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

Wargaming

A wargame is a strategy game that deals with military operations of various types, real or fictional. Wargaming is the hobby dedicated to the play of such games, which can also be called conflict simulations, or consims for short. When used professionally to study warfare, it is generally known as...

. The company is a successor to Task Force Games

Task Force Games

Task Force Games was a game company started in 1979 by Allen Eldridge and Stephen Cole. Mr. Cole left the company in the early 1980's, but continued to design the company's best selling Star Fleet Battles game. Mr. Eldridge sold the company to New World Computing in 1988...

, and is owned and operated by Steve and Leanna Cole, with partner Steve Petrick, and based in Amarillo, Texas

Texas

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

Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...

-based Star Fleet Universe

Star Fleet Universe

The Star Fleet Universe is the variant of the Star Trek fictional universe detailed in the series of Star Fleet Battles games from Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. and used as reference for the Starfleet Command series of computer games...

, under license from Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

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, which includes the tactical combat games Star Fleet Battles

Star Fleet Battles

Star Fleet Battles is a tactical board wargame set in an offshoot of the Star Trek setting called the Star Fleet Universe. Originally created in 1979 by Stephen V. Cole,...

and Federation Commander

Federation Commander

Federation Commander is a tactical starship combat board wargame system, produced and developed by Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. It is designed to represent combat between vessels of various factions in the Star Fleet Universe, such as the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire...

, the strategic-level game Federation and Empire

Federation and Empire

Federation and Empire is a strategic-level board wargame set in the fictional Star Fleet Universe spinoff of Star Trek, currently published by Amarillo Design Bureau Inc....

, the card-based tactical game Star Fleet Battle Force

Star Fleet Battle Force

Star Fleet Battle Force is a card-based starship combat game system, produced and developed by Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. It allows fast-paced multiplayer combat between vessels of various factions in the Star Fleet Universe, such as the Federation, the Klingon and Romulan Empires, the Gorn...

and the role-playing game Prime Directive

Prime Directive (role-playing game)

Prime Directive is a role-playing game set in the Star Trek-derived Star Fleet Universe. The game has gone through two different incarnations.-Prime Directive RPG:...

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

Games developed by Amarillo Design Bureau have influenced other game designers such as Taldren, Inc.

Taldren, Inc.

Taldren, Inc. in Costa Mesa, California, was the developer behind the Star Trek: Starfleet Command series published by Activision and Interplay....

 and they have been used in the development of some video games.