FEDERATION COMMANDER BRIEFING #2 PDF ship pack A 12 SHIPS FOR THE MIDDLE YEARS These Ship Cards are for the Middle Years Epoch and are not designed for the General War Epoch. FEDERATION SHIPS Command Cruiser Heavy Cruiser Light Cruiser SampleFrigate file Police Cutter Galactic Survey Cruiser Old Heavy Cruiser Hospital Ship GENERAL UNITS Large Armed Freighter Small Armed Freighter Light Planetary Defense Monitor Small Auxiliary Cruiser Stock #4022A, $9.95 COPYRIGHT © 2009 AMARILLO DESIGN BUREAU, INC. RULES FOR THE PUBLISHER’S INFORMATION FEDERATION COMMANDER: BRIEFING #2 was cre- MIDDLE YEARS ated and published by: P AMARILLO DESIGN BUREAU, INC. P.O. Box 8759 u (4G3a) DRONE SPEEDS: All drones have a speed Amarillo, TX 79114 of 16 during the Middle Years. This makes drone- Phone: 806-351-1950 b armed ships somewhat less effective in combat as Fax: 806-351-2585 l drones can only hit targets which are slow-moving or Email (buy games): [email protected] Email (questions): [email protected] i coming straight at you. During the Middle Years, Email (support): [email protected] drones were mostly used to influence enemy move- Website: www.StarFleetGames.com s ment away or to pick off cripples and stragglers. When All mail correspondence requires a stamped self-ad- faster drones became available in the General War, dressed envelope or international reply coupon. Email is h ships mounting more and more drone racks became generally more efficient. e common. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING r FEDERATION COMMANDER: BRIEFING #2 and all (4J4) PLASMA CARRONADE: This function is not contents thereof are copyright © 2009 Amarillo Design Bu- available during the Middle Years as it had not been reau, Inc. All rights are reserved under the Pan-American, invented. Since its invention was primarily in response Berne, and International Copyright Conventions. i to increasing defenses against plasma (defenses not No material which is based on, for use with, incorpo- n available in the Middle Years) that should be less of rates elements of, or is derived from Federation Com- mander, Star Fleet Battles, Federation & Empire, Star f an issue. Fleet Missions, Prime Directive, Star Fleet Battle Force, or any other part of the Star Fleet Universe can be pub- o (5L1) ORION WEAPONS: Plasma-S is replaced by lished by any party without the advanced written permis- plasma-G. Plasma arc FP becomes FA, LP becomes sion of ADB, Inc. Any such publication would by definition r L+LF, and RP becomes RF+R. be a “derivative work” requiring our prior consent. m (5M3) WEB SNARES: This function is not available The Star Fleet Universe is published under license from Franz Joseph Designs, authors of the Star Fleet Technical a during the Middle Years because the Neo-Tholians Manual. (who brought that technology to the Milky Way Gal- t axy) had not yet arrived here. Web boxes are simply Elements of the Star Fleet Universe are the property i web generators, and more or less useless except to of Paramount Pictures Corporation and are used with their trap a slow-moving or crippled ship or to defend a permission. o planet or base. n (5N2a) EXPANDING SPHERE GENERATORS: These systems do not have power capacitors during this period. The only time energy can be addedSample to an file ESG is at the instant it is activated. Up to five points of power can be used, but it cannot be stored and must be used immediately. This is one example of the “refits” during the General War which made ships take less thinking to actually fly. In the Middle Years, you will actually have to plan your ESG usage a bit more in advance, as you cannot simply dump unused power there for possible use at some future moment. (5Q) HYDRAN STINGERS: During the Middle Years, Hydran ships carried Stinger-1 fighters, which have only one phaser-3 (not a Gatling phaser) and fewer damage points. Stinger-1s cost eight points each. These fighters were far less dangerous (and some- what easier to kill) than the Stinger-2s seen in Distant Kingdoms. (7D) KLINGON DRONES: Most Klingon ships can only launch one drone from each pair of two drone racks during a given turn. This is noted on the ship cards. Ships with one rack launch normally. Certain ships are exceptions to this (they do not have the note) including the G2 police cutter (which mounts its drones in the hull rather than the shuttle bay) and the F5C (which is a command ship with better systems)..