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This game took a while for me to get. I actually ordered it about the day it came out. However, it got hung-up in Brexit and took a couple months to get to me. By the time I had gotten it, all the hype had died away. Even for me! Chances are, if you are interested in this game, you have all ready read plenty of reviews, watched battle reports for this game, painted your own fleets, and even played it by now. I am sure you all ready have an opinion on it, may even have a copy in your library of games, or even played a campaign of it. Oh well, better late than never!

A Billion Suns is a game of Corporate shenanigans.... IN SPACE! Unlike most spaceship games, you are not an admiral in control of a fleet. You are a space Consultant. You get contracts that equal money. One of the big challenges in this game is making sure you use the right tools for the job and do not break the bank. You need to operate in the Black. This is a big change to the usual genre conventions.

Mike Hutchinson is also the author of Gaslands. That was a big hit for the Osprey Wargaming Series. I am sure they are hoping he has put lightning in a bottle a second time. After all, Gaslands ended up getting re-booted and expanded into a hard back book.

Let's go into the interstellar board room and see what the R&D coats think of this.....

You can read the full review on the Blood and Spectacles blog here:
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2022/07/review-billion-suns-osprey-games.html

Gaslands in Space? Color me intrigued.

 Charistoph wrote:
Gaslands in Space? Color me intrigued.

Except it isn't that. At all. That's kinda what I was expecting when I picked it up, but it turned out to be a very different game. Still a good and interesting game, IMO, but not a space shmup that would be "Gaslands in Spaaaace!" It's closer to "Eve the miniatures game" than a big blow everything up kinda game, and it can be fun. But, as Easy E mentions, it's more of a resource management and scenario point driven game than a shooter.