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The Sword and the Stars

SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.), 1981

The Sword and the Stars is a tabletop game published by SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.) in 1981. It is played with 1 to 5 players, from age 12 and in about 240 minutes.

players
1–5
minutes
240
years
12+

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Publisher
SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)
Designer
Eric Lee Smith
Artwork
John W. Pierard, Redmond Aksel Simonsen
Year of release
1981

About the game

The Sword and the Stars is a science fiction board game of empire building published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1981 that is based on the rules from the previously published medieval wargame Empires of the Middle Ages (EOTMA).
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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