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Attack Force (microgame)

board game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2023
Entity authorityQ60792237 ↗
Source-derived summary

Attack Force is a 1982 board game published by TSR.

Gameplay

Attack Force is a minigame in which one player uses the Eagle and Falcon Star-Fighters of the Arcturan Federation to try to destroy the massive Novaship.

Reception

John Rankin reviewed Attack Force in The Space Gamer No. 61. Rankin commented that "The unbalanced solo scenario and the one-dimensional nature of the game preclude it from becoming a favorite. To be fair, Attack Force was really designed to introduce 10- to 12-year olds to the joys of adventure gaming. Alas, in this respect, it fails.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Attack, Force and microgame providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Attack Force (microgame)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.