Battlestations is the tabletop boardgame/RPG of heroic starship adventure. You and your friends are the crew aboard a starship on amazing adventures. Your character moves around the starship to operate and repair it while your starship moves around the hex map. If you want your ship to turn, you have to go to your helm and test your piloting skill. If you don’t have enough power, go to the engine and test engineering skill. Cannons, teleporters, and missile bays are among the many modules your ship might have.
The challenge for a given adventure might be an enemy starship, space monsters, rescue, raiding, puzzles, traps, tricks and much more. Your character gains experience and ranks up after missions to get more powerful but the mission difficulty scales as well.
Here are some of the things you can do aboard your ship. Note that they are color-coded. Marines get a reroll in the red combat checks. Engineers in blue engineering checks, Pilots in Yellow Piloting checks and Scientists in Green Science checks.
Battlestations First Edition was originally published in 2004 by Jeff Siadek and Jason Siadek.
Since then we have produced 10+ expansions including the standalone “Dirtside” version that lands the amazing action on impossible worlds.
