This expansion for Stars & Lasers is awesome and represents a huge amount of new material for the Stars & Lasers rules.

In the basic rules set players are provided with eight pages of colour ship data cards covering both one 'fleet' Human ships and one of Bio-Alien ships. The Colony Spaceships expansion adds no less than thirteen pages of new full colour ship data cards to the game - a full FIVE new Human fleets are added to the game, the fleets of the Zeta, Epsilon, Omicron, Iota & Centaurus colonies. Each new fleet has a different approach to waging war in space, so each fleet and its ships have advantages and disadvantages and bring new ways of doing things to the tabletop.

Two new weapon systems are introduced, the Heavy Combat Cannon and the Centaurus colonys' Rocket Banks. Two new scenarios are also provided that use the ships in this expansion. As well as the five new fleets a new class of cruiser, the Rhino Ram-Cruiser is included, and three types of a new ship class, the heavily armed but slow Gunboat.

The expansion and all the ship data cards are full colour, and again are clearly presented and concise, with pleasing artwork.

This one expansion to the main game expands it enormously, making it great value for the price. I'd rate it 6 out of 5 if I could!