Alien Frontiers

  • 2-4 players

Setup

  • Place Relic Ship (clear die) on Burroughs Desert
  • Place territory cards face-up on their territories
  • Shuffle alien tech cards and deal 3 face-up on table
  • Each player chooses a color and:
    • places a scoring rocket on the score board
    • takes 1 alien tech card, face-up
    • 3 ships (dice) and place on Maintenance Bay
    • 6 colony tokens (for 4 players, see below for more)
  • Roll for starting player
    • Player 1 gets to go first
    • Player 2 gets 1 fuel
    • Player 3 gets 1 ore
    • Player 4 gets 1 fuel & 1 ore

3 Player

  • Each player gets 7 colonies
  • Cover:
    • 1 docking port at Solar Converter
    • 1 docking port at Lunar Mine
    • 2 docking ports at Orbital Market
    • 2 docking ports at Shipyard
  • Roll for starting player
    • Player 1 gets to go first
    • Player 2 gets 1 fuel
    • Player 3 gets 1 ore

2 Player

  • Each player gets 8 colonies
  • Cover:
    • 1 docking port at Solar Converter
    • 2 docking ports at Lunar Mine
    • 2 docking ports at Orbital Market
    • 3 docking ports at Colony Constructor
    • 4 docking ports at Shipyard

Game Turn

  1. Gather all your ships (dice) and roll them
  2. Use Alien Tech powers and/or Assign Ships in any order

#* You can only use 1 Alien Tech discard power per turn #* You must dock all of your ships, if possible #* Leftover ships dock at the Maintenance Bay #* When placing a colony: # Score a victory point for placing the colony # If you gain control (have more colonies than anyone else), score another point # A player that loses control loses a point # Having the same # of colonies, a tie, means no one has control

  1. Leave your ships docked until next turn
  2. Discard down to 8 resources

Goal

  • Most # of victory points wins
  • Victory points from:
    • 1 per colony built
    • 1 per controlled territory
    • 1 for having Alien City card
    • 1 for having Alien Monument card
    • 1 for controlling territory with Positron Field

Game End

  • Game ends as soon as a player places their last colony on a territory