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Bought CL 51 available in pdf format at drivethru today

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 - 03:18 pm: Edit

Captain's Log #51 Now Available from Multiple Sources

"Exploration is a valid and important mission, and many in Star Fleet (and the government) consider it their true and primary mission or their highest calling."

Released in May 2016, Captain's Log #51 supports Star Fleet Battles, Federation Commander, A Call to Arms: Star Fleet, Starmada, Prime Directive, Star Fleet Battle Force, Star Fleet Marines, and Federation & Empire. "Night Hounds" by Jon Berry is about an Orion cargo ship that is hired by the Romulans to make a delivery to the Gorn Neutral Zone. Little did they know they had hired a secret Orion Pirate special ops ship!

The rest of the History section includes "NCC-1821 USS Sakharov: Voyages of Discovery" by Gary Carney, which is the history of the Sakharov and her many discoveries including a voyage to the Magellanic Cloud and, after that, to the Omega Sector. The Lyrans hire a team to recover someone in "Survivor" by Dan Ibekwi. Jean Sexton discovered a new technology, "The Astroscooter." "Dark Gaming" pokes gentle fun at the staff at Amarillo Design Bureau.

As is usual, Communications is designed to inform readers about the company's activities. After Action reports are on A Call to Arms: Star Fleet, Deluxe Edition, the revised Federation & Empire Fighter Operations, Klingon Master Starship Book, and various revisions of older Star Fleet Battles books. The company answers 10 questions about its operations. The Input Guide is designed to help writers and other people submitting material get their ideas into print. There are further questions ACTASF. "The Sound of Battle" is a filk song. This section is rounded out with staff awards and other information about the company’s plans.

Federation Commander has information on plans for the future, information about the Borak (a new empire for Federation Commander), and information about playing online or by email. There's a page of Command Notes. There is a guide to close-range combat. There are battlegroups with opposing players trying to destroy an enemy or assigned to protect the base. The Command Note is about planetary assaults. Finally, there are three new scenarios. One of those is for the cover story. Another is for the battlegroup situation. The third is based on a battle from the cover story. The final one is after the Klingons decided the Seltorian forces needed to be "neutralized."

This issue includes four scenarios for Star Fleet Battles. SL342 Mobile Bases is the battlegroup scenario. SL343 Incident at Hakatuka is the scenario for the cover story. SL344 A Sword Short has a confrontation between Kzinti starships and Klingon and Lyran gunboats. SL345 A Rock and a Hard Place has Seltorians facing Jindarians.

The Star Fleet Battles tactics section has an account by Peter Bakija of his victory in the Platinum Tournament of 2014. The battlegroup section has eleven confrontations between two empires attacking and defending a base. The Magellanic primer focuses on the Uthiki.

Database articles include an article on the space manta. There are guidelines to convert Hydran ships to various empires' technologies and vice versa. Operation Renaissance is updated. There are four pages of Ask Admiral Vanaxilth. There is information on the Zosmans. The section is rounded out with proposals, updates to ships' names, and answers to background questions.

The Venues include Star Fleet Warlord, SFB Online, Play by E-Mail, Star Fleet Battle Force, Starmada, Star Fleet Marines, and Galactic Conquest. Prime Directive has an update on the Q'Naabians. A Call to Arms: Star Fleet has a new scenario.

Federation & Empire gets its own proposals, Q&A, and "Why" questions. There are three pages of Tactical Notes. The Carnivons are introduced, and an alternative history scenario (The Howling Winds) features them.

New ships for Star Fleet Battles include the Romulan K3 escort, K2 cutter, K2C cutter leader, K6 heavy police ship, and BattleHawk-B destroyer leader; the Maesron Alliance command cruiser, and Probr command cruiser. New advanced technology frigates include the Klingon Advanced Technology escort, Romulan Snipe-X advanced frigate, Gorn advanced frigate, Hydran advanced Hunter frigate and advanced Cuirassier frigate, Lyran Cheetah-X advanced frigate, Seltorian FFX Advanced Technology frigate, and Vudar advanced frigate. New ships for Federation Commander include the Borak heavy cruiser, war cruiser, war destroyer, and war frigate. New ships for ACTASF include the Class-One Small Armed Freighter, Class-Two Large Armed Freighter, Class-Three Jumbo Armed Freighter, Class-Four Heavy Armed Freighter, and Class-One Small Auxiliary Cruiser. New ships for Starmada include the Federation Battlecruiser BCP, Klingon SparrowHawk light cruiser, Romulan DemonHawk dreadnought, and Seltorian Assault Wagon.

Supports Federation Commander, Star Fleet Battles, Federation & Empire, Prime Directive, Star Fleet Battle Force, SFB Galactic Conquest, Starmada, A Call to Arms: Star Fleet, Star Fleet Marines, and Star Fleet Warlord.

The colorized SSDs from this issue are sold separately; the Supplemental File (which includes background information) is free as a PDF.

Captain's Log #51 is available from the following sources:

Warehouse 23: http://www.warehouse23.com/products/ADB5751CL
DriveThru RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/409959/
Wargame Vault: https://www.wargamevault.com/product/409959/

It is also available from your local game store or directly from ADB: https://www.starfleetstore.com/issues-5154-c-17_107/captains-log-51-p-1215.html

Available separately is the Captain’s Log #51 Supplemental File, which is free as a PDF!

Warehouse 23: http://www.warehouse23.com/products/ADB5751-S
DriveThru RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/183958/
Wargame Vault: https://www.wargamevault.com/product/183958/

Print version from ADB for a nominal price: https://www.starfleetstore.com/supplements-c-17_57/cl-51-supplement-p-1217.html

Also available separately (and only as a PDF) are the Star Fleet Battles SSDs and Federation Commander ship cards, ACTASF ship stats (all in color), and Starmada (B&W) ship cards from this issue:

Warehouse 23: http://www.warehouse23.com/products/ADB5751CL-3C
DriveThru RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/409962/
Wargame Vault: https://www.wargamevault.com/product/409962/

Good gaming to you!

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 12:52 pm: Edit

The 2022 rulebook for Advanced Operations is up on the PDF stores. Once it has been thoroughly reviewed, it should come out in print and (if necessary) a revised PDF will go up.

The links are here:
Warehouse 23: http://www.warehouse23.com/products/ADB3209-2
DriveThru RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/416949/
Wargame Vault: https://www.wargamevault.com/product/416949/

By diorloops on Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 05:16 pm: Edit

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By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Tuesday, December 27, 2022 - 02:55 pm: Edit

Captain's Log #52 Now Available from Multiple Sources

He realized that his advice to Ti'Nay Blakem had been unnecessary. The young Alpha-Centauran already knew about stabbing others in the back.

Released in March 2017, Captain's Log #52 supports Star Fleet Battles, Federation Commander, A Call to Arms: Star Fleet, Starmada, Prime Directive, Star Fleet Battle Force, Star Fleet Marines, and Federation & Empire. "Escape from Xylad" by Michael Bennett is about an Orion snatch and grab of a major crook who failed to pay his franchise fees. However, the Federation Police and Star Fleet both respond to the kidnapping.

The rest of the History section includes the history of the Federation's heavy cruisers written by researcher John Sickels. Rounding out the section are two short stories told from the viewpoint of someone who mistakes the Amarillo Design Bureau's offices for a bed-and-breakfast makeover location and ADB's receptionist who thinks the designer is a new game blogger/playtester.

As is usual, Communications is designed to inform readers about the company's activities. After Action reports are on the Romulan Master Starship Book, various card packs for Federation Commander, Prime Directive PD20 Modern Supplement, the PDFs SFU Coloring Book #1 and Women of the Zombie Apocalypse short story, and the Starline 2400 release of the Klingon D7K. The company answers 10 questions about its operations. It also explains playtesting materials and how it defines materials that are playtested. The Input Guide is designed to help writers and other people submitting material get their ideas into print. There are questions on high energy turns and ship design. "Drones, Drones, Drones" is a filk song. There is information on the future of metal miniatures. The communications section is rounded out with staff awards.

Federation Commander has information on future plans and rules for ground combat. There's a page of Command Notes. There is a guide to close-range combat. There are battlegroups with opposing players trying to rescue a group while preventing the opposing side from doing the same. The Command Notes are about Andromedan power absorber panels and Tholian patrol corvettes supporting Tholian webs. Finally, there are four new scenarios. One of those is for the cover story. Another is for the battlegroup situation. The third uses the ground combat rules. The final one also uses the ground combat rules in conjunction with a Coalition fleet facing a Federation squadron.

This issue includes five scenarios for Star Fleet Battles. SL346 Escape from Xylad is the scenario for the cover story. SL347 Extraction Perilous is the battlegroup scenario. SL348 A Whale of a Problem focuses on a prospecting freighter driving off a herd of alunda. SL349 A Flame in the Deep pits Andromedans and a Juggernaut squadron. SL350 Monitor in the Attack has a Federation monitor discover an Orion base station and a small Orion pirate squadron.

The Star Fleet Battles tactics include a page of term papers. The battlegroup section has 12 confrontations between two empires, each assigned to docking to a commercial base for a rescue while preventing the other side from accomplishing the same mission. The Magellanic primer focuses on the Jumokians.

Database articles include an article on the alunda. There are guidelines to convert Gorn ships to various empires' technologies and vice versa. The rules for the Zosman Marauders are updated. There are eight pages of Ask Admiral Vanaxilth. The section is rounded out with proposals, a proposal for Klingons to have diplomatic gunboats, and answers to background questions.

The Venues include Star Fleet Warlord, SFB Online, Play by E-Mail, Star Fleet Battle Force, Starmada, Star Fleet Marines, and Galactic Conquest. Prime Directive explores the Yeney'vn system and the Rovillians of the ISC. Star Fleet Marines has a new scenario. Starmada Unity is introduced. Juggernauts are introduced to Star Fleet Battle Force, and there are some tactics notes for that game. A Call to Arms: Star Fleet has a preliminary look at WYN ships and some tactics notes.

Federation & Empire gets its own proposals, Q&A, and "Why" questions. There is a page and a half of Tactical Notes. Rules for playing scenarios during the Middle Years era are introduced. (6LH) Uneasy Lies the Head is a Lyran civil war situation.

New ships for Star Fleet Battles include some general ships: Jumbo Armed-Freighter, Heavy Armed-Freighter, and Smasher Large Security Skiff; Romulan FarHawk-E Division Control Ship, FarHawk-C Heavy Scout Cruiser, GryphonHawk-J Heavy Assault Cruiser, GryphonHawk-C Heavy War Scout Cruiser, Workboat, Survey Boat, and Recovery Boat; Orion GhostHawk, Lyran Local Defense Light Cruiser, Local Defense Destroyer, and Panther-T Light Transport Tug; Seltorian Advanced Technology Light Cruiser; and some Omega ships: Kholigahr Early Command Cruiser, Trobrin Early Command Cruiser, and Zosman Fence Cruiser and Syndicate Base. Federation Commander gets a Free tanker and commando cruisers for the Klingons (D6G), Romulans (Commando Eagle), and Federation. A Call to Arms: Star Fleet gets WYN 100-class Frigate (Kzinti-built) and Mako-class War Destroyer, Federation Mars-class Battleship, and Klingon SD7 Warhatchet-class Strike Cruiser. Starmada gets the Federation Eagle-class Fast Cruiser and Texas-class Light Cruiser and Klingon D5W Soulkiller-class Battlecruiser and F5 Fury-class Frigate.

Supports Federation Commander, Star Fleet Battles, Federation & Empire, Prime Directive, Star Fleet Battle Force, SFB Galactic Conquest, Starmada, A Call to Arms: Star Fleet, Star Fleet Marines, and Star Fleet Warlord.

The colorized SSDs from this issue are sold separately; the Supplemental File (which includes background information) is free as a PDF.

Captain's Log #52 is available from the following sources:

Warehouse 23: http://www.warehouse23.com/products/ADB5752
DriveThru RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/421264/
Wargame Vault: https://www.wargamevault.com/product/421264/

It is also available from your local game store or directly from ADB: https://www.starfleetstore.com/issues-5154-c-17_107/captains-log-52-p-1236.html

Available separately is the Captain's Log #52 Supplemental File, which is free as a PDF!

Warehouse 23: http://www.warehouse23.com/products/ADB5752-S
DriveThru RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/208047/
Wargame Vault: https://www.wargamevault.com/product/208047/

Print version from ADB for a nominal price: https://www.starfleetstore.com/supplements-c-17_57/cl-52-supplement-p-1239.html

Also available separately (and only as a PDF) are the Star Fleet Battles SSDs and Federation Commander ship cards, ACTASF ship stats (all in color), and Starmada (B&W) ship cards from this issue:

Warehouse 23: https://www.warehouse23.com/products/ADB5752-3C
DriveThru RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/421266/
Wargame Vault: https://www.wargamevault.com/product/421266/

Good gaming to you!

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Wednesday, April 05, 2023 - 09:07 am: Edit

Is R1 ssd book pdf coming out this month some time

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Wednesday, April 05, 2023 - 02:04 pm: Edit

We hope it will be out in PDF in April. It is out in paper.

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Wednesday, April 05, 2023 - 03:35 pm: Edit

Thanks for the heads up

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Monday, April 24, 2023 - 05:31 pm: Edit

R1 SSD book is out in PDF. More formal announcement tomorrow.

By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Monday, April 24, 2023 - 10:15 pm: Edit

Purchased and printed

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Monday, April 24, 2023 - 10:24 pm: Edit

Those bonus sheets are HUGE.

By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 10:07 am: Edit

Yeah that is a very nice bonus!!

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 10:18 am: Edit

The 11x17 Starbases are impressive.

--Mike

By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 11:20 am: Edit

Gonna need a bigger binder!

By Joseph Jackson (Bonneville) on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 01:28 pm: Edit

Love the bonus material!

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Monday, October 30, 2023 - 04:47 pm: Edit

Just a quick note: R6 SSDs (and rulebook) are on DTRPG and Wargame Vault. The rulebook is on W23; the SSD books have been sent to W23, but are waiting to go up.

By Joseph Jackson (Bonneville) on Monday, October 30, 2023 - 09:48 pm: Edit

Just got my digital copy in living color. Yes, I'm bragging. No, I have no shame.
Thanks all!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, October 30, 2023 - 10:15 pm: Edit

I will release a new card pack for FC shortly. It will have one entirely new ship not anywhere else in SFU.