The Federation squadron featured a Constitution-class Cruiser (U.S.S. Klingon Squadron: miniatures by FASA and Amarillo Design Bureau The Star Navy would form the template for the Federation, and the Hishen would provide the guideline for the Klingons. For our purposes, we can draw on the supplied races from the 5150 universe and adapt them to Star trek.
The rules themselves are available as a pdf, and are some 65 pages long, plus an index. I've been hankering to try the 5150 rules out, as they have been reported on The Miniatures Page as being fast and fun. Our old rules of choice were FASA's Starship Combat Simulator, with detailed SSD's and lots of damage rolls and adjustments for loss of power and superstructure, and while not as slow as Star Fleet Battles, a fleet-sized game could take about four our so hours. We used my old collection of FASA and Starline ships from the Star Trek franchise.
Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Federation Squadron: miniatures by FASA and StarlineĪs an end-of-year experiment, Megz and I engaged in a friendly game of 5150 Star Navy, by Two Hour Wargames. Most newer books are in the original electronic format.
Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching.
Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
11" x 17" Color Card Stock Campaign Map.
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