I bought Task Force Game’s Star Fleet Battles back in the 70s when it was cardboard counters on a hex map. We played it a lot and there were many expansions for it.

The SFC computer games are very faithful to the war game regarding tactical battles. However, the campaigns are miserable and since no one has convinced me that the next iterations are any better, I haven’t played SFC2 or 3. I would prefer the game to dump the personal role playing aspects and let us build and control fleets anywhere. There is no excuse for the lack of a good dynamic campaign in any sort of flight sim.