Exploring allows you to reveal new tiles in the galaxy and place them in strategic ways to either connect to the larger galaxy or seal yourself off and turtle away, and offers the potential of nabbing discovery tiles from most new sectors. Inherently, in a game about rolling dice to randomize combat outcomes, you’re going to encounter some bad luck. Game came with very minor damage to the box, which is annoying for a board game because the box is part of the product. I wasn't sure whether my wife would be up for a complex game like this one, but after one play she started to get the hang of it, and now it's a favorite game for us to play. The way the game plays at two is perfect for us because we don’t like destroying what each other has built.

Eclipse’s economy might not have the glamour of its customisable ships, but it takes equal credit for making the game as good as it is. You can also remove a token from one of your systems if you think you might have overreached yourself. Now normally I go on about these things in the “Storage” section but with this game they actually use them as a vital gameplay element! Other than that though there really isn’t any other interaction, it’s mostly done indirectly by grabbing up those juicy tech tiles first or placing exploration tiles down in a particular fashion to block off other players. These increasing numbers are meant to represent the rising cost of your empire and during the upkeep phase you will take the highest uncovered money number on your tracker board and minus the highest number uncovered on your player sheet.

Not only do they use colors to differentiate them by power but they make it easier to see if you’ve hit or missed by removing the “1” in favor of a blank side and removing the “6” in favor of an automatic hit. Dedicated pages for each action, sections that explain what each tech, discovery and ship part tiles do WITH PICTURES.

As players are exploring they will create a maze of tiles so movement will be restricted based on that. These are small facedown tiles that are added to certain exploration tiles that are placed and collected when someone happens to explore a tile. The dice holders did not hold the dice neatly as seen in the content description and the dice colors did not match (The rulebook may have been shown the 1st edition of Eclipse 2nd Dawn). Rather than aiming for a full day or weekend of politicking and gaming, Eclipse condenses the interstellar 4X experience down to a few hours of tight, fraught conquest.Your shipment will include a packaging list which will be your receipt and act as possible proof of warranty. After that the play passing to the next player and around and round this goes until all players have passed.