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!

The Orions have arrived! ACTA Star Fleet Orion Pirates

I finally have gotten around to painting some Orion Pirate ships for ACTA Star Fleet. These have been on my 'to-do' list for some time, but I could never figure out just how I wanted to paint them.

 

I have been looking through Google Images of painted Orion ships and found nothing that appealed to me. However, playing Just Cause 3 gave me inspiration. I noticed the colour scheme on the Medici rebel helicopters and that set me to thinking of doing a similar colour scheme for my Orion Raiders.

 

Orion Light Raider (LR)

 

The most common Orion ship seen in the quadrant is the Light Raider. A versatile small vessel well designed to take out Escorts and plunder trading vessels. As with all Orion ships, these are designed for atmospheric flight as well as inter-stellar operations.

I have two Light Raiders, one Raider and one Salvage Cruiser from a Mongoose Publishing box set with some Klingons. So these are about 1:2500 scale and are very nicely detailed. Amarillo Design Bureau still produce these and you can get them at their web store.

Second of the two Light Raiders

I don't want a large fleet of these guys, as Orion's tend to run around in small groups of ships. Cartels will either pilot their own ships or lease an operating space to other pirates, taking a percentage of the profits. The Salvage Cruiser will often act as a mobile base, refuelling and reloading raiders and also storing their ill gotten gains.

Orion Salvage Cruiser (SAL)

The second most common Orion ship found throughout the quadrant is the Orion Raider. A small, highly manoeuvrable light cruiser capable of going toe to toe with most Escorts and Frigates.

The Orion Raider (CR)

I'm tempted to get one or too more from Amarillo Design Bureau but these four make up a good little pirate raiding fleet able to harass my ACTA Star Fleet cargo vessels. I think the colour scheme works out well also.