Deadly Frontier: Countdown to Pledge Manager (4)

Our Countdown the Pledge Manager continues and we are down to Day 4 now!

Click to see the prior Countdown Days (if you missed any):

9 – Lone Wolf Mission
8 – Tartarus Mission
7 – Cryptobiosis Mission
6 – The Lost Fleet Campaign
5 – Pilgrimage Scenario

4

Deadly Frontier is a full add-on campaign that costs $59 and comes in a separate box with the 2nd Wave. It includes over 700 cards, 12 cardboard Ship Book pages and 12 miniatures as well as a new Log Book (over 80 pages), Planetopedia (more than 18 boards) and a Galactic Map with over 30 systems.

With Deadly Frontier, you have 24 alien crewmembers (recruitable from 6 different races) with their own equipment and action cards. And they have unique actions that humans just aren’t capable of!

Deadly Frontier is a campaign that is a bit different from other ISS Vanguard missions. For this campaign a group of human and alien crewmembers race to a rendezvous point only to find a vast field of debris left from an intense space battle! You are stuck there however, almost out of fuel and with very limited supplies! Rather than waiting for help (which likely will not arrive), you try to make this your new home. And if that sounds bad, it gets worse! That huge space battle left more than just debris … the danger that was a cause of that battle is still in the area waiting for an opportunity to strike!

And… here is something interesting about this campaign. Perhaps you remember that during the GameFound campaign Awaken Realms asked us (those who were pledging our support for the game) to VOTE on several options and the option with the most votes (ie, the #1 choice) would be implemented into the game! However, Awaken Realms realized that many supporters really liked the #2 choice in these votes as well. And so they have incorporated those options that got the 2nd most votes into the Deadly Frontier campaign!

The story of “Deadly Frontier”

They say in the old days, the Last Port was a heap of junk, cobbled together on some long-forgotten battlefield by a group of survivors. They say if you descend deep enough into the old, abandoned corridors at the heart of the station, far from the bustle and the color of its populated districts, you will find pieces of starships, haphazardly welded together, protecting an ancient generator that first powered this place. It’s hard to believe that, looking at what the Last Port is today. Then again, I learned there’s often a grain of truth in the old tales from the borderlands. Maybe I will stop by the Idemian district one day to learn more about the times when this place was a center of a vast frontier. However, considering countless distractions the Last Port offers to travelers, I might be hard-pressed to find time for old recordings and dusty archives…

At’ha, Tineid Merchant of the Yag Tribe

What is included with Deadly Frontier? (quick answer: quite a lot – as seen by the 39 items in the list below)

Twelve additional Ship Book pages (including space station modules)
Sixteen new Card Holder pages for the Ship Book (with new mechanics and rules)
168 additional Ship Book Cards… including alien upgrades, mercenaries, colonization efforts, production project, research, blueprints and more
New Galactopedia with 20 Star Systems and over 80 interesting places to visit
New 36 page Planetopedia book
New 80 page Log Book Journal
Newly added 24 Alien crewmembers
4 new humanoid alien crewmember miniatures
4 new non-humanoid alien crewmember miniatures
24 Alien Crewmember cards
30 new Human and Hybrid Crewmember cards
18 new Action cards for Security Section Alien Crewmembers
18 new Action cards for Engineering Section Alien Crewmembers
18 new Action cards for Recon Section Alien Crewmembers
18 new Action cards for Scientist Section Alien Crewmembers
46 new Discovery cards (including 2 new Discovery types)
25 Unique Discovery cards
30 new Alien Discovery cards
60 Equipment cards for alien equipment and tech
40 new Settlement Point of Interest cards
120 additional Points of Interest cards
28 additional Planetary Information cards
60 additional Events and Mission cards
Corrupted Shardfly miniature
Lithoidian miniature
4 new Threat cards
14 upgraded Threat cards
80 new biomes Hazard cards
PLUS All runner-ups in the Community Voting are included (even some 3rd place votes)
1. Accidian miniature / threat card
2. Amphibian Leaftrap miniature / threat card
3. Eight additional Planetopedia pages
4. Four new Planetary Information cards
5. Sixteen additional Log Book entries
6. Three added Unique Discovery cards
7. Fifteen added Point of Interest cards
8. One additional Threat card
9. Six additional Mission and Event cards
10. Sixteen new Hazard cards