Roll for the Galaxy - Tips & Strategies

The game shields have a handy dandy roll ratio for each colour dice. Pay attention to it, and you can mitigate the luck factor. After all early in the game reassigning may not be an option with less dice. Know your faces. You want to dedicate your turn to settling, choosing a novelty, consumption or rare elements dice will not do you as much good as that military dice. Take a moment to look it over before deciding which dice to put in your cup for the following round and you will do well.

The first step is to settle a few planets to get a dice pool of a min off dice

Then max your money with explore (2$/tile) or by sending ressource

Then buy all you dice

The strategy is to resist the tentation of using all your dice try to always leave in your cup 3 or more dice.

That way it always give you more options and its easier to get more money to buy back your dice

Setup the game for 2 players but put all the robot dice in his population and put the meeple on the 0$

Get 1 extra dice for the robot (+ the one for the 2 player dummy)

Roll your dice and plan your action then roll 1 dice for the robot, flip the action tile and put de dice on it. Roll the dummy dice and flip the action but leave de dice near the tile.

Then do the robot action as followed:

– Explore:
you have 2 actions. Each construct pile can have a maximum of 2 tiles. Every tiles that you cannot place is transfered into money (advance the meeple on the money track). So you can take 2 tiles and place them on the highest value side in the required construction pile or you take one tile and avdvance 1$ on the money track or you advance 2$ on the money track

Develop / Settle: place 2 dice on the tile and place it on the robot tableau if it meets the required number of dice. Every extra dice can be place on the next tile. No tile, transfer it into money

Produce: put a dice in all your world that have none. All your world is full: +1$

Ship: sell 1 dice for 3VP. No dice to sell: +1$

Then do the other player selected actions (the dummy and yours)

Explore: same as above but only 1 action
Develop/settle: dame as above but only 1 dice
Produce: put a dice on 1 world only. all world full: nothing
Ship: sell a dice for 2VP. No dice to sell : nothing

When the money track of the robot gets to 10$, take 5vp. If the money track gets to 10$ again the game is over and you have lost

If not the end game condition are the same. Count the robot VP taking into account the 6+ development tile. Add 1 extra VP/$

Good luck

This is a house variant for the two player game that seems to be popular with many. Personally I’m fine with the randomness of the dummy dice rolled after assigning dice but for those who find that too random you can roll it before assigning dice to know what phase will definitely happen allowing you to choose something else or assign die to that one without selecting it.