Amarillo Design Bureau is a company which specializes in tactical and strategic board

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. The company is a successor to Task Force Games, and is owned and operated by Steve and Leanna Cole, with partner Steve Petrick, and based in Amarillo,

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. The company created and developed the series of games set in the ''

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''-based Star Fleet Universe, under license from

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, which includes the tactical combat games '' Star Fleet Battles'' and '' Federation Commander'', the strategic-level game '' Federation and Empire'', the card-based tactical game '' Star Fleet Battle Force'' and the role-playing game ''

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''. They also produce a large series of miniatures under the ''Starline 2400'' and ''Starline 2500'' label, as well as the biannual ''Captain's Log'' magazine.
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