Star Fleet Battles: Commander's SSD Book
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Star Fleet Battles: Commander's SSD Book is a series of nine separate supplements published by Amarillo Design Bureau from 1983 to 1987 for the tactical science fiction wargame Star Fleet Battles, which was based on Star Trek.
In 1979, Task Force Games published Star Fleet Battles, a tactical board wargame based on the original Star Trek television series and movies. In 1983, a new version of the game was released as the Commander's Edition. Concurrent with this, Task Force Games started to publish supplements called Commander's SSD Books. Each of these contained the SSDs (Ship's System Displays) for 25–48 new ships.
Each SSD contains a checkbox diagram to track how much damage shields, hulls and ship systems have taken; it also includes all the data needed by the player, including the ship's maneuverability, movement cost, and weapons tables. There are also check boxes for crew, boarding parties, drones, and probes.[1]
From 1983 to 1987, Task Force Games published nine books in the series.