Task Force Four Designer's Notes

The designer's response to reviews in this issue and designer's notes for Task Force Games microgames: Starfire, Asteroid Zero-Four, Cerberus: The Proxima Centauri Campaign, and Star Fleet Battles.

• States that Cerberus "has been the least commercially successful of the first four games [published by Task Force Games]."
  • Still made a profit
  • Sold twice as well as JagdPanther Publications's best-selling game (Stephen V. Cole owned both JagdPanther and Task Force Games).
  • Didn't sell well partly because "science fiction fans don't care for strategic ground combat and strategic ground combat fans don't care for science fiction."
• Three complete sequels to Cerberus were created, but "languish in the files" because sales of the original game were low.
  • Cole would like to publish "them all in a boxed format... with a strategic link game."