Galaxy Defenders is a cooperative tactical board game, inspired by the classical Sci-Fi movies and video games of the '80s and '90s.

In Galaxy Defenders up to five players fight together – each taking control of one or more agents with unique powers – to defend the planet from an alien invasion. The Aliens are controlled by a sophisticated, card-driven artificial intelligence system. The battle for Earth against the aliens develops in a series of missions organized in a story-driven campaign.

By backing this Kickstarter, you will receive a copy of this unique Sci-Fi game, and you will have access to exclusive miniatures, available only to the backers of this project. If we reach and exceed our initial funding goal, we will be able to upgrade the game contents with exciting options: bonus miniatures, additional maps, cards, missions, and more!

OVERVIEW

The game includes different mission, each mission providing a different challenge to the players.

After setting up the mission, gameplay revolves around a tactical combat system, that uses custom 10-sided dice.

Each player, in sequence, activates his agent. After an agent takes his or her turn, the aliens take their turn. After the actions of agents and aliens are completed, the round ends with an Event phase.

There is no "Alien player": In Galaxy Defenders, the aliens are controlled by the game system itself, through an artificial intelligence system based on TWO types of cards:

ALIEN CARDS: Alien cards define the behavior of each different alien, along with its movement value, skills, life points and weapons.
Each alien figure on the map will be linked to a specific card, to keep track of everything that happens to that alien.

CLOSE ENCOUNTER CARDS: These cards are drawn at the beginning of each alien turn to determine which aliens will be activated.

The combination of a unique A.I. for each alien species, and the uncertainty about which aliens will be activated in a turn, are an incredibly realistic simulation of the chaos of battle, and provide a very sophisticated challenge to the players' skill.

SCALABLE DIFFICULTY

Thanks to the turn structure, the level of difficulty will scale dynamically based on the number of agents in play. More agents in play bring more activations of the aliens. In this way, the system grants the right level of difficulty with any number of players. Even in the event of some agents dying during the game, the system will "recalibrate" the difficulty to a reasonable and enjoyable level, so you may still have a chance to complete a mission.

CAMPAIGN & RANK-UP SYSTEM

The events of each mission will influence future games in two different ways:

Each mission may have multiple endings and the outcome of any mission will change the flow of the story.

The Agents will gain experience during the missions. This experience can be used to transform a good soldier into a perfect Galaxy Defender agent with multiple skills, basic and improved tactics and the ability to use new devices, improved human weapons and Alien technology. Each Agent has unique paths to development, so that different characters will preserve their specialties even when leveling-up.

These figures come from the collective imagination of the 80s and 90s, there are no names, colours, writings or details in common with copyright materials. In addition these figures will not be sold, but will be created as a reward for the GD backers (for a limited time of 30 days) who help us in this project.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I guess I'll drag this back up since it hasn't got much of a mention around these parts in quite some time.

The kickstarter finishes up Tuesday the 19th so there's still a bit more time.