#stellar conquest

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Spaceships of The Space Gamer #25, three by Will McLean and one by Robert Manns (Metagaming, November-December 1979)

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Stellar Conquest (Frank Kelly Freas' 1979 color art for Metagaming's boxed 3rd edition, originally appeared in monochrome on the 1975 1st and 2nd editions; Avalon Hill published a 1984 edition with new art)

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The Space Gamer 25, "Special Stellar Conquest Issue" with additional content for Melee and The Fantasy Trip, Rivets, and benefit cost analysis in wargaming, with Robert Phillips' full wrap-around cover (Metagaming, November-December 1979)

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Stellar Conquest, James Talbot’s box cover for Avalon Hill’s 1984 edition of Howard Thompson’s game, originally published by Metagaming in 1975 in a simple bagged format.  I believe this was the first 4-player game of expanding space empires, hugely influential on later sci-fi board and computer games.

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Warships of Conquête Stellaire by Xavier, from article about Stellar Conquest in Casus Belli 30, January 1986.  Perhaps because of a certain movie series, the Avalon Hill 1984 edition of the game renamed the largest warship class from “dreadnought” to “death star”.

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Colony ships en route to a new home. (Metagaming's Stellar Conquest, from ad in Sticks &Stones.)