I was a fan of Domination (the RPG) for a while. It was published by Starchilde Publications in 1989. Starchilde also made another game I really liked: Justifiers (and I have to say it is definitely in the heritage of our upcoming new game Whole New World.)
The system used a percentile ‘attribute’ which made up for the bulk of your ability and then skill bonuses in smaller doses which accounted for training.
Domination (and the skirmish battle version Sabot and Laser) had the simple premise that aliens invaded the Earth. We’ve seen this multiple times in fiction from War of the Worlds to Falling Skies, from V to Signs, from Battle: Los Angeles to even more recent versions like A Quiet Place. The premise isn’t new, and it wasn’t new in 1989.
What I liked about it was a couple of things.
I really like the A5 (around half US Letter) format. I kinda like the mess of aliens it creates and the possibilities for play. It seems the big bads, the Kalotions, have enslaved other races to fight for them. So there’s an undercurrent (which isn’t fully explored of both fifth columns within the Kalotion regime and also aliens which defect.
So, of course, as this is an ancient and out of print book, which is a pain in the butt to find…and I love all of the properties listed above, it behoves me to develop my own idea. This will be a supplement for Twilight 2000, (or maybe an independent game) which models the invasion of Earth by an alien species.