See pics for details of condition. Mostly unpunched. Some slight wear to corners. Seems to be complete.

BUGS, MR. RICO! ZILLIONS OF 'EM!

A BEST-SELLING S-F NOVEL, NOW A RE- ALISTIC, ACTION- PACKED GAME!

Here's what the author, Robert A. Heinlein, says about the game:

This game is based on the military azion

that final victory depends on the willingness of brave men to stand and right and hold-or die trying despite all fancy technology, all superseapons. In the long run the infantry always the "Queen of Battles." Unlike most wargames, STARSHIP TROOPERS is laid many years in the future. Some planets unknown today are the war theaters for this

game. The playing units of the Terran Federa- tion, the Mobile Infantry. are an elite corps akin to the US Marine Corps or US Army para- troopers. The M. I. humans wear powered jump- suits that enable them to leap over obstruc- tions such as buildings. They are armed with advanced weapons that give each infantryann firepower roughly equivalent to a platoon today. Brought to the battlesite by space- ships, M. I.'s ara ejected into space above the battle area in copsules. The capsules enter the atmosphere, the M. I.'n emerge and parachute down to form up to do battle. Casual- ties are always suffered but M. I.'s do not leave injured comrades behind when their ship sends down a space bont to make a pickup.

M. 1.'s are versatile. They can make a quick strike, do enormous damage in a few minutes, and return to their starship. Or stay down for full battle-conquer or die. The enemies are nonhuman aliens. One nort are the Arachnids (something like giant spiders) who live a communal life and have a social structure resembling an ant or bee colony. They have at least the following castes: Queens, Brains eng. Brains, Warriors, Work- ers. Only the Warrior class fights, fi but War- riors are directed in their tacties by one or more Brains. Arachnids are underground cren- tures, burrowing tunnels in which they live and work. It is therefore necessary to go down and destroy (or capture) the Brains and Queens as well as the Warrior cante.

Skinnies ore a humanoid race that fights the Terran Federation early in the war. At a ister phase they are allied with the humans to fight the Arachnids.

I hope that this game will prove stimulat- ing to game players. Let your imagination range as widely as possible; there are no precedents for such battles.