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Astro Drive
Race in Space!
A race inn space on a modular board! You prepare a stack of eight board parts - one of them shows the finish line – and line up the top three from the stack; each player holds three movement cards, a pilot board and two energy cubes. Movement cards show values for movement, control and initiative.
You select a movement card, all reveal their selection and move their space ship in decreasing order of initiative; movement points advance your ship straight forward and you must use all of them; control points move your ship sideways, you need not use all of them, but cannot save them up for later use. Once per turn you can spend an energy cube to acquire two movement or control points. Crossing occupied spaces does not cost you movement points, and you can only cross forward, not sideways. Black holes in the same row have no effect and asteroids on cases occupied by a ship have no effect on passing ships.
If a ship reaches a given position on the last board part in the line, you add a new board part to the display, in any orientation. If you move on a case with a planet, your ship crashes and you are out of play. Cases with asteroids and space fog cost additional points, worm holes are shortcuts. If you enter a case with energy cubes in it, you take them for your stock. Cards and asteroid cases carry bonus symbols. The first player at the finish line or the last survivor wins the race.
A nice and pretty came using nicely varied standard mechanism and offering very little interaction; the tactics in the game are restricted to optimum use of the movement cards currently available to a player.
Players: 2-4
Age: 8+
Time: 20+
Designer: Miko Punakallio, Max Wikström
Artist: Sami Saramäki
Price: ca. 15 Euro
Publisher: Stronghold Games / Lautapelit 2018
Genre: Race, space
Users: For families
Version: en
Rules: en fi
In-game text: no
Comments:
Standard mechanisms
Nice version of those mechanism
Very pretty components
Simple rules
Compares to:
All race games using movement points and a modular board with obstacles
Other editions:
Lautapelit (fi)
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 2
Strategy (blue): 0
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 1
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0