games founded 1981 headquarters amarillo texas united states key people stephen v cole president revenue 250 000 estimate number of employees 5 estimate website starfleetgames.com footnotes references source dun & bradstreet 1 part of the article series on star fleet universe games star fleet battles federation commander federation and empire prime directive role playing game star fleet battle force star trek starfleet command star trek starfleet command ii empires at war star trek starfleet command orion pirates captain s log amarillo design bureau is a company which specializes in tactical and strategic board wargames . the company is a successor to task force games 2 and is owned and operated by steve and leanna cole with partner steve petrick and based in amarillo texas . the company created and developed the series of games set in the star trek based star fleet universe under license from paramount pictures 3 which includes the tactical combat games star fleet battles 4 and federation commander the strategic level game federation and empire the card based tactical game star fleet battle force and the role playing game prime directive . 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 . games developed by amarillo design bureau have influenced other game designers such as taldren inc. and they have been used in the development of some video games . 5 6 references edit www.manta.com . dun and bradstreet . retrieved 2012 06 19 . pyramid interview stephen v. cole . retrieved 2008 01 08 . mcbride jim . space the familiar frontier . amarillo globe news . retrieved 2012 06 19 . nesmith bruce 2007 . star fleet battles . in lowder james . hobby games the 100 best . green ronin publishing . pp. 295 297 . isbn 978 1 932442 96 0 . bethke erik 2003 . game development and production . wordware publishing inc. p. 11 . isbn 1 55622 951 8 . 1 lucas andrew j. 1999 11 12 . pyramid pick starfleet command . pyramid online . steve jackson games . retrieved 2008 02 20 . dead link external links edit official amarillo design bureau inc. site amarillo design bureau at boardgamegeek this wargame related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title amarillo design bureau & oldid 721296090 categories companies based in amarillo texasboard game publishing companiesrole playing game publishing companiesstar fleet universewargame stubshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from june 2012all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 20 may 2016 at 21 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view