Quick Guide

Info About The Game:

HOT & NEW:
   => Comparing and Explaining while Unboxing (56 minute video presented by Len)
   => Ready For Your First Game (how it looks all set up presented by Len)
Reviews:
   => Quick 5 minutes
   => Refreshing 13 minutes
   => Calm 16 minutes
=> Dice Tower 25 minutes
Tutorial:
   => Official 31 minutes
   => Full 2 1/2 hour

=> How To Introduce The Game To Friends

=> Final Rulebook (online version with highlights PLUS near final Ship Book)

Latest News:

NEW! Share YOUR Photos and Stories
Click=> YourISSVanguard.com (yes, it is YOUR ISS Vanguard)

1. #1 Best Solo Game of the Year
2. What game was best for SOLO play in 2022?
3. Official Update 51
4. 3 New Crew Cards (fan made)
5. December 19 Monday Q&A with Marcin at 10am Central USA time
6. Full Campaign Review by Tomas
7. December 12 Monday Q&A with Marcin
8. Official Update #50 – 2nd Wave Development
9. December 5 Monday Q&A with Marcin
10. Dice Tower Looks at ISS Vanguard
11. Overview of the game in 3 minutes
12. November 28 Monday Q&A with Marcin was cancelled
13. Lively Space Mode (aka House Rules)
14. November 21 Monday Q&A with Marcin
15. Master System Map
16. Crew List with Abilities (Core and Veteran)
17. ISS Vanguard App is not compatible with Chromebooks
18. November 14 Monday Q&A with Marcin
19. Paul Grogan (rulebook guy) is Super Enthused (see his video comments)
20. Ten PLUS Ten! (things you might like with ISS Vanguard)
21. Having the Time of Your Life (aka How Long Does It Take?)
22. One Way to Pack everything (All In Pledge)
23. Just One Turn on Pellucid (no spoilers)
24. USA – ALL orders for Wave 1 have been shipped by Gamerati
25. November 7 Monday Q&A with Marcin
26. The NAMES of the Landers, Threats and Equipment
27. Official Update 49 (includes Translations Timeline)
28. Remember the LIFT-OFF Log entry on each planet
29. Finished The ISS Vanguard Tutorial – Great Fun (1 minute video included)
30. October 31 Monday Q&A with Marcin
31. Rolling Dice (keeping them separate) in ISS Vanguard
32. USA – all orders are going out by end of today (Oct 28)
33. Section Dice (and Crewmember Cards and Crew Boards) ISS Vanguard with Video
34. USA Shipping – all “orders” should be processed by Oct 28
35. Travel (Sector to Sector) in ISS Vanguard
36. Playmats Explained (ISS Vanguard video)
37. Your First Game of ISS Vanguard (all set up)
38. Master Card and Dice Holder
39. October 24 Monday Q&A with Marcin
40. Lead Tokens
41. USA – All Pre-Packed should be out to UPS Soon
42. USA Container 4 Pre-Packed is completed!
43. New Box! Old Box! (Arrival)
44. Official Update 48 (Shipping Update 4)
45. USA – Gamerati Info Post from 10:30am Central time
46. A Refreshing Overview
47. USA – Container 3 is now with UPS (two more to go)
48. Big Surprise Coming on My ISS Vanguard likely on Friday!
49. USA – Container 3 is done … two more to go
50. I got my Shipping Notification (USA)
51. A Nice Calm Review by Board Of It
52. USA shipping weekend update 2 – Container 2 Parcels are with UPS (see VIDEO)
53. October 17 Monday Q&A with Marcin
54. USA weekend shipping update
55. Part 2 Tutorial Playthrough (2nd Planetary Exploration) by Paul Grogan
56. Tutorial Playthrough (LONG) by Paul Grogan
57. USA Gamerati is now working on Container 2 (of 5)
58. USA Gamerati says 2nd (of 5) Container should be shipped by end of Oct 14
59. USA – One Trailer of boxes is out the door at Gamerati (passed on to UPS)
60. UPDATED with video and photos: Excellent Dice Tray SYSTEM!
61. Official Update 47 (Shipping Update)
62. USA Shipping Begins
63. Metal or Clear Reinforcements for Ship Book Pages
64. October 10 Monday Q&A with Marcin
65. Discovery Decks Tray
66. BoardGameCo Unboxing and Ramblings video
67. USA? Check Gamerati Facebook page!
68. Kids helping Unbox ISS Vanguard (again)
69. Short 5 minute review! (includes a very clear reminder to NOT mix section dice together into one roll pool)
70. USA Gamerati Notes (shipping might be delayed)
71. USA shipping will be via UPS
72. Ant Lab talks about ISS Vanguard at Board Game Roundup
73. Metal Reinforce Ship Book Pages?
74. Official Shipping Report #2 (Update #46)
75. This is the Playthrough That I have been Waiting For!!!
76. Five Key Elements of ISS Vanguard (Pros and Cons) – One Stop Coop Shop
77. Game Trayz X-Trayz are back in stock
78. Kids do the best Unboxings? (I wish I understood Polish)
79. October 3 Monday Q&A with Marcin
80. Can you identify all 18 crew here?
81. USA Shipping Gamefound EMail
82. Ship to USA Has Docked (and now has departed)
83. What happens when fans contribute to your project?
84. Just How BIG did you say the box was? (video unboxing included)
85. Shipping Quick View Summary
86. Official Shipping Update (English 1st Wave)
87. Quick Look at Personnel Files CARDS! WOW!
88. THE Hottest Game!
89. Paul Grogan (rulebook guy) unboxing
90. No More Nationalities / Countrys of Origin

91. Standard and Premium Dice Side by Side
92. September 26 Monday Q&A with Marcin
93. How to Introduce the game to Friends!
94. The included bookmark is handy!
95. Spoiler Free Review by Ian Hancock (after 40 hours of play)
96. Game Brigade Unboxing
97. Play-through by One Stop Coop Shop
98. Must tilt cards placed in Section Boxes
99. How to Pack everything back into the box
100. Playmat Explained
101. More Ship Phase Overview Video #3 (Adventures in Creative Software)
102. An excellent unboxing (in German but worth watching)
103. Unboxing the Core Box and Personnel Files (by 1D6)
104. Meet the Crew Minis – 2 for each Section
105. Which Crew Mini is your favorite?
106. In A Crate?
107. Are the Crew Cards still the same in the final game?
108. App is Good To Go now!
109. Use Landscape Mode for Pledge Manager on a Smart Phone
110. Split Shipping for Languages Answered by Jordan
111. September 19 Monday Q&A with Marcin
112. Core Box Highlights (from Official Update 44)
113. Official Update 44 has been posted
114. It’s Like Christmas! A Present Appeared On Your Doorstep!
115. After 7-8 hours, some spoiler free thoughts from Hugh
116. How does the game fit on YOUR table?
117. Playmats DO fit inside the Core Box (raising the lid a bit)
118. Insights from Lone Pathfinder (includes: WHY do some sections get MORE of a certain color dice)
119. Ship to USA going through a STORM :(
120. The Shipping Box for ISS Vanguard is MASSIVE
121. App Support EMail (to report bugs, etc)
122. 100 Countries (at least) playing ISS Vanguard
123. Lander Tray
124. The App (final version coming this weekend)
125. Official Update #43
126. Size of the Game Board (Open Planetopedia)
127. Unboxing the Add-Ons
128. Ship to USA delayed two more days (now due at port on Sept 29)
129. Game Arriving Now!
130. Card Count needs verification – Someone who HAS the game want to count their cards?
131. (7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1) Count Down – Arrival
132. Game Arrived… let there be UNBOXING!
133. USA Addresses PLEASE READ THIS if you used a PO Box for your address!
134. Official Website pages are NOW ONLINE!
135. Global Condition card
136. Photos Please (as backers in Australia may get their game THIS WEEK)
137. (8) Count Down – Dice Check Steps
138. (9) Count Down – New Crew, New Rules Play Test
139. Testing the New Crew with New Skills
140. (10) Count Down – Juggling the books, cards and dice
141. Size of the Playmats
142. Final Crew Boards are 1 3/4 inch wider
143. September 12 Monday Q&A with Marcin
144. Prototype 2.4 – YOU choose a crewmember for me to play
145. (11) Count Down – Setting Up For A Mission
146. What’s In The Tutorial Decks?
147. Ship with Containers for UK update
148. (12) Count Down – To Scan or Not To Scan
149. Ship with Containers for the EU Hub nearly docked
150. (13) Count Down – Tokens, Tokens, Who’s Got The Tokens
151. Deadly Space Mode Reference Cards
152. Personnel Files
153. Danger Die Reference Card (flip side)
154. ===> Official Tutorial is Viewable!
155. (14) Count Down – Ship Facilities (decisions here give me a headache:)
156. Navigating the My ISS Vanguard website!
157. (15) Count Down – Player Count (1, 2, 3, or 4)
158. Eagle Eyes Volunteer Opportunity (Watch for App and Tutorial here)
159. USA Orders getting an Update EMail now
160. Ship to USA delayed 4 days (docking on Sep 27) – latest timeline
161. How to see just the Count Down articles
162. (16) Count Down – Navigating ON the planet
163. Getting In Shape (be ready for when the BOX arrives)
164. (17) Count Down – Navigating DOWN to the planet and the Rebels Regroup :)
165. Retro Vanguard (from waaaaay back)
166. EU ship has docked
167. (18) Count Down – Navigating IN a Star System
168. (19) Count Down – Navigating the Star Systems
169. (20) Count Down – The Universe
170. Shea has some news about ISS Vanguard in this video
171. (21) Count Down – The Dice (and a cool in your ear auto translator)
172. Ship to USA has Sep 23 docking Scheduled
173. (22) Count Down – Building Our Crew
174. Shipping Update (Aug 30) (Official Update #42)
175. Yet another file update for the App!
176. (23) Count Down – Crew Dice Skills (part 4 of 4)
177. August 29 Monday Q&A with Marcin
178. Unofficial Video – Planetary Exploration
179. Unofficial Tutorial Video (including the Ship Book)
180. Another Files Update for the App
181. (24) Count Down – Crew Skills part 3
182. (25) Count Down – Crew Skills part 2
183. A New Voice
184. (26) Count Down – Crew Skills
185. Lead and Success Token hard plastic capsules UPDATE!
186. (27) Count Down – The Crew List
187. Volunteers needed to watch these three Official pages!
188. New Files for the App
189. Sneak Peeks from Shea
190. (28) Countdown – Section Crew Boards
191. (29) Count Down continues with Extra Things You May Want
192. Numbers Challenge: 200,000 / 430 / 2,250 / 30,000
193. (30) ISS Vanguard Lifts Off and Countdown Begins with Time Tokens
194. August 22 Monday Q&A with Marcin
195. Reference Card
196. Just Hanging Out in the Pub with the Chaplain
197. Christening Starship ISS Vanguard
198. Shipping Info (all hubs)
199. Official Update 41
200. Final Rulebook

194. USA Backers should be receiving a shipping email from Awaken Realms now
195. Almost 70 Years!
196. You can bring one pet on board ISS Vanguard
197. Still A Long Ways Off… but you WILL get a tracking number :)
198. Ant Lab is looking at September for covering ISS Vanguard again
199. Ready? Ready for 100% Total Success?
200. Almost like a Family Reunion
201. Preparing with the Rulebook(s)
202. European Correspondents Wanted (because you will get the final game first)
203. August 18 Into Containers for Shipping (piecing together the status)
204. August 8 Monday Q&A with Marcin
205. Asmodee Will Be Exclusive Distributor for English Edition
206. Three Official Webpages (Resources, Learn, App)
207. The Final Rule Book (48 pages Unboxing Screenshots)
208. Close Encounters Detailed Unboxing (miniatures)
209. Detailed Unboxing via On Table
210. How Are Board Games Actually MADE?
211. ISS Vanguard mentioned in On Table game overview
212. August 1 Monday Q&A with Marcin
213. More unboxing from On Table
214. English Wave 1 Timeline
215. Official Update #40 (Shipping Update #1)
216. A Guess About Shipping (in 12 Easy Steps)
217. Watch for official Update this week (July 25-31)
218. First Containers are being picked up today (July 25)
219. July 25 the First Containers are scheduled to be picked up!
220. July 18 Monday Q&A with Marcin
221. July 4 Monday Q&A with Marcin
222. More Videos coming from On Table (Asia Tomaszewska)
223. Unboxing Expansions
224. Official Resources Page
225. Official Unboxing (with dozens of screenshots)
226. Official Update #39 (featuring the unboxing)
227. June 27 Monday Q&A with Marcin
228. What’s In The Box?
229. First Look at ISS Vanguard Production Copy (audio in Polish)
230. 1st Copy of Mass Production Game is at Awaken Realms NOW
231. Shipping Due to Begin Last Half of September 2022
232. Official Production Update 2 (Update 38)
233. June 13 Monday Q&A with Marcin
234. June 6 Monday Q&A with Marcin
235. May 30 Monday Q&A with Marcin
236. Possible (likely) that new orders may be accepted
237. Possible July 23 Delivery Date
238. May 23 Monday Q&A with Marcin
239. May 10 News Highlights
240. Sundrop Miniatures (nearly final)
241. Designing, Developing and Distributing a Game is NOT Easy!
242. Different Amounts of Section Dice Allowed For Each Section
243. Timeline To Delivery
244. Update 37 (Production Update 1)
245. May 9 Monday Q&A with Marcin
246. May 2 Monday Q&A with Marcin
247. April 25 Monday Q&A with Marcin
248. April 11 Monday Q&A with Marcin
249. Rulebook with Comments and Feedback
250. Spiral bind your Rulebook to save table space
251. Future Campaign WILL continue from the First Campaign
252. Four Section Boxes in Game Box Insert
253. Rulebook April 8 Near Final
254. Official Update 36
255. April 4 Monday Q&A with Marcin
256. March 28 Monday Q&A with Marcin
257. Official Update 35
258. March 21 Monday Q&A with Marcin
259. March 14 Monday Q&A with Marcin
260. Buy a copy of This War of Mine game and ALL proceeds goes to support Ukraine humanitarian efforts
261. March 7 Monday Q&A with Marcin
262. Awaken Realms Support Ukraine. We can too! Here’s how…
263. Music to play ISS Vanguard by Suggestions!
264. Join My ISS Vanguard and Awaken Realms to Support Ukraine
265. Awaken Realms Ukraine Solidarity Statement and Donation of about $50,000
266. A 4th Article from Chris (Board Game Nerd) – About the Crew
267. Feb 28 Monday Q&A with Marcin
268. How To Select Your Crew
269. All 90 Crew – Master List
270. Slideshow of the Crew Cards
271. Update 34 (Development Update 8) February 23, 2022
272. Dice and Crew Boards INTERCONNECT
273. Paul Grogan is still working on the rulebook (as of Feb 8)
274. Ship Book with Annotations (notes and suggestions)

Find out more about the improved Prototype 2:

1. What’s Changed from Prototype 1=> Rolling Solo
2. Unboxing=> Quackalope AND Len’s What’s In The Box
3. Setup=> Rolling Solo
4. Tutorial 1 (planet exploration)=> Rolling Solo AND BoardGameCo/Quackalope AND Len’s Ruminations
5. Tutorial 2 (ship phase – partial)=> Rolling Solo AND BoardGameCo/Quackalope AND Len’s Ruminations
6. Tutorial 3 (planet exploration)=> Quackalope/BoardGameCo and Len’s Photolog part1 AND Part 2
7. Tutorial 4 (ship phase – full)=> Len’s Run Through Photolog
8. Tutorial 5 (planet exploration)=> Len’s preparation Photolog part1 and Len’s Community Help Photolog part2 and Len’s Actual Mission part3
9. Real Game – (planet exploration)=> Rahdo/Shea
10. Real Game – (ship phase)=> Rahdo/Shea
11. Game 6 – (ship phase)=> Len’s overview
12. Final Thoughts=> Rahdo/Shea / Shea Update
13. Game 9 – Len’s brief overview
14. Game 10 – Len’s brief overview
15. Game 11 – (revisited a planet) => Len’s brief overview

Reviewer Videos re: ISS Vanguard Prototype 2:

• Quackalope – Unboxing / Gameplay (tutorial#3) (with BoardGameCo)
• Rolling Solo – What’s Changed? / Set Up / Gameplay (tutorial#1 Planetary Mission) / Ship Phase (tutorial#2)
• Rahdo – Real Game Planetary Exploration (Mossy Inferno) / Ship Phase Gameplay / Final Thoughts / Shea Update
• BoardGameCo – Gameplay (tutorial#1 with Quackalope) / Ship Phase (tutorial#2) (with Quackalope)
• Len’s Ruminations (photo log) – What’s In The Box / Tutorial 1 Planetary Exploration / Tutorial 2 Ship Phase / Preparing for Tutorial 3 / Tutorial 3 / Tutorial 4 / Tutorial 5 part1 / Tutorial 5 part2 / Tutorial 5 actually playing the mission part3 / Game 6 overview / Game 9 overview / Game 10 overview / Game 11 Revisted a planet

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