Help idnetifying this hex game

The Game Room
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So this was one of those games that came in a zip lock at the compleat strategist back in the day. I want to say it was a Steve Jackson game because it was basically car wars but with space ships you had ships from frigates to superdreadnaughts that you would build based on ships that has a limited amount of space for propulsion, armor, weapons, shields.

It was played on a hex map and was turn based.

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Ogre is the closest game to what you describe that was from Steve Jackson but it involved futuristic ground combat, no ships involved. Otherwise it wasn’t from that publisher.

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Starfleet battles? Except you didn’t build your own ships (at least I don’t think so), and it didn’t come in a ziplock bag (as far as I know)
But maybe if you google “games like Starfleet Battles” something may register (I tried but nothing obvious to me)

Brian

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Here’s BoardGameGeek’s list of every single Science Fiction game with a hex map published between '79 & '89. See if anything looks familiar.

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Thanks!

I think it was Task Force games #4 which was originally sold in a ziplock bag and was the predecessor to star fleet battles and star fire.

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My mistake. It was actually by a guy named Steve Cole

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How about Vector 3?

It isn’t hex, it is grid, but it does a lot of what you say.