I received a game at Christmas called Star Trek Alliance. It is a miniatures strategy game based on Star Wars: X Wing game. These are both from Fantasy Flight Games.
Recently set up the game to play for the first time. I like the detailed nature of the game and it's open play, but the turn-of-play is rather complicated. Very straightfoward, but also complicated. I find myself not keeping things in the proper order. So, I thought this might be a good idea for a first Java project. And, this is it.
It's still under major construction. I'm going further than just a simple step minder. I'm adding in ship classes, captain classes, die rolls, and other things I can think of. However, as a simple step minder, it works pretty good so far.
I have it set up as a Maven folder structure, but it uses CLI steps for compile and jar file building. Those are included. You can also check out the bash script repo I built to automate building this kind of Java project at
create-java-project