Back in Late 2017, we started a Star Trek campaign for use with Star Fleet Battles rules. The campaign allowed us to play the General War presented in SFB, Federation and Empire, and Federation Space. We used a home set of campaign rules for the strategic game, and resolved tactical battles using the Commanders edition/Original boxed SFB and the three soft pack expansions.
We updated a set of home rules that we originally used circa 1985 for the campaign, incorporating new information and the map from Federation & Empire. The campaign was interrupted by Covid, and unrelated family illness, and we finally decided that we'd start over if we wanted to continue with a SFB campaign.
Recently, I've been working on some changes to the campaign rules that we used for that campaign in 2017, including an economic system that forces convoys and supply to bases, and a fighter pilot replacement system that makes fighter loses more important and impactful.
This will hopefully force greater dispersal of forces, smaller battle fleets, more diverse battles, and a greater burden for losing fighters. I suspect that it will also slow the campaign down as supply issues catch up to the fleets. It does add some record keeping, but I'm hoping that it will just add a single convoy/supply sheet for each race.
I'm going to try a solo campaign run to see what needs debugged and how the record keeping works. I'm going to try to set up a campaign map this weekend with the idea of starting the Lyran-Kzinti war in the next few weeks. The battles will be played with either miniatures or counters, if I can't field the forces in miniature.
