#EDGE OF SPACE GAME RACE SHIPS SERIES#

You spend your money, and you grip that ship from the ship shop and swap it with the old ship in that ship slot, you slip out that old ship, flip it, and pop it under the spot. Generally, the harder it is to roll that number, the sweeter the payday (the “Win the game” gunship demands you roll a double 6).įinally, on your turn you can buy a new ship card from the ship shop in the middle of the table. You could use those numbers to activate the ships in your 2 and 5 slots, OR you could add those dice together to activate the big ship in your 7 slot. On your turn you’re going to be rolling two sparkly dice.

Each ship card you collect has a power displayed in its blue box, from the above cargo ships that say “Gain 1 credit”, to expensive ships with truly devious powers (one rare gunship simply reads “Win the game”). Your board has slots numbered one through twelve and a cute little ship card in each one. Nobody wants to see my socks, even though they have parachuting Army Men on them. Let’s take a look at your personal player board.Īs you can see, it is very long. So, the winner of Space Base is whoever gets to 40 “Influence points” first, but you won’t need to worry about that for a while. Won’t you listen to me squawk about Space Base? I really like this game. What you’re really doing, though, is designing a slot machine.

Each player starts with 12 ships that are straining at their docking clamps like greyhounds before a race, and you’re going to be shrewdly dispatching them across the galaxy for profit and points. Well HOLD ONTO YOUR PANTS, because in the newly-released Space Base all of these things are true.

#EDGE OF SPACE GAME RACE SHIPS SERIES#

“A good game is a series of interesting decisions.”īut is this true? Six year later, I’m pretty sure that sometimes a good game is one where you roll dice and then nice stuff happens, or perhaps you own a spaceship(!). Quinns: Ever since team Shut Up & Sit Down first borrowed a camcorder and began proselytising and/or squawking about board games, we’ve been borrowing a line from designer Sid Meier.

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