Star Fleet Universe Champaine Map (Federation & Empire)

 

The full campaign map

Way in the distant past of this blog, I showed off the campaign map I had made for fighting battles in the Star Fleet Universe (using A Call To Arms and Starmada rule sets). I had used highlighters to colour the borders for each of the major empires. However, over time, those highlighters faded. Recently I decided to get some acrylic paints and repaint all the borders again. Voila! Good as new. So, I decided to show it off again. All the counters are from the Federation & Empire game from Amarillo Design Bureau.

The Cardassian Union bounded in yellow

I still have to make some counters for the Cardassian's, Ferengi and the Breen. But you can see Bajor and the Wormhole in hex's 3104 and 3204 above. Each hex is regarded as a Sector on the map. The Badlands can also be seen in sectors 3103, 3202 & 3203. The Ferengi Alliance is visible in purple around sector 3201.

The Breen Confederacy

The Kzinti Hegemony

The Wyn Radiation Zone Nebula and the LDR

The Lyran Star Empire

The Hydran Kingdoms

The Klingon Empire towards the galactic centre

The Klingon Empire towards the outer rim (with an orange nebula)

The Klingon Empire towards the Tholian border

Q'onoS, the Klingon Homeworld can be seen in Sector 3227 above.

The Tholian Holdfast

The region of The Triangle sandwiched between Klingon, Tholian, Federation and Romulan space

Romulan rimward expanse

Romulan home territories

Romulus and Remus can be seen in sectors 1720 and 1819 above. The astute reader will note that this area of the map reflects the border map seen in the original series.

Romulan far territories and unexplored reaches

The Gorn Confederation

The United Federation of Planets

The Typhon Expanse towards the galactic centre

The Kzinti & Cardassian borders

Part of the Klingon border

Along the Klingon border

You might note some familiar system names hidden in these areas.

The Orion Nebula

Along the Romulan border

Further along the Romulan border

The Gorn border

Furthest patrol area back towards the Typhon Expanse

The UFP founding planetary home worlds

Some systems of note within the UFP

More systems of note within the UFP

A very famous system along the border of the UFP

The far stars, unexplored space

More unexplored space outside the Romulan Star Empire

One map border

The other map border

Each counter represents either a ship or patrol group for purposes of the campaign, rather than being used as the Federation & Empire ruleset. But the map is also meant to be able to be played using Federation & Empire. There are a lot more counters to make. The whole thing is magnetic and so the counters have magnets on them as well. I have two sets of Federation & Empire for this purpose.

So, there you go!

Romulan Condor from Shapeways

Romulan Condor flanked by two Warbirds

Back in 2004 I bought a bunch of ship miniatures off Shapeways. Some of these have been sitting around for ages now waiting to be painted. One such miniature is a very nice Romulan dreadnought vessel. I have two of these and will be using them to represent Condors for A Call To Arms - Star Fleet. Anyway, here is one of them finally painted.

Even more ships of the First Romulan War - ACTA Starfleet

In an earlier post I provided a set of ACTA sheets for ships from the Star Trek Enterprise era. With the benefit of having played a few more ACTA games set in the Star Trek Enterprise era, I have been able to playtest the house-rules I'm developing to cover this early Star Trek period.

So I thought it would be high time to provide an update on the ship states for vessels from this era. Here's how the house-rules and play testing is panning out so far. I haven't done the Andorians as yet as I am waiting on some suitable models to come from Shapeways. I have also split the NX-class into two versions representing the NX-01 before the Xindi Crisis, and the NX-class after the Xindi Crisis in the lead up to the First Romulan War.

Here's how they are looking now.

 

*See the note below concerning Pulsed Phase Cannons

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pulsed Phase Cannons comments: Watching some of the YouTube clips for the Axenar movie and listening to some of the discussions with the writer producer about the different weapon systems used by the Federation during the 4 years war with the Klingons. The writer producer noted that each of the member planets of the Federation made their own Star Fleet ships and crewed them with their own people. As such, weapon systems would reflect what each of the member planets had in circulation at that time. So Star Fleet vessels would have either Phasers (e.g Andorians) or Pulsed Phase Cannons (e.g Earth) as their primary weapon suits and Photon Torpedoes as their heavy weapon. This was due to the fact that the Federation was still in a transition phase of moving to a truly unified Star Fleet. When asked about why they still used Pulsed Phase Cannons, the writer producer noted that these weapons could intercept Klingon Photon Torpedoes. This gave me the idea of adding to the Pulsed Phase Cannon statistics the ability to use Defensive Fire against Photonic & Photon Torpedoes. I haven't play tested this out yet but will give it a shot the next time I get to play an ACTA game. I want them to be able to intercept torpedoes, but not be too effective in this capability. I would assume that the move away from Pulsed Phase Cannons was eventually done by Star Fleet as their shields were markedly improved and Phasers became more powerful, from Phaser 3's to Phaser 2's to Phaser 1's.