Star Scrappers: Cave-in

To overcome your competition you will have to recruit mercenary labourers, use their skills, and collect precious artefacts. However, you’ll have to keep looking over your shoulder! Your competition is only waiting for a chance to buy your trusted men off and steal the bounty from under your nose! Every turn you can perform two out of four possible actions:

• recruiting mercenaries
• sending mercenaries to collect crystals
• sending mercenaries to find artefacts
• using special action of a chosen mercenary

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The mechanics of Cave-in can be described as "discard building". With every action the players put mercenaries into their discard. Now, the order of the discard also matters, because your top discarded card gives you a special action at the beginning of your next turn. But beware! If your discard grows too interesting, another player may forfeit their entire turn just to steal the discard from you! The player that collects most Victory Points wins, and that can be achieved in a few ways:

• each crystal gives some VP
• some artifacts boost your crystal collection
• sets of factions' symbols
• protect your faction totem and try to steal other players' totem

Last but not least, remember – it doesn’t matter who is the best miner but the best schemer!

• 78 Mercenary cards (13 cards in each of the 6 faction colors)
• 12 Artifact cards
• 60 Crystal tokens
• 6 Command cards (1 in each faction color)
• 6 Faction Totems
• 1 Game Board
• 1 Cave-In token
• 1 Rulebook

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