Product Details
XCOM: The Board Game is a cooperative game for up to four players. The theme is an alien invasion, which is managed by the downloadable application associated with the game: each of the four players takes on a role within the XCOM organization, a military entity that is trying to repel the attack, and must fulfill various tasks over the course of the turn, while the application spawns UFOs on various continents or in orbit, sends enemies to attack the XCOM base or causes catastrophic disasters. To win, players must be able to complete the final mission, which is made available by the application at a certain point in the game; players are instead defeated if two or more continents panic or if the XCOM base is destroyed.The game takes place on a board on which are depicted: a planisphere with six continents, the orbit, the spaces dedicated to the cards and the tracks on which the panic level of each continent, that of damage to the base and that of threat are measured. , which affects the dice rolls. On the board will be placed cards and tokens that symbolize the resources and objectives of XCOM and the enemies and missions to be faced.
The roles that players can take on are: Commander, Coordinating Officer, Chief Scientist and Squad Leader, each with the following positions:
- COMMANDER: keep track of the budget, formulate a strategy and deploy Interceptors, aircraft capable of destroying UFOs on various continents.
- OFFICIAL COORDINATOR: manage the application, defend the orbit from the UFO attack by means of satellites.
- CHIEF SCIENTIST: researching technologies through the use of scientists.
- TEAM LEADER: Complete missions and defend the base with soldiers.
List of game elements: 1 Getting Started guide, 1 game board, 1 eight-sided die, 4 six-sided dice, 8 plastic interceptors, 12 plastic soldiers, 24 plastic UFOs, 4 role reference cards, 5 invasion plan cards, 7 reserve cards, 12 mission cards, 15 resource cards, 28 technology cards, 32 crisis cards, 63 enemy cards, 1 XCOM HQ token, 1 base damage token, 1 threat token, 4 elite tokens, 6 panic tokens, 8 satellite tokens, 8 scientist tokens, 18 success tokens, 29 credit tokens.
The game requires its free application. Available for iOS, Android and most web browsers.