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by ben_w 565 days ago
> Board game rules aren't written that way for a reason.

Most board games.

Star Fleet Battles is basically a computer game written on paper 10 years before home computers had enough RAM for the rule set.

The result is what you may expect, each "turn" takes 60-90 minutes and the game lasts 3-4 turns, and every box on this ship diagram actually does something: https://cf.geekdo-images.com/camo/45ff4f9cf11f36cafd7768931a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fleet_Battles