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Attention! Red Alert!

Attention all Marines! Attention all Marines! Report immediately to the central command. If you are isolated from the main facility, seek out other marines, form squads, and engage the invaders with whatever means possible.

The weapons at the Mars base are limited, but should be sufficient for neutralizing the invaders. Although you will have trained on most of them, please read this downloadable weapons summary.

Weapon Designations

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  Fist

  The invaders are physically powerful. It is recommended that you only attempt unarmed combat with them if you have no other choice. …

Just like any other sport or game, practice is the key word. But practicing chess tactics doesn't help unless you are practicing the right things!

There are many books out there with thousands of combinations. The problem with many of these chess tactics resources is that all you get is a position and a solution.

It does not provide enough detail to learn. So I invite you to a look to the following tips:

1. Open with a center pawn

   Move the pawn in front of either the king or queen two squares forward to open pathways for your bishop and queen. …

In Elder Sign, 1 to 8 players take on the role of investigators struggling to combat one of the Ancient Ones-vast, powerful creatures that dwell in the space between dimensions.

The investigators face adventures in and around the museum where the Ancient One's imminent return has been causing a number of bizarre events.

Through these adventures, the investigators acquire rewards. The most prized resource that can be gained is an Elder Sign, which is used to seal away the Ancient One and win the game. …

Resource Types

Resources are crucial to your success. They allow you to stay alive and fight monsters. Encounter cards, skill cards, and weapon cards allow you to exchange certain resources for other types. Here are the resources you can find:

Effort

Effort is the most important resource. It is a measure of your life force, stamina, and determination. It is used to pay for most of your actions and, most importantly, to inflict wounds on monsters. There are three categories of effort: small, medium, and large. Each category is a distinct resource and is spent independently. …

• Do not go for power points in the early game! It is important to create a good resource base first. You should spend a few turns to try to get: infinite gemstones, science tokens, regular gemstones - in that priority order.

• Go with the flow of the game. The easiest way to get points is by getting power and magic tokens. Consider more complicated options (tricky law cards, single-color bonuses, 5th pyramid level) only if they come around by themselves.

• You should not use attack tokens during the game, unless you really need a certain card. Attack tokens are usually much more beneficial at the end of the game scoring, if your opponents do not have enough defense tokens. …

There are over a million different animal species on our planet. The theory of evolution attempts to explain the cause of this incredible biodiversity.

Charles Darwin formulated a theory of evolution by means of natural selection. His theory posits that animals that are better adapted to survive in an environment are more likely to pass on their traits. Over thousands of generations, this has led to the variety of species we find on our planet.

In the game Evolution, players adapt their species with traits to survive in an ever-changing ecosystem. Food is scarce and carnivores run rampant. Your choices will determine the fate of the world's species: which will survive, which will thrive, and which will disappear from the planet forever. …

The game is played as two or three simultaneous competitions, each with its own scoring system. In each competition, you are trying to lose points. You play five rounds, or until one player reaches a score of zero in one of the competitions.

But it's not a race to see who can get to zero fastest. It's a game to see who can most effectively balance the different goals.

Your final score is given by your highest-scoring competition. The player with the lowest final score wins. …

This is a special variant mode of play for exactly 4 players.

Follow all regular rules with the following changes:

Setup Changes

Form into two 2-player teams.

• Pick one scoring token to represent your team, and return the other to the box.

• Sit adjacent to your teammate, and ensure that your gates are beside each other on the winter side of the board.

• Place a Team Storage card between you and your teammate.

• Pick a starting team. The starting player is the member of the starting team sitting on the left. That means that the turn order each round as you go clockwise will be Team 1, Team 2, Team 2, Team 1. …

High-stakes bidding on million-dollar race cars. Frantic bets placed in secret as the cars race around the track . And to the victor, the biggest payout of all.

In the world of motor racing, the margin between victory and defeat can be a single moment: a steep banked turn, tires screaming and spitting out smoke, and the downforce, pressing you down in your seat and keeping you on the track as you make your move inside to pull ahead.

Components

• 1 Double-Sided Game Board
• 6 Race Car Pawns
• 42 Regular Speed Cards
• 6 Speed-8 Speed Cards
• 6 Power Cards
• 6 Driver Plaques
• 1 Pad of Score Sheets

Setup

Place the game board in the center of the table on either side. (Each side has a unique track). …

Q: Can I pass an Assist card to the current Senate Minority Leader?

A: No, players may only pass cards that increase the Filibuster Track to the Senate Minority Leader.

Q: As the Senate Minority Leader, can I save my Action cards for later, i.e. skip playing a card from my hand after drawing a Time card?

A: If the Senate Minority Leader has an Action card in hand that can increase the Filibuster Track, it must be played.

Q: Yay! We are winning the round! Can't we just end the Filibuster now?

A: The Senate Minority Leader may call a vote to end a Filibuster voluntarily (see Voting to End a Filibuster). …