Beschrijving
Skymines
Fifty years ago, humanity began mining the Moon and the asteroids, and for decades that task was firmly kept in the hands of the World Government. But the turmoils of recent years have caused this enterprise to collapse. Now, adventurous companies and private investors take to the sky to revive this mining network. They’re ready to exploit the skymines.
Gameplay
As investors, you try to earn the most CrypCoin over the course of seven rounds. You do this by investing mined resources in companies and by spreading their outposts. You can improve your earnings by supporting your scientists’ research and by having them collect precious helium-3.
The heart of Skymines is a unique card programming and hand management system that requires careful and clever planning and that drives game play: Players start with an identical hand, but acquire new and more powerful cards from the rotating display throughout the game. Each round players choose action cards from their hand, place them face down in the so-called action slot (beneath the player board), and then reveal them simultaneously to carry out the actions. At the end of the action phase, each card is moved to the so-called resting slot (above the player board). Cards in the resting slots are inactive and cannot be used until they are recovered – each round one can only return cards of one resting slot which is why it can make quite a difference in which action slots certain cards are placed.
Skymines provides deep player interaction by letting you invest in any of the four companies as you see fit. Using influence to help you expand across the moon improves the value of the players’ shares in these companies.
And as the combination of company abilities changes each game, there are endless synergies and strategies to explore.
Summarised
Skymines is a reimplementation of the critically acclaimed Mombasa. With a variety of paths to victory and double-sided company boards, each game will be a new and different challenge.
