Lautapelit.fi Eclipse: 2nd Dawn for the Galaxy

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Eclipse’s action economy is literally that: your civilization’s income/economy correlates directly to how many actions you can take.

If you stretch yourself too thin, you can plunge your civilization into bankruptcy and be forced to abandon sectors and planets until your economic situation has stabilized. These are AI NPC ships that just sit on some luscious space tiles protecting them and the only way through is with battle (One of the playable races actually befriends the Ancients). Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy (henceforth simply referred to as Eclipse) retools the original space-faring 4X game. Now normally I go on about these things in the “Storage” section but with this game they actually use them as a vital gameplay element!FInally, I was disappointed with the box not including the stands for the ships (the only model to receive a stand was the ball like model).

By putting all the maths in the upkeep phase and using sliding markers on a track rather than discrete components to show how many resources you have, Eclipse takes away so much faff.

I never felt like I was bored and the downtime isn’t that bad since each player only has a single action to take. Later in the game you can build a monolith (a la 2001: A Space Odyssey) which gives a boost to your victory points.