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Space Junkyard

Garbage can yield a spaceship, too!

Space is full of abandoned, derelict ships and discarded junk – clever space ship pilots can use this supermarket and upgrade their ships with things salvaged from garbage. You need resources to weld the junk modules together, the kind of resources you need is marked with color; blue for carbon, yellow for energy and red for alien metal alloys. These resources or raw materials – energy, carbon ore and alien metal alloys – are provided by asteroids. 36 tiles are laid out in a grid, ships start in the corners. A turn comprises raw material conversion and production, movement, taking up of raw materials or docking new module and refill the grid. Production and raw material conversion can be done in a turn in any order, but must be finished before you move. Conversion is done according to the icons on the ship modules, the resource in a square icon is converted into the resource of the triangular one connected to it. As long as the ship has available storage capacity you can use icons more than once. Movement is possible across zero to three tiles, 3 steps more with additional energy. The docking of new modules happens at the cost of raw materials indicated by their color, for each of the connections that are possible. Ship modules cannot be put into storage. Wormhole and block hole tiles and their special effects are stated in detail in the rules.

With a topic that has also been used in Galaxy Trucker, Space Junkyard offers a nice combination of resources management, movement and placement game; the movement of all tiles and of ships with them due to introducing replacement tiles makes planning a bit difficult.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 60+

Designer: Gilad Yarnitzky

Artist: Orlando Ramirez

Price: ca. 30 EUro

Publisher: Mayday Games 2009

Web: www.maydaygames.com

Genre: Placement game with resources management

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en es kr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice topic

Basically standard mechanisms freshly combined

Originally available for download

Compares to:

Galaxy Trucker as for topic, otherwise resources management games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

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Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

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