"In the November 1980 edition of "Dragon" (Issue 43), Roberto Camino found the production values to be excellent, especially the maps of the decks, and the "prodigious amount of additional background material" in the supplementary booklet.In the January 1981 edition of "Ares" (Issue 6), Eric Goldberg liked the combat system, but since it was supposed to be a stand-alone board game separate from the "Traveller" role-playing system, he disagreed with the inclusion of the technical manual, which he said would be "useful only to the "Traveller" aficianado" and would be "no more than a curiosity for the purchaser who does not eat, sleep and breathe the parent game."