Vendor: Renegade Game Studios
Type: Board Games
Price: 68.95

In the distant future, a potent and rare energy resource known as rubium controls the interstellar economy. Several galactic corporations compete for control over this resource in hopes of securing riches for themselves. When their military forces arrive to harvest rubium found on a foreign moon, they are greeted by the many indigenous life forms. They quickly conscript the alien creatures and begin marching against their competitors. Far out on the galactic frontier, away from oversight or public scrutiny, these four corporations now do fierce battle for control of the moon’s rubium.

How it’s Different from Previous Versions

• Updated Illustrations and Graphic Design
• Molded plastic 3D Monolith
• Includes Team Play and variant rules from Fantasy Flight version

Features:

• Carry out Secret Missions! & Control the Mines to collect Rubium!
• Activate Energize Cards to sway the tides of battle!
• Enlist alien species and battle for dominance!
• Hidden objectives create fun surprises and comebacks!
• Includes translucent “Blacklight Glow” minis!

Contents:

• 164 Plastic “Glow” Figures
• 4 Player Boards
• 108 Cards (Mission, Secret Mission, Energize)
• 16 Game Board Tiles
• 1 Double-Sided Monolith Tile
• 1 Plastic 3D Monolith
• 24 Exploration Tokens
• 70 Rubium gems
• 1 First Player Token
• 6 Dice
• 1 Rulebook

Vendor: Fantasy Flight Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.95

Nexus Ops is a light-medium science fiction war game. The game boasts a hexagonal board that is set up differently every time, as well as (in the Avalon Hill edition) cool "glow" miniatures and lots of combat. Players control competing futuristic corporations that battle each other for control of the moon's Rubium Ore. By winning battles and fulfilling Secret Missions, you can obtain victory points.

Units are composed of various alien races and have stats similar to those used in the Axis & Allies series. Combat is also similar. Players who lose battles are compensated with Energize cards which grant them special powers later. Players can also obtain Energize cards by controlling the Monolith, a raised structure in the center of the grid. The first person to reach the required number of victory points wins the game.