Raumkrieg

Raumkrieg © 1975 Flying Buffalo, Inc.

A tactical space game. Each player controls 10 space ship of different types (flagships, battle cruisers and scout ships) with the goal of destroying each other's fleet. Moves of all players are sent in by (physical) mail and processed by the computers at Flying Buffalo, after which the results are mailed back to the players. Players can include messages to other players in their turn update, which will be included with the computer's simulation results.

The game space takes on a two dimensional arena from (0.0) to (999.999). Five to nine players per game set up their fleet in a designated region at the start of the game. Battle cruisers have a greater firing range than scouts and flagships can be used to capture enemy ships. Movement is done by allocating fuel to ships. Ships regain fuel each turn. Once a ship moves into a direction no further fuel is required to make it continue moving.

After movement ships fire. Anything in close range is automatically hit, but for short, medium and long range enemy ships need to be within specific angles to be hit. Each destroyed ship yields points, with the winner being whoever has most points at the end of turn 12.