Star Trek Games Coverage - Amarillo Design Bureau
Amarillo Design Bureau has been around longer than most people realise.
Started in 1981 they have been put on the map for the now classic board game
Star Fleet Battles which spawned the idea for Interplays classic hit Star Trek:
Starfleet Command in the late 90's. Now trading for more than 2 decades Stephen
V. Cole and his team have been making newer and more advanced board games under
the name of Star Fleet Universe but still carrying the Amarillo Design name.
Even though STG is mainly a PC/Console orientated site it was decided after
Steven contacted us that Amarillo should get their own full section under the
Star Trek games heading of the menu, afterall, they have been making games for
longer than the PC franchise for Star Trek Games has been running...and they
have done a better job keeping their fanbase happy...Bethesda Softworks should
learn a lesson from these folks.
Star Fleet Universe - The Games
| Name: Federation Commander
Federation Commander is a new exciting full colour
game of starship combat.
It includes mounted map panels using full colour
NASA photos, full colour laminated ship cards, full colour laminated
charts, easy entry rules and full colour playing peices.
Federation Commander includes several products
which do require one of the 2 different starter sets. The game
itself is based on energy counting how much you have at the start of
each turn counting the engines and spending the rest on weapons etc.
For more information visit...
http://starfleetgames.com/federation/fed_command.shtml
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| Name: Federation & Empire
Set during the 23rd century (TOS) era of Star Trek,
Federation & Empire is an all encompassing game of pure strategy,
empire building and combat.
Federation & Empire is a game of Total War. Every
aspect of your empire is under your control, and is your
responsibility. What ships do you build? What enemy ship types
do you make a
priority target? Is it better to take the fight to the enemy, or let
him crash his fleets into your massive fixed defenses? Is it really
worth one hundred destroyed starships to devastate the enemy
capital? (Well, usually, it is.) Send ships on raids, loan fleets to
your allies, and strategically shift your combat power.
For more information visit...
http://starfleetgames.com/federationandempire.shtml
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| Name: Prime Directive
Prime Directive is a full out role playing game fans dream come
true. Now i KNOW what you lot are thinking "ohhhh a role
playing game...its gonna die...they will get sued..."
blah...blah....
Some things you need to know about Prime
Directive...taken from the Amarillo site itself.
We are here to stay. Our license never expires
and we will not be shut down in two years like other RPGs of this
genre. Yes, we have a contract with Paramount and all of this is
100% legal
Rather than inventing a new system and trying to
recruit players for it, we offer our books in a variety of existing
and very popular systems.
Because the Prime Directive Universe is presented
in widely used systems, no end of already-published books can be
used as source material for any planet you want to visit.
We currently offer Prime Directive in two game
engines, and are negotiating for some others. We won't do every game
engine but we will do the ones that make good business sense.
Happy now? Visit
http://starfleetgames.com/pdindex.shtml for more
info!
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| Name: Star Fleet Battle Force Star Fleet Battle Force is your
classic fast paced action card game.
Battle Force has a lot of info and extras that come with it so
the best thing you can do is go directly to the Battle Force site.
For more info visit...
http://starfleetgames.com/sfbf.shtml
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| Name: Star Fleet Battles
Any Star Trek fan worth their salt would have at least heard of this
game.
Any Star Trek fan who loves board/card games would
have played this game at one point in their life or seen someone
playing it.
Star Fleet Battles is the most recognised board
game for Star Trek on the planet and is the game which gave
Interplay the idea to make Star Trek: Starfleet Command back in the
90's (heck the original interplay manual even credits Amarillo
Design).
Even though Star Fleet Battles is a VAST game with
LOADS of expansion sets and a massive rule set book the game itself
is easy to get into.
With tournaments, official discussion groups and
online support and play it's the corner stone of Amarillo Design and
was the corner stone for Interplays most successful series of Star
Trek games before they held the franchise over to Activision in
2000.
For more info visit...
http://starfleetgames.com/starfleetbattles.shtml
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