Post by Whiterook on May 5, 2022 15:52:45 GMT -5
Richard Borg heads into space in this exciting new Commands & Colours board game – including two complete fleets of hard plastic starships!
Red Alert: Space Fleet Warfare allows two to six players to duke it out in space. The play of command cards drives the action and creates a "fog of war", while battle dice resolve combat quickly and efficiently. Combat cards add an element of suspense and challenge players to maintain their star token reserves to power their Combat cards through the course of a battle. The action on a combat card may hinder the opposition forces, enhance a player’s units, or may instantly change the course of a battle.
An assortment of task force cards allow players to quickly deploy a fleet of starships. In addition to these task force units, players can augment and customize their fleets with support vessels.
—description from the publisher
Red Alert: Space Fleet Warfare allows two to six players to duke it out in space. The play of command cards drives the action and creates a "fog of war", while battle dice resolve combat quickly and efficiently. Combat cards add an element of suspense and challenge players to maintain their star token reserves to power their Combat cards through the course of a battle. The action on a combat card may hinder the opposition forces, enhance a player’s units, or may instantly change the course of a battle.
An assortment of task force cards allow players to quickly deploy a fleet of starships. In addition to these task force units, players can augment and customize their fleets with support vessels.
—description from the publisher
I started with the Command & Colors system with the game Memoir ‘44, and I didn’t at the time so long ago, even realize that this was part of (or maybe at the genesis of) a system. Later, as in within the past year or so, I became fully aware of, and started collecting the system through many platforms and different companies. It’s one of the more interesting series of games, in that it is designed within the same system constraints, but covers so many eras, as well as styles (miniatures like Army Men of old, miniatures on sprout from PSC, blocks). I was when researching the evolution of the C&C universe that I discovered Red Alert, and damn girl, I had to have it!
This one indeed, plays out upon a battle map in three sections — left and right flank and center zones — where the cards you draw determine in which of these three zones you can take actions of your choice from the cards in your hand. Combat through battle dice. It can be fast and furious, but always fun!
Who doesn’t like Shoot’em Up’s in Space!!! This Space Cowboy does! 🤠