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This is a brandnew, sealed copy of Richard Borg's newest game, Red Alert
RED ALERT allows two to six players to duke it out in Space using the opposing fleets of the Commonwealth Alliance and Rebel Confederation: battleships, cruisers, and destroyers, backed up by long-range fighters and the Fleet Commander's all-important flagship. Each unit type has its own special capabilities.
Further expansion boxes are available, with Support Ships, Carriers, Dreadnoughts and the Vice Admiral's Flagship, all with extra scenario's. Please see out other listings.
If you've already played any of Richard Borg's Commands & Colours games, you'll be on very familiar ground with RED ALERT. If you've not...
Commands & Colours is an easy-to-learn, card-driven wargame series. It uses a hex-grid game board divided into three sections - a centre and two wings.
The command cards in your hand determine which section(s) you can activate units, and how many units you may activate when you play that card. The play of these command cards drives the action and creates a 'fog of war'.
Combat is fast, simple and somewhat deadly. In addition to the hits scored when you roll your battle dice, red alert icons rolled represent non-fatal crises onboard a ship - such as collateral damage, shields going down, and engineering issues - that need to be resolved.
Combat cards give players all manner of sci-fi themed advantages, add an element of suspense, and challenge players to maintain their star token reserves to power decisive actions throughout the battle. The action on a combat card may hinder the opposition forces, enhance a player's units, or instantly change the course of a battle.
Players alternate turns until a set number of victory points are gained. Victory points are gained for each enemy unit entirely eliminated. When the last ship of an opposition unit is eliminated, its unit marker is taken from the battlefield and placed on a player's victory stand with the victory point side face up. In some scenarios, occupying a certain space feature hex or completing other scenario objectives may gain additional victory points.
Scenarios are important in the Commands & Colours historical game series, and RED ALERT is no different. Unlike the historical battles scenarios, however, RED ALERT offers players the chance to customize their fleet and allows freedom of unit deployment.
An assortment of Task Force cards allow players to quickly deploy a fleet of starships that can be augmented and customized with support vessels. RED ALERT's fleet customization and deployment rules, and its challenging scenarios, will provide an almost endless amount of replay value.
*** As an added service we can arrange to have this item signed for free by the creator of Memoir '44 and many other games, Richard Borg. And we'll take a picture of him signing the item. However, I only see him every other week on average, so we will not be able to ship the item within our normal handling time of 1 day. You will have to indicate where you would like the item to be signed and any text you want to add. Also, after signing this item it will not be sealed any longer. And you won't be able to return it. See last picture, Richard signing one of his games. ***
DUE TO THE COVID PANDEMIC THE SIGNING NOW OCCURS BY MAIL. MOST PRACTICAL IS TO HAVE THE RULEBOOK SIGNED AND RICHARD WILL MAIL IT ON. THIS MEANS THAT THE CORE BOX WILL NOT BE SEALED ANYLONGER AND CANNOT BE RETURNED.
SEE OUR OTHER RED ALERT LISTINGS AND THE ALL-IN PACKAGE AT AN INCREDIBLE PRICE
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