Tactical Sci-Fi miniatures, loosely based on the Alien movies.

By Jay Gustafson (Jay13) on Thursday, September 03, 2020 - 08:14 pm: Edit

Interesting

By Jay Gustafson (Jay13) on Friday, September 04, 2020 - 10:21 am: Edit

Loved the cover to captain’s 54

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, September 04, 2020 - 11:32 am: Edit

Cover

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, September 04, 2020 - 11:45 am: Edit

I was out most of Thursday getting Leanna's spine injection taken care of (seems to have worked but we won't know for a week) but I made it to the office at the end of the day. Simone came in and we did some art for CL54 including the cover, above.

By Jay Gustafson (Jay13) on Friday, September 04, 2020 - 10:13 pm: Edit

Like I said I really like the cover I really mean that

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Friday, September 04, 2020 - 10:40 pm: Edit

I thought Simone had left the company. ??


Garth L. Getgen

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, September 04, 2020 - 11:53 pm: Edit

Samantha needed to focus on her school work and Simone wanted to make money to provide a better life for her new growing family.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, September 05, 2020 - 11:23 am: Edit

Tactical Papers in CL54
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SFB
SAPPHIRE VICTORY I
By Peter Bakija
SAPPHIRE VICTORY III
By Bill Schoeller
POACHERS TURNED GAMEKEEPERS
By Gary Carney
THOUGHTS ON FLEET TARGETING
Captain Steven P. Petrick, USS Texas
A COUNTER ARGUMENT TO FLEET TARGETING
— Captain Mike Grafton, USS New Mexico
EARLY YEARS PLASMA RAPID FIRE
— Cadet Jeffrey George Anderson, USS California
DECORATING YOUR WEDDING CAKE
— Ensign Alan Trevor, USS Virginia
DIVIDING NON-PENETRATING DAMAGE
— Captain David Zimdars, USS Montana
============
FC
GENTLEMEN PIRATES: CHOOSE YOUR WEAPONS
— Captain Terry O’Carroll, HMAS New South Wales
=============
F&E
SURVEY — DOUBLE OR NOTHING
—Lieutenant JG Alan De Salvio, USS California
KEEP THE HYDRANS IN THE WAR
—Lieutenant JG Ryan J Opel, USS Virginia
THE LYRAN DD: A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH
—Captain Ted Fay, USS Texas
EARLY WAR GAMES STAR FLEET CAN PLAY
—Ensign Rob Padilla, USS New Jersey
COLONIZING YOUR WAY TO VICTORY
—Commander Thomas Mathews, USS Georgia
THE ROLE OF THE BUSTED E4A
—Lieutenant JG Richard Eitzen, USS California
CONVOYS LEAD THE WAY
—Cadet Jeffrey Hester, USS Tennessee
DO NOT SACRIFICE THE SACs!
—Ensign Michael Calhoon, USS Florida
BUILDING THE UNBUILDABLE
—Ensign Lawrence Bergen, USS California
MAJOR MARINE SHIP
— Captain Scott Tenhoff, USS California
====
END

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, September 05, 2020 - 11:24 am: Edit

TABLE OF CONTENTS

HISTORY
Return of the Darwin by Gary Carney 2
Snapshots of History 17

COMMUNICATIONS
Communications Center 21
After-Action Report; Command the Future 23
Input Guide: Fiction Writer Update 24
Star Fleet Awards 27
Ten (or More) Questions 29
Starline Miniatures 30
To Ask the Question Why? 31
Battle Group Report, Rangers Report by Jean Sexton Beddow 32

FEDERATION COMMANDER
Communique 33
Preview: Gunboats Attack 34
Battle Group Commander: Dilithium Crystal Asteroid 35
8C68 Dilithium Crystal Asteroid 39
8C69 Return of the Darwin 39
8C70 Cats on a Hot Tin Loot 40
8C71 Turnabout 41
8C72 Gunboat Strike 42
Command Note 42
Play FC Online 42

SFB SCENARIOS
SL354-SL360 Seven New Scenarios 43

SFB TACTICS
Sapphire Victory 54
Zosman Primer: Poachers Turned Gamekeepers 62
Battle Group 550: Dilithum Crystal Asteroid 65
Term Papers 76

SFB DATABASE
Monster Special Rules: Space Tarantula by Steven P. Petrick 78
Proposals Board 81
Background Questions 83
Ask Admiral Vanaxilth by Andy Vancil 84
Update: Simulator Empire and Operation Unity 90
Brothers of the Anarchist 93

STAR FLEET VENUES
Star Fleet Warlord; SFBOL by Paul Franz 94
Prime Directive: Vega Colony by John Sickels 95
Starmada: Unity Edition by Daniel Kast 96
Star Fleet Battle Force: Monsters 97
Galactic Conquest by Howard Bampton 98
Star Fleet Marines: (LS52) Battle of Krr’aal Station 100

A CALL TO ARMS: STAR FLEET
Where We Are and Where We’re Going by Tony L. Thomas 101
Call Out Notes 102

FEDERATION & EMPIRE
The Empire Resurgent 103
Tactical Notes 103
Questions & Answers by Mike Curtis 107
Proposals Board; New Rules 109
Scenario: Alpine Hail 111
New Ships for Federation & Empire 113

SHIPYARD
Shipyard Report 114
New Ships for Star Fleet Battles 121
New Ships for Star Fleet Battles: Omega Sector 131
New Ships for Federation Commander 136
New Ships for ACTASF 141
New Ships for Star Fleet Armada 143

By Jay Gustafson (Jay13) on Sunday, September 06, 2020 - 12:35 pm: Edit

I love it that more stuff is coming out for the omega sector

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, September 06, 2020 - 07:28 pm: Edit

Correction

New Ships for Star Fleet Battles: Omega Sector 133 (Omega-Paravians)
New Ships for Federation Commander 137

By Jay Gustafson (Jay13) on Monday, September 07, 2020 - 12:41 am: Edit

Looking forward to that stuff to

By Jay Gustafson (Jay13) on Tuesday, September 08, 2020 - 04:43 pm: Edit

Did the Darwin go through a wormhole that how the wind up in the future

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Tuesday, September 08, 2020 - 06:41 pm: Edit

I'm gonna say it was a vortex.

Because my CL fiction already discusses the issue...

And there is a scenario where there was something like it on the Lyran/ Hydran border?

But, as always, SVC decides.

By Alan De Salvio (Alandwork) on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 - 12:06 pm: Edit

It was a rip in the space-time continuum.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 - 01:35 pm: Edit

I thought that I had everybody on my side
But I went and blew it, all sky high
And now she won't even spare a passing glance
All just because I ripped thespacetimecontinuum.

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Wednesday, September 09, 2020 - 06:15 pm: Edit

IIRC, that was exactly how I described the Vortex in the story.

My draft submitted said "IF the anomaly is of the type proposed, it is a moving vortex of space time discontinuity." I think that was fairly unchanged in the final, published edit...

Note that these things do a couple beneficial things (from a SFB background perspective).
1) they move. So you can't just build a Starbase to control it.
2) they pop into existence, wander around, and then pop OUT of existence. With a variable time limit, so you can't depend on them to invade the "Farawayistan" galaxy.
3) You don't know what is on the other side (neither does the other side) so you might pop out into a very advanced civilization where you'd get waxed in just a turn or two. Imagine your Klingon D4 Cruiser squadron monitoring one of these when an X cruiser pops out and shoots at you without warning.
4) they are in the middle of a swirl of all kinds of crap; sensors and scanners don't work well. And your comms are very limited so it's hard to call for help.

By Alan De Salvio (Alandwork) on Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 12:22 pm: Edit

Let's all remind ourselves that we owe just such a rip for every bit of information we currently have about the future. Thank goodness the 20 baud modem or whatever the Air Force had was able to download it all during one episode.

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 01:52 pm: Edit

Indeed

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Friday, September 11, 2020 - 01:35 pm: Edit

It looks like Captain's Log #54 will be released next week, just not on Monday. Murphy always visits just before deadlines.

By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Friday, September 11, 2020 - 02:38 pm: Edit

And pre-ordered!

By Dan Bostwick (Danbostwick) on Saturday, September 12, 2020 - 11:27 am: Edit

Jean, what is the generally expected time lag between the release of a Captain's Log in print, and its availability in PDF on warehouse23.com? The most recent one that I see there is #48.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, September 12, 2020 - 12:02 pm: Edit

Three to five years.

By Jay Gustafson (Jay13) on Saturday, September 12, 2020 - 10:31 pm: Edit

Just purchased 54 thanks Steve for a great game