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PDF – $4.99 USD
For the first month on sale, anybody who purchases Afterglow will get a discount code that allows them to buy Outer Dark for half price.
Afterglow is a wargame of hyperlight space combat set in the distant future. Players are Starcore Commanders, a hybrid of human consciousness and alien supercomputer used to conduct interstellar warfare at speeds the unaided human brain can not perceive. Ships blink into and out of higher dimensions, attack each other with relativistic munitions and rely on electronic countermeasures, positioning, and stealth to survive.
Afterglow: FTL Warfare Sunders The Stars is designed from the ground up from print-and-play, with multiple options for token sheets and stellar obstacle templates included. With well under an hours' work, the game is fully playable. Its rules support the use of both tokens and miniatures to represent ships, and any type of model that can stand on a 1" token can be used to represent a player's warships.
Unlike most space-combat games, Afterglow's portrayal of space combat does not involve management of ship inertia where hulks lumber past each other in carefully plotted paths, blasting away with broadsides. Instead, ships with FTL drives can traverse the entire field in a single action, and any attack that hits a target destroys it. The "terrain" is also highly interactive; it's not just a shield that can protect you from incoming attacks, but a place to hide and reduce your sensor signature and means to backlight enemies and improve your attack ranges. Planets and stars can be destroyed, creating debris fields that block FTL travel lanes and destroy ships caught in the blast radius.
There are no dice or randomizers: the outcome of a game is entirely determined by the player's choices. Games are short, whether they are played using a timer or not, as an alien menace lurks in the void to ensure human warships can't wander too far from their safe zones.
With the Purchase of Afterglow, You Will Receive:
- 48-page Main Rulebook: Both standard and printer-friendly versions. This document includes everything you need to know to play, plus an extended example of play, six symmetrical and asymmetrical scenarios, and some useful hobbyist resources.
- Token Sheets and Player References: Both square and round, six differently color-coded sets.
- Obstacle Templates: Both full-color and printer-friendly options are included to represent debris clouds, planets, and other stellar obstacles.
- Ship Cards: The cards used to design ships, with a card representing one vital system or the ship's hull. Using the five hull types and 24 system cards, players can customize ships to accommodate their preferred style of play.
Afterglow also has a full solitaire and co-op supplement available: Afterglow: Outer Dark. This supplement has rules for a new automated opponent for players to confront, the alien Biocraft, and rules for a full campaign using both a strategic map with asset management and new rules for tactical combat against the Biocraft. For the first month on sale, anybody who purchases Afterglow will get a discount code that allows them to buy Outer Dark for half price.
