B Star Fleet Missions, Prime Directive, Star Fleet Battle the game system. Since Alpha Octant ships do Force, Star Fleet Marines, or any other part of the Star not have phaser capacitors, the equivalent system L Fleet Universe can be published by any party without which supports warp-tuned lasers in SFB was I the advanced written permission of ADB, Inc. Any such deemed superfluous in FC. publication would by definition be a “derivative work” The array of warheads for Mass Driver S requiring our consent. missiles has been streamlined, as have the kinds The Star Fleet Universe is published under license of magazine racks aboard MD-armed units. H from Franz Joseph Designs, authors of the Star Fleet Civilian and Jumokian units outfitted with Technical Manual. Pinnace packs are presented with the assumption E Elements of the Star Fleet Universe are the property of certain packs being pre-set in place. Whether or of Paramount Pictures Corporation and are used with not any demand would exist for a more modular R’ their permission. system to be introduced (either in the “vanilla” game or in Borders of Madness) is an open question. S COMPONENT LIST FEDERATION COMMANDER: LMC FURTHER NOTES includes the following components: This 52-page rule booklet Ever since I first got my hands on a copy ofStar I 18 Ship & Weapon Cards (numbered X-X) Fleet Battles Module C5, I have tried to imagine how this unique and vibrant corner of the Star N CREDITS Fleet Universe might be presented in other game Game Design: Stephen V. Cole, PE systems, not least here in Federation Commander. F Game Development: Steven P. Petrick I hope that this module will be a step in the right Proofreading & Product Professionalism: Jean Sexton direction for the Magellanic empires. O FC Line Developer: Mike West However, despite the convenience that C5 Project Staff: Stephen V. Cole, PE, Mike West, provides (in being an effective one-stop-shop for R Gary Carney, Richard C. Smith, Barry Kirk, anyone interested in learning about what the Lesser Scott Moellmer. Magellanic Cloud has to offer) the differences M Based on the SFB works by Ken Burnside and others between SFB and FC mean that the translation of Production: Leanna M. Cole the rules into a new game engine can be somewhat A Chief of Security: Ramses Sample filenuanced. By and large, my intention has been Inspector General: Isis to preserve as much of the flavor of the LMC, as T Interior Art: Richard C. Smith, Ted Geibel, Simone Pike. seen in SFB, as I could, but in a manner which still Computer Graphics: Richard C. Smith worked in the FC context. I SFU BBS and FC Forum: Everyone who has lent their Thankfully, the majority of the systems time and effort to this file. involved are relatively straightforward to port over. O Weapons which have required some fine-tuning PUBLISHER’S INFORMATION are the Boson Drill (in order to fairly represent the N FEDERATION COMMANDER: LMC “bit” element) and the Mass Driver. The latter is was created and published by: perhaps the most troubling of Magellanic weapons to bring across, at least in a manner which avoids AMARILLO DESIGN BUREAU, INC. unnecessary clutter (whether to attempt to have P.O. Box 8759 it work in the same Impulse as fired, or impact on Amarillo, TX 79114 the subsequent impulse in a not-entirely-dissimilar Phone: 806-351-1950 manner to the special drone rules (5QM3c) in Borders of Madness, or do something else entirely) Email (buy games): [email protected] and is still one I consider the jury to be out over. Email (questions): [email protected] Email (support): [email protected] Since there is no hasty repair option in Federation Website: www.StarFleetGames.com Commander, Eneen ships do not have the option of repairing their Neutron Beams as Neutron Guns All mail correspondence requires a stamped self- instead. Also, Tachyon Beams have been required addressed envelope or international reply coupon. to arm (and hold) in Energy Allocation, as a means of addressing the heavy power requirements of this M Revision Zero (0) Rulebook, April 2014. weapon compared to most other single-turn arming LMC weapons. 2