Interstellar: The Conquest of a Galaxy

Interstellar is an abstract wargame with three levels of play:

 Interstellar Convoy is for two players and has two types of units: transports and warships. Transports move one space per turn, as do warships unless they start in interstellar space, in which case they can move up to 15 spaces in a line. The object is to get all your transports back to your home planet first (or get more of them back than your opponent does, since they can be destroyed).



 Interstellar Miner is also for two players, although the included FAQ sheet adds rules for three and four. In this version some non-home planets have mineral resources which the transports pick up and deliver to the home planets; each time this occurs a new ship can be built. When the resources are exhausted the player with the most ships wins.



 Interstellar Conquest is for two to four players. It works the same as the Miner game except that there are more types of units: civilian populations that man the production facilities, military corps that can be carried to enemy planets to destroy the civilians, orbital fortresses that defend the home planets, and doomsday missiles that can destroy everything in a 3x3 square. The winner is the player who conquers all the others, although the rules suggest this can take a long time and the game could be played until just one planet is conquered.