Federation & Empire

Federation & Empire is a strategic-level board game first published in by the now-defunct Task Force Games. It is now published by the original designers of the game, Amarillo Design Bureau.
It is based on the Star Fleet Battles game "universe", however knowledge of Star Fleet Battles is not required to play the game. The game operates under the same limited license granted to Amarillo Design Bureau that Star Fleet Battles has and is restricted to , , and Franz Joseph's Star Fleet Technical Manual without mentioning any of the principal characters of the show or the itself. It is based on the same source material as Task Force Games' previous strategic game , and the two games are more appropriately "siblings" rather than "parent and child".
The game involves running the economy and combat forces of seven intergalactic empires: the Federation, the Klingons, the Romulans, the Gorn, the Kzinti, the Lyrans, and the Hydrans, through an eighteen-year conflict known as the General War which takes place starting 168 years after the founding of the Federation. There are involved and detailed rules for combat at a fleet level, ship construction and conversion and economics. 
The game has undergone two major revisions, first in and later in . There are numerous expansions to the game which provide more detailed rules and additional types of ships. Further expansions are in progress which will provide rules for conflicts outside the time frame of the General War and several scenarios have already been published in editions of Amarillo Design Bureau's magazine Captain's Log.
Amarillo Design Bureau released Federation & Empire 2010 in June of . This new edition includes rules clarifications and reworked counters, but is backward compatible with the existing Federation and Empire supplements.
== Books and accessories ==
* #5006 Federation & Empire 1st edition (1986)
* #3201 Fleet Pack (1986)
* #5006 Federation & Empire 2nd edition (1993)
* #3206 F & E Module 1 – Special Operations (1993)
* #3205 Carrier War - Total War Part 1 (1993)
* #3208 F & E Module 2 – Marine Assault (1995)
* #5006 Federation & Empire 3rd edition (2000)
* #3207 Combined Operations 1st edition (2003)
* #3209 Advanced Operations 1st edition (2003)
* #3203 Fighter Operations 1st edition (2004)
* #3201 Reinforcements (2004)
* #5010 Large Scale Map (2004)
* #3204 Planetary Operations 1st edition (2005)
* #3211 Strategic Operations 1st edition (2006)
* #5006 Federation & Empire 4th edition (2010)
* #3210 ISC War (2011)
* #3214 Minor Empires (2016)
* #3203 Fighter Operations 2nd edition (2016)
* #3204 Planetary Operations 2nd edition (2021)
* #3207 Combined Operations 2nd edition (2021)
* #3216 Tactical Operations (2021)
* #3209 Advanced Operations 2nd edition (2022)
* #3211 Strategic Operations 2nd edition (2022)
;Magazines
* Captain's Log (1983-...)
== External link ==
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