From Precis Intermedia

"WARCOSM is an easy-to-learn and quick-paced tabletop game that simulates fleet-based space battles using either miniatures or flat counters.

Maneuver the enemy so that you can bring more weapons to bear on them. Find an enemy craft’s weaknesses to maximize the effectiveness of your attacks. Warcosm’s game mechanics encourage such tactics without overwhelming you with endless rules. This permits each player to control six, ten, or even a few dozen ships for scalable battles. Once you get the hang of the rules with the included battle scenarios, use the ship construction rules to build your own fleets. Decide how to arm your ships, the degree and types of hull protection, the types and power of drive systems, and whether or not to equip them with a number of other subsystems. The fate of the galaxy is in your hands. Command your fleets and lead them to Victory in the Stars."

8/11/2008 - The Warcosm Shipyard design utility is now available for purchase and download for both Macs and PCs.  

This application takes all the number-crunching and paperwork out of the design process. Create prototype starships quickly and easily, and save your designs for archival or to trade with other players.

The Warcosm Shipyard not only saves your ships, it can export them as JPG images and HTML data for use on web pages or as special code that works on the Precis Intermedia Collaborative or message board pages. And if that weren't enough, ship data can be copied to the clipboard and pasted into your favorite word processor document for easy fleet management. (The Warcosm Icons font is required for text exporting and word processor usage; the font is available with the Warcosm PDF and this download.)

7/7/2008 - Warcosm has been released as a downloadable pdf which consists of a 20 page rulebook, scenario sheets, Hex-Grid Sheet (print multiple copies to define the size of your playing area), 270 Ship Counters, and TrueType font to reproduce weapon bearings (compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X).  A Starter Set is also available which consists of printed versions of the pdf contents a 10-sided die plus a copy of the pdf file. 

5/15/2008 - Posted on 4/16 on their forums: "Warcosm is nearing completion. Fighter squadron rules have been added."

1/15/2008 - Precis Intermedia has announced in their forums that they are working on a tactical space combat game, Warcosm, and their is no set release date yet.  It's a fleet-based tactical game designed to be quick-playing and easy to learn, and similar in scope to the original Starfire game.  It will be initially be released as a pdf download with a printed version to come.

Here is a sample ship with all the data needed to play: