Manufacturer:
Dead Alive Games
Lunar Rush is a simultaneous-play Euro-style board game that combines time-based resource management, market economics, bidding, and tableau/engine-building into a refreshing new genre. You play as one of Earth's four major corporate conglomerates, competing to mine the Moon for the newly-discovered "wonder materials," lunethyst crystals and lunarium ore.
Every turn, players use their GigaCredits (GC = Victory Points) to bid for the best space routes to and from the Moon. The slower the route, the more you can load on the ship. On the Moon, players simultaneously upgrade their bases and place their astronaut workers to produce the resources needed to maintain the base, as well as Moon goods to sell in Earth's bustling dynamic markets.
The game ends after seven turns, and the winner is the player with the most GC! The race to win the new gold rush is on!
1. Invest your Victory Points for initiative.
2. Choose your space routes to/from the Moon.
3. Upgrade your Moon base and produce.
4. Sell Moon goods for profit!
Contents:1 Game Board
1 Rulebook
4 Player Board
3 Double-sided Market Boards
1 Initiative/Spaceport Board
40 Player Cards
4 Reference Cards
25 Gold Module Cards
20 Bid Cards
8 Route Closed Cards
1 Route Closed Acrylic Meeple
60 Earth Resource Cubes
85 Moon Resource Cubes & Tokens
8 Life Support & Energy Tracker Cubes
40 Acrylic Meeples
4 Score Tracker Tokens
24 Cardboard Ships
10 Multiplier Tokens
6 GigaCredit Tokens
68 AI Cards (Mini-expansion)
25 Role Cards (Mini-expansion)
24 Moon Wonder Cards (Mini-expansion)
Ages: 14+
Players: 1-4
Game Length: 45-75 minutes
Mechanisms:
• Auction/Bidding
• Constrained Bidding
• Market
• Selection Order Bid
• Simultaneous Action Selection
• Solo / Solitaire Game
• Worker Placement