Tabletop games
Starship Troopers
Avalon Hill, 1976
Starship Troopers is a tabletop game published by Avalon Hill in 1976. It is played with 1 to 2 players, from age 12 and in about 120 minutes.
- players
- 1–2
- minutes
- 120
- years
- 12+
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The box
- Publishers
- Avalon Hill, The Avalon Hill Game Co
- Designer
- Randall C. Reed
- Artwork
- George Goebel, Richard Hamblen, Looking Glass Photographics, Emily March, Randall C. Reed
- Year of release
- 1976
- Also known as
- Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers
About the game
Starship Troopers is a board wargame by Avalon Hill based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein. It was originally released in 1976 and designed by Randall C. Reed. Twenty years later, Avalon Hill redesigned and re-released a "movie" version (entitled Starship Troopers: Prepare for Battle!) in 1997 to coincide with the movie's release.
The game is a hexagon-based wargame for two players. The player who takes the side of Arachnids has a sheet of paper with a copy of the map-board, on which he plots out his bug-hive and tunnel system. The Mobile Infantry player sends in his soldiers and tries to dig them out. A third faction, the Skinnies, starts out playing on the bug side, but switches to the human side during later scenarios.More from Avalon Hill
- Risk Legacy · 2011
- Risk · 1957
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- Diplomatie · 1959
- HeroQuest · 1989
- RoboRally · 1994
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