My latest batch of ADB books arrived today, which includes a print copy of A Call to Arms: Star Fleet Version 1.2 Deluxe Edition : http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/Nerroth/Misc/CL51%20batch_zpsgjaumj93.jpg There's also a large print edition each of Captain's Log #50 and Captain's Log #51 ; the...

Here's hoping that this project bodes well for Prime Directive: Traveller's long-term prospects.

Some of you may be aware that FASA Games (the company which arose out of the ashes of RedBrick LLC) is currently working on launching their own version of Noble Armada . Recently, Ral Partha Europe announced that they will be handling the NA minia9tures line from now on - though it is as yet unclear...

For anyone here with an interest in this game series, the first gameplay trailer for Persona 5 was recently posted, while more info on the game has been posted here.

Thank you for posting this year's update! I'm excited to see what lies in store for the ADB-Mongoose joint venture in 2015 - not least in terms of how things might line up for Traveller: Prime Directive . Once the core book and the three current faction sourcebooks (for the Federation, the Klingons,...

Ah - I was actually talking about ACTA:B5 here, not SF! I'm sure most people on these boards are aware that ACTA:SF is alive and well; I just don't play it as a personal preference. Oh, sorry - I was referring more to the opening post, which I read as assuming that Mongoose had brought ACtA:SF to a...

While A Call to Arms: Star Fleet has had its primary development shifted over to ADB, the game is by no means dead. The heavily revised "version 1.2" rulebook is being primed for release, which should lay the groundwork for the game's future expansion efforts to get back up and running again. That s...

Myrm wrote:Fed Master Starship book for SFB....I've missed that product, better go look see what it is...

If it helps, the FMSSB was posted recently on ADB's storefront, and is also available electronically from W23, DTRPG, and WV.

While I may have highlighted the Andromedan connection to Captain's Log #49 in the Andro thread , I should note that this issue also includes a preview of Juggernaut Alpha , which may be of interest to anyone looking to see how its unique technologies may work in an ACtA:SF context. To clarify, this...

Sad to read that ACTA is going to end. While Mongoose's in-house development of A Call to Arms may be on hiatus, ACtA overall is not done with by any means. ADB are currently readying "version 1.2" of A Call to Arms: Star Fleet for publication, listing a series of changes to the original version in...

On a somewhat Andro-related note, my Captain's Log #49 delivery arrived today: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/Nerroth/Misc/CL49loot2_zps03e17f85.jpg That's two copies of CL49 (one in LPE for day-to-day use, and another in regular size for safe keeping), the CL49 supplemental file, the SFB Fe...

One example of the use of "indistinguishable from magic" and "actual magic-magic" in the same setting (or, at least, where the lines between the two can be somewhat blurred) could be the Fading Suns universe, as had been portrayed until relatively recently by Mongoose over in A Call to Arms: Noble A...

There are three modular DN designs for the Romulans in SFB Module R7 , though none of them are yet in FC so far as I'm aware. The DemonHawk would have had three engines (each of which doubles in size relative to those on the SparrowHawk). Its modularity would have come from a pair of SparrowHawk mod...

As it turns out, Captain's Log #48 has a new battlecruiser variant for SFB , the Ranger -class BSC, which uses the "gun deck" to place a pair of special sensors. The idea behind the BSC was that the ship could use its sensors to locate hidden Andromedan Rapid Transit nodes and attack them by itself,...

A new delivery showed up for me today! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/Nerroth/Misc/CL46-47-48ModuleC62500SPA_zps6346e73b.jpg While the rules for the Paravians and Carnivons (as they would have been in the "modern" Alpha Octant) for SFB are in Module C6 , CL48 comes with prototype rules for b...

I saw the talk in another thread about the " space gypsy " concept in another Traveller -supported setting. While they are quite different in nature, I thought it worth mentioning the closest equivalent to that setup seen in the Star Fleet Universe: the Jindarian Caravans . This species lives a whol...

Commander Loskene appeared on the viewscreen in The Tholian Web , but you could only see so much of his/her/its form there. The crystal-arachnid form used for In a Mirror, Darkly was one possible extrapolation of what else comprised the Tholian phenotype. The SFU's "Pillar" Tholian as detailed in A...

As I mentioned further up the thread, there are numerous "strains" of Tholians in the Star Fleet Universe. But the dominant "Pillar" strain has no legs, and possesses a limited means of hovering above the ground instead. Actually, if you want to see a preview of how the Tholians would be detailed in...

It's worth bearing in mind that the SFU has its own "past" (prior to a certain "five-year mission") as well as a separate "future". Not counting the differences in what happened during that time period (which in the SFU timeline ran from Y154 to Y159, though the incident at Talos IV happened in Y142...

What is it with Klingons always wanting to keep a safe distance in this game. Aren’t they supposed to be the aggressive ones? Mongol horse archers were less heavily armed and armoured than European mounted knights, but the superior range and agility of the former helped them crush the latter at the...