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Impulse

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  1. 5 out of 10

    Hmmmmmmmmmm you know, I was keen to try this out. I need to give it more of a chance but space themes often don't grab me and on the one play added to the disconnected kind of feel I was getting where the card play, while clearly very clever, just feels a bit too mechanical. Innovation and GTR both sing a fair bit more for me on that front. Will give it a few more goes but I don't think it will stick around.

  2. 4 out of 10

    Maybe I missed something, maybe the game play is amazing, but you have to get over the learning curve - but I don't want to try. The rulebook is a mess, we spent 10 minutes trying to decide if anything started in the impulse or not (it doesn't, but why not say that in the rules?) combined with the whole feel of here's a bunch of mechanics, now work out how to combine them to win. Graphically it felt like I was playing a prototype - and thematically, well is there one? Half of it makes no sense to me thematically, what the heck is this impulse thingy, why is it shared, why do I get to do the actions over and over and then they vanish? Why do I get an action when I visit a planet but not if I stay there? And the chaos, there's quite a few opportunities for swing here - some will like it, I didn't. I like Innovation, I love Uchronia, I hate GtR, maybe GtR lovers will dig this? I didn't Happy never to play again

  3. 5 out of 10

    I am a huge Chudyk fan. Glory to Rome is my favorite card game and top 5 overall. Innovation is not far behind. I've enjoyed every one of his games that I've played. This one just didn't work for us for some reason, even though you would think the combination of his mechanics and 4x is an automatic win for me. Some note that it take multiple plays to really appreciate it, but there is no way I can get it on the table again with my group given how dismal the first set of experiences were.

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Impulse is a quick-playing 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) game set in space with the game board being composed of cards that have actions on them. Players also have cards in hand, and in addition to featuring one of ten possible actions, these cards have a color (red, yellow, blue or green) and a size (1, 2 or 3, as indicated by the number of icons on the card). Each card also has six edges, and these edges connect adjacent cards in the hex-shaped playing area.

The cards in the playing area start face down, with each player controlling a card(their Home) on a corner of this area. Each player has two transport ships in the center of his Home card and a cruiser on an edge. Cruisers are used to patrol sectors of space and destroy opposing transports, while transports let you activate sectors that you enter.

On a turn, a player adds a card to the Impulse from his hand, then (optionally) performs an action for a tech in his playing area, then (optionally) performs all the actions in the Impulse, then draws two cards and adds them to his hand. The Impulse is a line of cards shared by all players that changes turn by turn as players add cards to it and as cards fall off once it reaches maximum size. Thus, players need to feed the Impulse with actions that benefit them more than opponents, but that’s easier said than done.

When you perform actions – whether from moving transports to them or using the Impulse – you can boost them by having minerals of the same color or lots of transports. Each action has a single numeral on it, e.g., "Command [1] ship for one jump" or "Build [1] cruiser at home"; when you boost an action, you increase that numeral.

Players score points by destroying enemy ships (one point per ship), by controlling edge spaces on the central card (one point per edge), and by taking other actions via cards. The first player to score 20 points wins!

Ages

13+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players, 6 Players
Play Time

30m – 60m
Designer

Carl Chudyk
Mechanics

Action Queue, Area Majority / Influence, Card Play Conflict Resolution, Race, Team-Based Game, Variable Setup, Grid Movement, Hand Management, Modular Board, Player Elimination, Variable Phase Order, Variable Player Powers
Theme

Bluffing, Card Game, Economic, Fighting, Science Fiction, Space Exploration
Publisher

Asmadi Games, Czacha Games
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