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Board Game Entry
Information
Designed By
Art By
Published By
Year Published
1989
# of Players:
1 − 9
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 1 players
Recommended with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 players
(6 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
10 and up
User Suggested Ages
8 and up
(2 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet
(3 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Aliens
Alternate Names
Expanded By
Families
Description Edit | History

Aliens allows players to recreate three key battle scenarios from the 1986 science fiction/horror film. The scenarios include "The Reactor Room" (nine marines vs. the aliens in their lair), "Operations and Air Ducts" (the surviving marines face an alien assault and pursuit), and "Ripley vs. The Queen" (Ripley uses a powerloader in her final battle with the Alien Queen). Includes a 17" x 34" game map, character cards, and counters, all featuring photos from the movie.

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Magazine References:

The GENERAL Index Article List:

  • The GENERAL Vol.32,No.1
    • Aliens – “Alien Metamorphosis: Variant Rules for Aliens” (variant) Stuart K. Tucker. Variant rules adding hasty shot capabilities, changes to grenade effects, adds the impact of carrying wounded marines on shooting, new weapon handling and movement rules, and changes to the Reactor Room scenario.

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15 A L I E N S - Rules Version 2.0 - This Time It's War
This is a great game, but even in the original rules some rules were not described properly (or at all). For instance there were many grey areas on carrying Incapacitated Marines, the Movie Scenario that was laid out by Leading Edge was also weak. And while the ammo restriction rule was a good idea the constant paperwork was a pain and it never really came into play unless you had a bunch of foolish Marines just standing around firing at everything possible (if Marines are doing this they will probably die anyway, so what's the point of keeping track of their ammo). My rules 2.0 version is titled THIS TIME IT'S WAR, these rules simply take all the original rules (and some optional rules) and bring them together in a simple precise concise order. Also a VERY detailed movie scenario...
2009-04-08
4 Status Sheet
Status sheet for all characters.
2009-02-18
2 Alternate Weapon Table
Alternate weapon table for all characters.
2009-02-18
5 Aliens Rules Summary
This file is the rules summary that came with the original game and was intended to be used with the original rulebook. The contents are here in pdf format.
2009-02-17
11 Aliens Rulebook Complete
This file is an adaptation from the original rulebook and presents those contents in pdf format. This file contains everything from the original rules that came with the game.
2009-02-17
3 Weapon Matrix
Quick reference sheets for Aliens wounded/non-wounded character and weapon stats/ranges.
2007-10-23
17 Cards and Counters.zip
Homemade character cards & game counters. JPGs & Word format. Print & play!
2007-04-15
5 Reference Tables.jpg
Reference tables
2005-03-13
8 RULES.TXT
Rules
2004-04-10
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 535
Num Ratings: 372
Average Rating: 7.33
Standard Deviation: 1.51
Num Views: 92167
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Avg. Game Weight: 2.0 moreinfo
Fans: 23
Personal Comments: 186
Users Owning: 420
Users Wanting: 169
Users Trading: 18 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade: 3
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Total Plays: 460
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Num Ratings 107
Average Rating 7.54
Average Weight 2.07
Owned 191
Prev. Owned 15
For Trade 11
Wanted in Trade 55
Wishlist 58
Comments 44
Year Pub. 1990
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