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Saturday, May 19, 2007

Captain's Log #35 is finished

Hard to believe we have done 35 of these books, but we just finished what may be our best issue ever. Great fiction, cool ships, lots of tactics, exciting scenarios, two pages of new ship names, a new Federation heavy fighter, articles on everything from what happened to the Tholians when they first arrived in our galaxy to what happened to all those General War surplus gunboats when the war was over, and everything else you expect from Captain's Log.

Federation Commander players will be especially thrilled. Four new ships (in both scales), two new scenarios, lots of tactics, and an entirely new rule introducing a major new combat system: special sensors.

SFB players get three (really four) new scenarios, Victory at Origins, ten (really 14) new ships (including two new Juggernauts), and much more.

F&E players get a major new scenario, ship data for the 14 new ships, lots of tactics, and a final decision on overbuilding those Federation "sort of a PFT; sort of a carrier" ships.

But, just because we finished it, are busy printing it, and will ship it Monday, does not mean we are done with it. There are pages to extract and load on the web site, staffers to send free copies to, artists and authors to pay, copyright forms to file, and lots of other records and accounting to do.

And of course, other products and projects to completed. I have to start next week on the final stages of Federation Commander: Battleships Attack, and Petrick is demanding a meeting to discuss the final ship selections for SFB Module R11: Support Ships.

And the conference table still needs to be cleaned off, and the new office building in a corner of the warehouse still needs to be erected.