Roll for the galaxy in about 3 minutes Ambition.

Kia ora koutou, and welcome to roll for the galaxy in about 3 minutes There is no official solo mode its a game for 2-4 players, playing time is medium, and its a pretty simple game humanity has left the cradle of earth and struck out into the stars now the various colonies of earth are competing for resources, planets and technology in order to become the premiere power in the galaxy the game ends once one player has built 12 tiles or the bonus victory point tokens run out.

The winner is the player with the most victory points, show here and here The winner is the player with the most victory points, show here and here Action selection You select one action to take each round, so not all actions will happen. Dice: So many different dice.

Player turn Each player starts with 5 white dice, 3 go in your cup and 2 into your citizreny for later use You also get a double starting faction token and a starting world. These will grant you bonuses and extra dice. You also draw 2 tiles, these are double sided.

Select one triangle and one circle tile and place them ready to be built Let skip a turn. We have 7 dice in our cup and roll them, we align the matching sides to the 5 different phases in the game. The green die is a wildcard. On our turn, we really want to build this world.

And it will cost 4 dice. We only have one planet dice here. However, we can place any die here to select our action for the turn, and it will count as a planet die. We can also reassign one die, by spending another one here. And finally, the wildcard can go anywhere All players then reveal their selected action.

In this case only 3 different actions were selected. Any dice from the unselected actions go back in the cup.
The 5 actions are Explore: You can either spend a die back to your citizenry for 2 money, or draw a double sided tile and place it under you existing tiles.

You can also discard existing tiles to redraw that number plus 1 The develop action allows you to place dice on the triangle tokens. Once you have as many as its cost, it goes into you empire. Dice can be store on tiles between turns The planet action works the same way, but for planet tiles The produce action allows you to place dice onto worlds for later use.

And the ship action requires a trade good and a ship. You can trade, and get money based on the world the good is traded off. Or you can consume them for victory points. You get 1 VP if the colours don’t match the world, 2 vp if one colour does, and 3 vp if both do.

The purple dice match all colours. All dice spent on actions go to your citizenry. Then you can put 1 dice in your cup Why would you like this game? If you love playing around with dice and trying to make the best decisions based on what you’ve rolled, you will likely enjoy roll for the galaxy The dice all have different probabilities on them, as shown here, so knowing which dice are likely to deliver what results really informs your strategy There are also a good number of starting factions and worlds, which jumbled up make for a lot of different power combinations And the huge number of tiles, each unique and with their own bonuses, makes for a game with a ton of replay ability as you can build very different engines each game.

The best thing about this game is the satisfying clattering sound of jiggling the dice in the cup. Love it. However, apparently people cheat at this game and there really isn’t anything to stop people changing their dice behind the screen. I personally don’t play with cheaters but this is a comment I’ve be told a lot.

And while the game is all about making th ebest decisions with what you’ve rolled, some people hate not being able to doe xactly what they want each turn Similar games? This is the dice version of roll for the galaxy, so if you hate dice, try that And for an even more board gaming board game, try new frontiers.

Roll for the galaxy - A gold medal game made better by its expansion Ambition is one of those expansions that adds more, without iver complicating the game. First— adds two new dice types Leaders are the black dice and they replace one of your white dice.

And orange are entruprenour dice. They add two systems. The dollar sign icon means a die goes back to your cup when used instead of to your citizenry And the multi faced sides can be treated as either symbol Goals are added, and you randomly select 6.

Completelng one of these gives you bonus tokens, which can be spent as a wild ide or kept for vps. But my fav things are the extra tiles . It only adds 5 new tiles, to the main pool, and these focus on the new dice. But the biggest change is to the starting tiles There are 7 new starter worlds to go with the 9 from the core game.