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This game is pretty wacky. The premise for the game calls for extensive suspension of disbelief-- two rival forces battling for control of the surface of a planet covered with molten lava. The military units float around on the lava on rapidly disintegrating armoured platforms or pieces of stabilized rock called crustals. The game becomes a race against time. Who will control the central crustal by game's end? Will the Assault platforms hold together long enough to capture a few crustals? Sure, it's contrived, and wasn't considered one of Metagaming's finer moments. Still, I like it and had some fun designing this gamebox.
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HOT SPOTis copyright, Metagaming, 1980.
Designer: Bill Armintrout
Editing/Development: various
As near as I can tell, the game can be played with this set without any special
modifications for PBEM.
The graphic above illustrates a dramatic moment in the fight for the central Crustal. Two Ziegler troops and a Crawler have captured Crustal J. A Ziegler soldier is on Assault Platform 3 nearby, being attacked by flier. A mercenary is on the two hex crustal, two of his mates are on the central Crustal nearby.
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Hot Spot Gamebox (zipped)
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Bill Armintrout also designed OneWorld
Bill talks about his designs here
This page content copyright, Walter O'Hara 1998