Orbitstar: Expedition To Darwin IV Gameplay - The Planet Is Full of Mysteries
Transcript
Hey, I'm Alex Mack from Board Game Co.
I'm Professor Meg.
And today we are playing through Orbit Star expedition to Darwin 4 from Arca Studio. Orbit Star is a game of bag building and area control and exploration of various planets and species and all those things that we'll be doing out here on Darwin 4. I should note this is a prototype rules components of exchange and we'll have a link to the crafting campaign down below. In Orbitar, we are going to be trying to head down to the planet. We're going to be piloting our little uh what's it called? My gosh, what are they called again? our something called hover cones. We're piloting our hover cones down from the orbit star onto Darwin 4 in order to go ahead and discover species. Some already are on the board as part of the pregame setup and then try to get our resource disc out onto those species in order to both get points, get the species cards, as well as to unlock a variety of upgrades. Along the way, we'll be going through a degree of bag building where we're going to have these various chips over here that will be starting off already with some and then adding more to our bag depending how we upgrade things and ultimately trying to uh take advantage of the various actions we have in order to most efficiently get as many points as possible. This is a sponsored playthrough and I think with that we've done everything we need to kind of get you started. Our first few turns, as usual, will go a little slower as we walk you through exactly what's happening, but the general arc is that you're going to go through a general turn sequence where you manage events, then take actions, three actions to be specific, before heading on to the round cleanup, and then rinse and repeat until eventually game end is triggered, which will happen when we reach 31 points because we are playing a two-player game. That's enough to get started. We already have our seven chips drawn.
We've already drafted our special unique tile as well as our special starting upgrades. That's going to be the things we are better at researching. We will walk you through all of that as we uh as we play. But I'm going first, which means the first thing we're going to do is Meg, if you'd be so kind, as to draw an event from the event deck. We're going to have an event come into play, which is going to have an arrival effect. And oh no, an alien hunter is already on the southern tunnel.
Yeah. So, that card, basically, the event track is going to add things as it comes in, and as it moves off the track, it will remove things. It's throwing an alien hunter straight down over here. Alien hunters are not great because you will take more damage when you are dealing with uh taking any action in an alien hunter zone. The good news is it will eventually leave, but it'll probably take a creature with it. So, um not the best, but it is good to get out of the way early so we can plan around it. With that, I'm going to go ahead and take my actions. Starting with the very first action, which is piloting from the orbit star. We have an action cheat sheet over here or a little play raid. Piloting from the orbit star, you can go down to any zone on the board. And I guess given the situation, I am inclined to head down to the mountains. So, I'm going to move down to the mountains in order to take my next action, which is probably going to be a researching cuz I could No, no, no, no. I don't have blue.
I want blue chips. I need to
Are there any fast creatures on the board? There's a small creature. There's no fast creatures. There's a flying. Maybe I want to Do I want to go ahead and pull someone out? I can pile an adjacent zone. I can detect echolocation. I could use my purple right now. I might. It might be the right time to use a purple, but alternatively fast could be better. Uh, you know what? We're going to we're going to go basic action. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to spend a purple, a white, and a white chip. Basically, what you're going to do is down here in this spot, you're going to kind of build what you're good at doing. So, over here, I'm going to look and I'm going to take this action, which requires a uh any white chip. Sorry, any color chip. Any color chip. And then over here, a blue, which I'm going to sub a purple for. Purples are wild. I'm losing my wild early, which is not great. Uh, but I don't think it's the worst action. We're going to do that.
That's going to allow me to put one of my discs onto the creature over here cuz I'm researching the small attribute trait over there. Okay.
Because of that, I'm then going to also put a chip out on uh I'll put it over here on the general attribute over there. So, I now have two chips onto that card at the moment. That is going to be my second action. So, I've piloted from the orbit star. I've already put them out. The reason I put a second chip out is in general whenever you perfectly match a research bonus, you can place another research chip out. So over here I perfectly match because I did white, white, and blue. And you might be saying, "It's a purple." That still counts for perfectly matching. What does not count as perfectly matching is during the game, you can spend two chips as if they are one. And when you do that, you cannot you cannot get the uh perfectly matching bonus for doing that. I think that's the main things I want to do. I also have a study creature. I could rest already. Resting feels crazy this early.
It would be nuts.
It would help me get I wouldn't get anything extra there. That's fine. I might just take a rest action because I can really set myself up for the future. So, I'm going to take a rest action, which means I'm already drawing seven more chips from the bag. When you take a rest action, you're going to do a few things. The first thing you're going to do is you draw that many chips from the bag. The second thing you do is on this track, you can refresh chips from your exhausted area to your available area, which I haven't upgraded that yet. So, right now, I'm doing none of those cuz that's zero. You can also refresh your hull strength over here if I had a hall strength marker by one, which I don't. Or if I had damage, which I also don't. Those are the things you're going to do when you rest. So, I'm just drawing seven chips. So, I'm going to go one, two, three, and then four. Four, five, and six over here. There we go. Still no blue. Wow. Wow. Okay. Did I do I just counted six, but I supposed to have seven? I did three. Then I had a purple.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7. So, I still have one more chip that I'm drawing out. And that is another white. I just counted the six. I don't know why. I don't know why. Uh that's that. That's that's it. At the end of my turn, I'm going to go ahead and clear the chips. So, I'm going to move these to my general area. Purple chips leave your supply. When you use a purple, they are wild, but they're gone when you're done. So, um nothing helpful there, I'm afraid. That's my turn, which means it's your turn now.
Okay.
Oh. Oh, I lied. Last thing you do on your turn is if you are in an explore zone, you would draw a biome event. I am not in an explore zone. I'm in the arrival zone. I just showed up. Then, I'm going to move over here to an explore zone. Uh, which means next round I would draw an event. And if you're thinking, "Wow, events are great, Alex. We love events." Not on this planet. You don't. You don't want to stay in one place for too long. Bad things will happen. [clears throat]
Okay. So, my question for you, Alex, is if we tie on this, then
then the active player breaks ties.
Okay. So, cuz underground is kind of easy for me.
Easy for me.
It's kind of what I do.
Um, so I feel like I should do that. So, I will first,
okay,
come down to here and arrive only arrivals.
Um, but then I will spend those. So, I'm going to spend my one orange and my two white.
Okay.
To do underground part one. Um, and I get to place two down. So, I will place one and then two.
That does work.
And then it will trigger this. And
it will indeed.
Okay. So, you're good.
Yes.
Okay. So, right now, Meg went ahead. His first action was she once again studied a creature. Uh that's going to allow her to now get both of these bonuses. So, first things first, we're each going to get a point for each marker. So, we're both going to go up two points. Then, secondly from that, uh Meg is going to get both bonuses in the top left corner, and I will get one bonus, and Meg will also take the card. The way that works is uh the um the tie breakers go to the active player first. If there's still a tie, it goes to whoever's leftmost position. So, if there's a if some third player had done this right now, I would break the tide because I'm the leftmost position,
but I'm not. So, Meg gets to go.
Okay. Um,
so you get both those bonuses, which means you're going to be able to unlock one of these over here. So, you can choose one of these bonuses to upgrade better researching. And then the other bonus you get is you're going to be able to replace any one white ship anywhere in your bag, your active area, available area with a red ship.
I feel like aggressive makes the most sense. And with that, the red chip. So, I will replace this with a red chip.
Okay. And you also get the guard.
Oh, I don't know why I'm giving it to you. So, we will replace that. Uh, I've done three two things.
Yep.
So, with my final action, I didn't want to copy you. Um, because So, maybe
you could copy me. There's nothing wrong with copy me. Uh, for my action, I have to choose one of these to upgrade as well. I think I'm going to upgrade I want to do flying or leaping. I'm not sure which one I want to do. I'm going to uh none of them ideal for me. Honestly, none of them are ideal. I think instead I'll take a red ship upgrade. So, I'm going to bump uh one of these into a red ship. So, can I also have a red ship?
Yes.
Thank you.
You're welcome. Your turn.
Um
I can't believe that I have freaking blue chips are in here. In here. This is my bag. Mag rough life.
I'm going to spend two white.
Okay.
Uh because I can spend them through here.
Yes.
But we're only in arrivals for now.
For now.
Um and with that, I can also uh detect echolocation.
So that's going to be grasslands and plains.
Okay.
Oh, but I would have to pay for it, correct?
Yes. Oh, I mean
you have to pay two of any chip.
Okay. I hate to do it, but I guess I should just copy you and rest.
Roughly.
I feel like I should. Yeah, I guess I I guess I should because I'm just trying to do something unique, but I feel like that's not the plan. All right, so I
Oh, one thing I don't know if we fully covered we started to do. You'll see it more next turn. Um, as you move to new locations, you get a free echolocation action. Free does not mean you don't pay for it. It just means it doesn't count as one of your three actions.
Two.
Echolation is how you find new creatures. You'll see it all soon.
Three. Four. Five. Uh, six sevens. Okay. So, I got a lot of colors.
So, you didn't copy me. I counted to six.
Um, okay. So, I did all of that.
You know what we did not do? Your turn gets an event as well.
Pull out an event. If it messes things up, we'll just deal with it. No. Slide the first event down.
And the next event comes out. And it is a We're putting a fuel pod in play and we're pulling it in the northern tundra. So, I don't think that would have changed things for you.
Not anything I'm going to go back on at this point. Yeah.
Like, would I have perhaps gone there?
Maybe, but I already took this. I'm happy with it. So, we're just going to let [clears throat] that be there
for now for you to go collect. I'm not going there this turn.
Maybe next turn.
So that's what I did for rest, but I don't think there's anything else that I can do. Correct.
I do not believe there is. No, then you take three actions though.
You pilot it down. You studied and you rested.
Yep.
Yeah. Hey, you're done. Which makes it my turn. Uh, first thing we're going to go ahead and do is we're going to once again move the events down over here. Draw a new event card. And that's going to put a storm in the northern tundra. No, not the northern tundra. I lied. The northern uh grasslands. So, we're going to have a store marker over here. This basically means that if we take any action except for piloting out of that zone, bad things will happen. You roll damage die. You roll a damage die. Uh damage is going to be tracked on your hull. So, be mindful of that. Uh now, for me, I'm going to start by taking a movement action. Paying these over here. This move exhausted. I'm going to place these over here. Uh in order to go ahead and move from this zone over here,
that's me.
In order to move, then you should have moved over here. Okay.
Oh, you're right. You're right.
I'm going to move from here up to over here to this zone over here in their arrival zone. Uh, which means now I can go ahead and research the aggressive aspect there. So, I think I will spend a red over here as well as a white and a white to research the aggressive trait on that creature. Putting one onto the aggressive spot as well as one onto well the leftmost spot on general. Within each node, you have to fill it left to right, which means I can't just take that bonus even though I want to. And then once again, I am still short on my um I'm still short on those. Oh, do I want to do a [sighs and gasps] I guess I'm not doing a discover echolocation on that zone. I'm kind of tempted to, but I don't think I can.
No, it's hard.
It is indeed hard. It is indeed hard until you start getting things. Uh, so I think that was action. I moved. I could rest again. It feels crazy to do this, but I think resting again will give me my my special action, which I think is worth doing.
So, even though it's not going to be a full rest action cuz it's going to be five. It feels so crazy. I feel like I should not be resting right now, but I'm going to get five chips in my bag. One, two, I think. So, I'm going to I'm going to rest. It is what it is. We're going to rest. Uh, you're not going to see the most efficient turns unless I want to do something else. No.
How many things are in your bag? So,
uh, there's not not seven. Not seven. I'm going to go ahead and draw my whole hand, which is four. Is that it? Let me see if it's only four. Maybe not. No, it's five. Five. Okay. Five. And another purple. That's actually worth it. All right. We're going to go ahead and grab all those. So, I basically did a rest action. Uh, none of the actions apply. And that's my turn. My turn ends to you, Meg.
Okay,
shift down. I clear out my board
and
I should have cleared these.
Yep. Those should clear to your exhausted area.
Yes. Down to here.
Yep.
Okay. Well, here's the thing, Alex. I hate
to copy you.
Well, you can start with an event. Maybe I'll change things for Yeah, but I'm so good with aggressive
and I don't want to come down to this one till he's gone.
But that one's You can't research anything aggressive in that one. There's only one aggressive trait and I already researched it.
Oh, I'm Yeah,
you be doing general.
Yep. Well, you know,
you can still follow me, but you're just doing general.
I I had such a good plan. Another one
on the northern on northern.
Is it here? No, over here.
I think so. Yeah, I think it's over there. We have another alien hunter up here, which is not boating well for us.
No, because that's where the thingy is.
I know that's the problem.
Remind us what the fuel pod
uh the fuel pod is going to allow you to recharge some of your cubes. Uh specifically looking at your board, you would look at where your uh upgrade marker is here, and you'll get that many upgrades uh over there. So, right now, it' be three. You'd be able to move three from exhausted to available. Uh but in doing so, you'd also roll for two damage, cuz you know, that's how that works.
These should be here now, correct?
Uh yes.
Okay. Okay. Well, I'm definitely leaving because it's dangerous here. I could go somewhere new and hope for someone uh you know, a little bit
I recommend somewhere new.
Um Okay. Okay. So, now I'm like, should I go here or here?
All valid.
You've never been there before.
You've never been to the forest in the periphery
and nothing's happened there.
Correct. At all.
Okay. I think that I'm going to
keep in mind next round he's leaving. So, this guy's going to be gone next round.
Oh, that's true.
On your on my next turn, it's going to happen, honestly. But, you know, I'm far away from there.
Yeah. Okay. So, I feel like that's worth putting one thing on your thing, but I don't want to. I'm not going to.
Listen, look at
uh I can spend two to go through here. Correct.
You absolutely can.
Okay. So, I'm going to do that.
Okay.
Down to here.
Great.
And then Okay. And then I'm going to spend two more as part of your same action.
as part of my same action. So, this is detect echolocation action. You can do it as an action or you can do it as a freebie when you move between biomes.
As a [clears throat] free action, but I still have to pay for it, unfortunately.
What What traits do you have?
Um, flying fast in general, which is nothing that I specialize in, but I'm happy to be here. Now, I do get a token here.
Yep.
Um, oh, I think I should have one more point
uh from
from the card that I gained here. And actually, he's another one for that set location uh for the
for the research. We haven't talked about this location.
There's a lot of bonuses,
but
um I I guess so I moved.
Yeah, use this. You
I've only done one thing.
Yep.
So then I guess it does make sense to check him out even though I don't
live your best life,
you know. Either way, if I do it correctly, I get two on there. Correct.
You if you do it correctly. Yes.
Okay. So I will choose fast.
Okay.
So we will do this, this, and this.
Okay.
And so I will get two on him and I will put them both on there to get one more point.
I hate that for me because I I am very good at fast and that would have been really helpful.
Oh, I honestly I did it for the point and but like I I guess I was being strategic.
I would have moved down there and put all three down.
Okay. Anything else?
I moved. Oh, no. Wait. Is that only two things so far? Cuz I moved. I got a free echol location. Yeah.
And then I um I studied him once.
Yes. You have one more action.
I could study again.
Yep. You absolutely could.
Studying is so expensive. Uh
it is indeed.
Resting is nice. Um gosh, I really I would love to win this one. That's the thing. So, if I do at least one more, then I'm fine. But my economy I can't do it. I can't do it. I guess I should I'm going to do end up doing the same thing that you did. And gosh, I wish that I could have gotten that fuel pod. That was a nice looking fuel pod. That was a very tasty
snackicious fuel pod. But instead, I am for my third action going to rumage through my bag.
So, let's take
totally legit. One, two, three, four.
I think it's going to tie back to empty. Yeah. Okay.
Well, that was a pretty good haul.
The challenge I have is I could move into that biome. Well, let's see what happens. Let's Let's do one thing at a time. So, right now, first things first is we're going to have uh this guy, I believe, is the Southern Tundra. So, we're going to move an event, Southern Tundra, if he's going to go ahead and leave. Uh now, the first thing he's going to do is he's going to roll a dieice. Uh, but when he leaves, he rolls. And if he rolls a hit, he will take this creature with him. Uh, he did not roll a hit, so the creature is still in play, which actually changes my entire turn. Uh, then we're going to slide these down over here. We'll put a new card out
and we're going to get a uh over there. We get a hover cone being added as a stranded hover cone in which zone? In the forest zone. Over here. Oh. Oh. Oh, interesting. Also, the turn, you shift down here. I should have been over here. It's all good.
Okay, so now we have a stranded hover cone. Stranded hover cones are these AI. There's another AI faction kind of in play at all player counts. This is kind of in the background. Uh they had one of their hover cones go down. If you rescue it, you spend three chips, but you'll get three points, which is kind of useful, honestly. I kind of want to rescue the hover cone. I kind of want to rescue the hover cone bag. Okay,
hover cone.
I need to do some quick math. That would take me five chips to get there. One, two, three. Cuz I could go here. One, two, three. And then over there, too. Let me just count us out some chips right now because it'll cost me a blue to get here.
Count my chips.
I can also go here and then move straight through the storm, which I believe is legal. I think I'm allowed to move through the storm because you only take an action when you you any action taken in the biome. I don't think you'd pay for the arrival of going into a dangerous area. Uh, so I can go two and then three. Ah, this is rough. Okay, let me do some quick aspects of things. So, if I if I devote five chips right now, so one, two, three, I'm just counting out to see how much it would cost me to get there. It would cost me five to get there right now. Um, which is a lot of chips to get to that one area. But I could also go ahead and do I can move, move, and rescue. That would be a valid turn. And along the way, could I do this over here? I don't know if I could
move and rescue.
I could spend these two to move. And then this. It's too many. It's too many chips. It's too many chips. But I think it's important to do that.
Okay. So, I think I am going to go ahead and just uh pilot. So, I'm going to do my backup plan. This is my backup plan. Ready? My backup plan is I'm going to jump straight to the hover cone using pilots to any biome as my special action. Wow.
So, I'm going to do that. That's going to be one. I'm using this special action over here. And then I'm going to move directly from here to over here.
Now, I still have to That is a full action, which means I'm still going to spend an action to discover if I want to discover uh which I am going to hold off on that for right now. The first thing I'm going to do
and I'm going to use that for the fuel pot.
Is I'm going to No, it's it's I think it's too tempting because this will get me an upgrade right now because I'm going to do is I'm going to spend three of any chip to rescue the hover cone.
Uh that's going to also give me three points over here right away and an upgraded one of these. So, first things first, this goes away. It's gone now. So, uh it's already done. I will get three points up on that track which is going to put me straight to five points which is going to give me an upgrade which is why I did that
because I think the question is do I want an upgrade? If I do that I still have another action right now. I may as well do a discover action cuz why not? Um a discover action will cost me two of anything. So I'm not opposed to that. But I first need to decide what upgrade I get from there. Um
I feel like there's something else I was going to do. I did this. I did that.
Oh yeah. Yes. Yes. That Thank you. I was keeping it
right now. This is blue and blue. This is yellow and orange. Yellow and orange is not bad.
You got yellow on your board.
I'm going to do the yellow and orange one. Okay, we're going to do that one over there. Uh that's going to be upgraded. Um and then my last action I think I will spend.
Well, no. So then you get to upgrade one of these. Don't forget.
Yes, I will upgrade. Do I want bag building or do I want to recover in case of dangerous things? I think I'll go ahead and do this, which would right away give me one of these back, which is not bad. Or you know what? No. I'm going to do over here. I'm going to upgrade this. I'm going to take two purples. Can I get two purples? And I get one less cost to discover to echolocate new creatures.
Okay.
Okay. And then with my last action, uh even though I kind of skipped here to go through here, I'm actually going to go ahead and move uh paying these two to go ahead and move over here. Okay, that is my turn. which makes it your turn. Mag,
this slides down.
He slides down.
Okay,
that is correct. And then we go up to the event track.
Yes. So, this one goes away.
Yes.
Do you have a discard?
It technically it'll make it simpler visually to remove it.
Yes.
Yeah. So, now the fuel pod explodes. The way that works is it rolls a dieice and theoretically could do damage or whatnot, but we roll a dieice and if we roll a hit, it will it will disappear. And we rolled a hit, so it goes away.
And we got another
I got a new hover cone. New stranded hover cone. And it's in this zone over here.
Okay.
Stranded hover cones. Lots of stranded hover cones.
We love a good hover cone.
Which is where I was a second ago.
I know you were just there. It You're just breaking things as you leave.
I was so excited. I was so excited to rescue a thing.
Sorry guys. Oops.
I wanted the upgrade. It's so cool to have an upgrade already.
Um Okay. So, I am going to start off with a general studying.
General studying that
I'm in the middle of re-watching How I Met Your Mother right now, so that's kind of on my That's a deep cut for those.
Here's the thing. If I do general
Yes,
you could
come in and take one perk.
Is that worth it? Are you going to do it? That's
I guess you get to take the card.
It gives me the point and it guarant No, no, the card goes to you. Um, but it would give me one upgrade. So, I get for the cost of one research action, I'm guaranteed an upgrade of some sort. So, is it worth it? Maybe. Who's to say?
Who's to say?
Me. I'm I'm going to say.
All right. So, I will do a general one with two white
and a blue. So, we will do that to place my token out here.
My purple's going to go back to supply.
Um, and then I will spend H. Let's see. Because I could either do it like this or like this, which is more efficient. So, I'm going to use my purple as Oh, I can use purple as this. Yes.
Yeah.
All right. So, I will pile it to an adjacent biome. So, I'm going to jump over to here. And then I will do an aggressive one as well. So, I have a special aggression.
You have special aggression. I have a special I have the most special aggression and I will leave flying open for you again because I know you like it.
Oh, if it's only one spot, it's not actually special to me.
It's just a spot.
All right. Now, you will take a damage. You will you'll roll for damage after researching it.
You're not You're probably not even going to come and do it.
I didn't say that.
Okay, then I'll do I'll leave it like that for now.
Okay.
All right. Uh so after researching when you study an aggressive creature, this over here is an aggressive creature. Uh, you're going to roll a damage die and see if you take damage.
Okay.
And you take damage.
Listen, you you roll hits. That's what you do.
Okay. Um, now,
yeah,
I did a study and then I moved with this and then I studied. Does this count? That counts in action.
Okay. So, then I am all done and we're going to move over to explore.
Explore. The storm disappears from the planet.
My goodness.
Storm goes away. Uh, we're going to move the storm, move things down, and a new thing is going to happen. And that new thing is
a new abandoned hover cone. This time on the northern over here. More abandoned hover cones. These people are kind of having a hard time staying alive. Staying alive. Now, I am currently in a zone where I think it is worthwhile to do a flying research action. So, I am going to go ahead and with my flying, I'll do a regular flying. So, I'm going to build this like so. I guess I'll do that cuz why not? I guess why not? Because some you actually need regular actions, man. I'm going to I'm going to use my purples at the end for nothing, which is crazy to me. Um but then I will
if I spend this yellow, I guess does it matter? I don't know. I'll send the blue. Oh, I can do pilot to an adjacent biome for yellow is not bad. Blue is fill any study node. Oh, that's interesting. Blue is fill any study node. So, I think I'm actually going to do this like so. So, action one. This actually cool. Okay, ready? So, I did this like so. That's one. Um, that's going to be matching the flying action, which means I get to put two discs on it, which is going to complete the research. So, Meg, you're going to get three points and I'm going to get two. So, you're going to get three. Going from four to seven, and I go two, four to seven as well, or five to seven, you're going to get an upgrade on your track.
Does this not give you a point?
Uh, it does give you a point. It does. Yes, you should have one more point.
Okay.
Okay.
Uh, then, uh, you're also going to get the card itself, and you get both of those actions. And I get one of those actions. I'll get this upgrade here, which is two purples, which honestly So, my purples go back in my bag if I go home. Correct.
Yes.
Okay.
Where did Where
So, you can get those cards. It's a yellow upgrade or a upgrading on that other track.
But what I get both, correct?
Yes. I'm going to upgrade one of my uh discarded ones to yellow. So, can you pass me yellow as well?
Uh yeah.
So, I'm upgrading this to yellow. Um, and then I have two more actions, I believe. Oh, interesting. Okay, I'm trying to think this through. Okay, so I can go ahead and I can take two more actions. I think I will spend my yellow to pilot to an adjacent biome with my special action. And then I'm going to go ahead and spend this over here uh to go ahead and fill any one study node with one. So, I'm going to do this. I'm kind of just filling I'm not sure if I'm doing this better or worse cuz I feel like I'm just completing the stuff you're doing well at. Uh, but that is
I don't know.
That is technically it's fill a study node. I don't believe that actually would count as a studying a creature. Just as fill a study node. Let me just double check over there, but I don't think it would be.
What are you worried about?
Uh, it's a special action. Do I do a roll for uh damage?
You're still studying. I don't know.
It just says you fill a study node. So, I'm
It says a study.
Yeah. It's not a studying action.
Sure. I don't care.
So, I'm not going to roll for damage in that. Um, and then that we are going to complete the card. So once again, you're going to get three points and I'll get one that is going to put a chip of your choice into your bag.
Into the bag.
Into the bag. Goes into the bag. Not to supply. Um, and then you'll get the card again. Uh, but then I will get one of those two bonuses. I can put a blue. I can replace a white with a blue. I think I am going to replace a white with a blue. Okay. So, can I get a blue?
There you go.
Yep. Thank you. Um, and that was my third action. I took two of these actions over here. This is done. Everything is over and it's your turn.
Okay. Gosh.
Gosh. Indeed.
Gosh. Um,
now the thing to keep in mind, by the way, is when you return to the orbit star, which is one of the actions you can take, your turn is over. Any other actions are lost.
So, you do want to factor that in.
Yeah. I don't know if I had a better choice, though. without everything without how with without how all the cookies crumbled. Um, let's see.
That's why I am regretting this a little bit cuz I think
Oh, wait. This should go to me.
Yes,
cuz that spot should be open technically.
I wonder if I should discover.
Oh, and then I move down here.
Here just to I think that is kind of a good idea. So, I will do that. I'm going to spend two of these. I am spending a purple, but it is what it is. Um, oh no, sorry. My echolocation is minus one now.
Oh, if you have that one as well then. Yeah.
Okay, great. So, I'm going to spend one for here. This is great. Perfect. Spend that. I guess this would be here.
Um, and I'm going to discover a new place. Let's see.
You'll get the discovery tree.
Okay. And it's aggressive. We love aggressive. Okay. So now, unfortunately, I don't think I should do anything. Well, actually, actually, I could spend all three of these right now. Is that worth it?
It's crazy.
It doesn't feel that crazy cuz then I'd have three actions this round. I'd have three things on this.
Yeah. Do it. Do it.
I'll do it.
Wow.
All right. So, three as this for me. So, that is three things.
Um, I think it's worth it.
I don't think it's crazy. I think it's a choice. So I will do two on underground as my two bonuses so that I get a point from that as well. So I'll do aggressive and then underground underground.
Okay.
So I will move up on here and then as my third action I will come home. ET is going to fly home.
So when you return to the orbit star you get a few actions. First thing you're going to do is you're going to cycle all your tokens. So everything over here is going to go straight into your bag. This purple should not be here.
Yeah, that was just an accident.
So you're going to go ahead and put all your all those. Then you perform a rest action. So everything's going to go back in your bag. Then you're going to draw seven from your bag. Then you will claim a requisition and then end your turn. So when you claim a requisition, that means you're basically putting down one of your tokens onto the board and saying, "I think I'm good at this at this kind of points." So a good example of one is over here on this side. You get points in the game for each advanced disc you have of certain colors. If you've really gone into yellow, for example, you can put a token there. These are limited though, so um choose wisely. Okay. So, I'm kind of working toward this, which is one point for each of those four.
But honestly, I'm wondering if I should get there's another one over here.
Oh, that is I have that card no matter what.
Yeah.
Okay, fine. I'll do that one.
Yeah, you should. I believe you should be gaining that point right away.
That point. Okay, good. Yeah,
I meant I'm going to You can't win this card away from me.
I know, but you got Did you take that point for that?
Yes. I'm just saying I definitely have it for this part
cuz the last time we noticed it at the end, but yeah.
Yeah. Okay. So, I'm supposed to draw seven.
Yep. Did you do an event?
Oh, no, no, no, no.
All right. So, first things first on your turn. An event. The uh this guy leaves. Uh there's no one to actually take there because there's no species there. So, nothing happens there.
Okay, good. It's just a stranded thing.
Strand. Just a stranded hover cone. Just a stranded hover cone.
Yeah. Now,
over here.
Okay. And then I will draw my seven. Okay, one. You can go if you want. I'm just drawing.
Um, I believe I'm not doing much. Unfortunately, I am going to spend a purple just to make sure I get one of my discs on this because at the very least
Well, I'm glad I got the white ones out early to upgrade them because
I'm going to Man, um then I'm going to So, I spent I one action to go here and I think for my second action, I think it makes sense because I'm out of chips, is to take a return to orar, which feels really inefficient.
Um No, but I mean I could I could by spending this. It's not worth it to me.
You You could
Yeah, I could spend one more. Oh. Oh, so what I did, I should have been clear. I should I just did it without telling people what I was doing. I took that and I put it to fill any study node. That was the action I took. Uh which I can only do I I think I could do it again even, but it doesn't matter. I don't think it's worth it. I'd rather have the purple. So, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to put everything back in my bag. Uh the purple's going to go back into my bag as well. That's another thing that happens. Other tokens in your available zone would actually become exhausted. So, you kind of don't want to leave anything except purple behind as far as far far as fish goes. Uh then rest action, which means I draw seven more for the bag. And uh that's it. That's that's it. That's all I do. So it's your turn, Rick. Oh, wait. No, sorry. Sorry. My an event. This one goes away, but it's nothing happened there because I was already done. So over here, these ones come out. We have all of our stranded hover cones at once, but we have a new storm brewing uh down over here.
New storm. Okay. So any actions taken there will cause you to roll a damage. Um and then I am drawing seven for the bag. And then our turn's over. Right. So, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I got a nice assortment this time. Uh, and Meg, it is your turn to go ahead and um start with an event.
So, the first things first, this event is actually going, this hover cone is actually going to leave. Uh, the new one's going to come out.
Let's see.
Oh. Oh, and I apologize. I'm supposed to do this over here. I think given the situation, I'm actually going to put one over here on yellow tokens. I think I'm going to need that
a fuel. We'll see how it goes, but I don't know if I'm not confident anything else is happening. That's good for me
right here.
Okay. Uh, yes, we are going to be putting down a fuel on that zone.
Okay. And remind me again what happens when I access.
Uh, if you you're going to upgrade, you're going to either either you can totally heal yourself or you can um get that much from your exhausted to there.
Exhausted to available
and I just take it
as an action. It is a full action.
Okay. What do I want to do here?
These are questions we have not figured out the answer to.
Um,
we need to get more stuff in
and this lets me
uh that's going to upgrade that track.
It's your hull track.
Oh, I see. I see. I see. I see. And I would get an upgrade which is good. So, I could go there and do many things.
Also, like your damage still until you until you
said it's aggressive.
Until you upgrade that track like you are limited.
It is aggressive.
What's aggressive? This one.
Oh, yeah.
Has the thing.
Take it out.
I don't think I want you out.
Take it out. What's the worst that can happen?
Um, all right. So, I am going to start off uh down here.
Okay.
So, I will do pilot from the orbit star.
Great.
I'm then going to rescue this hover cone.
Okay. It's going to take three chips of your choice.
Yeah. One, two, three. And then I'm going to get three points.
Okay.
One, two, three. I get both upgrades cuz I'll get this.
Yep.
And the other one. So I take one of these.
Yes. So you got three points.
You want to get one of these cleared and then you'll get an upgrade as well. So a whole lot of things are happening.
I guess I'll do small and hope that comes out.
And then for this I want to upgrade. Oh, I want to upgrade this one. But these aren't here yet. Correct. That is tricky. I still feel like that's a the best thing to do. Although I could take this, which would give me two purple.
All good things to do.
I have one action left. Yeah,
I did one, two. So, I would have Let's see.
Let's I'll do this one even though it's a little inefficient.
Okay, it is a drop in efficient cuz she's giving up the extra uh movement right away.
Yeah, honestly, I don't want to do it.
Nope. It's very inefficient.
We're going to do the two purple. I just feel like they're just too good. I love the purples. That was your second action, correct? Yes. So, you have one more action.
Um, for my final action, I'm going to uncover a place.
Okay.
One.
Um, and I'll uncover that first place.
That's going to be from that de back over there. The northern. Look for the northern. Look for the southern plains. That one. Sorry. I said north. It's just a grasslands and plains bottom deck.
I think that's this one.
It's both.
Oh. Oh. Oh. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha.
Okay.
Okay.
Tongue.
I'm going to put it up.
It's concealed and aggressive.
An aggressive man.
We love an aggressive one. There you go.
Thank you.
Okay.
And then I will slide down.
Uh slide down over here. That ends your turn.
Yeah.
On my turn, my three actions, I am going to
Yes. An excellent choice. That goes away. Uh that one's already rescued though, so nothing happens. A new event comes out.
And the new event is
a storm where?
Uh down in here where the fuel is.
Oh man, why is the storm always where the fuel is? That's rough. I'm going to head down over here as my first action. I am then also inclined to you know what I'm going to spend a blue uh over here to fill any one study node which means again I won't roll for aggression. I'm going to put that there. That means this card is going to resolve. I will get two points. You get three. So two points for me, three for four for you. You're going to look 19. Uh you will once again get the card. You get both upgrades. I get one. Uh which upgrade do I want?
So I can replace and take a yellow.
I'll replace and take a yellow. Yep. Okay. I'm going to do it in my bag though.
Okay. Here it is.
Okay. And then I also get to bump this up.
There you go. Um, and that's that. Then for my actions, which feels Wait, I have Oh, I could do a rest action again. I'm not opposed to that cuz then I can get my yellows out of the way. My Okay, so I'm going to do a rest action. So, I'm going to do right now is my second action is going to be a rest action. My third action is going to be rescuing the hover cone. So, I'm going to draw seven chips from the bag again. So, we're going to go one, two, I'm hoping for a bunch of whites over here.
Sorry.
Three, four. Yes. You can't also rescue the hover cone. Didn't you pilot out this room?
Five, six, seven. I don't have the question.
How did you get there?
I uh what's it called? I orbit starred which went down here.
Then you studied. Then you rested.
Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. I'm going to undo the rest.
I don't mind. I totally don't mind. No. No. You're correct. You're correct. My bad. I forgot about the study.
Or if you want to wait to do the card.
No. No. No. As I want to.
You can do the card of the nature.
No. No. Cuz I want to play it as if what I would have done with here. This is there. that was there. I'm going to be slightly inefficient with my actions. I'm going to spend two of these. Um as well as I'll go with a yellow, I guess. Uh and that's going to be my my turn there. Okay. So, I'm going to rest this. Put those back in the bag. Sorry about that. Good catch. I think the problem is mentally I think of these as not actions even though they are. Um and that was the hover cone. I get three more points. So, I'm going to jump from 10 to 13 and then I get to upgrade one of these stats. And I think I'm going to upgrade leaping. So, I'm going to upgrade leaping. Um, and I think that's everything. Then it's your turn. We start with an event. I move down to here. Okay.
All right.
Event clears.
Another storm.
Another storm. Where?
In the mountains.
The mountains. Okay.
All right.
These storms in play.
My gosh.
Uh, I'm a little scared about that.
Okay.
All right. So, at the start of my turn, I'm going to rest.
Okay. That's a good choice. I was I tried doing that last turn.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Okay, then I'm going to study this creature here with two reds and a white, which is going to be an ultimate aggressive study cuz I just love even in a game where we're just studying animals and they have traits, somehow I'm still doing the aggressive play. Um but so I will place three out
on that guy.
Okay. Where you going?
Um
over here.
Yeah.
On aggression or you want
Is there anything that's um
I can't think of a reason why you care.
There's no bonuses.
Yeah.
I can't think of a reason why you'd care in this case.
Okay. So I arrested.
Yeah.
I studied and I'm going to leave now.
Okay.
Which feels like I'm in this loop of having to leave all the time now. Which I guess
it is structured that way.
I know. But I keep
You could just risk a bad thing.
Yeah, but I don't mind. So, I will go I will spend an orange and a white and go up
into the northern tundra.
An arrival. Would you like to explore while you're on the way there?
Oh, yeah. Uh I actually fully would cuz I get to do it for just one.
Yes, you do.
I will do that.
All right. You're going to draw for your North and Tundra card, which I believe is up here.
Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Our friend there was aggressive.
Oh, so you're going to roll a dieice.
Yeah.
All right. Go ahead and roll
because I have
You have a reroll. Yes, you do.
So, you take a damage, but you can reroll and you do not take a damage. Look at that.
Uh, the tundra card that comes out is going to be uh we got an Arctic sledider who's general and concealed.
Adorable.
Get a token out on him.
Okay.
Okay. And I believe it's my turn.
Move down to the region. So, you're going to head down here. This card is going to clear. New card comes out.
Okay. Oh,
and that was the storm in here. Oh, oh, we got this one. Move this card and reveal a new event. Place the ebony blistering. Draw the new uh event over there. The ebony blistering is showing up. It's going to show up in the forest region.
Okay. Uh and then the forest. In addition to that, we also have a hunter in the forest region. That makes things a little rough.
That is crazy.
Wow. Okay, so the hunter showed up. That's actually very thematic, by the way, the way that happened. Uh because you have a hunter chasing down the busher. So, it's a highrisisk high
reward.
Really cool. I mean, but it would also be cool if it showed up in a storm.
Yes, that would be fun, too. But that didn't happen. Uh, my turn. I think the first thing I'm going to do, cuz I don't see a strong reason not to. I guess I could argue some reasons not to. The problem is I'm kind of connected to um let me clear these things over here. I am incentivized to rest a little bit perhaps cuz I can explore, rest, and discover. I think is not the craziest thing. I can spend a purple to fly to any zone, which is also not the craziest thing. I think I will I think I will explore. So, what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to discover. Okay. No, no, I'm going to rest first. I'm going to rest first because then I can do the So, I'm going to draw seven. So, my first action is one, two, three, four, five, six. Let me draw one more from the bag. And then we have seven over here. Um, and then keeping in mind, by the way, you do want some whites over here. Sometimes you can't spend a white. You meaning over here when you're looking at actions, some of them require whites. You need to be mindful of that. Uh, but then I am going to um spend Oh, that's actually an interesting point because if I burn through my whites right now, I could be in trouble. I could be in trouble.
I think what I'll do is I will [sighs] I think I'll spend a yellow, which feels crazy to do this. No, I'll spend a red. I'm going to spend a red. Okay. Uh to go ahead and explore a new creature. Can I get a new creature for the tundra, which is over here? I have the tundra deck. All right, we have concealed and fast. That works for me. So, this is my second action. I rested, right? Which action did I do? I rested. Okay, I rested. Um, uh, we have to put a discovery token onto it. Okay. Um, it's going to get harder. The whites are going to be harder and harder as the game progresses. You need them. That's risky. Anyways, um, I put a token down over there. We have the ice crawler. Um, and then because it's fast, I could do a fast research, which I think I will do.
So, that's going to be three tokens because I'm going to do a super advanced research uh for my This is my second action. Um, oh, wait. No, I rested. I discovered and I'm doing this. Oh my gosh. So, I'm staying here. I'm staying here. That's rough. I'm going to do fast and then I'm going to put down these two over here which is going to give me a point up here.
So, I am going to suffer a biome event. You're going to be able to see it for the first time
and we'll see how that goes for us. Uh, brave is one word. I think stuck in the situation is the other word.
That's my turn. I rested. I explored a new I discovered a new thingy. I detected and then I uh pulled out over there. Part of that, by the way, is because the two things I'm next to both have bad stuff. So, like what am I supposed to do? Anyways, I'm going to go ahead and draw a biome event from this deck. And we're going to look at the specific biome region, which is Tundra. And we have Arctic Blast. Exhaust all available tokens. Roll one damage per shortage below three. Whoa.
Wow. You were like, I'll do it.
That's everything.
That is insane.
That is horrifically bad. Horrifically, horrifically bad. I just lost so many. Apparently, don't uh stay in one place when you have these events over here. Um, and that's going to be my
That hurts.
Yeah, that's kind of crazy.
Your turn, Mag.
That was kind of insane. How many was that?
Uh, that was like five tokens I exhausted. And for anything below three, I'd roll a damage die for, but I didn't. I had
Wow. I wonder what you're doing next turn.
Um, I'm resting.
How many are in your bag?
Enough that I can rest, but like Oh, is there I guess I have one. One, two, three, four. Only four, it looks like.
Wow.
Yikes.
Okay,
that is a yikes. Your turn.
Uh, so what are the traits of that one up there that I'm at?
Uh, the traits of the one that you are at up there are um a concealed and general.
Concealed. I have a concealed.
Yes.
Really?
Yes, you do.
Concealed and general.
Yep.
Well, I don't have general, but I do have concealed. So, with that, I'm going to use a blue and a purple.
Okay. as well as a yellow. Um, and I'm going to do I have upgraded concealed, so I'm going to get to put three on that spot.
Sounds good.
So, I will do that. Um,
I assume you want the uh extra right away.
Yeah, I'm going to use the blue to fill the node. So, I guess I didn't need that.
So, you're going to be able to pick one of these back.
It had a action on it. So, you get one of these back.
Oh, really?
Really?
Yes, indeed. I will take this. Okay, that's going to confuse me now because Okay, so I'm going to use this now as my second action to fill that.
Okay, so you're going to completely clear it yourself, which is going to give you five points going from 19 to 24 and adding a token to your bag.
Yes. Oh,
we are visited by our own special creature.
Okay.
And then I'll take the card, right? And so I also get to make a red upgrade. And I also get to upgrade this. So I'm going to kind of have another health now.
Okay. So this will go to my damage cuz this was upgraded. So now I have like kind of more health, but not yet. You need to heal it first.
Not yet, but kind of. So I have this guy now over here.
And so I Let's see. I believe I study. I filmed the node. Did you do an event this turn?
No.
An event.
My goodness. My goodness.
Fuel marker disappears.
The new event is
uh
Oh. Oh, we have finally they are joining. So, they're going to go ahead and head to the northern tundra, which is over here. They're going to put a new uh not northern tundra, the southern grass and plains. Grab one of these. And they're going to put a discovery mark. Oh, sorry. A Can you pass me one of the AI so to speak?
The the factions over here, they're going to put a token down. They're doing their own researching on that.
Okay.
When they leave, they're going to put one on every single faction in the zone.
Okay. And then I have two things left plus a purple. So I think efficiency wise, um Oh, I actually don't love this because
I I researched I filled the study node. Yep.
I could spend these, but I need to go back home.
It's
I'm going to go back home. If I go back home, where would these go?
They would They'd be fine.
They would go to there.
These would be exhausted, unfortunately, but these would be get back.
Okay, I'll I'll
back to the Orar.
I'm going to do it. I'll go home.
Okay, so pull back to the Orar.
Feels crazy.
So, you're finishing off. You're going to cycle all your tokens. So, basically, everything here is going to go back into your bag.
This purple exception being Yep. The exception being these two will go into your exhausted after you clear everything else. So again, you don't want to hold on to available tokens. It's not great for you.
Yeah, I feel like that was I don't know. We'll see if I live to regret it.
All right. Uh then you're going to go ahead and take a regular rest action. So at this point with a regular rest action, you're also going to get one of these back. That's the nice part.
So basically, you're going to pull you're going to pull seven for the bag. Pull one of those back because you upgraded that track. And then you're also going to heal one damage now that you have your damage upgraded.
Three, four, five. Whoa. Six. Seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Plus the one. Okay. And then I will finally select a thing.
Yep.
Um,
you can choose any one of these that you think you're better at.
Gosh, I have been taking a lot of
this one. It awards you for having different creatures out. That's going to be a chunk of points for you
for
each unique biome.
Oh, then I should absolutely go.
I think you should go there. The only one person can go there.
Okay. So, all of that and then I'll just grab this. Yep. And you end your turn. On my turn, we're going to have an event go away. So, this southern storm is going to disappear. Uh, we're going to slide these things down. And then we're going to see We got a new event. We have another one of those. So, we're going to put another card in the forest zone. Uh, the forest zone is over here. Uh, and they're also going to put another token. Can you pass me another
Oh my goodness.
Yep. They're showing up. They're showing up.
Yeah, they're here.
Okay. Uh, and then my turn. I'm going to start with a rest action cuz I I need to head back to Overstar. Unfortunately, uh, things have not been good. I took some damage over there. So, I only have three. I have four tokens over here. Uh, five tokens. Um, then I'm going to spend this blue one over here as to fill any nodes. My second action. That's going to fill this node over here, which means I'm going to complete that creature. So, I'm going to bump up on this track, which means I can immedately put one back. I guess I'll take a yellow.
I thought you're going to leave that one for me.
Um, and then I'm going to upgrade one of these to a red. So, I'll bump this up to a red if you don't mind. Can I have a red?
Yes. Um, and then I will actually I'm going to do that one as red. Okay. Uh, and then we are going to I think head back to the orbit star. I think that makes the most sense. So these five I'm going to get five points for this.
You're copying me now.
I think I have to. I have no nothing less in my bag.
Five points.
I might I might hold off. Let me just hold off. Yeah, go ahead. No, do that. That that for sure.
One, two, three, four, five. So you will get an upgrade.
Okay. So I will get an upgrade. That could change things. Does it change things? If I upgrade that, if I upgrade that, it gives me back some some time. And the storm's gone. So, you know what? I won't head back to the orbar yet. I think I'll hold off. So, I'm going to do instead is I'm going to So, my first action is resting. My second action was doing that. Uh, my third action is going to be my upgrade. I'm going to take this. Oh, did I just get that upgrade? I did. And I moved one back already. Yes. I'm going to do this again a second time. Okay. That's going to move two back right away. So, that can buy me some time to uh figure out what I want to do. I'll move back this and a that. Okay. Um and then that's everything. Then I'm going to use this together with I guess I'll use a red. I'll go with a red. Okay. And I will move over here where I can then pay. Is it the right move? I think I'm being whatever. It's fine. It is what it is. I'm going to pay one over here. Um no, I can pilot. Yeah, I'm going to pay one over here. Um, and then I will um reveal a creature basically. So if we can get a new creature out over here and I put a discovery token down and we have a gyro spin gyro.
Okay, we have fast and concealed.
Uh, fast works for me and that's my turn.
Okay. Okay. So now I am going to get to come out. You Wait, you were going to go back to orbit star and then you fully decided not to.
Yeah, because I I drew enough in my bag that I was like I can make enough out of it.
Wow. I think I the question is when is it efficient because this ends your turn. But the question is if I can get two actions on my next turn and I can get at least one. Two might be pushing it.
Okay.
But by the way, the way I did that is because I got an upgrade. The thing I changed my mind is moving this here pulled back two right away. That let me have enough to do.
If not for that, I wouldn't have.
Okay, let me see really quickly. But I didn't specialize in any of those things yet. So,
I feel like I'm close to you in points on the track, but I feel like you have a lot more in game points.
You know what? When I did this, am I supposed to take it from one of these?
Uh, no. No.
Okay, good. Okay. All right. So, I am going to go up here. I think this is my best bet. So, I'm going to move to there. All right. This is actually kind of cool. I'm going to move to there.
I'm going to use
Did you do an event?
No.
The event first?
I actually want that alien gone, too. I don't like him there. All right. Oh, it's another person.
My gosh. Okay. Where which zone is it going to?
Uh the water.
The water I think you have.
Okay.
Okay. And it goes to that zone. And we put another one in the left most spot.
Okay. Does that change anything for me? No. That's a whole lot of general. And I again didn't go into general either.
So, we're going to go over to here still. And then I'm going to use two reds and a white to put three markers on our aggressive friend.
Okay. You're going to have to roll damage.
He's going to attack me. I'm going to reroll it. I'm fine twice. I've been very lucky. Um Okay. And then I'm going to use this blue one to fill that last node there.
So I can give you the thing, but I'm going to fill that one basically.
Yep. We've got this five. So that's four points.
Yes indeed.
Okay. One, two, three, four. So I can upgrade from that, but I also get these. So remind me about the upgrade. I'm going to do these ones first.
So I can take a white from my bag.
Yes, indeed.
Let's do that. Put a red in there. Okay. And then I'm also going to move up on this, which will get me two purples.
Okay.
And now I can echoloccate even better. Um, and then I get another upgrade, which I'm going to choose this one.
You get to pull back this one here.
Oh, I should wait.
Should I wait? No.
It's not worth waiting.
Okay.
Okay. That was this guy here. And then with my final action, I will use this purple one to fill the study node on that one.
That's going to trigger your end game.
That's going to trigger your end game. You're going to go five points. 28 to 33. And then you're going to
And I should take a thing.
Uh what thing? Oh, yes. You get a a thing in your bag. Yep. Absolutely.
Okay.
All right.
And you get both of those.
Oh, yes. Oh, yes. So, we'll move up on here. Yep.
And I will take a yellow.
I don't think this game is going to be yellow. Yes. No, it's orange.
It's orange. It's orange.
All right. So, we'll take this out and put this in.
Now, when game end is triggered, which you just did by crossing that mark, uh we're going to go ahead and uh take two more turns. Well, you finished the round, but I went first. So, that's that. And then I get one more turn after that, which means the following is going to happen. We're going to have
And then I just moved down.
This guy is going to leave. We're going to roll a damage die. See if he takes a creature with him. He does not. So, the ebony blistering is actually in play. If that would matter. Uh, new things come out. And we have a uh another one. Another one. It's going to be the south over here. So, if we can get a new card over here from the tundra. I believe I have it. We're going to put one token on the left most spot. Okay. Uh, leftmost left. There we go.
Oh, well.
Uh, that, interestingly enough, does give me options and things to consider because I can get three out, which is not enough, man. That's not enough. Flying and small. I can do this the lower track. I think I have to do the lower track if I want to get anything kind of done, which is not good enough because I can move, research, and then pull back. Moving probably pilot to an adjacent biome over here. So, if I pilot to an adjacent biome moving down over here, um, and then I go ahead and I spend all three of these to make a small, cuz that guy is small, and I can put two tokens onto it. And then that's going to allow me to get that, which is going to have me crossing here. Can I get a yellow token, please?
Okay. Um, then I'm going to put that in my bag, technically, strictly speaking. Uh, this card over here is researched. This goes back to the supply. Um, and that's going to give me these two upgrades. So, I get two purples. Can I get two purples, Meg? And an orange.
And an orange.
Yep. And an orange.
Wow.
Uh, you say wow. But I don't think I'm getting the points that you think I'm getting there. Uh, because at this point, I can try to do another action, which I don't think will get me as many points as going back for a requisition. So, I think I'm going to back go back to the orbit star for a requisition. That's going to be our last option. Uh, which means we come back here, and then I can choose any one bonus to go for, which I don't think I have enough of much, honestly. I think I could go for two points per one of these upgrades. It's not the worst. It's four points, which is something. I'll go ahead and do that and uh do the following. Okay, cool. That is that, which means you're on your last turn now.
Event trigger first.
I Yeah, I'm just thinking so hard. I'm burning brain cells right now.
Um, okay. So, we'll do this and this. And that is going to be another fuel cell. We love
fuel cell. Where's it going? We never got to see them in action.
They were always somewhere dangerous. Yeah. And now even now I'm not sure if it's something that I'm interested in. I mean I guess it's not something that I'm interested in. I wish I was, but I agree that I think going back is the best call.
They could give you a bunch. Especially cuz you have some of these really ramped up over here.
You have some of those uh locations. You can get like six points out of that.
So the thing I was thinking is I can get to here.
Yes.
And then get the flip stick, but then that's it. or I could get back there because it is helpful for me to have more of these, but it's just bringing me from three to four. So, I don't think that's
Do you not have enough?
I have three.
You have three different terrains.
Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, interesting.
So, I could get a fourth. But either way, that's just a two point difference. Whereas, I think if I get points for my red, that's like a lot of points.
Yes.
So,
not your reds. These this will be six points for you.
Which one?
One of this upgrade. The level three upgrade. You have up the level third track.
But how can I look at my bag right now?
You could have. Do you have six reds?
I think uh I have five.
That's one less point.
I have five. I was close. Um I thought my reds were worth it. Is there a way to make more reds right now?
No, you not easily. I mean, you have three actions, so you can discover, but I don't think it's going to do much for you.
Yeah. So, let's see.
My poor guy up there. The first guy I researched never got anywhere with. No one. No one invested in him.
Um, if I have a token on things at the end, isn't it something?
It's every two is one point.
Every two is one point. So, that would just be one point for me. But, I still think that's worth it cuz I can make a point for myself.
You don't have to think too hard cuz I think you are winning by a long shot.
Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that then.
I'm just saying like you can you can minmax that one point difference, but it's not even close.
So, I'll pilot I'll pilot to an adjacent pile and go over to here. I will then use my purple to fill a study node and just put Oh, that's only one.
You could you could
I would have to I would have to do a thing. It's totally fine. I will. I will. Um because what are the attributes for this in general?
Again, I want to point out you could return right now. You'd win. So, I don't know.
Okay, fine. I'll just return.
You don't you don't have to return. I'll just return. But just for the sake of everything, I probably would have found out more about those animals. Um, and then I will choose You said that there was one that's definitely
This is a guaranteed six points over here. Two points for each level you researched.
Okay. But Oh, and that one's the same.
But I have that one.
Oh, okay. Because the only other thing would be these. But how many generals do I have? One, two, three, four, four. So, it's the same exact thing, isn't it?
Sorry. I'll do that one. Okay, that's all.
Wait, what? What? How's that more points? Do you have
I think it's the same.
Do you have 12 general markers?
No,
that's one point for every two.
Oh, I read that wrong. So then, yeah, I'll just do that one.
Okay. Uh, end game scoring is going to be as follows. Uh, we're going to get the following. First of all, you get a point for every two marks on the board. I have two, so I'm going to get one point over there. Uh, you're going to get a point for every aggressive creature, which I believe Meg has a bunch. One, two, three, four. Uh, so we're going to get four points. Me's go 33 to 37. And then Meg's going to get three points for having three different terrains over here going from 30 37 to 40 as well as two points for every star. How many do you have of those?
Let's see. You can do my other points.
You get six points for this one over here. 40 to 46.
Three stars.
Three stars. So, you're going to get another three uh you have three stars. So, another six points. Go from 46 to 52. Uh meanwhile, I'm going to get four points for over here. Uh 22 to 26. And then I'm going to get a point for each yellow. So, I do need to clear out my bag over here and see where I'm up. I got one, two, three, four, five. I'm get five more points from 26 to 31. And that is basically a gameplay of Orbit Star. Uh we we wandered, we uh encountered some mercenaries, we had a few storms, a few energy cells no one collected, rescued a few passengers along the way, and ultimately Meg wins at 52-31.
Well, because I save all the animals usually, and these are the aggressive animals, so of course I'm saving them. In
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