Last Frontier: The Vesuvius Incident
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| Designers | Neal Sofge Michael Wasson |
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| Publishers | Fat Messiah Games |
| Publication | 1993 |
| Genres | Science fiction |
Last Frontier: The Vesuvius Incident is a science fiction solitaire board wargame published by Fat Messiah Games in 1993
Last Frontier: The Vesuvius Incident is a solitaire game in which aliens have escaped from containment on the Vesuvius, an orbiting lab ship, and have damaged the ship's controls — the ship is now slowly de-orbiting, descending to a fiery demise in the planetary atmosphere. The player controls twelve heavily armed UN Colonial Marines who will attempt a time-limited rescue mission to save the surviving lab ship crew.[1] In order to do this, the Marines will have to overcome the aliens, other escaped lab creatures and a sabotaged ship defense system. Some critics pointed out the similarity in theme to both the 1986 movie Aliens,[2] and Task Force Games's 1980 microgame Intruder.[1]