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Players Wage a Smart Sci-Fi Asymmetric Team Battle in the Newest Game From Dávid Turczi & PSC Games!
The year is 2107, and human colonists on Procyon III have unearthed an ancient – yet still active – alien artifact. Almost immediately, the Aethyn Empress and her hordes invade the planet's surface in an attempt to disable the artifact. The U.N. sends its entire Armada to relieve the settlement's defenses and fend off the Aethyn fleet, as this forgotten corner of space soon becomes the center of all-out war.
In The Defense of Procyon III, launched 21 April on Kickstarter, players take control of unique factions as part of a team-based conflict. The card-driven battle wages over two boards using 120 amazing miniatures, with humans defending against invading aliens on the surface and orbital space of Procyon III.
Check out the Kickstarter campaign here.
I set out to design a big asymmetric game, a miniatures-heavy game, and a wargame that my Eurogamer friends would actually want to play, says designer Dávid Turczi. The result is The Defense of Procyon III – a game with meaningful player interaction, a wealth of strategic choice with low randomness, and focused enough so that you don't need to know all the details of your opponent's rules.
A Sci-Fi Battle for Survival
The backstory of The Defense of Procyon III will delight fans of sci-fi settings like Starship Troopers and StarCraft, as it sets the stage for the conflict to come between humans and the alien Aethyn.
The Wargame for the Eurogamer
Played primarily as a two-vs-two team game, The Defense of Procyon III has one player from each team in charge of the ground battle and one in charge of the space battle. The ground battle is a push-and-pull of threat and defense, while the space battle is an exercise in tactical combat and multi-prong positioning.
Gameplay is highly asymmetric and involves four different card-based combat games interacting with each other. In addition to team play, the game can be played cooperatively and solo.
Players score victory points for achieving certain feats, and the end of the battle for this previously insignificant corner of the galaxy comes after a threshold of victory points is reached.
Kickstarter Campaign
The Kickstarter campaign promises exciting stretch-goals and additional content to keep backers busy from launch on 21 April until the campaign's end on 11 May. All backers will receive a free Aethyn mothership miniature just for participating, in addition to the unlocked stretch-goals. The base pledge is £80.00 GBP, and will be delivered to backers in May 2021.
