Usually I think you can order their printed rule books as unbound and unpunched. Then you can punch the holes with your locally approved standard hole punch.

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Monday, August 23, 2021 - 11:50 am: Edit

One might also find a local print shop to punch holes in a large stack of pre-printed papers, using a hole punching machine.

One complication might be the 8.5x11 vs A4 sized paper support.

--Mike

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, August 23, 2021 - 01:57 pm: Edit

It is more like ten in the rest of the world. The unpunched (so you can punch your own) option seems good.

Thinking out loud, I just wonder if...
European A4 paper is available in the US?
If it would run through our machines?

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Monday, August 23, 2021 - 02:48 pm: Edit

I am sure A4 Paper is available in the US....

…..but if your only going to sell 10 copies of it - it's probably not worth it...

(Unless you can persuade the US that A4 is better than Legal )

Thanks for the suggestions.

(If it doesn't also breach the copyright on a personal copy - I could always buy the PDF version and print* it on A4 paper?)

((I own a fastish Laser Printer for my office, so a couple of hundred pages isn't a problem).

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Monday, August 23, 2021 - 03:49 pm: Edit

A4 paper is definitely available in the US. One can buy reams or cases or whatever at places like Staples. Most commonly available printers like an HP LaserJet include a multi-function tray that can hold A4 as well as Letter. Most modern computers have printer drivers for A4 as well.

So printing something out on A4 in the US is fairly easy, at least with common office products. The biggest challenge is resetting margins and/or scaling if one is printing a tightly formatted Letter sized document.

--Mike

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, August 23, 2021 - 10:25 pm: Edit

I would not try to reset margins. Too much work for too few people. It is 8.3 wide and our 8.5 documents will fit well enough, and it is slightly taller leaving bigger margins.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Tuesday, December 28, 2021 - 06:40 pm: Edit

Not sure where this would go as it is an AAR for CL54 F&E Scenario report.

(6AH.0) Alpine Hail:
(6AH.41 & 6AH.42) Scenario OOBs for both Lyran and Romulans are missing ENG unit from Home Fleets. Suggest adding one to each, active when at war.
- L. Bergen 28 DEC 2021

(6AH.222) New Lyran SET UP: Listed positional change eliminating everything from the former Remus Hex 4514 eliminates a SB vital to the Home Fleet support of the Federation front as 4514 is 6 hexes from the NZ Planet Helvetia in 3912. Recommend leaving the SB in 4514. (if not a SB then at minimum suggest a BATS be placed in 4514 to provide a supply point and SMN and position that is upgradable for a lower cost.) - L. Bergen 28 DEC 2021

By Charles W Popp (Captnchuck67) on Monday, August 08, 2022 - 05:48 pm: Edit

Hi,
so what is the next ruleset to be updated and is the Warbook finally on the horizon?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, August 09, 2022 - 12:14 am: Edit

By John M. Williams (Jay) on Friday, August 12, 2022 - 10:40 pm: Edit

For people who have already purchased a product, I was wondering what the process was for obtaining the completed updates. Is a PDF compilation of the rule changes made available?

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Friday, August 12, 2022 - 11:41 pm: Edit

John best bet is to buy the rulebook in pdf from one of ADBs partner sites.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, August 13, 2022 - 12:36 am: Edit

There is no comprehensive list of changes. We made zillions of minor changes all over the book. (You could check the processed report topics on the BBS for a general idea, but some changes are made from handwritten notes the staff marks on the hard copies floating around stratcon and there is never any effort to track those.) New copies of the product will have the new books (at some point). People who bought the product before can buy an updated rulebook.

There will never be a single PDF of the F&E Warbook; it will always be a matter of buying the ten or so separate update books. In theory we might have a shopping cart item consisting of one of every book, but it would be the same price as buying each of the books and I would suspect few would buy the "total package" as everyone would already have at least some of the updated books.

By Daniel Glenn Knipfer (Dgknipfer) on Friday, March 17, 2023 - 08:27 pm: Edit

Wasn't there a discussion thread for Civil War? Or am I just going crazy?

Or both.

By Chuck Strong (Raider) on Saturday, March 18, 2023 - 06:22 pm: Edit

DAN:

Star Fleet Universe Discussion Board: Federation & Empire: F&E PRODUCTS: F&E Future Products (Near Term): F&E Civil Wars

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, December 01, 2024 - 01:34 am: Edit

UPDATE ON WARBOOK PROJECT

At that point, very little needs very minor updating. I don't think there is much more than one page of updates for IW and ME and FO combined.

F&E Basic Set 2010 (update 2025)
F&E ISC War 2011 (update sometime)
F&E Minor Empires 2015 (update sometime)
F&E Fighter Ops 2016 (update sometime)
F&E Planetary Ops 2021
F&E Combined Ops 2021
F&E Tactical Ops 2021
F&E Advanced Ops 2022
F&E Special Ops 2022
F&E Civil Wars 2022
F&E Andro War 202?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, December 02, 2024 - 09:19 am: Edit

Someone asked me "just what is the warbook?"

It is all of the rulebooks for F&E and expansions. It might be an actual product like the SFB Silver rulebook or it might just be a stack of rulebooks from the eleven F&E products. It wouldn't really make any difference.

In any case, it would mean that everything has been updated "recently" which you can define in your own way.

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Monday, December 02, 2024 - 11:15 am: Edit

If possible, I would like to see an integrated Warbook (i.e., not a stack of 11 rulebooks). It would be very nice to have all the 200 rules, 300, rules, 400 rules, etc. all together and in sequence - and it would make it much easier to find rules when you're looking for them.

As opposed to not being able to remember which rule book contained which rule, and having to guess which rule book to consult to look up a rule.

Please and Thank You!!!

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Monday, December 02, 2024 - 02:11 pm: Edit

Better yet, sell the Warbook in both modes (concatenated and separated stack). That way the player in question can decide how they like them.

Personally, I would buy *both* versions, as each have utility with respect to looking up references.

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Monday, December 02, 2024 - 04:09 pm: Edit

I would buy a combined book.

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Monday, December 02, 2024 - 04:59 pm: Edit

Or, to take a leaf from the way that SFB approaches things: perhaps a "war rulebook" for a set of consolidated game rules; and then a separate "war scenario book" for a collection of scenarios from each module, perhaps to include some of those scenarios currently offered under playtest in various issues of Captain's Log?

Indeed, while the Y168 Orders of Battle are offered as separate PDFs on the BBS, perhaps those from other time periods - such as the Y186 OOBs from ISC War - could go in the same "sub-warbook" as the scenarios? By which I mean those alternate era OOBs that are not already folded into certain scenarios, such as those provided by the Four Powers War scenario in Fighter Operations.

By Riccardo Perni (P_R_S) on Monday, December 02, 2024 - 05:18 pm: Edit

I have combined all the rulebooks in a big binder and it seems to work very well and when a rulebook receives an update, I simply replace the old pages with the new ones. Actually they merge better than the various SFB modules, where you are forced to have some rule out of order. All the SITs and OoB are from the on-line files in two separate binders and updated when needed

Why do we need an integrated Warbook? (this is no a rethorical question, I really want to know)

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Monday, December 02, 2024 - 10:26 pm: Edit

Because we want an integrated version that can be used on a tablet instead of a 400 page assembled binder at the game table.

By Riccardo Perni (P_R_S) on Tuesday, December 03, 2024 - 06:18 am: Edit

oh yes I didn't think about this, sorry.
I keep my boardgames world completely physical, I do even print PDF acquired from wargamevault on pre-punched paper

By Nick Blank (Nickgb) on Tuesday, December 03, 2024 - 11:10 am: Edit

I am interested in the integrated PDF warbook for tablet use.

If ADB is still selling rulebooks as the unbound holepunched option, anyone can buy the separate rulebooks and assemble their own combined book in a binder.

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Tuesday, December 03, 2024 - 04:26 pm: Edit

A single integrated PDF allows a script to create a linked cross referenced book like you can do with the Master Rulebook.