Description: Game is 100 % complete and unpunched. Asteroid Pirates is one of Yaquinto’s ‘album’ games – it comes in a flatish box that looks like an L.P. album (for you youngsters who don’t know what that is ask your grandparents or look it up in Wikipedia) and when you open it out the box becomes the board. The game comes with 8 pages of rules and just a single scenario.There are four different log-sheets for the two different pirate squadrons, the transport squadron and the covering squadron – these are used during the game to record damage to ships.The game also comes with a small number of cardboard counters. 12 counters represent the space ships and there are a pile of counters used to represent asteroids and missiles. The game starts with the pirate ships starting on the right-hand edge of the board and the transport/covering ships starting on the left-hand edge of the board. The transport player tries to destroy as many of the six pirate ships as possible and exit as many transport ships as possible off the pirate-edge. The pirate player, on the other hand, simply has to destroy as many transport fighters as possible while preventing the transport ships exiting the board. The game lasts for a mere 12 turns. The pirate player receives 25 points for each of the three enemy fighters that they destroy. The transport player receives 10 points for each of the six pirate ships that they destroy and 1 point for each ‘Cargo Level’ that they exit from the board. To win, the Pirate player must score at least 20 points more than the Transport player.One of the really interesting aspects of the game is that at the very start of the game players get to build their ships. Each of the four squadrons has three ships. Each ship has its characteristics represented on a sheet. At the start of the game each ship has 25 worth of points allocated to it for lasers, screens, drives, hull, cargo, tractor beam and missiles. The transport player must allocate between 20 and 30 points of cargo amongst his three transport ships. This means that each game the players can work out a strategy and then build ships the way that they want to fit in with their plan. Each player places green markers on the log sheets to show the characteristics of each ship – no writing is necessary.In addition, at the start of each turn both players secretly and simultaneously allocate 12 action points to each ship that they control – these action points determine how effective each ship will be in each criteria. For example if a ship has, say 6 points of lasers and 5 points of screens and 4 points of drives it can’t operate with full effectiveness in all three categories. When players are expecting to be moving they will be allocating more points to the drives. If they are going into a combat situation they are more likely to allocate their limited action points to things like missiles, lasers and defensive screens.After action points are allocated a die is rolled for each of the four squadrons on ships – these dice rolls are used to determine the order in which each squadron moves.After all ships have been moved then asteroids will move, proving to be a hazard to all life forms.Finally the turn is finished by laser and missile combat.The game has a lot going for it. There are only a small number of units involved. There are many simultaneous decisions made where you have to go with your gut feeling. There is no writing of movement orders. The game moves along quickly. Your fate is in your own hands. Please see photos, as they are considered part of the description. We do wrap things securely with professional wrapping materials to get your item safely to you. All fees assessed with shipping are shown in the amount above. 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Price: 47.49 USD
Location: Billings, Montana
End Time: 2024-12-01T04:09:56.000Z
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