Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa
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Designers | |
Publisher | Upper Deck Entertainment |
Players | 1-5 |
Playing Time | 30-60minutes |
Suggested Age | 17 and up |
Honors | |
Integrates With |
Legendary Encounters: A Firefly Deck Building Game Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game Legendary Encounters: A Predator Deck Building Game |
Expansions |
Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game Expansion Legendary Encounters: ALIEN Conversion Kit |
Accessories |
The Broken Token - Encounters Organizer Go7 Gaming - LEGE-004 Insert for Encounters Sleeve Kings - Sleeve Bundle - Legendary Encounters: Alien Deck Building Game + Expansion |
Additional Info |
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http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1440571/legendary-encounters-alien-deck-building-game/reviews
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Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game, based on the four movies of the Alien series, is a fully cooperative game with original art. While based on the Marvel superheroes version of Legendary, the two games will be compatible but cannot be fully integrated.
Legendary Encounters is a deck-building game in the same family as Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game, but now players must cooperate in order to survive against hordes of aliens. Taking on the role of protagonists such as Ripley, Dallas, Bishop and Corporal Hicks, players take turns recruiting cards for their deck from a central selection in order to improve their deck and defeat Xenomorph cards that are added to the central game board.
I've played the marvel legendary game and this one is pretty much the same. I liked it better though because of the secret agenda and for the ability to add other Legendary Encounter games. I mostly played with the Predator Legendary Encounters with this game. The ability to duel other players added a new layer of competitiveness with that added. However, this game hasn't seen much game nights because of the time to actually set up a game. We would often play it once or twice a night during our game nights, and rarely after unless someone was in the mood for it.
Pros: plays reasonably quickly, is easy to learn, adjustable difficulty, thematic
Cons: being the Alien player is really boring - I was hoping the Alien role was going to be a lot more exciting; hidden agendas also feel a little weak and this game is best as a pure co-op; set-up/clean-up is a bit fiddly; unpacking and organizing the cards was a lot of work
I am a huge fan of the franchise and this game is very thematic in a lot of ways. I love how simple the mechanisms are and the fact that you can mix and match all kinds of mini-decks to have nearly infinite replay value. This is a super fun game to play solo too.
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Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa