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New Dawn
90m - 120m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 12+
Dice rolling in a game can be used for many things, randomness being the most obvious. Dice can also be used as counters. The dice themselves can be unique and different sizes, shapes and colors to represent different things.
Dice Rolling
Hand management games are games with cards in them that reward players for playing the cards in certain sequences or groups. The optimal sequence/grouping may vary, depending on board position, cards held and cards played by opponents. Managing your hand means gaining the most value out of available cards under given circumstances. Cards often have multiple uses in the game, further obfuscating an "optimal" sequence.
Hand Management
Tile Placement games feature placing a piece to score VPs, with the amount often based on adjacent pieces or pieces in the same group/cluster, and keying off non-spatial properties like color, "feature completion", cluster size etc.
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Variable Player Powers is a mechanic that grants different abilities and/or paths to victory to the players.
Variable Player Powers
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Dracura
Strange variant on the 4X model where you use a flying base (Mobile HQ) to establish control of different space stations and facilities. Some bizarre mechanics - for example, four bonus cards sit on the game board edges, and facilities gain those bonuses depending on which direction they face. The amount of different things that happen on every turn seems to fly directly in the face of the simplicity of "Among the Stars." Like most 4X games you end up fighting the other players for control of the different areas, and this involves a lot of dice rolling (and the rules are pretty difficult to understand regarding which dice to roll - needs a player aid). Beautiful art and components. I would play again based on this alone, but I don't think it's all that impressive of a game.
chize
Very interesting concept that actually works very well. However, the game could have really used some more streamlining of the rules, but I enjoyed my play. Sadly, my wife - who enjoys Among the Stars with Ambassadors and all Expansions - could not get into the game and did not like all the extra rules (again... more streamlining please!!!) that you need to be aware of and keep in mind when playing the game! Likely, we will sell this game, although I think it REALLY is a hidden treasure that needs more attention and some additional refinement to properly shine, but if nobody is willing to play it with me, there is no reason to hold on to it :/.
BruceBelafonte
Pledge $165 or more USA/ EU/ CANADA – ATS UNIVERSE BUNDLE: A copy of New Dawn + Stretch Rewards + a copy of Among the Stars + a copy of The Ambassadors Expansion + a copy of Expanding the Alliance expansion (a.k.a. The Promos). For all other countries, please add $20. Estimated delivery: Nov 2014 This project will be funded on Thu, Jul 31 2014 10:30 PM CEST.