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From: ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli)
Newsgroups: net.games.board
Subject: Stellar Conquest
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Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 16:48:34 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  7 16:48:34 1985
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> >
> > Illuminati  (Steve Jackson Games):
> > 	I reviewed this recently in net.games, so I'll just say
> > 	that it is great for anyone with a slightly warped sense
> > 	of humor and a cynical mind.  Fast and playable.
> > 
> 
> 	If you like this one try "Stellar Conquest" designed
> 	by Steve Jackson before his split with "Metagaming" I
> 	hear its been bastardized (new counters that look like
> 	death stars...etc) and put on the market by Avalon
> 	Hill. Not sure but thats what I'm told.  
> 

Minor technicality:  SC was designed by Howard Thompson, founder of
Metagaming Concepts (later Metagaming).  Basically a businessman
rather than a wargame designer, Thompson's only published designs
are (to my knowledge) SC and Chitin:  I.  The long-awaited
Hymenoptera was never published.

Thompson's company is now defunct, so we're lucky AH picked up the
SC title as it's quite an enjoyable game.  Steve Jackson used to
work for Metagaming and his departure from that company pretty much
coincided with its failing fortunes.  He is obviously a veteran of
many SC games and some time back published two full pages of errata
in his company's magazine The Space Gamer (which, by the way, has been
sold to Diverse Talents, Inc.  and will now only appear as an insert
in The VIP of Gaming).

> 	"Stellar Conqest" is a political/economic/war game.
> 	Heavy on the economics.  A "war monger" probably wont
> 	win but a accountant will be trounced....you need a
> 	little of both. GREAT GAME. (plays best with 4 players
> 	but in some tournaments I've been in we played three
> 	and 2 player games.
> 

Has anyone out there who has played the Metagaming version picked up
AH's new release?  Have the rules glitches been ironed out?  Are
there any new twists?  How much are they charging?
-- 
					--rick heli
					(... ucbvax!ucdavis!groucho!ccrrick)