While the game will have instant appeal to those that like simulations of running a starship, the real draw is the concurrent, no-turns, aspect which is like the real world. Plus, there's so many parallel activities that you need a small team of two or more to actually run each ship.
Here are the mechanics boiled down. You may reroll dice as much as you like, so you are going to get the value you want ...eventually. And that's the point-- the dice rolling creates real-world delays, which allow your opponents who are doing the same thing to get in actions mid-move. As such, your strategy is the solution to deal with this.
You and your crew call out orders, triggers, and status to each other, each trying to obtain resource to meet your ships cooperative objective as fast as possible, and return them back to the pool for reuse.
You can always see what you're doing and the other ship. It's just while you are executing your plans, they are simultaneously executing theirs. The moment anyone spots a conditions that affects or interacts with the other team, they call out the event, the game play pauses, the battles are resolved, and the game continues at breakneck speed again.
Easy to learn, and more importantly, thus has to be one of the best written game instructions I've seen for what appears on the surface to be chaos. It is short, conscie, visual, and doesn't make up terms, use forward references, or drown in flavor text. Plenty of examples.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2015
Here are the mechanics boiled down. You may reroll dice as much as you like, so you are going to get the value you want ...eventually. And that's the point-- the dice rolling creates real-world delays, which allow your opponents who are doing the same thing to get in actions mid-move. As such, your strategy is the solution to deal with this.
You and your crew call out orders, triggers, and status to each other, each trying to obtain resource to meet your ships cooperative objective as fast as possible, and return them back to the pool for reuse.
You can always see what you're doing and the other ship. It's just while you are executing your plans, they are simultaneously executing theirs. The moment anyone spots a conditions that affects or interacts with the other team, they call out the event, the game play pauses, the battles are resolved, and the game continues at breakneck speed again.
Easy to learn, and more importantly, thus has to be one of the best written game instructions I've seen for what appears on the surface to be chaos. It is short, conscie, visual, and doesn't make up terms, use forward references, or drown in flavor text. Plenty of examples.
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By Walter Stoneburner on December 2, 2015
While the game will have instant appeal to those that like simulations of running a starship, the real draw is the concurrent, no-turns, aspect which is like the real world. Plus, there's so many parallel activities that you need a small team of two or more to actually run each ship.By Walter Stoneburner on December 2, 2015
Here are the mechanics boiled down. You may reroll dice as much as you like, so you are going to get the value you want ...eventually. And that's the point-- the dice rolling creates real-world delays, which allow your opponents who are doing the same thing to get in actions mid-move. As such, your strategy is the solution to deal with this.
You and your crew call out orders, triggers, and status to each other, each trying to obtain resource to meet your ships cooperative objective as fast as possible, and return them back to the pool for reuse.
You can always see what you're doing and the other ship. It's just while you are executing your plans, they are simultaneously executing theirs. The moment anyone spots a conditions that affects or interacts with the other team, they call out the event, the game play pauses, the battles are resolved, and the game continues at breakneck speed again.
Easy to learn, and more importantly, thus has to be one of the best written game instructions I've seen for what appears on the surface to be chaos. It is short, conscie, visual, and doesn't make up terms, use forward references, or drown in flavor text. Plenty of examples.
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