With Gale Force Nine's Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps due to land in stores by the end of the year - along with its two expansion sets (Get Away From Her, You Bitch and Ultimate Badasses), the publisher has launched a dedicated website for the game.
Check it out here - for all the latest info on the game, as well as PDF donwloads of the rules (to get your mind in shape for the actual release of the box sets).
This is a good way for you to get a real taste of the game before you decide whether to pull the trigger on it or not.
However, publisher Gale Force Nine is offering customers a special deal if they purchase the game and its two upcoming supplements direct from them as a bundle.
It's time to lock and load, Gale Force Nine announced this weekend that the the complete "Aliens boardgame experience" will all be released this year, starting with the core game in October.
Two expansions (Aliens: Ultimate Badasses and Aliens: Get Away From Her, You B***h!) will follow later in the year, adding to the experience with new characters, missions, and game mechanics.
Here's a tease, from GF9, of what these all include:
Aliens: Another Glorious Day In The Corps
• Play iconic characters
• Recreate awesome scenes from the movie
• Quick and easy rules
• Dynamic co-op gameplay
• And all the Aliens you can kill!
Aliens: Ultimate Badasses
• Increase your Fireteam with six new Characters
• Gain Experience cards to give your Characters new abilities.
Aliens: Get Away From Her, You B***h!
• Play as the Alien Hive
• New campaign missions and locations from the movie
• Recreate the epic duel between Ripley and the Alien Queen
Aliens: Another Glorious Day In The Corps! is a new co-operative, miniatures, boardgame from Gale Force 9, based on the battle of Hadley's Hope in James Cameron's seminal Aliens movie.
Originally scheduled for release any day now, in the current climate who knows when we'll actually get to see this in the wild!
This is definitely one to keep an eye out for.
Hopefully, we might hear something on, or around, Alien Day (April 26)
As that old game now commands seriously silly money on the secondary market, I guess it only makes sense to purchase this new game instead.
And it's got miniatures... and we all know my love of miniatures!
Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps! is a co-operative survival board game where you and your team of specialist Colonial Marines will gear up with serious firepower and head into Hadley's Hope to find survivors and answers.
But you're not alone. To survive, you'll need to work together, keep your cool, and stay frosty to fight off relentless Xenomorph ambushes and get out of there alive.
Players can play up to six different missions, taking them into different areas from the Hadley’s Hope terraforming facility to the deep, dark recesses of an xenomorph nest.
Aliens also offers an exciting campaign mode to play four of the missions linked together, so players will need to fight relentless xenomorph attacks and keep each other alive all the way to the end of the campaign.
The remaining two missions are purely about survival, it’s kill or be killed. The players are dropped into the game with nothing more than a pistol. They will need to scavenge weapons and gear while hordes of Xenomorph aliens are trying to get at them. How long can you survive against the odds?
Here's a first impressions video, of a prototype edition, from last year's Gen Con (and GF9 were already talking about expansions!!!):
