Starfall Tactics 95

About the game

Starfall Tactics 95 plays chess with battleships and makes every capture cost. Fleets of up to twelve ships manoeuvre on a hex grid where facing is everything — armour is thick at the bow, thin at the flanks, and a destroyer behind a cruiser's engines is a death sentence regardless of tonnage. Destroyed ships leave physical wrecks that block lanes and shelter fighters, so battlefields tighten as they age.

The campaign's branching is brutal and honest: lost ships stay lost, and the story routes around your casualties. But the beating heart is hotseat multiplayer — pass-the-keyboard duels with simultaneous-plotted turns, where both fleets' orders resolve at once and half the skill is reading your rival across the table.

Technical notes

Simultaneous resolution required a deterministic replay engine — the same tech that powers its famous post-battle theatre mode. Fits on four floppies; the manual is 120 pages and worth it.