Looks like ADB/SFG (or whatever the heck they're called) have signed a deal with Mongoose to produce a version of Starfleet Battles for their 'A Call To Arms' starship combat game and some other stuff. I'm guessing the other stuff will include a Prime Directive source book for Mongoose's version of Traveller.
From SDB's own Forum via SCN
This is interesting. SFB aside, if they are considering a Traveller powered Prime Directive, it lends itself much more to gaming than other 'proper' Trek games, simply because it's based around specialist away teams, called Prime Teams. This cuts out the whole, 'who plays the Captain and why does he keep beaming into hostile situations?' problem. Characters can also easily be the same rank and can all easily be ensigns or NCOs so it gets rid of that problem too. I like it as a game set up. What always put me off was the rules which are eye-wateringly clunky and the overly-militaristic tones. using Traveller would get rid of the rules issue (I really like CT/MGT) but it might easily still feel like Jar-Heads in space.STARLINE 2500
Our new joint venture deal with Mongoose includes a provision that they are going to replace (over a period of a couple of years) every existing Starline 2400 ship with a new computer-generated design. (We call this Starline 2500, but they plan to market it under another brand yet to be selected.) The first ships will appear in late 2011, and ships will then follow every month or two. This will include some entirely new ships. It may also, from time to time, including special limited-production (minor variant) ships available only for a short time, or as part of special offers.
This is truly exciting news. New production ships will be fancier, and those in the vocal and vociferous minority who constantly complained that our ships were “not good enough for the modern market” will get his wish. Everyone who has an extensive collection can keep it, or perhaps slowly replace it with new designs. (The existing 2400 line could be used for Early Years if you want, or the new 2500 designs could be used for X-ships.)
These ships will be done in resin using 1-3125 scale.
As for Starfleet Battles, well anything would be an improvement on that head-scrambler.
I suppose, if I'm honest, none of this should concern me because I won't buy it or play it. I use Savage Worlds for my own Trek homebrew and it works just fine, but it will do wonders for SDB and Traveller in general I think.
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And from ADB/SFG's own site:
And finally from their forums:The biggest news of the week was that Secret Contract U was signed on Saturday. Expect a press release on Wednesday the 15th telling you all about this joint venture deal to create three major new product lines in cooperation with a game company that is as big today as SFU was in 1983 (and will be in 2012).
It does leave me wondering what will actually be in the press release tomorrow that hasn't already been said!What it Means for ADB, Inc. and the SFU
THE BIGGEST NEWS IN SFU HISTORY
Saturday we signed a new joint-venture deal with Mongoose, which is one of the largest companies in the Adventure Game industry. They're famous for numerous product lines, including miniatures and roleplaying games. This deal includes three immediate elements, but the future is as open as space and as exciting as a supernova.
Something we have mentioned many times is that retailers only stock the top five or 10 companies (with the proverbial "one shelf" reserved for the other 40 hard-copy publishers, most of which are in less than 10% of stores). Mongoose is in 90% of the retail game stores in the US, Canada, the UK, and many other countries. This contract means that there will now be several first-class products in every retailer with logos on them for the Star Fleet Universe and for ADB, Inc. Each joint venture book will include advertising for all of our Star Fleet Universe products, giving us more exposure to the mass gaming market than we have had since 1982.
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