“Jump and die with Battle Born, a complete ‘armored merc’ RPG” by Joseph Hilmer and George Rahm, featured in Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer, Vol 2, Issue 1, Sept/Oct 1992, with Todd Pickens cover art.
The Space Gamer was created by Metagaming in the 70s, then continued by Steve Jackson Games who eventually dropped the “The” from the title. SJG also added Fantasy Gamer as a separate magazine before folding fantasy topics back into Space Gamer. Several other companies later took over the titles for brief runs. Hilmer and Rahm published 9 print issues as Better Games, starting with the issue above.
[The Killers] naturally inject a sense of youthful hope and heroism: their tragic protagonists face their fates with the nobility of French revolutionaries mounting the guillotine, and their stories are interspersed with inspirational chest-beaters about manning up in the face of hard times - Mark Beaumont, NME