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Legions of Steel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ133270179 ↗
Source-derived summary

Legions of Steel is a 1992 game published by Global Games Company.

Gameplay

Legions of Steel is a game in which an invasion by machines has conquered the universe and Earth tries to fight back.

Publication history

Legions of Steel Scenario Pack 1 was released in 1993.

Reception

Ken Carpenter reviewed Legions of Steel in White Wolf #48 (Oct., 1994), rating it a 4.5 out of 5 and stated that "For [the price] you get 19 detailed metal figures (sculpted by Tom Meier), 48 color floor sections, well over a hundred counters, and dice and counter stands.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1993, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Legions, Steel and Open-knowledge is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Legions of Steel” 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.