Star Explorer game by FGU!

 

Once again we delve into the backlog and pull out a game from 1982!! Star Explorer, a space adventure board game that can mesh with the Starships & Spacemen RPG.

 Players:

Mark E. and Mightyeroc.

We set up the game and just played a single player test session. A standard game is supposed to last 20 turns. We tried to see if we could accomplish the mission to explore 4 planets and solve the quests involved on each one.

The board set-up

Somehow all 4 planets that we need to explore ended up at the maximum distance away from the Starbase starting point. This was going to be a tough test game session.

The ship and crew

Battle with the Zangid!

Halfway to the 1st planet we ran afoul of a Zangid cruiser! We damaged them enough to cause them to retreat, while we suffered only minor damage.

Lots of Stellar encounters

On the way to the second planet the encounters kept coming! We had a Space cloud, an Asteroid field and lastly a Gravity Well, before finally reaching the 2nd planet on our roster.

All in all this turned out to be a really cool little game, and has great combo-potential for use with Starships & Spacemen RPG. We will be following this up with a second session where will try a two player co-op game.

Check back soon Space Cadets!!!