And that's the richness of the game system. Already during a game it feels like living an adventure but we will have to maintain our crew and our ship between each session. After surviving your first mission, it’s worth investing your new cash into getting armour, as a Trader is more likely to survive the next mission with this than the slightly better gun you’d buy otherwise. Core Space: First Born

RPGs: Core Space gives you the freedom to do anything, especially with the advanced section of the Deluxe Rulebook. Your characters can dive through windows, throw equipment to each other, use the terrain as a weapon or makeshift cover – it’s really up to the players how they want the narrative to progress. The game can also accommodate a GM who can take over the AI from the Purge and steer the story as they see fit, designing custom missions for their gaming groups. The rules are simple and the management of the NPCs works very well and the AI ​​is frighteningly well done. And the system allows a very large adaptation of the rules used but also of the universes in which you want to play. People have already made it possible to play with miniatures from Assault on the Empire, Nemesis, Aliens... You’ll see lots of beautifully painted models, but not everyone is a painter. The models are colour coded by type so you can play with them straight out of the box without painting.Here are some examples of how Core Space has pulled typical elements from each category and unified them into one game: What a game, narrative drive, great system, great terrain and great minis. The possibilities are endless. Core Space is a fantastic sandbox game where anything can happen. It's hugely atmospheric, the incredible terrain is like nothing else, the amount of quality components in this game is insane. The excellent rule book explains everything, given choices to make or to just dive in with one of the two preset crews in the box. If your a fan of the starwars or firefly genres this will be right up your street.

Miniature Skirmish Games: Everything that happens on the ‘board’ itself will be familiar to a skirmish gamer. Your characters will move, shoot and fight using straightforward dice-rolling mechanics, with victory often determined by taking an objective or defeating the enemy. There are dozens of campaigns and scenarios and it is possible to play in many configurations: solo , 2, more... or with a Game Master, yes! (NB: the basic box allows to play from 1 to 2 players, you have to buy or create other crews to play more)

The Sci-fi Miniatures Game

You must complete missions, explore space derelicts and frontier worlds, salvage, trade, upgrade your crew and fight to live another day… Although mostly working within government contracts she has dabbled in freelance work for less savoury individuals or businesses. Over the years Kovac has developed a slight taint of corruption, common with those who work on the fringes of society. She is a talented technician who will turn a blind eye to the ethics of an experiment if it pays well. A Price on Your Head Since then, however, the Shift Change at MegaCorp expansion has sold out twice and we’re down to the last few of our third print run! Clearly we should have had no cause for concern, and this success has affirmed that Core Space is big enough to support a range of plastics going forward. This is great news for Core Space players everywhere. So, what next? If you find that you are running out of baddies to spawn, you can buy sets of Purge and First Born reinforcements.

If you’re playing First Born don’t forget that the FAQs say that Drones “have two actions, but they will only use both if they Move and then make a Ranged Assault. They will not Move or Shoot twice”. The neoprene mat, cardboard terrain and the minis really make this game draw you into. Minis are plastic and require no assembly. Each mini has great character, and while I highly recommend painting them, they come in different colours to easily identify the different types, so you can play straight out of the box.

Co-operative or Competitive?

So what can we say except that the bet of compiling 3D and ultra-modular decorative elements with a pure SF miniatures game of the "sandbox" type, mixing RPG and skirmish... is successful! Sounds exciting doesn’t it? But how to tell if it’s your sort of game? There’s a whole spectrum of game categories these days, from family board games to narrative role-playing games to hobbyist wargames. More recently a new hybrid category has appeared, falling somewhere in between – the ‘miniatures game’. What exactly defines a miniatures game can vary, so where exactly on the spectrum does Core Space fit? The Sci-fi Miniatures Game

Kovac is a lab technician who has worked in some of the most dangerous parts of the known galaxy. With no family or close friends to tie her down she is a brain for hire, ready at a moment’s notice to ship out to wherever she is needed. Core Space is a science fiction miniatures board game. Each player takes control of a band of Traders trying to make a living in a dangerous galaxy, all the while hunted by the Purge, a semi-sentient race of humanoid machines whose sole task is to harvest worlds.When you start the game you’ll have little more than a t-shirt and a pop gun from a vending machine, but as you play you’ll get the chance to acquire lots of new equipment. Even a simple machine pistol is a big improvement, but some gear is especially worth finding and hanging onto. Armour In this game of survival each player takes control of a small band of Traders trying to make a living in a dangerous galaxy. You need to contend with criminal factions, an overzealous police force, a deteriorating ship, rival Traders and a relentless alien species that wants your biomass.