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CATEGORY: About SFB

What is SFB?

This is a complete introduction to SFB including an overview of the game, basic mechanics, walking through a sample game.

What's New Here

A day-by-day update of what has been added to this site.

FAQ's

Frequently Asked Questions regarding SFB -- in particular its history, its status, and its relation to Star Trek.

Product List/Reviews

This gives a complete outline of commercial products which have been made for SFB. All of these have detailed reviews.

Product News

This is an overview of the possibilities of future products, both official and unofficial.

Discussion Groups

These are links to the discussion groups on the web and otherwise where SFB players talk to each other.

SFB LINKS!

A listing of over 60 other SFB or SFB-related websites including capsule descriptions.

About This Site

A brief statement of purpose and history of this site.

Submissions

Submission guidelines for those who want to put their own material on this site.

CATEGORY: Unofficial New Designs

Official-Race Ships

This connects to hundreds of new ship designs (SSDs) for the "official" races published by ADB.

Fighters

This shows new fighter designs for use with SFB.

X-Ships

These are new ship designs for the official races which use advanced X-technology: an expanded set of rules outlined in Module X1.

New Races

These are designs for new races for SFB: dozens of new races available free -- and maybe

Omega Project

This is information on the Omega Project: a planned official expansion to SFB from Agents of Gaming -- not yet available for sale.

The Orion Enclave

Technically just a single new race, this has over 50 ships and detailed rules for the legitimate government of Orion.

Scenarios & Campaigns

These are new scenarios and new campaign games designed by players.

CATEGORY: Other Expansions

Optional Rules

Unofficial new rules options for use with SFB.

Undeveloped Ideas

The starts of many great ideas for expansion.

Ship Design

Unofficial and free-form advice on designing your own ships for use with SFB.

The Early Years

The early years is an official expansion currently in playtest. Here you will find lots of official and unofficial material expanding on those concepts.

An New Timeline

Notes on an alternate background to the official SFB history, merging more with the Star Trek continuity.

The Next Generation

Links to material on using SFB for playing Next Generation background material.

Fiction

Player-written SFB fiction.

CATEGORY: Helpful Stuff

Play Aids

These are printable paper-and-pencil play aids: charts, collated information, and so forth for use with the game.

Rules Answers

These are well-researched but unofficial answers to the frequent rules questions that comes up in using SFB.

Tactics

A wide variety of tactics articles.

Tournament Advice

This is information on tournament SFB: a special subset of the rules using 17 specially-designed cruisers and rules.

Play-by-Email Info

Links to lots of the PBEM activity going on in SFB.

SFB Miniatures

Information on SFB miniatures: what is (or was) available.

Answers Why?

Unofficial background information for SFB: why do things work the way they do?

Class Comparisons

These are tables which present information on various ship classes. i.e. For example, how do the different heavy cruisers rate against each other?

Star Fleet Battles, SFB, Federation & Empire, Star Fleet Missions, Prime Directive, and all contents thereof are copyright (C) 1990 by Amarillo Design Bureau. Second Edition copyright (c) 1994 by Amarillo Design Bureau. These games were produced under license from Franz Joseph Designs, authors of the STAR FLEET TECHNICAL MANUAL. Elements of the Star Fleet Universe are the property of Paramount Pictures Corporation and are used with their permission.

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