Warriors of the Green Planet (board game)

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Warriors of the Green Planet is a 1976 board wargame published by Fact and Fantasy Games.

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Gameplay

Warriors of the Green Planet is the third game in the Warriors of the Green Planet Trilogy and uses rules for futuristic ground combat. [1]

Reception

Lewis Pulsipher reviewed The Green Planet Trilogy for White Dwarf #2 , and stated that "Warriors manifests a peculiarity of the designer's view of warfare which is exhibited to much worse effect in Siege of Minas Tirith – cavalry are merely fast infantry." [2]

W. G. Armintrout reviewed Warriors of the Green Planet as part of the trilogy in The Space Gamer No. 27. [1] Armintrout commented that "Warriors of the Green Planet is a challenging game of post-holocaust combat." [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Armintrout, W. G. (March–April 1980). "Featured Review: The Warriors of the Green Planet Trilogy". The Space Gamer . Steve Jackson Games (27): 28–29.
  2. ↑ Pulsipher, Lewis (August–September 1977). "The Green Planet: Trilogy of Games". White Dwarf . No. 2. Games Workshop. pp. 8–10.
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