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Space Bastards

Kröter, Kartoffeloiden und Kaktusaner

Far beyond the seven starts and near to the seven black holes some planetoids harbor beings with familiar problems: the benign dictator wants to hand on his job and we collect supporters among the creature species of Toadlings, Spuds, Toucanosaurs, Cactusoids and Sluggies. You reign for 12 months and if you do a good job you are the new dictator.

Each player starts with six supporters per species, a space ship and a map of the ships inside plus a set of actions cards and five coins.

A planetoid is selected; each player takes up a hidden monster and then in turn places it completely on the planetoid. When there is not enough room, you can shuffle about the monsters already there; if this still does not result in enough room, you must place your smallest available monster; this is continued until each player has one monster on each planetoid. Then relationship cards are displayed and one species card is placed on both sides; this determines the relations between species in the categories of Love, Laser Gun Fire, Eating, Trade, Diplomacy, Migration, Mutation and Relationship Change. Over 12 rounds you plan your action, chosen cards are returned to you after six rounds; after planning actions are executed, you can move your spaceship and embark or disembark your creatures. In some rounds only movement without action happens. After every four rounds you score majorities on planetoids.

The game is entirely defined by the species relationships; the situation constantly changes due to killing, eating and change or relationships, sometimes chaos reigns - so it is more of a game for quick decisions or a very long game!

Players: 2-5

Age: 12+

Time: 90+

Designer: Jiří Mikoláš

Art: Martin Málek

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Jira’s Games 2011

Web: www.jirasgames.com

Genre: Placement game on majorities

Users: For experts

Version: multi

Rules: cz de en + fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Relations between Aliens dominate the game

Results often unpredictable

Long duration

Some tactic possible

Compares to:

Cosmic Encounter for Alien Relations and Interaction

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0