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StarForce is a board game for 1–3 players using a map with 74 star systems in a sphere 40 light years in diameter, with Earth at the center. [1] Ships are moved from place to place through telekinetic powers. If opposing ships end up in the same space, combat results. The game has two sets of rules for Basic and Advanced games.
The story revolves around an ongoing war between humans and an intergalactic organization named the Master Force. [1] After the Master Force destroy the fictional planet Marinarc, the base of operations of the resistance, a prototype starfighter called the Fighting Ray is deployed in hopes of destroying the Master Force once and for all.
Dark Nebula is a strategic game about space combat which is based on the previously published Imperium board game. [1] Dark Nebula was part of a series produced by GDW called "Series 120" — games with 120 pieces that were designed to be learned and played in 120 minutes. [2] The names of the opposing forces, the Solomani Confederation and the ...
Some elements of the game are similar to that of Star Fleet Battles, which was also created by Task Force Games in 1979, including the impulse based movement system and a ship sheet with shields, armor and weapons that are destroyed in a specific order. Starfire is a much faster-player game designed for far bigger fleet combats, not including ...
Nebula 19 is a two-player wargame of interstellar starship combat that takes place in a starcluster consisting of 15 stars and seven large nebulae. [1] In addition to using traditional two-dimensional X- and Y-axis coordinates on a hex map to track unit location, players also add a Z-axis coordinate indicating the unit's altitude above the map to simulate a three-dimensional combat system. [2]
Landing to collect minerals is a typical activity in the game but not all planets are equally hospitable. The player begins the game in a space station called Starport Outpost 1 with a meager allotment of funds for outfitting a spaceship and training crew members in the skills needed to operate it. Crew members are chosen from one of five races ...
The game is set in the year 2094, following the events in the previous Task Force Games wargame Asteroid Zero-Four. [1] The Russian and American forces who had fought each other for control of the asteroid belt in the previous game now discover a warp point that allows them to jump to Proxima Centauri and invade an alien planet. [2]
NGC 6357 is a diffuse nebula near NGC 6334 in the constellation Scorpius. The nebula contains many proto-stars shielded by dark discs of gas, and young stars wrapped in expanding "cocoons" or expanding gases surrounding these small stars. It is also known as the Lobster Nebula.