Bug Hunter is a science fiction combat board game published by TSR in 1988, designed by Steve Winter using adapted rules from TSR's earlier Sniper! board wargame. The two-player game pits human soldiers against giant insect-like alien creatures in close-quarters tactical combat, translating Sniper!'s small-unit infantry combat system into a science fiction setting. As a rules adaptation rather than an original system, it represents TSR's practice of reusing proven wargame mechanics for new science fiction and combat-themed releases in the late 1980s.
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Bug Hunter is a science fiction combat board game published by TSR in 1988
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with one player taking the human side, and the other player playing the aliens
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Bug Hunter is a science fiction combat board game published by TSR in 1988, using adaptions of rules from the previously released Sniper! board game.
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