Star Fleet Marines! The toughest hombres in space storm through the airlocks and blast the enemy. Whether on a base, starship, or planet, the Marines will teach the enemy a lesson they will not soon forget! The rulebook was updated in 2007 and the SSD book was updated in 2007 and again in 2010; the counters remain the same.
The rulebook has three new rules, new ship descriptions, and 16 new scenarios. The new rules are (D15.0) Ground Combat, (D16.0) Advanced Boarding Party Combat, and (E20.0) Transporter Artillery. There are also numerous Boarding Tables. The SSD book contains SSDs for General, Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Kzinti, Tholian , Orion, Hydran, Andromedan, Lyran, WYN, Inter-Stellar Concordium, and Lyran Democratic Republic commando ships. There are boarding party diagrams for all those empires and also the Seltorians.
The rulebook provides additional rules, ship descriptions, scenarios, and Boarding Tables for use in Star Fleet Battles. Matching ships and boarding party diagrams are in the SSD books. You must have the Module M Rulebook, SFB Basic Set, or Master Rulebook in order to utilize this material. Most of the ships require the Advanced Missions set or the SFB Master Rulebook. Some material will also require Modules C1, C2, and C3 to be used to full effect.