TITAN - Foreman Kickstarter Edition

Your task is to fill the hold of your ship with as many units of valuable resources from Titan as possible, in order to earn the most Credits by the end of the game.

To help its teams with their task, Stardrill has supplied a number of Extraction Plants - buildings which can be placed anywhere on the map. These extraction plants will allow you to obtain different types of resources. As you’re all employees of Stardrill, once placed these buildings can be accessed and used by any player!

Place pipes branching out from your main base to create the extraction network that will bring resources into the hold of your cargo ship. Each time you integrate an extraction plant into your network by joining a section of pipe to it, it activates, gaining you a unit of the resource of the building’s type.

Once obtained, these resources will have to be managed carefully, as you only have a limited amount of space in your hold! When full, no more resources can be added without spending or jettisoning others first. Some resources have value during the game and can be spent to free up space in your hold, while others can only score points at the end of the game - so you’ll need to keep an eye on the space you have, and time your activations carefully.

There are 6 resources available on Titan: Deuterium, Hydrocarbons, Silicium, Titanium, Water, and Tholin.

However, not all of these resources are desirable. Titan hosts large quantities of Tholin, an organic substance which could potentially cause you to lose Credits at the end of your mission. Picking some of it up is impossible to avoid as you dig deeper into the centre of Titan, but don’t let it get out of control – as well as losing you Credits, if you take Tholins into your hold when it is already full, some of your precious cargo will be contaminated!

Stardrill has also supplied you with a team of trusty drones that will lend you on claw on your mission. As well as transporting valuable resources and moving Tholins away from your network, Drones can dock to an Extraction Plant to increase its yield or make it less costly to upgrade. These handy machines can also use Titanium to destroy pipe sections, either in another players network, or even your own!

Earn Credits during the game by placing and upgrading Extraction plants, completing Stardrill’s special Objectives, and fulfilling Planetary Orders.

At the end of the game, you’ll score Credits depending on the contents of your hold! The more Deuterium you have, the better, as long as it hasn’t been contaminated… The Employee with the most Credits at the end of the game becomes Stardrill Employee of the Month!

• In the Starbot expansion, you’ll be playing in Titan’s Solo Mode, battling it out against an autonomous mining robot to bring back the best haul.

This expansion introduces Starbot, an opponent controlled by an AI system.The bot will be building its own extraction network, installing Rigs and using its Drones in a similar way to a normal player. The Bot’s behaviour is determined by its level of aggression, chosen by you at the start of the game. It’s actions go all the way from simply mining as fast as it can to attacking your network directly!

Starbot can be an extremely challenging opponent, so Titan’s Solo mode is a great way to continue honing your skills by playing alone.

• In the expansion It Came From Below you’ll encounter Titan’s resident extra-terrestrial! This unpredictable being will move around the crater, helping or hindering you with its actions.

This expansion introduces the Alien, a worker placement mechanic that all players can control. The Alien comes with its own Rigs and resources, and can even spawn babies during play! Each turn the active player will be able to move the Alien and have it perform actions, but exactly what it does – as well as the properties of its resources and Babies – is determined randomly at the start of the game. How you use them is up to you…

It came from Below adds a lot of replayability to Titan by vastly increasing your options. Depending on the Alien configuration that you draw, the way that you use it will change completely each time you play!

• In the expansion For Science! you’ll have the use of new technologies to aid your mining efforts.

This expansion introduces a whole new category of Rigs to your mining arsenal: Science Rigs. Each time one of these Rigs is activated, you’ll gain access to the Science board, which sports a large selection of new technologies just waiting to be used! Once activated, these new technologies add extra effects to your Rigs – making them more efficient or giving them whole new powers to exploit. This leaves you with lots of new options for elaborating and executing strategies, whether it’s through building potent engines or profiting from powerful one-off boosts.

For Science! adds a new dimension of strategy to your games of Titan, by drastically increasing the number of options you have available without adding any random elements to the game.

• In The E-Team expansion for Titan, you can add a 5th player to your games!

This expansion includes all of the necessary material to play Titan with up to 5 players! This includes a cargo Hold board and all of the necessary Pipes and Drones.