Plunderers of tombs of space

the plunderers of tombs of space is the translation of the English play Serious Robbers From Outer Space , a Board game created in 1991 by Stephen Tassie. It is published by Z-Man Games and is distributed by the Seventh Circle. It is a humorous play where each one carries out a film of series Z and must protect it from the attempts at sabotages of the other players.

the Pygmies cannibals of the cursed jungle is another play of the same editor using the same system of rules and whom can be used like supplement with the Pilleurs of tombs… .

General principle

The various elements of film have a certain number of points of defense which constitute the force of this film, the goal being to have film having the most points.

Types of charts

There exist five types of charts:

the Characters . They are the heroes of a film.
the Decorations . Where a film is held.
the Accessoires , whether one associates with a character or a creature.
the Créatures , which can attack the characters.
the Special Effects , the only charts which can be played constantly.

Each chart comprises in bottom a word in the spirit of films of series Z. the charts characters , decorations , additional and creatures comprise a number indicating their capacity of attack or defense.

Course of the play

Before the first turn

A player picks six charts and reveals them with all to constitute a film title of series Z starting from the words appearing in bottom of the charts.

Each player picks then six charts, and poses all the characters which it has. If a player does not have a character in hand, it throws its play and digs again six new charts until obtaining at least a character .

The part

With each turn, each player picks to constitute a hand of six charts. Then it can:

To deposit a decoration or to change a existing decoration for any film.
To add characters to his film.
To associate or move additional with the existing characters .
To attack the characters other films with its creatures or special effects .
to true itself.

Attacks of a film

A player can attack a character of film of one of his adversaries with a creature . If the points of attack of this creature form a total equal to or higher than the defense of the unfavourable film (which includes/understands the characters , their additional , and the decoration as well as the possible no-claims bonus), the attack succeeds and the character is withdrawn from film.

The special effects make it possible to attack or defend a film constantly.

End of part

The part finishes when the chart send the credits is played or when the pile of pickaxe is finished. At this time, all the players count their score by cumulating the points of defense of film except no-claims bonus. They add then five points per chart posed in their film or present in their hand where figure a word of the title determined at the beginning of part.

External bonds

The official site of the distributer

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