3001FFE Traveler CCG Two Player Starter Set

Playing this card game had the same feel as playing a ship Captain in the tabletop game.Was easy to learn & brought back a lot of great memories.

The game looks fun but very complicated with lots of small icons in place of key words on the cards.

I have owned the original RPG Traveller since the 1980's. This is a quick and simple way to have some fun in Marc Millers far future setting.

awesome

In the Traveller CCG, players choose a ship card, and build a deck of 20 Adventure cards, and a deck of 60 Captain’s cards. Each Adventure deck provides Contracts players can complete to score victory points and Complications that attach to Contracts provide obstacles for players to overcome. The Captain’s deck provides your Ship Upgrades, Events, Connections, Crew, Gear, and Heroic Actions.Cards are purchased using “Credits” which are noted on every Captain’s card. You can discard cards from your hand or your deck to pay for cards you wish to put into play, but beware Bankruptcy. Captains cannot reshuffle their deck when it runs out, and if you have to pay a cost and don’t have cards to discard to pay the Credits, you lose.Designed as a competitive card game, in addition to adding Complications to Contracts, each round players can choose to pursue Piracy or a Contract. Piracy combat can result in destroying Ship Upgrades and costing Credits, which can reduce the effectiveness of your ship or even run you into Bankruptcy. The first player to 20 Victory Points wins, the first player to go Bankrupt loses.The Ship and Captain’s cards generate Capability and Skill tokens which are then used to resolve Complications and Contracts. Of course your opponent may have ways of inflicting damage or removing tokens thus reducing you ability to succeed.The rules are detailed and clearly written, though at times the organization can leave you hunting. The game uses a LOT of icons and the rules use only icons instead of text in many places, which I found confusing when trying to learn the game.In addition to the 2 player (up to 4 players with additional ship decks) competitive game, the game includes several Solo scenarios and challenge levels that provide interesting modes to play while tailoring the difficulty level in many ways!With many colorful Crew armed with Gear and performing Heroic Actions on board their ship with Ship Upgrades, all set in the Traveller universe, I had hoped that the game would evoke an almost RPG-like story. However, while the game plays smoothly, I found the “feel” to be more mechanical than story. I admit that perhaps it is unfair to judge the game based on it not being what I wanted while doing well at being what the designer intended.With added ship decks (Subsidized Merchant, Empress Marava Far Trader and expansion decks (Aliens of the Imperium, Troubles on the Mains), you’ll have a lot of options to customize your decks too.If you’re a Traveller fan looking for an RPG-like experience in a card game, you won’t find it here. But if you’re a fan of competitive CCGs, this is an interesting game with many options.This review was written based on a privately purchased copy of the Starter set though review copies of some expansions were provided.c2018 by Richard A. Edwards

Traveller ccg is "Almost? an Okay card game. If you buy this book of two decks and the rules, you will get a complete game. If you just buy the card decks, you do not get a complete game. In the individual game, the pocket size rules are not there. What is there is extremely wanting, and, completely unhelpful. The box has rules. The box is needed to play the game, if you do not have a printer. Now, about the cards. Horrible comes to mind. Bad Art Work. Too many icons, which remain a mystery without the box set. Horrible Art Work. Too many counters needed for a card game. Unacceptable Art Work. Has very little to do with Traveller the RPG. Cheap Art Work. The card game could have been called "Stellar Cluster" In every way, money was saved by not spending money on this card game. If you are expecting quality, this card game is going to be a disappointment. Have I said anything about the disgusting Art Work? Well, here is where a lot of money was really saved. Traveller ccg was made to Make Money by not spending Money: and, it shows.

I wrote a nice detailed review of the product. It in no way violated guidelines. I should know: I've published hundreds of reviews. But my content was rejected without any indication why, nor was I returned a copy of the original review for me to correct. Sorry if you hoped to get some good details about the game, but Amazon dumped my review.