Galaxy trucker purple alien1/8/2024 ![]() ![]() You laugh at your opponents but the chances are in one or two dice rolls time they will be laughing at you.ĭuring the ship construction phase you can look at these event cards. All of your engines and a good proportion of your crew would have been set adrift in space. You nervously know that maybe if that asteroid had come in one column to the left things would have been different. It could destroy one of your tiles making any other tiles that are no longer connected to your ship drift off for good measure as well. More often though, that projectile is going to do some damage. ![]() Depending on how well you have constructed and planned your ship you may just laugh as that projectile bounces off into deep space. The fantastic thing about these cards is that anything that shoots you or collides with you will hit you on a random row or column of your ship board. These will either damage your ship or maybe just kidnap your crew. But there are also horrible things in there like pirates, slavers and asteroid fields. The second half of the game has players resolving a stack of event cards that allow them to get goods to sell at the end of the round. And it’s funny, but at the back of your mind you know that the next time somebody messes up, it could be you. Then you hear one of your opponents yelp in frustration as they realise that they have forgot to include any extra engines, or storage. And one handed too for some reason.Įither way, it’s a lot of fun as people are franticly trying to build up a ship and make sure that everything connects correctly. Oh, and you’re doing this against the clock at the same time as the other players. These can be attached to your ship to give you engines, guns, crew quarters, shields and various other bits and bobs. This junk takes the form of a big stack of face down tiles. During the first half of each round, the players will be trying to cobble together a ship out of discarded sewer pipes and other junk. Some people have disparagingly called it just half a game but those people have no sense of joy. Eastbound and Downįor those not in the know, Galaxy Trucker is a fun game of two halves. This is the first in a series of blogs I am going to do about all of the different expansions and what they each add to the game. The base game of Galaxy Trucker is brilliant but it also has many expansions. So thank you people of Clarks Shoes! I’ll think of you every time my crew die in the cold blackness of space. Fun aside, I bought it with the gift money I got from my last Saturday job. I went out and bought it as soon as I could. I had just watched the excellent playthrough by Shut Up and Sit Down and it had me hooked. It was time to get something a little more out there. It was one of the first games I picked up when I started down this road of getting into modern designer boardgames.
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