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Year Published
2004
# of Players
2 − 8
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 5 players
Recommended with 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 players
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Playing Time
240 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
12 and up
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Language Dependence
Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable
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Subdomain
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Battlestations
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Simultaneous Ship to Ship Combat and Boarding Action simulator with light role-playing.

"You and your friends each play the role of a crew member on a starship that faces whatever grief the referee throws at you. You'll blast enemies, pull outrageous maneuvers, unlock the secrets of alien cultures, and crank the last bit of juice out of an overtaxed engine while trying not to get yourself, your crew, or your starship blown to bits in the process."

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Home Page: http://www.battlestations.info/

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Battlestations allows players to operate a star ship acting as the crew. Players can be a Marine, Pilot, Scientist or Engineer. They move about the ship drawing power from the engines and putting it into guns, shields and helm. They can fire missiles and cannons at enemy ships. The ship can be maneuvered through asteroid filled battlefields. Scanning for information and using electric counter measures are all part of the action.

The game uses two types of boards, both using tiles to build an large number of different designs. One board is made up of a black hex map and ship/planet tokens track where everything is in relation to each other in space. The other tiles are used to build a space ship which can be a scout or a full planet bombarding dreadnought. The players place their character on the tiles forming the ship and move them around to operate the components from engines to hyper-drives to science bays to guns.

Fight from a distance or close in and conduct boarding actions. Recreate major space battles, or challenge players by forcing them to fight off a pirate incursion with pistols and rifles.


Battlestations is played by having one player playing the role of referee as Game Master. The other players create characters who will man a capital star ship and try to accomplish missions for the Galactic Federation.

This game is only limited by your creativity. Don't miss out on a a chance to experience a truly unique game.

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Publisher: Gorilla Games
Artist: Todd Boyce, A. D. Hamilton, Patrick Morgan, Jason Siadekmore»
Year: 2008
Product Code: OOC 0802
Size: 11.00 x 11.00 x 2.00 inches
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Publisher: Gorilla Games
Artist: Todd Boyce, A. D. Hamilton, Patrick Morgan
Year: 2004
Product Code: OOC 0401
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7 List of Special Abilities
...from Core, Pirates of Trundlia and Pax Galacticum. Unfortunately I do not own GCW :(
2012-01-19
3 Battlestations ID CARD (Charactersheet)
U.R.E.F. ID CARD for Battlestations Characters. Doesn't include luck or aktual hitpoints, 'cause we use extra counters for these. Template is based upon the charactersheet from www.battlestations.info.
2011-12-20
6 Action Overview (sorted by profession)
Quick overview of actions for each profession with common general actions on each site as well. so every player can have his/her own action summary. This pdf combines some of the other summaries around here and copied a few of them. Sorry for that! Enjoy.
2011-12-16
6 Ship module requirements
This Open Office spreadsheet contains the module requirements for any of the published ships. Look up the ship you are interested in and immediately find all the modules it uses.
2009-05-09
5 *ALIENS* Supplement for battlestations and standups
This is a short few pages for using the creatures in the ALIENS franchise in battlestations. In it are the Egg, Facehugger, Chestburster and of course the Adult Warrior. With these rules one can open up far more possibilities for the game, or just play the events in the movies! I dont own Battlestations or Aliens.
2009-01-18
27 Battlestations 10 Minute Demo
This is a bare bones version of Battlestations designed to give the player a feel for the game without having to plumb the rich depths of the rulebook
2009-01-16
0 Professional Upgrades
A home-brew ruleset that allows Engineers to have more customizable modules and Scientists to specialize the upgrade of personal items. It forces those professions to accumulate data on missions to use for the upgrades.
2009-01-12
0 Piloting Maneuvers
This house-rule allows the pilot to accumulate flight recorder data during a mission. The pilot can then study the data to accure "manuevers", a special set of actions allowing the pilot to let the ship do something outstanding, and sometimes destructive to the enemy.
2009-01-12
24 Battlestations v1.1 Cheatsheet PDF
This is a PDF version of the cheatsheet included in the v1.1 box set. Designer approved for upload.
2008-10-16
10 Battlestations Character Standups
Here are all 6 species x all 4 professions + Cargo Items, bugs and diplomats. This color PDF prints out at 8.5 x 11. We suggest you print this sheet on photographic paper. Thanks for playing Battlestations!
2008-10-04
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