![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The game is broken down into seven different scenarios, and the scenarios are designed so that the game rules are introduced a few at a time as the scenarios progress (but can then all be played using the full set of rules). The scenarios for the game were used to recreate the battles described in the novel in a realistic way. ![]() In a 1977 review of the original (1976) Avalon Hill game, Martin Easterbrook stated that "All in all this is probably the best SF game currently on the market because it has the well worked out background of Heinlein's novel and because it is an extrapolation of current military technology, allowing Avalon Hill to use their experience in game design and gave the game an overall 9/10 rating. A third faction, the Skinnies, starts out playing on the bug side, but switches to the human side during later scenarios. The Mobile Infantry player sends in his soldiers and tries to dig them out. The player who takes the side of Arachnids has a sheet of paper with a copy of the map-board on which he plots out his bug-hive and tunnel system. The game is a hexagon-based wargame for two players. Avalon Hill redesigned and re-released a "movie" version (entitled Starship Troopers: Prepare for Battle!) in 1997 to coincide with the movie's release. It was originally released in 1976 and designed by Randall C. Starship Troopers is a board wargame by Avalon Hill based on the novel of the same name by Robert A. Cover art for the original release of the game. ![]()
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