Presentation

Space Freaks

The Violet Morass

Space Freaks features tournaments in the Arena of Annihilation - you design your own freak team with unique abilities from head and body parts. The Team must defend the home base and collect victory points from attacks, completed missions and securing of regions. After preparations for a round, player turns follow, including * Playing Mission card or completing it anytime * Fire turrets - at one target, regardless of lines of sight * Activate pawns - each pawn once per round for limited movement and attacks, with using of sponsor cards, laboratories, healing centers and wormholes, * Build bunkers and turrets, and * Clean-Up. After six rounds, you win with most victory points.

The Violet Morass  leads us into new season in the tournament in the Arena of Annihilation - the basic rules of Space Freaks apply, there are, however, a few changes. The tournaments have been relocated to two arenas on a labyrinthine jungle planet, rich in amphibian predators, man-eating plants and treacherous fungi. You can mix the expansion components with those of the basic game and use one to five Myron’s Modifications cards to change the rules. New tokens are Freak Upgrades, Alien Plant/Swamp and Fortress; new hex cases are Empty Hex, Neutral Base, Water and Alien Plants. You put a fortress on neutral base hexes.

The two new arenas on the swamp planet offer new territories and new tactics. The expansion again comes across with Retro flair and again offers the clichés from the last century – tentacles and other standard alien traits and fighting tooth and nail while constructing upgrades for your freak.  

Players: 2-4

Age: 14+

Time: 90+

Designer: Max Wikström

Art: Harri Tarkka, Markku Laine

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Lautapelit / Stronghold 2018

Web: www.lautapelit.fi, www.strongholdgames.com

Genre: SciFi, combat

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Retro design

More combination options

Little technology, lots of combat and confrontation

Compares to:

Space Freaks, SciFi Combat, Character creation from parts

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0