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A fast paced game of terrifying alien invaders, futile human resistance, and 50's SciFi Movie Action. Players each take on the role of a different alien Race, all part of invading armada, but each with their own unique abilities and ambitions. Unleash waves of flying saucers to blast human resistance into submission with death rays and terrifying weapons of war as you unleash powerful alien technologies on earth (and other alien races if they get in your way). But beware these pitiful humans are not defenseless. They will fight to the last to defend their planet, aided by countless platoons of army soldiers, powerful human heroes, and their most deadly weapon, the dreaded atomic bomb.
Featuring a modular game board, 10 different alien races to play (such as the Orzax, master of technology, or the Venezian Matriarchy, beautiful but deadly space amazons) a host of Human resistance to battle, and four game types - competitive, cooperative, team game, and Solo Play. Conquest of Planet Earth is a strategic game of maneuvering, backstabbing, and fantastic battles for alien conquest.
Main Features :
Features a collection of beautifully illustrated artwork including over 100 unique images.
Over 25 detailed plastic miniatures of alien saucers to conquer the world
Games come with an original CD soundtrack to set the mood for alien conquest
Four game types - race against friend in competitive or team play, and be the first to conquer earth to impress your alien overseers, or cooperate as complete alien armada to sweep over the world and defeat human resistance. Also this game may be played Solo.
No two games are ever the same! There are many alien races to play and large decks of game cards, giving a great variety of gameplay. By rearranging the different boards each game along with the amount of human resistance to battle the aliens, there is a high level of re-playability.
Fast Paced games with easy to learn rules allow players to jump right into the action while strategic depth and strong cooperative/competitive play keep player coming back for more.
Excellent bridge between simple family games and deeper, more advanced board games. Easy enough for casual gamers/non gamers to enjoy, while exciting and strategic enough for hardcore gamers to love.
Expandable Design allows for many expansions and strong web support to create a loyal fan base/community.
Source: product summary
Note: The summary is a little out of date, the game contains 16 alien saucers and 4 allied models. They are however all detailed and of a high quality.
- Fast-paced solo play (around 30 minutes)
- Easy setup
- Great art
- Adds variety to the base game with expansions
- Each alien race plays differently
- Dramatic and fun due to swingy, luck-heavy nature
- Fun event cards
- Space Stuff cards provide awesome abilities
- Expansion adds allies
- Fast setup (around 5 minutes)
- Good for playing multiple games in a row
- Plays well solo
- Definitely worth picking up if found at an affordable price
- Solo game rarely uses the additional board
- Solo game can be very swingy, either very easy or very difficult
- Some locations have low population/defense, offering fewer terror points
- Fighting at sea can get out of hand
- Strategy might be limited in solo play
- Alien invasion and conquest of Earth by various alien races, with inter-alien rivalries.
- 1950s Earth
- Galaga
- Space Invaders
- Mars Attacks (cards)
- Mars Attacks (movie)
- Destroy All Humans! (video game)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Point Allowance — In a solo game, you are just going to roll a d6 and take that many actions.
- AI Opponent — When you are playing solo or cooperatively, you will be playing against the humans as an AI controlled force.
- Area Control — You're trying to get a certain number of population points to win the game.
- Card Play (Take That) — The event cards are kind of like take that cards where if you're playing against other players, you can play those event cards against other players.
- Dice Rolling (combat) — Battles are pretty simple. You take your total strength against the enemy's total strength. You add the value of a d6, and whoever has the highest value wins.
- event cards — Event cards are kind of like take that cards where if you're playing against other players, you can play those event cards against other players. But if you're playing against the human AI, then you will use those cards to kind of bolster your strength.
- set collection — The space stuff cards, these are cards that add weird alien technology, and at certain times you will be able to draw a space stuff card, and these will give you some absolutely awesome things that you can do on your turn.
- Variable player powers — Each one of these races do play quite differently. They have, you know, the same kind of stats, but each one has a series of different powers that you can use to help you conquer the planet Earth.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- And hey, remember when Flying Frog Productions made games other than Shadows of Brimstone? Uh, wasn't that great?
- Let's put an end to Shadows of Brimstone and get to some other games.
- In the 1950s, it is the 1950s, and a shadow has fallen across the Earth.
- So, hey, there's our old buddies, the Trune from Shadows of Brimstone? So I guess this canonically does take place in the same universe.
- I think this might be uh Flying Frog Productions best looking game. I just love all of the art on this cards.
- This game is just super super fun. So low-key, so just kind of brainless and fun. Again, it's it is like, you know, it's like a game of Space Invaders on your table.
- But uh yeah, I think if you can find this game for an affordable price, I think it's definitely worth picking up.
- And it just it really makes me wish that Flying Frog Productions made other games again.