This is not your run of the mill unboxing video. As I take things out of the box, I will explain what they are… but wait, there’s more! Since I have Prototype 2, I will show you components in the final game and compare them to how they looked and functioned in the Prototype! But wait, there’s still more! I had our local book bindery professionally bind all the stories I wrote during the Count Down to when the first people received their games! All 24 days of stories (plus the Christening of the starship and the Grand Finale) are in a gorgeous 104 page book that I made to send as a gift to Awaken Realms. Yes … I am sending THEM something … as a HUGE Thank You for designing, developing and producing this epic space exploration board game! I will be sending the book to Awaken Realms next week (and now THEY have to eagerly wait till they get it:)
I will add more to this write up later … but for now … take a look at PART ONE. It is a tad less than an hour and I tried to not put spoilers in it. Please let me know if there are other things you would like to see. I have several more videos to do, so keep your eyes to the skies and watch for them to appear here on My ISS Vanguard!
NOTE: I did NOT get paid anything and I did NOT receive anything free from Awaken Realms. I paid $514 for my game via Gamefound like the other 30,000 backers!
Here is Part One (Part Two actually is a series of shorter videos):
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Highlights:
- 1:20 Protective Foam (protects the contents inside keeping them away from the sides of the box)
- 1:35 Open Here Thank You Letter – includes instructions on what to do if anything is missing or broken
- 3:10 Section Boxes
- 3:18 Boy This Box Is BIG … I try (unsuccessfully) to put it on a chair… then just on the floor
- 4:00 Section Boxes compared
- 4:55 Playmats
- 5:10 Bag of Upgraded Dice (my dice ended up unusable due to the blue and green looking the same)
- 5:30 Section P.E.T.s
- 6:15 Close Encounters (Miniatures)
- 7:00 Core Box (starting with a “drop test” :)
- 7:43 Amir (transition … also a look at the 104 page book of ISS Vanguard stories)
- 8:50 Opening the Core Box (opens slowly like it was vacuum packed)
- 9:10 Comparing Prototype 2 Box and the Core Game Box
- 9:40 ISS Vanguard Motto is “Ex Fortitudine Veritas” which is Latin for “From Spiritual Endurance Comes Truth”
- 10:23 What is a “vanguard”? Defined (it is in the 104 page book of ISS Vanguard stories)
- 11:18 Cardboard sheets of standees and tokens
- 12:50 Rulebook
- 15:30 Back Cover of the 104 page book of ISS Vanguard stories
- 16:20 The “story” within the “game”
- 17:25 Heavy thick paper pages for the Ship Book binder
- 17:50 Personnel Files expansion
- 18:35 Planetopedia (compared with Prototype 2)
- 21:20 The Dice Check icon (added in the Core Box)
- 21:52 Secret Envelope (do NOT open)
- 22:33 System Maps book (compared with Prototype 2)
- 24:35 Comic / Prologue (compared with Prototype 2)
- 26:05 Logbook (compared with Prototype 2)
- 28:03 Operations Book
- 28:35 Lander Boards / Trays (compared with Prototype 2)
- 31:49 Card Holder pages for the Ship Book
- 32:10 Ship Binder (and a look at what happened to Prototype 2’s binder)
- 34:37 Crew Boards (compared with Prototype 2)
- 39:50 Riku (transition)
- 41:00 Crew miniatures (also miniature of ISS Vanguard)
- 41:55 Section Boxes (quick compare with the ones I purchased from Gamegenic)
- 43:05 Section Cards for all 4 Sections are inside two of the Section Boxes
- 43:40 Pack of Large cards
- 44:00 Black Leads bag
- 44:20 Rings to place on the bottom of Crew minis
- 44:55 Hard plastic stands for the standees
- 45:03 Purple acrylic cubes for charges and universal markers
- 45:35 Plastic bag for Success, Command and Energy Tokens
- 45:50 Injury Dice / Danger Dice / D10 Die (compared with Prototype 2)
- 46:35 Section Dice (compared with Prototype 2)
- 48:03 Two Card Trays (Tray A and Tray B)
- 48:30 White Card Tray A (Planetary Exploration cards)
- 51:15 Black Card Tray B (Ship Management cards)
- 51:25 Planetary Scanner (compared with Prototype 2)
- 52:58 Planet Save Cards (blanks for you to write what was on the planet when you left it)
- 53:43 Divider cards for the small cards
- 54:15 Bookmark for the System Maps book
- 55:10 Rank Sleeves (clear plastic with rank and Section logo icons)
- 55:35 Side of the box has instructions for how to pack everything back into the box
- 55:45 Jia
I am tacking on a screen shot just to get an image on the page in the website:
My ISS Vanguard 
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