Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Tactical game based on Terminator Salvation movie. SkyNet and Resistance explore ruins of USA, rescue or destroy survivors and fight each other.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Area Majority
Compete to have the strongest presence in areas that award control or points.
Area Movement
Move pieces between connected regions rather than along individual spaces.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Point-to-Point Movement
Move along explicit connections between named locations or nodes.
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Tactical game based on Terminator Salvation movie. SkyNet and Resistance explore ruins of USA, rescue or destroy survivors and fight each other. One or two players lead Resistance. Their goal is either to gain 10 VP or to destroy all SkyNet units and factories. Victory points can be gained while exploring, by locating human survivors in pacticular. And one player takes control over SkyNet forces. They have to either destroy all resistance units or to find and kill all survivors (which are usually found by resistance itself). SkyNet can also explore territory just to find anything usefull for Resistance and destroy it for nothing. At the start of the game, one random map token is placed for every map area hidden. Later these tokens can be explored with different results. One SkyNet factory and a few units placed in one of six ruined cities. Resistance starts in 3 different random cities. Human units are generally weaker than SkyNets' (both sides have 4 types) but better for exploration and interception. Movement, exploration and other actions can be done by playing action cards from hand. Cards also can be traded for new cards. Combat can be initiated either using specific cards or when units of one side enter area with enemy forces (interception takes place if defender desires). In both cases initiator gets first shot using dice, then remaining units fire back once. Unlike such games as Nexus Ops, who makes hits here decides units to be killed. Box content: 1 Gameboard 135 cards for SkyNet and Resistance players 50 map tokens 8 unit stat cards 36 miniatures 5 d6 1 rulebook