Rocketmen
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Rocketmen is a Wizkids produced constructible strategy game released in August of 2005. Part of its marketing included animated adventures based on the character of Nick Sion, a rebel and adventurer facing the evil alliance of Terra and Mars.
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[edit] Description
Similar to Wizkids's sailing-themed Pirates of the Spanish Main, Rocketmen is a game featuring spaceships constructed from styrene cards purchased in randomly assorted booster packs. Ships can be customized with various crew and equipment configurations, all of which are used to construct a single fleet. A single booster pack can contain enough for a basic game (two ships, a crew card, a resource card, an asteroid card, a die, and a rules booklet), but the maximum customizability requires access to a wider collection.
Ship Types include:
- Fighter Squadrons
- Rocketships
- Cruisers
- Space Stations
- Harvesters
Pod Types include:
In addition, there are asteroid cards used as a home base during most scenarios. There are also resource chips (called microids) used to construct ships held in reserve in certain games, or as victory points in others.
[edit] Factions
The setting for Rocketmen: Axis of Evil is heavily influenced by movie serial-era space operas.
- Legion of Terra - ruled by a xenophobic totalitarian leader Lord Invictus, the Legion of Terra is a vastly powerful army of disciplined soldiers
- Mars - allied with Terra in the Axis of Evil, the green-skinned Martians have a society entirely based on war
- Venus - part of the Alliance of Free Planets, the blue-skinned Venusians are a people who believe in logic, science, and pacifism and follow a matriarchal society.
- Mercury - part of the Alliance of Free Planets yet traditional enemies of the people of Venus, the golden-skinned Amazon warriors of Mercury are also a matriarchal society, ruled by the Empress Armada.
- Rebels - part of the Alliance of Free Planets, the Terran Rebels fight against their own people in an effort to free Earth
[edit] Sets
- Axis of Evil - Base set.
- Battle of Titans - Released December 2005. This set introduced the factions of Saturn, Io, and Ganymede. It also added the Tractor Beam pod type (purple), the Harvester ship and Torpedos.
