From the cover: Star War 2250 A.D. is the tactical and strategic companion to StarGuard! and Orilla: 1st StarGuard Supplement. The strategic game allows players to explore sub-sectors of the Galaxy discovering strange new planets and fantastic life forms. The life form matrices allow over a hundred thousand possible variations, insuring a constant source of wonder and imaginative play. In the tactical game, the players are starship captains, controlling the flow of power to engines or weapons. Utilizing scale model starships in three dimensional combat with alien enemies, players make use of combination's of eight separate and distinct weapons systems. Tactical Star War is a fast pace, highly exciting game of movement and violent action. The average tactical encounter requires less than three hours of actual playing time.