Double Star

Double Star is a 1979 science fiction board wargame, designed by Marc Miller, and published by Game Designers' Workshop that simulates interplanetary warfare in a double-star solar system. Game play Double Star is a two-player game about space warfare, and operates on the belief that warfare between two star systems is possible but expensive and difficult. This game is based in a binary star system, where the two stars orbit each other, and each star has a different human colony orbiting it; one is of Chinese descent, the other Arab. Each colony has both antipathy for the other colony and a need for something the other colony has, and so war begins. The board features both worlds as they orbit their respective stars, and both stars orbiting each other. These complex orbital movements must be taken into account when sending ships or trying to steer an asteroid into colliding with the opposing planet. Movement The game uses a simple alternating "I Go, You Go" system of turns. Each unit on the board can use its movement points to either move one hex per point, or can make one 60-degree change of direction per point.