Description

Description from the publisher:

Star Control is a family board game, set in a theme based on the conquest of the universe. The game is for 2, 3 or 4 players with games of an estimated duration in 75 minutes and oriented to players of more than 8 years.

It allows you to create your own game scenarios and uses a mixture of simple, well-oiled mechanics that make the game very dynamic and fun.

There are two possibilities to win the game, Achieve the mission objective or get 4 victory points.

The objective of the mission may be based on occupying spaces, conquering planets for a certain time, capturing enemy ships, etc.

Victory points can be achieved by capturing enemy ships, conquering enemy bases and developing technologies.

Depending on the number of players, we choose a mission from the book of missions that make up the planets, the bases of the players and the ships that we have initially, once prepared the game scenario we are ready to start the game. We have the option to create our own adventures with the help of a blank mission that appears in the book of missions.

The turn of the player consists of 4 phases:

1. Collection: materials are collected, base (+2) and colonizers (+1) provide us with materials that produce the planets that we will add to our metal, crystal and gas counters.
2. Management: we develop our empire executing different actions in exchange for materials, such as moving, building different ships, stealing letters, etc. We can make use of the honor stamps and 1 technology card.
3. Combat: we obtain marks of honor and spaces in the board, by means of a roll of dice and modifiers. Players involved may use 1 battle card per battle.
4. Redeploy: we have 5 movements to distribute as we wish between our ships. We can also make use of Seals of honor.

Throughout the game we will have to expand our empire by the board, facing the other players through different spaces, we will form fleets of ships and we can launch to the conquest of other planets.

Different ways and ways to achieve victory in a game of strategy and management, suitable for the whole family and simple rules.