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You have a choice of death or the agonizer.


If you pick death, they just throw you in the agonizer and leave it on while they go to lunch.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, January 10, 2026 - 11:23 pm: Edit

Just so everyone knows.

We are almost done.

The rulebook is being proofread. I do not know how fast Jean can finish that (2d6 days, as that's not her only job) but it will take me a day or two to make the fixes. Ryan is sending the revised SIT which just tacs onto the end of it. Once that happens, we just need a day or two to upload it to the PDF stores. The glitch there is that Warehouse 23 has major accounting problems and we might not be able to upload it there right away. The other glitch is that I don't have the cover art yet. I should get it by Monday (I hope) and it might take Simone a day or two to create a proper cover. I guess I need to spin up a back cover. The covers go with the PDF rulebook.

The hard copy rulebook will not be available for a few (2d6+6) weeks. Will will complete any updates from things people who bought the PDF found. And the staff is never done sending updates to every F&E product ever done.

Chuck sent all the charts, but I may have to tell the print shop to reformat two or three of them. Waiting for him to let me know. Once I have his answer, that's 5 minutes work. I am not sure if Jean plans to put these on the PDF store or not.

I did the WYN interior battle/strategy map and will need a few minutes (call it an hour) to finalize it and give the print shop the page to add to the 9 charts Chuck did.

The warehouse has all the counters.

The warehouse will create a "physical product" containing the charts and counters and put it on the ADB cart. The counters will of course also be there separately, maybe not the first day.

To buy the complete product on day one you could order the PDF rulebook and the physical pack of charts and counters. I am not sure that Day One will be next week. As you can see above, no end of things could take longer than we expect.

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Sunday, January 11, 2026 - 01:06 am: Edit

Yea.

By Stewart Frazier (Frazikar3) on Sunday, January 11, 2026 - 09:50 pm: Edit

Is it 'bated breath' time??

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, January 12, 2026 - 02:55 pm: Edit

STATUS UPDATE

Rulebook: Jean just handed me 7 pages of proofreading. There are 65 more to go. I got these done today.

Ship Information Table: Ryan just delivered it.

Maps/Charts: Chuck just sent the last ones.

Wyn map: I haven't done it yet.

Counters: On hand, no problems.

Cover: Waiting for art.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Monday, January 12, 2026 - 07:47 pm: Edit

Do we have a price for the individual new counter sheets? I assume they would at least be the same cost as the Kilo/Sierra/Vulkan sheets that came out in 2025. ($13.95 per page of 280).

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, January 12, 2026 - 09:39 pm: Edit

Jean hasn't told me. I don't know what the price was compared to the last batch. I suspect that the boxed game will go up a bit because it will effectively have more countersheets.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, January 13, 2026 - 01:54 pm: Edit

Jean gave me 7 more pages. I fixed them today.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 09:09 pm: Edit

Jean gave me 14 pages today. Matt sent in the cover art for Civil Wars.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 12:18 pm: Edit

Go team go!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 07:33 pm: Edit

I have made the fixes up to page 28. Jean is proofreading more.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 04:17 pm: Edit

ATTENTION STAFF
Page 31, there is an asterisk note at the top left but there are no asterists for it to apply to. Did you mean for this note to apply to the entire far stars order of battle? or just what?

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 08:45 pm: Edit

SVC,

That is for the whole Far Stars OB.

Ryan

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 01:54 pm: Edit

Thanks, Ryan.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 01:55 pm: Edit

Here is the back cover text. Does any staffer think I need to add or edit anything?

By Chuck Strong (Raider) on Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 03:39 pm: Edit

SVC: where is the text of the back cover?

By Stewart Frazier (Frazikar3) on Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 08:50 pm: Edit

Hmmm, is that white micro-text??

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 11:39 pm: Edit

I pasted it in, and it didn't take.
Hmmm.. cannot do anything tonight.
Someone email me so I won't forget to post it tomorrow before the snow storm we're expecting shuts down the office.

By Mike Curtis (Nashvillen) on Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 12:04 pm: Edit

Reminder sent.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 12:21 pm: Edit

CIVIL WARS is all about the conflicts you previous read about but never fought.
Expand your F&E campaign with these new ships, rules, and scenarios:
H The Lyran Civil War, nobels fight for the royal throne.
H The Romulan Civil War, the conflict that wrecked the empire.
H The WYN War of Return, the Usurper claims his grandfather’s lost throne.
H Special rules for the WYN barrier, and those over-modified WYN ships.
H Expanded maps show the Lyran and Kzinti off-map areas.
H The Middle Years are displayed through special rules and exceptions.
H Use Influence points to gain control of fleets and planets yet to join the war.
H Civil Wars use special rules for territorial control and infrastructure destruction.
H Hundreds of new ship types.
H Factional counters for the WYN, Romulan, and Lyran rebels.
H Into the Whirlpool! At last, you can invade and conquer the WYN Cluster!
H Over 1,200 new die-cut double-sided counters.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 12:21 pm: Edit

There is the back cover text. The H things turn into stars when the true fonts are used.

By Chuck Strong (Raider) on Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 01:17 pm: Edit

Recommend the following change to read:

H Factional counters for the Kzintis, Romulan, and Lyran rebels including WYN Cluster Forces.


Rationale: The Count faction forces are Kzintis rebels to the Crown and Homogeny; they are not rebels of the WYN Cluster.

THE WYN AREN'T FACTIONAL REBELS. MY MISTAKE THERE.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 04:36 pm: Edit

Recommend the following change to read :

H New rules for the WYN barrier including robot-controlled movement, and those over-modified WYN ships.

Rationale: Robot controlled movement needed to be mentioned and rather than give it its own line it seemed a good place to add it in. L Bergen 22 Jan 2026

PROBABLY NOT ROOM

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Friday, January 30, 2026 - 06:41 pm: Edit

How goes the rulebook? Anything we can help with?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, January 30, 2026 - 06:49 pm: Edit

Waiting for Jean to finish proofreading. She had reserved time to do it but the staff didn’t get it to me until that window closed. That ran into holidays, family visits, the year end sale, medical issues, etc. she had a toothache last week that stopped her.