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Among the Stars

The Ambassadors

Each player represents an Alien race building a space station for the intergalactic alliance: You draft location cards and place them in an optimum way into your own playing area. If you built the most efficient space station after four years, you win the game. Each round of the non-aggressive game represents a year. For each turn you choose one of your six cards, place it face-down and hand on the others. Then cards are revealed and you can either build the card, build a power reactor or discard the card and take 3 Credits. You can only build adjacent to locations already built, pay the cost and resolve eventual effects.

Eight years after the Purge the Alliance is still fragile and all races deploy ambassadors to stabilize the situation. The Ambassadors expansions introduces new options: First, 48 ambassador cards, three of them are always on display. You invite ambassadors, pay the cost, place them in one of your five bureaus and implement the special effect. There are new location cards and there are timing rules for implementing the chosen cards in a turn. The Ambassadors expansion also includes some variants: A variant for the two-player game, a Location Card variant, a variant with revealing Special Location cards and also a variant to change the timing rules. This is supplemented by a new Alien race, the Exodai, and four new objectives.

The Ambassadors expansions enhances interaction among players, provides new options with the locations and all in all is even more tactical, albeit with a longer down-time. If you have the core game, you will love and need The Ambassadors.

Players: 2-4

Age: 12+

Time: 30+

Designer: Vangelis Bagiartakis, Panagiotis Zinoviadis

Artist: Antonis Papantoniou, Giota Vargia

Price: ca. 24 Euro

Publisher: Artipia Games 2013

Web: www.artiiagames.com

Genre: Card drafting, card placement

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Good new options for a good game

More intense interaction

Longer down-times

Compares to:

7 Wonders and other games using card drafting

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 1

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0