Star is a two-player abstract strategy game designed by Ea Ea as the third out of four games by him extending or generalizing Hex. The four games in publication order: The Game of Y, Poly-Y, Star, and *Star. See further details of the developmental history at the designer's homepage. The game board for Star is a hexagon with uneven side lengths made up of...
"*Star is an abstract strategy connection board game for two players, the end product of the evolution from Hex to Y to Poly-Y to Star to *Star." (from website) Whereas Hex and Y, the most popular of this line of games, are purely about connecting edges, *Star balances occupying edge spaces and connecting your groups together. Basically, occupied edge...
From the back of the box: GET TO CRYSTAL CITY BEFORE THE ROBOTS TAKE OVER A landing party from the starship "Aurora" beams down to explore an uncharted planet in search of provisions. The spacemen meet unfriendly robots who move about trying to keep the "invaders" from entering Crystal City. But the spacemen need supplies, so they plot thier course over...
Star Chart is a deep puzzle game; pass cards around the table, forming your star chart to match as many constellations as possible. Get 15 points first to win! The game also comes with a booklet of puzzles to solve yourself or with friends :) Star Chart is a drafting game, each turn all players pick a card from their hand to add to their chart, and one...
"The Game of Circular, Spiral, and Straight Manneuvers" Star*Chess is a chess derivative that features a board of tesselated quadrilaterals surrounding a ten-pointed star. Each player has a general, two brigadier generals, colonels, majors, captains, 1st lieutenants and three 2nd lieutenants. The first five types move like kings, queens, rooks, bishops and...
Star Conquest is a game of resource management that emphasizes three aspects: the extraction of minerals (mining) and its management, policy/diplomacy (Consuls), and militarization (Fleet of Ships). Players compete each other, economically, politically and militarily, in a grid game that represents the Alpha Centauri System. Players build their own ships...
Description from the publisher: Star Control is a family board game, set in a theme based on the conquest of the universe. The game is for 2, 3 or 4 players with games of an estimated duration in 75 minutes and oriented to players of more than 8 years. It allows you to create your own game scenarios and uses a mixture of simple, well-oiled mechanics that...
It is a period of war. The intergalactic empires of Enate and Kurth have grown desperate as scare resources have forced them to aggressively expand across the universe. They use planetary nodes as instruments of war, consuming entire star systems in the blink of an eye. Now the two empires compete for the final goal: Complete domination of the universe. In...
This is it, pilot. The ultimate battle. Your fleet is flying toward the enemy, breaking formation to engage individual ships. Each ship charges toward an enemy sector, raising shields to prevent attacks. You have three classes of ships, and your goal is to destroy enough fighting capacity of the enemy fleet to defeat it. A Star Fleet Scramble set includes:...
1,000 years in the future, humanity has traveled well beyond their Sol home to carve out a new empire in a nearby fold of the galaxy. Mankind has all but given up their warlike ways, instead following a destiny of peace, exploration, and discovery. However, in the year 1044 A.E. (After Exodus), the cyborg race Xyl discovered humanity, and proceeded to...
From the Developer: Star Siege offers the player a friendly game of strategy that is easy to learn and fun to play. "The Zyntrac galaxy is the closest galaxy to the Black Hole. Of the Zyntrac Galaxy, the four closest galactic sectors contain the most energy and power of any galactic sectors in the universe. The very essence of this untapped power is reason...