Amarillo Design Bureau is a company which specializes in tactical and strategic board

wargames ''WarGames'' is a 1983 American science fiction techno-thriller film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film, which stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy, follow ...

. The company is a successor to

Task Force Games Task Force Games was a game company started in 1979 by Allen Eldridge and Stephen V. Cole. TFG published many games, most notably including both '' Star Fleet Battles'' (currently published by the original designers, Amarillo Design Bureau) a ...

, and is owned and operated by Steve and Leanna Cole, with partner Steve Petrick, and based in

Amarillo Amarillo ( ; Spanish for " yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County. It is the 14th-most populous city in Texas and the largest city in the Texas Panhandle. A portion of the city extends into Randall Cou ...

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 ''Starline 2500'' label, as well as the biannual ''Captain's Log'' magazine.
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