Board Game ISS Vanguard

The first mission in open space

For the first time in history, mankind has created a starship capable of entering outer space, and immediately assembles a mission with exploration of unknown worlds. The board game with a story by Krzysztof Piskorski is a cooperative adventure in the format of a story campaign, in which each of the participants will first be responsible for the work of their sector of the ship, and then for the progress of the mission on an unfamiliar planet. 

It`s dozens of hours of gameplay with numerous story branches and a hundred crew members, each with his history and skills.

Game features

• 100 crew memberswith unique stories and abilities, as well as 9 officers - unit leaders with their own unique figurines.
• Distribution of responsibilities of the players, who will first feel like officers on the bridge of a huge starship, and then - real explorers, each of whom is responsible for a separate aspect of the mission.
• A huge game world. The base game contains more than 20 planets, each of which is a separate research mission and a separate part of the game, because the story is designed to be completed for more than 90 minutes.
• Dozens of new species of living creatures and technologies, waiting for you in the expedition, create the feeling of a classic space opera. There will be times when you will have to use force and times when diplomacy will do better. Places where you will get new gear and places that will cost you a life.

Gameplay

During all stages of the game, you will follow the development of the plot in the "Journal" - a book of game history. Each encounter and event will have a lot of artistic text, from event description to character dialogue, and will require the crew to make important decisions.

The exploration of each world is divided into two phases:

1. Ship phase. During this phase, players will monitor the performance of their unit on the starship. The entire crew of the ship is divided into four divisions according to the direction of their work: security, intelligence, science, engineering (similar to the specialization in classic science fiction like "Star Trek").
2. Disembarkation phase. Players prepare the crew to land on a new world, assemble the landing module based on the needs of the mission, and choose the crew members of each sector that will be involved in the mission this time. Preparing each crew member for a mission consists of building a deck of skills, preparing the necessary equipment and dice for the character.