Review: Alien Frontiers
Posted by James (admin) on 12th June 2011
Alien Frontiers is a dice-placement and area-control game with a space colonisation theme for 2-4 players. Players score victory points (VPs) by placing colonies on the planet (as well as for dominating planet areas and a few alien tech cards). When any player has placed their 9th and final colony on the planet, the game ends and the player with the most VPs wins.
During the game, players take turns rolling their dice (spaceships) and allocating them to different locations (orbital facilities). Each orbital facility lets you do different things such as gain resources (energy and ore), build spaceships, gain alien tech (special abilities), raid other players, etc. Each facility requires dice to use it and most require a specific mixture of dice, i.e. doubles, a total of 8 or higher, a 3-dice straight. However, the extra twist is that there are a limited amount of spaces for dice at each area and a player only gets their dice back at the start of their turn; therefore, opponents’ dice can block spaces so that other players are unable to use them. Read the rest of this entry »
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