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Artifact: Expanded Rules

Artifact: Expanded Rules

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Players:
0
Time:
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Min. Age:
0
Shuttlewars

Shuttlewars

boardgame

A tactical board game depicting orbital combat near Earth between the Space Shuttle, equipped with a heavy pulse laser, and three killer satellites armed with similar lasers or explosive devices.

Players:
1–2
Time:
30 min
Min. Age:
10
StarBlazers Fleet Simulator

StarBlazers Fleet Simulator

boardgame

StarBlazers Fleet Simulator is a miniatures rule set designed for the StarBlazers Mini Kit plastic models. The game was published in the October/November 1987 issue of Space Gamer and Fantasy Gamer.

Players:
2
Time:
–
Min. Age:
12
Orbit War

Orbit War

boardgame

Orbit War is a satellite warfare simulation game by Steve Jackson Games, published in Space Gamer in 1983. Players control the USA or the APU with the objective of destroying enemy satellites in low Earth orbit.

Players:
2
Time:
60 min
Min. Age:
12
Globbo!

Globbo!

boardgame

Globbo is an asymmetrical strategy game featuring a growing, powerful creature battling numerous children in an alien playpen. The small units can explode, multiply, and damage Globbo while trying to survive its attacks.

Players:
2
Time:
45 min
Min. Age:
12
Battlesuit

Battlesuit

boardgame

This Pocket Box game in the Ogre universe uses a different scale where each counter represents a single infantryman. It includes a map, counters, and rules, but is incompatible with the main series.

Players:
2
Time:
60 min
Min. Age:
10
Crash City

Crash City

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"Sunday Drivers" (later renamed "Crash City") is a Car Wars supplement for three to six players. It includes two scenarios, a large street map, rules, and full-color counters for various vehicles and pedestrians.

Players:
2–8
Time:
90 min
Min. Age:
10
Nexum Galaxy: Asteroids

Nexum Galaxy: Asteroids

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Players:
1–4
Time:
40–90 min
Min. Age:
12
Tartars and Martyrs

Tartars and Martyrs

boardgame

This experimental microgame from Space Gamer 20 features five European martyrs trying to convert five Tartars before dying. Martyrs cannot fight, but converted ones can. Survival and attacks are determined entirely by dice rolls.

Players:
2
Time:
15 min
Min. Age:
10
Necromancer

Necromancer

boardgame

Necromancer is a two-player fantasy duel. Players control undead forces of skeletons and zombies in combat. Controlling more units weakens each individual one. The objective is to find the mystic jewels of power and destroy the enemy necromancer.

Players:
2
Time:
60 min
Min. Age:
12
Party Brawl

Party Brawl

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Players:
1
Time:
30 min
Min. Age:
0
Kung Fu 2100

Kung Fu 2100

boardgame

As a martial artist, you infiltrate the tyrannical CloneMaster's fortress to destroy him. The game features tactical combat resolved primarily through known chits, where every strike can be fatal. Time is short.

Players:
1–2
Time:
90 min
Min. Age:
12