Robots!
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Robots! is a microgame published by Task Force Games in 1980 in which players fight each other using combat robots.
Gameplay
Robots! is a two-player game that takes place after Earth has been blasted with radiation, and the space colonists who have survived must send robots to Earth to mine the resources of the planet, following up with factory ships to exploit the resources found.[1] In order to control all the resources, competing colonists start to build robots to destroy the other robots and factory ships.
Each player starts the game with no robots, two factory ships and one heavily armed Q-ship camouflaged to look like a factory ship.
Each player assembles a robot from random parts and sends it onto the map to capture a resource area. Once a resource area is captured, the player then lands one of their two factory ships to mine for more resource points with which to build more robots in order to capture more resource areas.[2]
Combat has been characterized as "fast action and sudden destruction" and can involve robots fighting robots, or robots attacking a factory ship.[2]
Victory conditions
The winner is the first player to destroy the other player's two "real" factory ships — destruction of the Q-ship doesn't count.[3]