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HPR3944: Race for the Galaxy
14-09-2023
HPR3944: Race for the Galaxy
Race for the galaxy Race for the galaxy is a four player card game published by Rio Grande Games. The goal of the game is to build a space imperium and the player with most victory points wins. There's also a computer version of the game, which saves you from packing up the game after playing. Turn sequence There are five phases in turn: ExploreDevelopSettleConsumeProduce At the beginning of turn, every player selects one of these phases and selections are revealed simultaneously. Only selected phases will be played. Player who selected a phase gets a small bonus. Explore draw two cards and keep onebonus: draw five cards and keep onebonus: draw one additional card and keep one additional card Develop place development card in play and discard cards from your hand to cover the costbonus: -1 to cost Settle place a planet card in play and discard cards from your hand to cover the costexcept military planets, which you'll conquer with your military scoreif it's a windfall world, produce on it Consume: use consume powers on cards to turn good into victory pointsyou have to keep consuming until you can't anymorebonus: trade one goods card for 2-5 cardsbonus: 2xVPs gain twice the victory points Produce: produce on regular planetsbonus: produce on windfall planet repeat until: one empire is 12 cards bigVP tokes run out score: points for cards on the tablecards in the hand (+1 for each)VPs earned special rules cards on the tabledraw extra cardstrade goods on planetsadd up your military scoresettle planets for cheaperhave bigger empire limitproduce on a windfall planet after discarding a cardetc. Examples of cards Star nomad raiders military 2 planet, worth 1 vp+1 to military+2 cards when trading goods Terraforming robots development 3, worth 2 vpdraw 1 card after placing a worlddiscard 1 rare elements good to gain 1 card and 1 vp Public works development 1, worth 1 vpdraw 1 card after placing a developmentdiscard 1 good to gain 1 vp Expansions All expansions add new cards. The gathering storm goals (first and most)extra player Rebel vs. Imperium solo playtake over (conquer other player's worlds)extra player Brink of War - prestige counts as VP in the endcan be used to perform actions requires two previous expansions Alien Artifacts incompatible with previous expansions49 cards representing alien orb players can explorebalance between expanding and exploring Verdict fun and quick gameevery player concentrates on their own imperiumkeep an eye what opponent is doing (trading / military)cards are dense with information Example I recorded myself playing against computer: [Race for the galaxy - three medium AIs](https://diode.zone/w/rw8z8pqeqAauENSufmgkjV).for some reason, you can't follow me outside of the instance In closing - questions, comments, feedback? Tuula@mastodon.artor even better, record your own episode