StarSoldier

When both Outreach and StarSoldier proved popular, SPI packaged them and Star Force in one box as StarForce Trilogy.

1, and stayed on SPI's Top Ten list for the entire year, either on its own, or as part of the StarForce Trilogy.

[5] According to Shannon Appelcline, "The Space Gamer #6 ( June/July 1976) [was] the first issue to offer up substantial articles on other publishers' games — including discussions of McEwan Miniatures' Starguard!

[1] In Issue 32 of Moves, Phil Kosnett compared StarSoldier to Starship Troopers, published in 1976 by Avalon Hill.

Soldier is science fiction, and Troopers is just a 20th Century land game with funny silhouettes on the unit counters.

1st edition box cover with artwork by Redmond A. Simonsen , 1977