Thinking About Axanar and the Four Years War

I'm doing a good bit of research relating to the Four Years War  (a federation and Klingon War predating Star Trek TOS) from the FASA universe, how that's been expanded on by fans and other parties, and am surprised that it hasn't been more flushed out.  Even within FASA's own development, there seem to be some contradictions or omissions from one source to another.

In my case, I'm trying to adapt it to the Star Fleet Battles game system, which involves some heavy compromises with respect to ship classes and whatnot.  I know the rules inside out, and while I may be the exception to the rule, I've always preferred them to the FASA starship combat simulator. It may simply be a mater of having played SFB first.

I am also pulling in as much of the Prelude to Axanar fanfilm as I can, given that I simply like the ships and the quality of the film is quite inspiring.  Studio Bergstrom makes similar Federation ship models that are quite attractive, and given that I was not a fan of many of the FASA Klingon ship designs in particular, I will be looking to fill some of those slots soon.

I may have to bite the bullet, and scratch-build/cast some of my own models for this, but I hope to keep that to a minimum.

My campaign start out with the FASA version of the war, the events surrounding Axanar and the attack on Arcanis IV (? I think it was), etc., and I intend to start out with a very FASA looking version of a piece of the TFG/StarFleet Games Federation & Empire map.

And currently, the this map is my sticking point.  Trying to adapt the "landmark" planetary systems and bases to the F&E map requires a lot more hexes, a more granular map.  This will also require a different scale of movement than I'm used to in the SFB and F&E game systems.

I'm hoping to rough out a map this weekend, and next week, look at whether any of the SFB Early Years Module ship types can be adapted/adopted for this campaign.

Another consideration is making counters for some of these ships for when the scope of a battle is too broad, or due to the simple lack of certain miniature ships, to play the battles in miniature.  But now I'm getting a few steps ahead of myself.

In any event, that's where I'm at right now in my own little star trek.

Stay safe out there!