Dominant Species Marine Board Game

Sixty-Something Millions of Years Ago - A great ice age has ended. With massive warming altering the globe, another titanic struggle for supremacy has unwittingly commenced between the varying animal species.

Dominant Species: Marine is a game that abstractly recreates a small portion of ancient history: the ending of an onerous ice age and what that entails for the living creatures trying to adapt to the slowly-changing earth.

Each player will assume the role of one of four major aquatic-based animal classes - reptiles, fish, cephalopod or crustacean. Each begins the game more or less in a state of natural balance in relation to one another. But that won't last: It is indeed "survival of the fittest."

Through wily action pawn placement, you will attempt to thrive in as many different habitats as possible in order to claim powerful card effects. You will also want to propagate your individual species in order to earn victory points for your animal. You will be aided in these endeavors via speciation, migration and adaptation actions, among others.

All of this eventually leads to the end game - the final ascent of a vast tropical ocean and its shorelines - where the player having accumulated the most victory points will have their animal crowned the Dominant Species.

But somebody better become dominant quickly, because there's a large asteroid heading this way....

Game Play

The large hexagonal tiles are used throughout the game to create an ever-expanding interpretation of the main ocean on earth as it might have appeared tens of millions of years ago. The smaller Hydrothermal Vent tiles will be placed atop some of the larger tiles throughout play, converting them into Vents in the process.

The action pawns drive the game. Each pawn allows a player to perform the various actions that can be taken-such as speciation, environmental change, migration or evolution. When placed on the action display, a pawn will immediately trigger that particular action for its owning player. Dominant Species: Marine includes new "special" pawns that can be acquired during the course of play. These special pawns have enhanced placement capabilities over the "basic" pawns that each player begins the game with.

Generally, players will be trying to enhance their own animal's survivability while simultaneously trying to hinder that of their opponents'-hopefully collecting valuable victory points along the way. The various cards will aid in these efforts, giving players useful one-time abilities, ongoing benefits, or an opportunity for recurring VP gains.

Throughout the game species cubes will be added to, moved about on, and removed from the tiles in play ("earth"). Element disks will be added to and removed from both animals and earth.

When the game ends, players will conduct a final scoring of each tile and score their controlled special pawns-after which the player controlling the animal with the highest VP total wins the game.

Dominant Species Veterans.

Product Specifications

• Para los jugadores de la Especie Dominante original, esta iteración introduce varias evoluciones clave en el sistema (juego de palabras definitivamente intencionado):
• Las acciones se toman inmediatamente cada vez que se coloca un peón en lugar de esperar para ejecutarse. acciones después de que todos los peones estén en el tablero.
• Esto les da a los jugadores un poco más de flexibilidad en su estrategia, no aumenta el tiempo de juego cuando los jugadores adquieren más peones y disminuye bastante la quema de cerebro. ya que alivia la carga de tener que planificar un turno completo por adelantado.
• La dominación ya no se realiza por casilla y ya no es "competitiva" con otros jugadores.
< li>En este juego compruebas la dominancia de cada tipo de elemento en toda la Tierra, y si dominas o no un tipo de elemento es independiente de si uno o más oponentes también lo dominan.
• La dominación de un elemento es cómo adquieres (e intentas mantener) el control de los peones especiales.
• Los animales ya no tienen habilidades especiales predeterminadas.
• Ahora, los jugadores reciben 3 cartas de Rasgo durante la configuración, eligiendo una conservar y volver a colocar los demás en la caja.
• El Rasgo elegido le da a su animal una de las dieciocho habilidades únicas repartidas entre las cartas de Rasgo.
• Adquirir peones especiales a través de la dominación le da al jugador gran flexibilidad en la planificación y ejecución de una estrategia.
• Los peones especiales pueden "chocar" el peón básico de un oponente para realizar una acción que de otro modo sería bloqueada.
• Se pueden colocar en cualquier lugar en la pantalla de acción (donde los peones básicos deben colocarse únicamente en orden de arriba a abajo).
• Hay poderosos espacios de acción donde solo se puede colocar un peón especial.
• Y al final del juego, cada peón especial otorga puntos de victoria a su propietario según su valor de dominio más alto alcanzado.