WarpShips
| Warpships | ||
|---|---|---|
| Designed by Nick Sula | ||
| A freeform-board spaceship maneuvering game | ||
| Players: | 2 - 4 | |
| Length: | unknown | |
| Complexity: | unknown | |
| Trios per color: | 3 | |
| Number of colors: | 4 | |
| - - - - - - Other equipment - - - - - - | ||
| pyramid die, Starship Captain tin | ||
| Setup time: | 3 minutes | |
| Strategy depth: | Low | |
| Random chance: | High | |
| Theme: | Space | |
| BGG Link: | Warpships | |
| Status: Complete (v1.0), Year released: 2018 | ||
Overview
Colonial ships move by distorting space-time and reappearing at the outer edge of a warp field. After they move, they fire energy beams that teleport other differently-colored ships far across the galaxy. Your mission: harness these warp energy beams to transport a diverse collection of ships, and be the first to form a complete colony!
Materials
- 36 pyramids in 4 colors
- a Pyramid die
- a Starship Captain tin or other round object (tuna can, CD, jar lid...)
Premise
You and your opponents move ships around the play area via the “warp” using the Starship Captain tin lid to measure distance and direction of travel. After a ship warps, it fires its teleportation beam at another target ship. You roll the pyramid die to find out if the beam successfully teleports the target ship out of the play area and into your own colony.
Goal
The goal is to be the first to teleport a combination of ships into your colony. The first player to colonize either two monochrome trios of ships or two ships of every color wins the game!
| Win Conditions | |
| two monochrome trios | two ships of each color |
Setup
Place all 12 nested trios, upright, on the table. Mix the 12 nests so the colors are randomly distributed around the table, and spread them out widely enough so you can easily fit the lid of the Starship Captain tin between any and all pairs of the upright nests (place them all about 4”-5” apart from each other). These nested pyramids are trios of ships ready to launch. The one who was most recently transported is the starting player. That player takes the first turn, choosing any one of the trios and launching its topmost ship.