STARFIRE III: EMPIRES It introduced a simple campaign system of simple exploration and building. In that supplement another race was introduced, the Rigelians: a race who had perfected the fighter before anyone else and had a religious imperative to exterminate all other sentient species. STARFIRE II: STRIKEFIGHTER Designed by Barry Jacobs and released in 1980, it added fast, powerful, and tiny fighters which had to be carried aboard carriers to reach other star systems. Two supplements were published for first edition: In this edition the three interstellar empires of David Weber's STARFIRE Used for a simple campaign game by players willing to setup rules for it. This edition was purely a tacticalĬombat game but it did have ship design rules, repair rules, and was easily Sheet, hex grid map, and a small rulebook. It was contained in a plastic bag with a counter The first edition of STARFIRE was published as a pocket game by Task Force Gannon at his website, and about his involvement in the Starfire universe at his Starfire World Page.Ĭollectively the first and second editions of STARFIRE are known as ORIGINAL STARFIRE. Bonaventure University, he has also written several academic publications. A professor of American Literature at St. Charles Gannon is a new author to the STARFIRE universe, but has an extensive writing background and has written for Traveler, 2300 AD, and other gaming systems. He has an extensive list of works including The Disinherited, Debt of Ages, and Prince of the Sunset.ĭr. Steve White is a long-time author of STARFIRE novels, having written Crusade, In Death Ground, Shiva Option, and Insurrection with David Weber. You can read more at the news announcement on our forum, here.
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Update Feb 2013: It was recently announced that Steve and Charles have at least TWO more books planned in this series. We have a 'Question and Answer' interview with Steve and Charles on our forum.
Published by Baen Books, EXTREMIS continues the story from EXODUS of the Terran struggle against the Arduan invaders in the Beaumont Cluster of Terran Republic Space. The release date for EXREMIS was on May 3rd, 2011. STARFIRE novels are publishedĮXTREMIS is the newest novel in the STARFIRE novel series, and is written by Steve White and Dr. Of David Weber and Steve White: Crusade, Inĭeath Ground, Shiva Option, Insurrection, and Exodus. The official history of the Third Edition of STARFIRE is based on the writings This added "Fog Of War" makes operational level maneuver hugely important to how tactical battles play out – and often who wins Here, at the scale of an entire star system, starships maneuver to detect enemy ships and bases and then attempt to move where they will have combat to their advantage. Battles are always resolved at a tactical scale on a hex-grid map, but just above the tactical level there is the system scale. STARFIRE includes not only tactical and strategic (campaign) levels of play, but the combat system uses an operational scale as well. In fact, no "strictly" FTL technologies exist in STARFIRE at all Rather than assuming "Faster Then Light" (FTL) travel was necessary for interstellar travel, STARFIRE-space presumes that natural "wormholes" exist all over space and allow for sublight ships to travel between star systems. But what made STARFIRE unique was the concept of Warp Points for interstellar travel. It had an incredibly simple system for building and handling starships and it lent itself well to campaign play. STARFIRE began as a purely tactical fleet-level table-top starship combat game.
Over the years the game has been expanded but it remains essentially the same quick-playing tactical starship combat game that it begin as. The first edition was followed by two supplements: the first added fighters and the second included a campaign system. STARFIRE was designed as a fast-paced game of fleet-level starship combat with an easy-to-use starship design system and a progression of technological development. STARFIRE is a game of starship combat that was originally created by Steve Cole in 1976 and published in a revised version by Task Force Games in 1979.
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