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Communique #66 Stardate 2011.06 COMMUNIQUE #66 STARDATE 2011.06 NEW IN THIS ISSUE FEDERATION We have included several new items in this issue. COMMANDER New Ship Card voted by Forum: Fast Naval Transport. Revised Ship Card: Orion Salvage Cruiser. Large Format Ship Card: Low Toner Gorn BCH. Organized League Play Due to the Origins schedule, we had to leave out the sce- nario and the fourth Ship Card. There just is not time to get The on-line forms for registering your store as a site for done everything we want to do. Organized League Play are in the Commander’s Circle. Also available is the form to register your completed games and you PLANNED FOR 2011 can even use the same form to register future games as a means of inviting people to attend and join the fun. The Origins product will be TRANSPORTS ATTACKED You will find a link to the Commander’s Circle at: including the tugs and LTTs that had been planned for Boosters www.StarFleetGames.com/fccc/login.php #94 and #95, plus 10 scenarios for them. This solves the prob- along with everything else for this game system. lem of getting those Ship Cards released, as the kind of sales Many stores have already signed up, and prizes (a series figures we see with Attack packs justify the product. of “bonus cards” used to give ships a special ability) are being Federation Admiral, a campaign manual designed to work mailed out to those stores. The scenarios for 2011 are as fol- with Federation Commander, will be released this fall. It will lows and are all Monster Scenarios. also work with Star Fleet Battles, and will provide players with January: 8KB4 Planet Killer everything they need to create their own campaigns at any level February: 8KA10 Juggernaut (strategic, regional, or local). This will be one of the largest books March: 8C3 Juggernaut Alpha we have ever released and we’re very excited about it. April: 8C1 Juggernaut Beta Briefing #3 (commando ships, transports, survey ships, May: 8RB4 Space Dragon police ships, ground bases, specialized freighters, and much June: 8RA10 Space Amoeba more) will be released this year. The Scenario Reference Book In 2006, the Federation barely stopped the Klingons. The will be done in the fall. Lots of packs and other items in PDF Romulans did not do that well in 2007. In 2008, the Tholians format will be loaded onto e23. (We try to do a new six-pack repulsed a Klingon invasion and the Coalition conquered the every other week. We realize that some sell better than others, Hydrans. In 2009, the Pirates rocked and tension built. In 2010, but we need to do them all, and do them in a logical order.) We the General War and Olivette Roche battled on. will have more details in a future issue. We continue to evaluate the market for Booster Pack #93 and may turn it into a Campaign Pack or Flagships Attack. Boost- COMMANDER NEWS ers #94 and #95 will (see above) become Transports Attacked. Several “attack” modules are under consideration for 2012, THE BBS & FORUM: KEYS TO COMMUNICATION including Conflict & Chaos (the follow-on to War & Peace) as The BBS (www.StarFleetGames.com/discus) can be con- well as Gorn Attack, Kzinti Attack, and Flagships Attack. fusing at first sight, as it has hundreds of topics, used daily by a thousand players. Registration is free, but we do require all par- RELEASED IN 2010 ticipants to use their real names. (This not only improves the WAR AND PEACE was released at the Origins Game Fair overall tone of civility, but makes sure you get credit for any in June 2010 with ISC, Vudar, and Andromedan ships, along suggestions you make.) When you register, you will see topics with Booster Packs #28, #29, and #30. for each of our product lines. Feel free to venture into the broader Squadron Boxes #28, #29, and #30 were released on 19 universe as you get more comfortable with the system. July. Border Box #10 was released in August, 2010. There is also a forum (much easier for new players) on the www.FederationCommander.com website. It allows screen PUBLISHER’S INFORMATION names and avatars but isn’t used for submissions of new items. FEDERATION COMMANDER: COMMUNIQUE #66 is pub- Several versions of the updated Master Ship Chart for Fed- lished and copyright © 2011 by Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc., eration Commander are on the Commander’s Circle. www.StarFleetGames.com, PO Box 8759, Amarillo TX 79114. The CRUL (Consolidated Rules Update List), listing all rules Elements of the Star Fleet Universe are the property of changes, is now in the Commander’s Circle. Paramount Pictures Corporation and are used with their per- In the Commander’s Circle is the Scenario Designer’s mission. Guide: http://www.StarFleetGames.com/fc/designguide.shtml . Copyright © 2011 Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc. what ships do you want? Universe News Here is your chance to get what you want. Whether Federation Commander is only one of the games in you are a veteran player of Star Fleet Battles and famil- the Star Fleet Universe. All of our games use a common iar with the thousands of starships in that game system historical background and technological database. or a new player of Federation Commander and just have There are three kinds of Federation Commander a vague feeling that some ship of some kind is missing players: new players who have never played Star Fleet from your fleet, tell us what you want and we’ll consider Battles, veterans of SFB who haven’t played in years adding it via Communique or in a future expansion. Here but are now playing FC, and active SFB players who are some player suggestions for this year and next: have decided to also play FC. Members of any group Generic units: small planetary ground bases £, ship- could have played any of our games. This part of Com- yard construction dock £. munique will have news on our other games. Our opt-in Police ships: Romulan Snipe-P £, Kzinti police frig- Email newsletter goes to fans of all our games; each ate†, Tholian POL†. issue includes links to information for each game. Federation DDF fast destroyer¥. The new Starmada and Klingon Armada books were Klingon F5D drone-armed frigate variant, F6B vari- released in September 09. Romulan Armada followed in ant, D6J penal ship. 2010. Alien Armada has also been released. Romulan SpH-J¥, K10R, KillerHawk¥, K7R¥, Federation & Empire has a 2010 edition. The next JayHawk, Vulture¥, KD5R¥. expansion, ISC War will be released at Origins. Kzinti destroyer. Star Fleet Battles received Module G3 in February Gorn dreadnought-cruiser¥, HDE, MCC¥, DBC. 09, G3A in August 09, R12 at Origins 2010, Module Y3 Hydran D7H Anarchist (captured Klingon D7). and YG3 in September 10, and C3A in April. Andromedan Base Station. Prime Directive PD20 Modern, Klingons PD20 Mod- Lyran police cutter POL £. ern, and PD20M Federation have been released. Seltorian Hive Ship (larger than the Battlewagon). GURPS Federation was published May; the PDF Borders of Madness: maulers, scouts, survey ships. copy is on e23. All empires: commando ships £. Prime Directive Tholians is in development. ¥ Possible inclusion in FC: Gorn Attack. We are working on conversions of Prime Directive † Was in FC: Briefing #2 to other systems including D6, Fudge, SW, and HERO. £ Scheduled for FC: Briefing #3 Support Units. WEBSITE UPDATE FED COMMANDER: TO DATE We continue to update and improve our website: Core Products: Klingon Border, Romulan Border; cornerstone products of the game engine. www.StarFleetGames.com Alternate Products: Academy (lower cost entry prod- Our graphics director adds new things to the website uct), Graduation (turns Academy into Klingon Border), every week, and most of those come from either cus- Romulan Space (the parts of Romulan Border not dupli- tomer requests or the FLAP (Finish Like A Pro) list done cated in Klingon Border), Klingon Space (the parts of after the completion of each new product. Klingon Border not duplicated in Romulan Border; this Let us know (at [email protected]) if product is not packed for display in stores), Reference you see any glitches in the website, or think of ways to Rulebook. improve the website for all of us. Expansions: Klingon Attack, Romulan Attack, Tholian The website includes a wealth of information, down- Attack, Battleships Attack, Distant Kingdoms, Orion At- loads, and other items for players of all of our games. tack, Hydran Attack, War & Peace, Line of Battle. Explore, look around, click on random entries in the Briefings: #1 Scenarios, #2 Middle Years. Master Index, and you may be surprised what you find. Booster Packs: Zero, #1-#30, #91, #92. (Each has The Master Index can be found at: seven or eight Ship Cards including one or two new ships; www.starfleetgames.com/masterindex.shtml some have up to eight new Ship Cards.) You can always find out what has been added here: Squadron Boxes: Zero, #1-#30, #91. (Each has five www.starfleetgames.com/new.shtml or six miniatures.) Border Boxes: #1-5, #7-10 (24 miniatures each). CAPTAIN’S LOG #43 Border Box #6: nine battleships and a starbase. Lots of fun for FC players: Penal ships, two more Captain’s Log (issues with Federation Commander new ships, three new scenarios, and photon tactics by material): #32-#42. FC national champion Patrick Doyle. Copyright © 2011 Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc. PDFS ARE NOW Index FOR 2011: AVAILABLE! • Communique #61: Scenario 8CM49 Shifting Sands, new Large Troop Transport, revised Base Station, Omega Sector We have continued our long-awaited move to offer Trobrin Frigate, large format Federation BCF, Fleet Scale Small more of our products as PDFs by way of the e23 website.
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