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SPACE PIRATES

THe Universe is your hunting Ground

Alternate Name: Raumpiraten

Players are space pirates and chase space freighters to loot their load of minerals, precious metals, high-tech components or diamond salts. The universe is laid out randomly on a smooth surface, pirate ships start in the space shipyards. And here comes the first surprise of the game, the freighters are moved by snipping them across the table. You play an energy card and first enact the events noted on the card. Then you move your ship using movement tiles as stated on the cards. You place them starting at your ship next to each other, each one can be shifted a maximum of 90° compared to the previous one. So you lay out the flight path and move your ship to the end. If a movement tile partially or completely covers a freighter, you have entered it and search the load. Goods you keep, an asteroid damages your ship and you may encounter the Galactic Police. If you meet the police you can do nothing else but fly to the next shipyard and pay your penalty to get rid of the police. If you are out of energy cards or a blocked your ship drifts. In the shipyards you can buy the yard or look at market cards, sell you load or fuel your ship. If you own a shipyard and have amassed a capital of 20 Mega-Credits you win.

This game basically uses standard topics with standard, card driven mechanisms. But the fun lays in the tabletop elements of moving the ships. The snipping of the freighters influences the game massively. You can place a freighter ideally for your ship to encounter, but can take penalty for overturning the freighter or shooting it out of the known universe.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : approx. 60 min

Autor           : Christophe Boelinger

Grafik          : Christophe Madura, Frederick Condette

Vertrieb A.   : Hutter / Piatnik

Preis            : ca. 30,00 Euro

Verlag          : Sirius / Zvezda 2009

Genre                    : SciFi-Tabletop

Zielgruppe             : With friends

Mechanismen         : Move ship, use cards

Kommentar:

A fun and interesting combination of elements

Very beautiful components

Good rules

Vergleichbar:

Tabletops, SciFI games and all card-driven games

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