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Starcraft Heroes – Overmind

Created thousands of years ago by the enigmatic Xel’Naga, the Overmind represents the collective consciousness of the Zerg race. Obsessed with his belief that he exists only to become the perfect life form by assimilating the strongest races in the universe, the Overmind is steadfast in his sacred mission.

Planets Starcraft – Kaldir

A moon of the gas giant Midr IV, Kaldir is among the coldest terrestrial locations in the Koprulu Sector. Its upper atmosphere rejects heat and allows almost no sunlight to reach the surface. For this reason, only two native life forms have been discovered on Kaldir to date. One of these, a species of extremophile bacteria, serves as the power source for the others: a group of brutal Ursadons.

Starcraft Units – Phoenix

The Phoenix is a fast and deadly starship that is increasingly replacing the older Scouts and Corsairs as fighters. Phoenix patrols are a common sight, especially at the limits of their territory, where they seek out and repel any threat from space. The Phoenix’s twin ion blasters are excellent for aerial duels and can also be used to fight against light ground units.

Starcraft Missions – Completely Screwed

Description: Those of Moebius want us to retrieve another artifact from a dead planet called Xil. Apparently they sent their team of specialists there – but lost contact two days ago. Bad luck I would say. We’ll get a hazard surcharge for the mission for that.

Starcraft Buildings – Factory

The Factory is one of the advanced Terran tech buildings that allows Terran to build Hellions, Hellbats, Widow Mines, Siege Tanks, and Thors. The Factory requires a Barracks before it can be built. The Factory can be lifted off and landed elsewhere after it has been constructed.

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Starcraft

Starcraft is a turn-based game. The active player receives the obligatory first player token, so it should always be clear whose turn is being played, and especially interesting: StarCraft does not require any dice at all.
To get started, you first have to agree on your faction, then gather all the necessary figures, cards and tokens of your faction (woe betide the game master who only starts sorting now!) and leave the table in the middle free, as this is where the galaxy, i.e. the playing field, is built.

This proceeds similarly to Twilight Imperium.

Each player draws two planet tokens, which they can use to pick their planets from the planet stack. This step is necessary because the planet cards are shaped differently and the tokens are the only way to ensure that the drawing is random.
The starting player then places his first planet in the center of the table and can already build a base – but he doesn’t have to, then he has to do it on his second planet as soon as he lays it out.
Once the first planet is in place, it is the next player’s turn to lay out his first planet and connect it to the previous player’s planet with a navigation route cardboard piece. The last player may lay out both planets at the same time and then it goes in reverse order to the starting player. This way a more or less interconnected galaxy is created.
Finally, Z-axes are laid, which are navigation routes across loose ends, sort of a 3D conversion.
Each player receives the corresponding resource cards for his two planets and then only the event cards are reduced according to the number of players, shuffled and placed on the board. There are three event card phases, which is symbolized by different card backs and should help the game to become faster and more powerful towards the end. Now the game can start.

Each round is divided into three phases.

Starcraft is a turn-based game. The active player gets the obligatory first player token, so it should always be clear whose turn is being played, and most interestingly, StarCraft doesn’t require any dice at all.
To get started, you first have to agree on your faction, then gather all the necessary figures, cards and tokens of your faction (woe betide the game master who only starts sorting now!) and leave the table in the middle free, as this is where the galaxy, i.e. the playing field, is built.
This proceeds similarly to Twilight Imperium.
Each player draws two planet tokens, which they can use to pick their planets from the planet stack. This step is necessary because the planet cards are shaped differently and the tokens are the only way to ensure that the drawing is random.
The starting player then places his first planet in the center of the table and can already build a base – but he doesn’t have to, then he has to do it on his second planet as soon as he lays it out.
Once the first planet is in place, it is the next player’s turn to lay out his first planet and connect it to the previous player’s planet with a navigation route cardboard piece. The last player may lay out both planets at the same time and then it goes in reverse order to the starting player. This way a more or less interconnected galaxy is created.
Finally, Z-axes are laid, which are navigation routes across loose ends, sort of a 3D conversion.