As a kid I received a copy of star trek rebellion. The disk came without any sort of documentation and I spent the next few weeks learning to play the game sight unseen. Flash forward to 2021, I bought this game and then rather stupidly failed to read the manual... BUT in failure I learned! Each iteration of my empire I get better, the systems become less opaque. This is a brilliant game with so many moving parts that I could write a small essay about but I will leave with a small story. My most recent game the Ironborn had pushed back all minor factions and were waging war against the Larellan Combine, my west was a wasteland that occasional raiders would emerge from but be thrown back by the mighty forces of the western rangers. Nearly 40 units appeared then on the west, giant mutants smashed into my western border. The western rangers fought a valiant, but ultimately hopeless, rearguard action buying time for the mighty first to return from the Larellan front. tens of thousands of brave soldiers died. Cities rose up in protest at the cost and either were brutally suppressed or fell to the mutant hordes. Finally at the capital it ended, 23 units held the line for 12 turns until the mutants dispersed. Battered, broken but alive my faction shakily took its' next steps into the waste land who knows what they'll find?

As a kid I received a copy of star trek rebellion. The disk came without any sort of documentation and I spent the next few weeks learning to play the game sight unseen. Flash forward to 2021, I bought this game and then rather stupidly failed to read the manual... BUT in failure I learned! Each iteration of my empire I get better, the systems become less opaque. This is a brilliant game with so many moving parts that I could write a small essay about but I will leave with a small story. My most recent game the Ironborn had pushed back all minor factions and were waging war against the Larellan Combine, my west was a wasteland that occasional raiders would emerge from but be thrown back by the mighty forces of the western rangers. Nearly 40 units appeared then on the west, giant mutants smashed into my western border. The western rangers fought a valiant, but ultimately hopeless, rearguard action buying time for the mighty first to return from the Larellan front. tens of thousands of brave soldiers died. Cities rose up in protest at the cost and either were brutally suppressed or fell to the mutant hordes. Finally at the capital it ended, 23 units held the line for 12 turns until the mutants dispersed. Battered, broken but alive my faction shakily took its' next steps into the waste land who knows what they'll find?