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COMMUNIQUE #11 STARDATE 2006.11 NEW in THIS ISSUE FEDERATION New Ship: Romulan Vulture Dreadnought COMMUNIQUE #11 STARDATE 2006.11 NEW IN THIS ISSUE FEDERATION New ship: Romulan Vulture Dreadnought. Also in this issue is a slightly larger version of the Gorn COMMANDER Dreadnought for those who find the original crowded. This was done on a player request. We can provide more of these “larger prints of crowded ships” if players want them. Organized League Play We also include a new scenario, LAST STAND, as the Federation players in the Organized Play League try to stop The on-line forms for registering your store as a site for the Klingons from taking the last hex before they reach Earth. Organized League Play are live in the Commander’s Circle. This scenario decides the entire campaign! Also available is the form to register your completed games, and you can even use the same form to register future games SCHEDULE UPDATE as a means of inviting people to attend and join the fun. Already Released: Klingon Border, Boosters #0-12, Squad- You will find a link to the Commander’s Circle on: ron Boxes #0-12, Klingon Attack, Romulan Border, Romulan www.FederationCommander.com Attack, Border Boxes #1-#3. along with everything else for this game system. We shipped Border Box #4 on 13 November. We expect to Many stores have already signed up, and the first round of ship Captain’s Log #34 on 27 Nov, Tholian Attack and Squad- prizes (a series of six “bonus cards” used to give ships a spe- ron Boxes #13-15 in February, Booster Packs 13-15 in March, cial ability) are being mailed out to those stores. and Border Box #5 in April. The scenarios of the months are: We will release Federation Commander: Battleships in June March: (8KA) The Mighty Hood Goes Down (Klingon Attack) along with Squadron Boxes #16-18 and (July) Border Box #6. April: (8KB) The Alkarik Convoy (Klingon Attack) May: (8KF) Raid on Rukyverk (Klingon Attack) REVISION-4 RULEBOOK AVAILABLE June: (8KE) Attack on Battle Station K3 (Klingon Attack) Romulan Border and shipments of Klingon Border since July: (8KG) Refueling Roulette (Klingon Attack) July have included Revision-4 rulebooks. (These are marked August: (8KD) Delay in Sector (Klingon Attack) 2506, but are Revision-4. The Romulan Border rulebook is the September: (8KM) Repair Rendezvous (Klingon Attack) “first printing” of that product but the fourth revision of the rules.) October: (8KH) The Old Shell Game (Klingon Attack) We want both Borders to be “entry gateway products” so November: (8CM4) End Run (Communique #10) that either one of them will support all other products. This means December: (8CM5) Last Stand (Communique #11) that the Klingon Border Rev-4 rulebook now includes the plasma If you missed one of these, make it soon and it will still torpedo and cloaking device rules that it originally did not. count. (We’re running a little behind processing the battle re- You can obtain the latest revision of the rulebook for $3 ports, but the Klingons are at the gates of Earth itself.) plus postage on our shopping cart. Search for stock number 4001-2. The rulebook is priced (as a spare part) at $10, but you NEWS FOR COMMANDERS can get the “trade-in” price (without actually trading anything in) by using “special instructions” to tell us that you are upgrading a rulebook you bought. This trade-in offer is (obviously) avail- STILL ON SCHEDULE! able only to people who bought the game (or a rulebook) in the It really shouldn’t be a big deal that we have done another first place. You need to either have bought the game from us issue on schedule, but given our track record, it is. (tell us this so we can confirm you actually bought a rulebook in This issue sent to Webmaster on 20 Nov 06. the first place) or give us the complete name, address, and phone number of the store where you bought it. THE BBS: KEYS TO COMMUNICATION The BBS (www.starfleetgames.com/discus) can be con- PUBLISHER’S INFORMATION fusing at first sight, as it has hundreds of topics, used daily by a FEDERATION COMMANDER: COMMUNIQUE #11 is pub- thousand players. Registration is free, but we do require all par- lished and copyright © 2006 by Amarillo Design Bureau, ticipants to use their real names. (This not only improves the www.starfleetgames.com, PO Box 8759, Amarillo TX 79114. overall tone of civility, but makes sure you get credit for any Elements of the Star Fleet Universe are the property of suggestions you make.) When you register, you will see topics Paramount Pictures Corporation and are used with their per- for each of our product lines. Feel free to venture into the broader mission. universe as you get more comfortable with the system. There is also a forum (much easier for new players) on the www.FederationCommander.Com web site. It allows screen names and avatars but isn’t used for submissions of new stuff. Copyright © 2006 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 viaCommunique or in a future expansion. but are now returning, and players who have never This issue includes a larger version of the Gorn played SFB. Any member of those groups could have Dreadnought. A player asked us to include them so he played some of our other games. We’re going to add a could have more room to mark damage. section to each issue of Communique with news on our Now that Romulan Border has made the decision other games. Eventually, we want to have an opt-in email on Fleet Scale plasma torpedoes, we plan to do new newsletter that goes to fans of all our games, each issue Fleet Scale versions of the the earliest playtest plasma including links to other information for each game. ships and put them in Communique. The first of these Federation & Empire (our strategic space warfare (the King Eagle) was in issue #6 and the K7R was in #9. game) just got an expansion titled Strategic Operations. Captain’s Log #33 includes Fleet Scale War Cruis- This expansion includes variants of the new heavy cruis- ers for the Hydrans, Lyrans, WYNs, & ISC published in ers, diplomatic teams, hospital ships (to speed planetary Booster Zero, and Captain’s Log #34 (now in final edit- recovery), survey ships (including on-map exploitation ing) will include more for these races. We can do even of resources), and various small transports (Federation more ships for these empires in Communique. Express, Armed Priority Transport, and Prime Transport) Some recently requested ships include Q-ships, the used to move around all of those admirals, generals, Romulan Vulture (which we have done in this issue), the prime teams, and diplomats. These ships can also move auxiliary ships, and the OK6. We’ll see about getting around spare cash and other things and resupply those done in future issues. stranded fleets too far from your own bases. Star Fleet Battles will get two or more expansions FEDERATION COMMANDER: 2007 next year; titles will be selected late this year. Some of We are reviewing the product line, player requests, those being considered include: Omega Squadrons, and what we think would make good products, and have Omega Flotillas, R11 Support Ships, R12 Unique ships, “lightly pencilled in” the following modules for next year: R13 More Ships That Never Were, X1R More X-Ships, THOLIAN ATTACK would be a typical attack mod- Y2 More Early Years Ships, C4R More Simulator Ships, ule with two map panels, 16 ships, and the rules for the C4X Simulator X-Ships, and several others. Web, Web Caster, and Web Fist. The 16 ships include Prime Directive Federation is in final development. more for the Tholians (Dreadnought, War cruiser, and Prime Directive Tholians is also in development. the five Neo-Tholian ships — Dreadnought, Heavy and Light Cruiser, Destroyer, Frigate), a new monster, a new ALERT: NEW WEB SITE! base, and the Seltorians (the race that overthrew the Tholian Will in the M81 galaxy and followed them here). This will include Seltorian ships and their weapons the www.FederationCommander.com Particle Cannon, Shield Cracker, and Web Breaker. BATTLESHIPS would include larger 8.5x11 ship That url has, for the last year, gone to the old web cards for seven huge (movement cost 2) battleships and site at www.StarFleetGames.com through a re-direct a squadron scale starbase. It will also include sixteen pointer. That url now goes to an entirely new “national normal sized ship cards for Dreadnought variants. There class” web site intended to bring new customers into the will be three Squadron Boxes= and a Border Box. Star Fleet Universe. For a third module, the top choice is DISTANT KING- The new web site includes “empire pages” with in- DOMS (Hydrans, Lyrans, and WYNs, a $29.95 pack- formation on each empire, and “product information age)) but we may want to hold that for 2008 and pair it pages” with detailed information on the products.
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