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Impulse
2 - 6 players
average 45 minutes
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Economic Card Game Bluffing Science Fiction Fighting Space Exploration
Area Control / Area Influence Hand Management Modular Board Variable Player Powers Grid Movement Partnerships Player Elimination Variable Phase Order

Impulse is a quick-playing 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) game set in space with the game board being composed of cards that have actions on them. Players also have cards in hand, and in addition to featuring one of ten possible actions, these cards have a color (red, yellow, blue or green) and a size (1, 2 or 3, as indicated by the number of icons on the card). Each card also has six edges, and these edges connect adjacent cards in the hex-shaped playing area. The cards in the playing area start face down, with each player controlling a card(their Home) on a corner of this area. Each player has two transport ships in the center of his Home card and a cruiser on an edge. Cruisers are used to patrol sectors of space and destroy opposing transports, while transports let you activate sectors that you enter. On a turn, a player adds a card to the Impulse from his hand, then (optionally) performs an action for a tech in his playing area, then (optionally) performs all the actions in the Impulse, then draws two cards and adds them to his hand. The Impulse is a line of cards shared by all players that changes turn by turn as players add cards to it and as cards fall off once it reaches maximum size. Thus, players need to feed the Impulse with actions that benefit them more than opponents, but that's easier said than done. When you perform actions – whether from moving transports to them or using the Impulse – you can boost them by having minerals of the same color or lots of transports. Each action has a single numeral on it, e.g., "Command [1] ship for one jump" or "Build [1] cruiser at home"; when you boost an action, you increase that numeral. Players score points by destroying enemy ships (one point per ship), by controlling edge spaces on the central card (one point per edge), and by taking other actions via cards. The first player to score 20 points wins!

Overall Statistics for bubba group

Total Games Played: 3
Average Players Per Game 3.3

Win/Loss Statistics for bubba group

Badges Name   NemePoints   Total Games   Avg. NemePoints   Wins / Losses % Won  
mario fazi 32  2 16.00 
1
1
50 %
bubbaxis 27  3 9.00 
1
2
33 %
antonio peronace 23  1 23.00 
1
0
100 %
fabio peronace 14  1 14.00 
0
1
0 %
valentino cervellone 14  1 14.00 
0
1
0 %
samuel patitucci 10  1 10.00 
0
1
0 %
schedar marchetti 10  1 10.00 
0
1
0 %

    Last 3 Played Games for bubba group

    Date Played Result
    11/15/2016
    1st bubbaxis (20 game points scored)
    17 
    2nd mario fazi (10 game points scored)
    11/8/2016
    1st mario fazi (20 game points scored)
    23 
    2nd valentino cervellone (14 game points scored)
    14 
    3rd schedar marchetti (10 game points scored)
    10 
    4th bubbaxis (3 game points scored)
    11/6/2016
    23 
    14 
    10 
    4th bubbaxis