Innovative Game Designers Unite!

Amarillo Design Bureau and Majestic Twelve Games are proud to announce an agreement has been reached to develop Klingon Armada: a Starmada supplement set in the Star Fleet Universe.

Tentatively scheduled for release in the summer of 2009, Klingon Armada will contain all of the rules options, additions, and starship designs necessary to allow players to pit forces of the Klingon Empire against their perpetual enemies, the Star Fleet of the United Federation of Planets. Future products of the Star Fleet Armada series will expand the scope of this partnership to include the Romulan Star Empire, the Tholian Holdfast, and other combatants of the Star Fleet Universe.

Starmada is a miniatures board game of starship combat. At its most basic level, players take command of space fleets in a general attempt to reduce each other to just so much space junk. At its most advanced, the game can be customized to breathe life into any science fiction background that players might imagine.

Novices shouldn't fret; the core set of rules has been designed with simplicity and ease of play in mind, accessible even to beginners. On the other hand, seasoned veterans should find the concise nature of the rules quite refreshing. It allows players to concentrate on the finer points of squashing their opponents rather than arguing about rules interpretations, without sacrificing any of the flavor or excitement of more complex games.

Simple, but not simplistic, is the guiding principle.

This product line will unite one of the most innovative game designs in the industry with one of the strongest genre backgrounds there is. While the classic Star Fleet Battles was designed for individual ship combat, Starmada was designed from the start for massive fleet battles, using a clean and fast-playing rules system. Klingon Armada will allow players who have long enjoyed such massive battles to now use the fleets of their favorite television and movie empires.

Given that Starmada was designed to be used with miniatures, it will be a natural tie-in to the existing line of Starline 2400 ships used in the Star Fleet Universe. Klingon Armada and the products to follow will be designed to use the existing Squadron Boxes, vastly expanding the market for those products.

The joint venture also envisions moving the new PDF edition of Starmada into retail stores.

To learn more about the Star Fleet Universe, visit the Amarillo Design Bureau web site at http://www.starfleetgames.com/. For more information on Starmada, visit the Majestic Twelve Games web site at http://www.mj12games.com/starmada/.