- Original Release: 2021
- Developer: Josh Derksen, Thomas M. Gofton
- Publisher: WizKids
- Platform: Board Game
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Star Trek: Alliance is a new game based on Star Trek: Attack Wing. It focuses on co-operative palay with up to six people (as long as you buy the game three times). Players play though a campaign of six missions, upgrading their captain and ship as they go, completing objectives and combating the AI enemies.
The base pack contains six missions in three acts. The first mission allows for retries if you fail, while the middle four missions have you press on, gaining less experience. Experience can be spent improving your captain, getting new abilities or ships (although the better ships are sold separately). The objectives involve scanning targets, protecting allies and defeating enemies. If you fail the final mission, you lose the whole campaign, so you need to spend your experience wisely.
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The most vital part of this game is the enemy AI, and this does a great job at it. The process of the enemy actions is simple so it doesn’t take too much time to figure out, but the enemies do a good job at keeping you in their targets. I think they would also work as NPC enemies in Attack Wing itself if you wanted to – the systems here could be used to mix up the previous game. You can also try designing your own scenarios.
The biggest issue with this game is that, for new players, the rule book is very complicated, covering a lot of Attack Wing itself. The game isn’t too confusing once you actually play, but starting is daunting – especially when new players need to learn Attack Wing and the new mechanics of Alliance.
Alliance is a great way to expand Attack Wing, offering a new way to play.
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