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Star Fleet Battle Force
''Star Fleet Battle Force'' is a card-based starship combat game system, produced and developed by Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. It allows fast-paced multiplayer combat between vessels of various factions in the Star Fleet Universe, such as the Federation, the Klingon and Romulan Empires, the Gorn Confederation, Kzinti Hegemony, Tholian Holdfast and Orion Pirates. The game is based on the races that appear in the original ''Star Trek ''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The franchise has expanded into vari ...'' television series. The game provides a card for each starship, with the weapon types, hull boxes, victory points and special abilities - such as a Romulan or Orion ship's Cloaking Device - as well as cards representing various weapon types, such as Phasers, Photon Torpedoes and Disruptors. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amarillo Design Bureau Inc
Amarillo Design Bureau is a company which specializes in tactical and strategic board wargames. The company is a successor to Task Force Games, and is owned and operated by Steve and Leanna Cole, with partner Steve Petrick, and based in Amarillo, Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by .... The company created and developed the series of games set in the '' Star Trek''-based Star Fleet Universe, under license from Paramount Pictures, which includes the tactical combat games '' Star Fleet Battles'' and '' Federation Commander'', the strategic-level game '' Federation and Empire'', the card-based tactical game '' Star Fleet Battle Force'' and the role-playing game '' Prime Directive''. They also produce a large series of miniatures under the ''Starline 2400'' and ''Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Fleet Universe
''Star Fleet Battles'' (SFB) is a tactical board wargame set in an offshoot of the '' Star Trek'' setting called the Star Fleet Universe. Originally created in 1979 by Stephen V. Cole, it has had four major editions. The current edition is published by Amarillo Design Bureau as ''Star Fleet Battles, Captain's Edition''. ''Star Fleet Battles'' is a ship-to-ship warfare simulation game, which uses cardboard counters to represent the ships, shuttles, seeking weapons, terrain, and information on a hexagonal map. It is a game system for two or more players (there are some solitaire scenarios). Typically, a player will have one ship in a game, though they can control an entire fleet, if they can keep track of the paperwork and options involved; multiple players can play as teams, with each team splitting up the work of running a squadron or fleet, or a 'free-for-all' fight can be run. Ships represented in the game are typically starships from such classic ''Star Trek'' powers as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romulan Star Empire (Star Fleet Universe)
The Romulans () are an extraterrestrial race in the American science fiction franchise ''Star Trek''. They first appeared in the series ''Star Trek'' (1966–1969). They have appeared in most subsequent ''Star Trek'' releases, including '' The Animated Series'', ''The Next Generation'', ''Deep Space Nine'', ''Voyager'', ''Enterprise'', ''Discovery'', '' Picard'', '' Strange New Worlds'', and ''Lower Decks''. They appear in the ''Star Trek'' feature films '' Star Trek V: The Final Frontier'' (1989), '' Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'' (1991), '' Star Trek: Nemesis'' (2002) and ''Star Trek'' (2009). They also appear in various other spin-off media, including books, comics, toys and games. Writer Paul Schneider created the Romulans for the 1966 ''Star Trek'' episode "Balance of Terror". As a basis, he considered what the ancient Roman Empire might have looked like had it developed to the point of spaceflight. Physically, the Romulans were presented as humanoid, but the show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tholian Holdfast
"The Tholian Web" is the ninth episode of the Star Trek: The Original Series (season 3), third season of the American science fiction television series ''Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek''. Written by Judy Burns and Chet Richards and directed by Herb Wallerstein, it was first broadcast on November 15, 1968. In the episode, Captain James T. Kirk, Kirk is caught between dimensions while the crew of the ''Enterprise'' works to retrieve him. All the while, the Tholians are weaving a destructive energy web around the ''Enterprise''. Plot The starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), USS ''Enterprise'' enters an uncharted region of space searching for her sister ship, the USS ''Defiant''. Sensors detect fractures in space, and a power loss affects all systems. ''Defiant'' is found adrift, and Star Trek uniforms, Captain James T. Kirk, Kirk, First Officer Spock, Chief Medical Officer Leonard McCoy, Dr. McCoy, and Navigator Ensign Pavel Chekov, Chekov transport across wearing environm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
