Chuman

I’ve seen many people report that the game is either too hard or even impossible to beat. I agree that it’s not easy (a good thing IMO) and will require some perseverance and optimization that comes with experience, also both good things IMO. However having said that, the difficulty can put new players off from trying again. So to help you either learn or introduce the game, the designer (Galen Ciscell) actually suggested the following:

“you could make the game easier by starting with extra mystic energy, removing the Controlled Flood misfortunes, or starting the Athenians back further on the Attack Track. You could also try drawing a number of Misfortunes equal to the turn instead of the number of players (i.e. one misfortune on turn 1, two misfortunes on turn 2, etc.)”

I think it will help a lot if a player’s first impression is a positive one, in order to get the game back on the table. I highly recommend you make it easy on yourself the first time round. It will pay off on the long run, as there’s plenty of room for increasing the difficulty.

Good luck!

Sometimes you may find yourself in a situation where the order in which night time actions take place, does in fact matter. We missed the rule clarification in the manual (easy to do) on this issue.

To be clear, the rule book says: “If there’s a need to determine in what order a night action is resolved, the decreasing order of the characters’ ranks is used”.

This becomes important when characters interact with other characters in your own or other player’s den(s). Hope this helps others not to miss out on the correct play as we did initially.

Space Alert ships with a CD for the soundtracks used during gameplay. With the popularity of personal media devices like the iPod and most smart phones these days, it actually makes sense to download the audio files for play on your media device of choice.

The designer have spared us the effort of importing the CD tracks and made the soundtracks available in several languages on their web site. Feel free to help yourself here: http://czechgames.com/en/space-alert/downloads/

Good luck in saving the Sitting Duck!