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Star Viking is a 1981 board game published by Heritage Models.

Gameplay

Star Viking is a game in which one player is the Federate force trying to protect a cluster of star systems, while the other player is the Star Vikings, coming to raid and plunder.[1]

Reception

Steve Jackson reviewed Star Viking in The Space Gamer No. 46.[1] Jackson commented that "I give Star Viking an qualified recommendation. It would almost be worth the price foe the maps and counters alone! If you like the idea of plunder in outer space, you should probably pick this game up... but you may want to rewrite a lot of the rules to suit yourself. If Heritage had to 'borrow' so heavily from H. Beam Piper's [Space Viking], it's too bad they couldn't have done it justice."[1]

Steve List reviewed Star Viking in Ares Magazine #12 and commented that "Star Viking as a game approaches Imperium (to which it bears a resemblance) in excellent as a game of strategic space opera."[2]

Reviews

References

  1. ^ a b c Jackson, Steve (December 1981). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer (46). Steve Jackson Games: 32.
  2. ^ List, Steve (January 1982). "Games". Ares Magazine (12). Simulations Publications, Inc.: 28-29.