BattleFleet Mars
BattleFleet Mars, subtitled "Space Combat in the 21st Century", is a science fiction board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1977 that simulates combat in the inner Solar System.BattleFleet Mars is a two-player game in which one player controls spaceships owned by rich Earth corporations that have made vast amounts of money from mining in the asteroid belt, and the other player controls spaceships used by miners on Mars and on asteroids who are seeking independence from Terran control.The game box or ziplock bag comes with: The map does not have a standard hex grid."[1] In the next issue of The Space Gamer, Lynn David Wolpert was ambivalent, concluding, "I would say to take the game at face value.Freeman concluded by giving the game an Overall Evaluation of only "Fair", saying, "A lot of effort has gone into BattleFleet Mars, but playing it takes more work that the subject justifies.