In this Box Breaking Matt takes a look at Alien Uprising from MR B Games. In Alien Uprising you are part of a crew hat has crashed on an alien planet. Your goal is to survive while repairing your ship or you get rescued.
I have managed to play Alien Uprising once already – I’m pretty sure I like the dice pool mechanic
Hi guys in this video I assemble a Tripod with the Black Dust Launcher for All Quiet on the Martian Front. All Quiet on the Martian Front is a game of interplanetary war.
If you’re a fan of War of the Worlds this game is for you.
Alien Uprising: Zothren Expansion
$34.99 SRP
BUGS! Everywhere! The Crew has encountered more trouble as they travel through Space. Can you and your Crew take on more Zothrens and survive the Alien Uprising?
Contains:
23 finely sculpted Zothren aliens: -2 Archers
-9 Slashers -2 Scavengers
-2 Tunnelers -2 Champions
-2 Brutes -2 Leaders
-2 Scouts 1 brand new scenario and Wound tokens!
Alien Uprising
$69.99 SRP
Tensions have been high with the alien “bug” races of the galaxy – the Zothren – and your ship has crash landed on the planet Hive IV, one of the more renegade “bug” planets. You quickly set up perimeter force fields and begin surveying the surrounding terrain for debris from your ship, only to find it scattered everywhere. Then you see them – at first only a few “bug” scouts, but then the numbers begin to increase all around you: archers, slashers, and even the monstrous brutes. This is more than a scouting party; this is a war party! They begin to attack the shields as the crew starts to retrieve debris. The SOS has been sent and a ship in the sector has responded, but can it get to you before the “bugs” overwhelm your crew? Can you repair parts of the ship and use it as a defense? Can you repair the hull and fire up the engine to lift off? It’s all in the hands of the crew – your hands.
In Alien Uprising, the player crew must either hold off the Zothren attacks until the rescue ship arrives, or repair the ship and lift off from the hostile planet before being destroyed. To achieve either of these goals, the crew must work together, using their unique skills and chosen actions to perform a number of tasks, defend themselves, and retrieve and repair equipment and the ship.
To establish the actions available each turn, the first player rolls custom dice, then each player chooses an action for the turn, starting with the first player. The available actions include combat, engineering, reload/recharge first aid, scout, and wild; the dice also have an alien icon that shows the speed of the enemy while limiting the actions that players have available to them. Players also have unique character skills, and the game can be set to higher levels of difficulty for more experienced players.
1-5 players
Ages 14+
90-120 minute play time
Space Empires Close Encounters Expansion
$ 59.00
Release Date: Oct 2012
Space Empires: Close Encounters is the first expansion to Space Empires: 4X.Alien races meet up close as they encounter each other for the first time in ship boarding engagements and planetary invasions with different types of ground troops. The strengths and weaknesses of each alien empire are brought out with roughly 20 unique racial abilities. The expansion takes advantage of the streamlined nature of the game system to add more technology and cool sci-fi things in very simple ways. While it is designed to be used as a whole, the expansion is modular and players can choose to use only the parts that they like.
Get this and more from GMT Games and go kick some alien butt.
