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Space Wars Conquests

You want to rise to Commander of the Dark Invader's Fleet which destroys all that crosses its path. 110 cards comprise 49 planet cards, 45 destruction cards, 15 Secret Mission cards and a Dark Invader. A card display of planet cards is prepared and you are given one mission each of value 1, 2 and 3, and a set of nine destruction cards. In rounds you play a phase of destruction card placement, followed by a phase of destruction card resolve. For the placement phase you play a card from your hand onto an empty planet. For the resolving phase you turn up all destruction cards in direction of the arrow and resolve them in descending order of priority numbers. Each destruction cards shows a weapon for the planet underneath and the planets that are targeted by it. Each targeted planet loses one level: Level 4 is turned over to level3; level 3 is conquered, removed and replaced by a level 2 planet; level 2 is turned over to level 1, and a level 1 planet is conquered, removed and not replaced. You take planets you conquered. Planets isolated by the effects of your card are deemed to be conquered by you. Dark planets do not take damage and are conquered by isolation only. After seven cards, or when there are as many or fewer planets on display as there are players, you win with most points from conquered planets, moons on those planets, completed missions and most cards in your discard pile.

Fast, simple and allowing little planning, as you only know where your opponents place cards; therefore missions are hard to complete and you have an advantage if you remember who played which card already.

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Valerio Zini, Isabella Amoretti

Artist: Andrea Guerrieri, Roberta Barletta

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: dV Giochi 2013

Web: www.dvgiochi.com

Genre: SciFi, card placement, missions

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: en it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Winning game Lucca 2013 Best Unpublished Game 2012-2013

Coproduction dV Giochi / Carta Mundi

Basically rather simply, but tactic hard to implement due to simultaneous, face-down play

Compares to:

All placement games with resolving cards placed face-down on visible targets

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0