Space. The final frontier. These are the adventures of a truck driver who is traveling with a homemade spaceship to discover lots of goods to be successful and survive. Or so one might summarize the events in the game of Galaxy Trucker Vlaada Chvatil from the Heidelberg game publisher.

In the box put a lot of material. In addition to the nine panels for the spacecraft and the map, flight tickets, spacecraft parts, pilot, and alien spacecraft figures, wooden marker for the goods, glass markers for the energy Pappmarker for the money, an hourglass and dice are included. The game manual should be emphasized. It is written loose and funny and gives a quick and entertaining introduction to the game.

The game will run for three rounds. Each round consists of the following sections:

Preparation
Each player gets his two ships and a plastic panel with the corresponding spacecraft for the round. The general plan required for the round tickets are placed ready. The spacecraft components are mixed and placed face down on a pile of reach for all players. All other materials (freight, pilots and aliens, money) will be laid ready. With the turning of the hourglass on the appropriate box round of the overview plan starts the game or the next phase.

Space ship
Each player may also build with one hand. To take part in each one turns from the middle of it to his own table and decides whether it should be built into your ship, it comes into its own reserve or whether it travels only once open in the middle. When construction is important to note that each part, which is installed in the spacecraft may no longer be postponed. During the construction, the player may at any time turn the hourglass. But only one player who has finished his spaceship, the hourglass may make the starting field. Is she here expired, all players must stop the construction and it goes into the last phase.

Flight
Depending on the order of the finalizing of the building, the little spacecraft will be placed on the overview map. Then the ready laid tickets are evaluated. During the flight, the players have driven many brave and collect as many goods. If the last card the players get evaluated for their money and placing the collected goods. Even the player with the most intact spaceship gets a premium.

These phases will be played three times with increasing difficulty and at the end wins the richest player.

Since the phases have been resolved, attention should be directed again to the two most essential elements. On the one hand, the spacecraft parts must be mentioned. These come in various forms. There are lasers, drives, shields, containers, rooms, life support systems for Aliens, batteries and simple connectors. This sounds at first very complicated, but the meaning of each part reveals itself quickly. Shall serve as the laser defense against meteors and pirates, the drives in open space help to come forward quickly and the container for holding goods available. The guide offers a nice overview and explains all the parts again in more detail. All spacecraft components have connections. There are single, double and universal connections. In the construction of the spaceship must now always appropriate connections are built together.

The tickets are a major component of the game. They offer everything that is needed for an exciting space journey. In addition to meteor showers, alien planet and pirate attacks, the players will also see the free space and battle zones. Each card offers different opportunities and risks. Thus, for example, players on other planets do just to take valuable goods, or have to defend themselves with their lasers against marauding pirates.

The change between these two phases, the particular element in this game. First, the players have the assembly together quite hectic their spaceships and the players always find just the part that they themselves needed. Then another even more complete and time is running out. With a spaceship, which is more suitable for the scrapping than to go into space is now on the trip. For each card, they hope that it catches the players and the starship long hold out. But it will happen again and again, which splits a meteorite's own spaceship into two parts. If you've finally survived the flight, one is motivated, in any case in the next round to do better.

The game offers an exciting combination of a puzzle and an adventure game. This combination makes each lap different and exciting and continually invites to a game. However, Fortuna and the players interact with the game great has useful points, and so strategists are rarely able to plan their interspersed. Allen, who can play the game and enjoy it for once find your ship to see crumble into a thousand parts are, in any case before a couple of exciting flights. The family health is given. However, the young drivers can show for 10 years, since the game is too complex otherwise. All in all, Galaxy Trucker is a clear recommendation and a guarantee for an exciting and funny game night.

Tags: Heidelberger Games Publisher