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Flickering Stars

Game ID: GID0129559
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Description

Transform your tabletop into a galaxy at your fingertips in Flickering Stars! Choose from two rival factions — the Children of Arha or the Terran Coalition — then take command of a powerful fleet, discover planets rich with resources, and battle it out with your spacefaring rivals in a quest to claim a piece of the stars!

1. FLICK your ships across the table.
2. FIRE missiles and plasma balls at your rivals to thwart their plans.
3. FINISH your objectives for the win!

With over one hundred custom-designed plastic pieces in the box, you can transport your table from the dining room to a war room in space as you face off in three scenarios. Start with an evacuation drill in scenario 1 to learn the basics of the game, then step it up in scenario 2 with a new ship and objectives. Scenario 3 brings it all together and more, adding refineries, outposts, and hubs. Each faction comes with five ships that serve different functions, including launching projectiles!

Description

Transform your tabletop into a galaxy at your fingertips in Flickering Stars! Choose from two rival factions — the Children of Arha or the Terran Coalition — then take command of a powerful fleet, discover planets rich with resources, and battle it out with your spacefaring rivals in a quest to claim a piece of the stars!

1. FLICK your ships across the table.
2. FIRE missiles and plasma balls at your rivals to thwart their plans.
3. FINISH your objectives for the win!

With over one hundred custom-designed plastic pieces in the box, you can transport your table from the dining room to a war room in space as you face off in three scenarios. Start with an evacuation drill in scenario 1 to learn the basics of the game, then step it up in scenario 2 with a new ship and objectives. Scenario 3 brings it all together and more, adding refineries, outposts, and hubs. Each faction comes with five ships that serve different functions, including launching projectiles!

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Video 7md1yxd9vOE BoardGameCo Analysis at 3:02 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
  • Looks great
  • Supposedly is good
Cons
none
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none
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Flicking — Described as a flicking game.
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  • Um, also special guest is Mogat who's kind of hanging out on the couch over there.
  • So, um, now we're doing this. It'll be shorter because I don't have the energy to do the exact same thing I just did.
  • For non-cat people, I know that um you know, throwing your pets into everything can sometimes be less charming, but for the cat people, they want more.
  • I debated not doing it at all, and I was like, you know what? I'm going to I'm going to do it because last week I missed my weekend review and I allow myself.
  • Nowadays, I'm give I give myself more grace.
  • My favorite things that I do on the channel are usually when I go off script and it's natural.
  • I thought Shelfie was a ridiculous concept, but I'm not here to yuck on someone's yum.
  • The thing I am here to yuck on is blind boxes in general.
  • It is very deflating to like film a video and then have to refilm it.
  • It is part of the process.
  • And as always, I hope you have a good one.
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Video xtZmYl_S0Es Watch It Played Discussion at 9:15 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
none
Cons
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Thematic elements
  • space opera / factional command
  • Galaxy / space
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Flicking — flick your spaceship across the table
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  • it's incredible it's fantastic I was super surprised by it it's really good
  • quadropolis is a game I'd love on there I love quadropolis
  • the tile placement game it's just one of those little perfect games
  • transform your TBL toop into a Galaxy at your fingertips in flickering Stars
  • flick your spaceship across the table
  • quirl quirl is a fantastic game I I truly love it
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