Federation and Empire (game)
Federation and Empire is a strategic-level board game first published in  by the now-defunct Task Force Games. It is now published by the original designers of the game, Amarillo Design Bureau.

It is based on the Star Fleet Battles game "universe", however knowledge of Star Fleet Battles is not required to play the game. The game operates under the same limited license granted to Amarillo Design Bureau that Star Fleet Battles has and is restricted to , , and Franz Joseph's Star Fleet Technical Manual without mentioning any of the principal characters of the show or the  itself. It is based on the same source material as Task Force Games' previous strategic game , and the two games are more appropriately "brothers" than "father and son".

The game involves running the economy and combat forces of seven intergalactic empires: the Federation, the Klingons, the Romulans, the Gorn, the Kzinti, the Lyrans, and the Hydrans, through an eighteen-year conflict known as the General War which takes place starting 168 years after the founding of the Federation. There are involved and detailed rules for combat at a fleet level, ship construction and conversion and economics. 

The game has undergone two major revisions, first in  and later in . There are numerous expansions to the game which provide more detailed rules and additional types of ships. Further expansions are in progress which will provide rules for conflicts outside the time frame of the General War and several scenarios have already been published in editions of Amarillo Design Bureau's magazine Captain's Log.

Amarillo Design Bureau released Federation and Empire 2010 in June of . This new edition includes rules clarifications and reworked counters, but is backward compatible with the existing Federation and Empire supplements.

External link 
 Official Federation and Empire site at StarFleetGames.com
Games