Back in the 70s, when hobby boardgaming largely meant wargaming, a number of small games companies started up. One of the more successful of these was formed by and Allen Eldridge as (TFG). Many of their early games were “Pocket Games” published in ziplock bags. The first was and the fourth was (SFB).

Sir Mix A Lot Chief Boot Knocka Rar. They produced many more games but these two, particularly SFB, were the company’s bread and butter. SFB’s popularity led to Steve Cole leaving TFG to form (ADB) whose sole product was SFB material which TFG would publish.

TFG went through a number of changes and owners over the years and finally closed its doors in the 90s. A deal was struck which transformed ADB into the legal publisher of SFB and it immediately revamped the franchise and has continued to develop it to this day. Along with the rights to SFB were transferred the copyright to a number of other games, many of which Steve Cole had been the designer. ADB has now made some of those games available for purchase as downloadable PDFs which are listed below.

The Stars at War [The Starfire series] pdf. The history by force game. Task force games' nexus good condition copies can.

They are currently available through 3 locations: Steve Jackson Games e23 Warehouse (Steve Jackson is a long time friend of Steve Cole.) DriveThru RPG.net Wargamevault Not all of the games are at every location but most are at e23. ADB is continuing to release more old TFG games. Exactly which others they have the rights to and when they will be released I have no idea but I will attempt to update this list when that happens. Please note that I am not affiliated with Amarillo Design Bureau and am not trying to market these games.

I am merely a fan wishing to share with others the availability of some great old games. This actually predates TFG. JagdPanther was a magazine created and published by Steve Cole. Advanced C Programming By Example Pdf on this page. Each issue contained various wargame discussions, variants for existing games, and a complete game. Issue 5 contained the game, recreating the airship attacks over Bitain in WWI. All issues #1 to #15 are available.

Games included: #1 MP44, Cowpens, Scrimmage IV #2 ACAV, Crazy Horse, Eban Emael #3 MTB (Motor Torpedo Boat) #4 Sidi Rezegh, Alderkampf, Graf Spee, Halocaust, Komet und Meteor #5, RN (Naval World War II miniatures) #6 WWIII #7 #8 & #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15. Humans were ready to colonize the planet Cerberus.

Cetians, a reptile-like species had arrived there first and didn’t want to share! So on June 10, 2096, the human force arrived at Cerberus, ready to take over the planet. Can they do it?

Return to 1979 and try an exciting, two-player game of fast maneuvers and action, sure to excite new and experienced gamers of all ages. Cerberus was the first game to cover combat over the entire surface of a planet. A new and unique system is used to depict the curved surface of the planet. The 108 multi-colored playing pieces depict the bases, spaceports, mobile battalions, and Special Forces platoons that landed and fought on Cerberus. This was scanned from the best-available, second-edition copy and contains the rules and images of the counters and map.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Task Force Games was a game company started in 1979 by Allen Eldridge and. Cole left the company in the early 1980's, but continued to design the company's best selling game. Eldridge sold the company to New World Computing in 1988. The company went through an additional change of ownership and is currently out of business. The series of games is currently published by the original designers, TFG published many games, including the series of games which were later novelized by into such books as, and. They also published historical games such as Battlewagon and History of the Second World War. Task Force Games also published a series of Pocket Games, their version of.