Federation Commander

[Maxwell Luther]

A project I'm working on for grad school has evolved into a reason for a new FC campaign and I'm building a system around using historical battles from the SFU, with each fleet from the various conflicts being set up based on the fleet lists from Federation Space. As my players are keen on Kzintis and Klingons right now, and we wanted something relatively short, I'm starting with the 2nd phase of the General War, the 5th Klingo-Kzinti War (Y169-Y171), which should take about 6 weeks to complete once we get started in a week or two.

EDIT: The Rules - https://www.dropbox.com/s/57rurzi22b9qkwx/5thKlingoKzintiWar.pdf

EDIT: The Map - https://www.dropbox.com/s/1zd69djcjm6v0cp/5THKKWar_Map.jpg

I wanted opinions on the fleet lists. As I said, they're based on the FS lists, and there are two reasons for that: they're small and manageable; I own that game already. Where necessary, I've replaced ships that have no counterpart in FC (like the C9 or any carrier ships) with a single ship of relative similarity (the C8 for the C9, for instance) or two ships equal to the cost of the first (the carriers, which have the base cost and the cost of the fighters, for a ship of the same size and one a hull size smaller).

THE KLINGON FORCES
NORTHERN BORDER FLEET
Setup within 2 Hexes of Klingon Border
1x C8
1x C5
1x D7C
5x D7
5x D6
5x F5
3x E4

1ST RESERVE FLEET
Setup on Starbase I
1x C8
2x D7
2x D6
2x F5
1x E4

HOME FLEET
Setup on Klingon
1x C8
1x C5
1x D7C
2x D7
2x D6
2x F5
1x E4
1x FRD

THE KZINTI FORCES
2ND KLINGON BORDER FLEET
Setup within 2 Hexes of Klingon Border
1x DN
1x CC
3x BC
1x CM
4x CL
1x BF
1x FFK
6x FF

4TH RESERVE FLEET
Setup on Starbases I and II.
1x DN
1x CC
3x BC
1x CM
3x CL
1x BF
4x FF

1ST HOME FLEET
Setup within 2 Hexes of Klingon Border
1x DN
1x CC
3x BC
1x CM
4x CL
1x BF
1x FFK
6x FF
1x FRD

[Maxwell Luther]

Still working out the rules, but here is the map for the campaign...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1zd69djcjm6v0cp/5THKKWar_Map.jpg

[Mike]

Cool map!
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Mike

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[Maxwell Luther]

Thanks, Mike!

Here is the link to the first draft of the rules.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/57rurzi22b9qkwx/5thKlingoKzintiWar.pdf

The rules are actually fairly simple, there is just a lot of nuance to cover hedge cases and provide fun options (like the Exploration tables). With a slight bit of trimming and rewording to remove the FC-centric elements and, and using the Operational Engagement rule as the main combat rules, you could have a serviceable little 1 hour wargame here.