Federation Commander (and/or Star Fleet Battles)

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**Manchu**

I know a goodly number of people around here have at least heard of Armadillo Design Bureau's games. How many of you play/have played them? I'm interested as to what miniatures wargaming hobbyists make of this kind of thing.

(I admit, I have been watching episodes of TOS lately . . .)

While we're at it, has anyone played either of Federation and Empire or Prime Directive (original, GURPS, or d20)? With the right crowd, you could combine these games into a pretty epic campaign.

**Manchu**

Are you talking about Star Fleet Battles or Federation Commander. The later is supposed to be a "faster play" variant of the former and I wonder how fast "faster play" really is. The only experience I have of it was from the first Star Fleet Command computer game.

**Manchu**

Like I mentioned, Ruckdog, Federation Commander is a pared down version. There are free demo rules available.

**Manchu**

Time for some links, I think:

Federation Commander

FC Demo Rules

ADB's Star Fleet Universe Games

BGG's Star Trek: Fleet Captain (from WizKid's) Page

About Star Trek: Fleet Captain (GenCon report)

The ships will use the familiar Wizkids click bases, but this game isn't just HeroClix with starships. Each ship's click dial has three sections based on Star Trek alert levels - yellow, orange and red. You can move your ship's dial to any position within your current alert level to take advantage of different capabilities, much like diverting power to the shields or the sensors, as the situation demands. Damage eventually moves you to the next alert level, and the higher alert levels have fewer dial slots to choose from. So as you take damage, your options become fewer. This particular mechanic is a nice simulation of captaining your own starship, and it also shows how the new Wizkids is using their primary gaming innovation (click bases) in even more innovative ways.

Read entire article here.

I can't say that I'm excited about the Fleet Captain game. (No doubt, those miniature prototypes are pretty neat.) I actually prefer the Star Fleet Universe's alternative timeline, from what little I know of it.

I went ahead and bit the bullet after sarcastro01's post and ordered a copy of Klingon Border from CCG Armory at a decent discount. I'll post an in depth review here when I get the chance to play it.

**Manchu**

Yeah, I'm not sold on the minis anyway so it's chits for me.

**Manchu**

Haha, isn't that always the rub with these niche games?