Galaxy Trucker: The Big Expansion (2008)

From BoardgameNews.com:

Spiel '08 will see a new truckload of interstellar destruction with Galaxy Trucker: The Big Expansion. As is often the case with expansions, The Big Expansion includes a number of mix-and-match components:

• Pieces and rules for five-player games.
• An updated version of Rough Road Ahead, a set of cards previously released in a downloadable format on the Czech Games website that will be expanded and reformatted.
• Additional adventure cards, including two previously available only at Spiel 07.
• A special deck of adventure cards that players individually insert into the deck themselves to surprise their fellow drivers.
• A new alien species.
• New ship building components, including life support for the new ET.
• New ship classes.

The expansion is not fully compatible with the first edition of Galaxy Trucker, due to component differences. A compatibility kit has been produced, containing replacement components for the base game, but as of March 2009 it is not yet widely available.

Components List

• 1 Rule book ("Expanded Guide to the Galaxy"), describing the six largely independent expansions:

New Technology

• 42 Component tiles, including 1 starting component (orange)
• 14 Human astronauts
• 7 Aliens
  • 5 Cyan
  • 1 Brown
  • 1 Purple
• 6 Battery tokens
• 8 Goods cubes (2 × 4 colours)
• 24 Cosmic credits (denominations 5/10)

Fifth Wheel (requires New Technology)

• 1 Class I/II space ship board
• 1 Class III/IIIA space ship board
• 2 Space ship markers (orange)
• 1 Number tile ("5")

New Ship Classes

• 5 Class IA/IIA space ship boards

Evil Machinations

• 24 Evil Machination cards
• 12 Loan tokens

Rough Roads

• 25 Rough Road cards

Bonus Cards

• 6 Adventure cards (2 × 3 rounds)

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