Groundbreaking four-player 4X sci-fi conquest wargame set in a globular cluster.
Designer: Howard Thompson
Artist: Winchell Chung, Frank Kelly Freas, Dale Sheaffer, James Talbot, Brian Wilson
Publisher: The Avalon Hill Game Co, Metagaming
First published by Metagaming in 1975 (later as a boxed edition in 1979), "Stellar Conquest" is considered to be one of the first 4X (eXplore, eXploit, eXpand, eXterminate) board wargame. It plays four, but can be adapted for more players with the addition of extra sets of pieces. It is also possible to replace the deck of stars with random generation tables.