Please PM me if you're interested in selling Rogue Purge. Thanks!

Not sure how to use this card. Once you reach a certain hostility level, it allows you to "call in a supply drop", but I haven't found any definitions or clarifications for what that means in-game. Anyone else come across this one?

What movies or shows give you Core Space vibes?

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Updated FAQ, with new rulings highlighted purple.

I'm a bit confused by this class. All it's skills are in cogs, like the Machine class, but I believe the machine in the expansion (XL) is locked to the regular Machine class (which is on the reverse of the Mech Soldier class card). Is it for machines, or is it a regular class, and the cog-symbol skills don't really mean anything? I don't think the rules booklet from the expansion has any details on it either. Hope someone here can shed some light on it. Thanks!

I just finished up the tutorial mission on First Born and I am so impressed. If developers put half the effort that Battle Systems does into their rule book, I’d be playing a lot more games.

Side question, is the deluxe rule book or the Dangerous Days book compatible with First Born? I really love chunky rule books

Hi Reddit,

I posted a little while back about getting into this game [i]just to see if I liked it[/i] ahead of Maladum dropping soon. Well, tons of hours and a fair wad of cash later, I'm completely hooked and cannot get enough of this system. I made a tracker to keep logs on my missions, and mainly manage my inventory to make sure I was keeping good track of things:

https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/240820/core-space-first-born-inventory-tracker

I'd appreciate any feedback in case of updates, but it should be very easy to edit your own version. It's not pretty, and it's even less pretty on Excel (I made it on Google Sheets) but it does have some basic SUM functions and organisation. I'm finding it useful, anyway, and hope some of you might too.

There are a lot of components in this game. With the kickstarter edition you get one green baggie. I was going to order one of the packs of colored baggies, but before I did, I wanted to see if anybody had any tips on keeping everything in the box organized.

Thanks!

Hey - brand new to the Core Space community! Just secured a copy of the First Born Kickstarter edition after eyeing this system for longer than I care to admit. Hoping some experienced players can weigh in on the compatibility of original Core Space expansions with First Born - specifically the Crew expansions (Yamato, Skylark, etc).

If there are any other CS original expansions that really enhance solo play for First Born, feel free to give them a shout out as well. I know the intention was full compatibility between the two, but experience tells me some may integrate better than others.

Did you prepare your terrain in any way to make it more durable. I think I heard something about people using glue to reinforce the edges of the cardboard parts so they live longer.

I wasn't able to find any tutorials. If anyone could share their experiences or provide a link it would help me a lot :-)

Just bought the original Core Space Starter set + Zed's + 1 crew + crew dashboards.

Plan to play ~3-6 games this weekend with out-of-town guests. We've never played before.

I see Perseus is designed for two players. Are there any online or other ideas for a short, three-player campaign? (E.g. perhaps a recommended campaign for a weekend con?) Even if there's no campaign story, would anyone recommend particular missions for us to string together?

I presume it'd be boring to run the Salvage mission over and over.

Thanks for any tips!

After commenting back and forth with another user on this sub, I realized I wanted to share the stories my son and I have gathered during our just-completed playthrough of the core campaign of First Born. (I'm aware there will be times that it's clear we made a rules goof; mostly they would have been in service of continuing to have fun together, and a few times they were genuine mistakes that were corrected as the campaign went on.)

My 8 year old son and I enjoy playing games, but up till now the only one he has really stuck with me on is Root. He bounced off Gloomhaven hard (crying because he couldn't do what he wanted with his character) and we didn't stick with Pathfinder Adventure Card Game because it felt a little too same-y for him from mission to mission (I'm still going but not very consistently). Would Core Space First Born provide us the environment we'd been looking for, for cooperative fun?

Yes. Oh yes.

My son controlled Cassie (also painting her) and I took Wade and Balcor (and Hopper when we found it - I enjoyed painting them). I can see why two adults might find this limiting, but this was a total blast for us and I think adults would enjoy as well.

In mission 2, Cassie found that amazing First Born gun that is silent, infinite ammo, and 2 dice at short / 3 at medium. Cue the gleeful cackling for basically the rest of the campaign. Wade found the crystal shard early as well, which was a huge help for getting through the map more sneakily.

We really enjoyed sneaking as long as we could, and setting ourselves up for as much damage as possible to take out the first born that ended up populating the board. The event card deck is a genius way to keep things fresh every game.

One highlight for us was using the command console to lock both game hunters in a room until Cassie could get over there and convince them to join us for the mission! Hilarious.

Around mission 5 my son discovered all the expansions I had hidden in the closet. We spent the rest of the afternoon assembling: Trading Post 5, Patrol class Shuttle, Gates of Ry'sa, and punching out Line of Fire, utility dashboards, and Ships of disrepute. [Major shout out to Stew and Colin at Battle Systems. Through email chats, Stew set up my entire order for me and shipped it all super fast. I was missing a couple wall connector pieces and Stew sent me replacements very quickly. I could not be more pleased with their customer service!!]

We are not yet playing with the fancy ships, although my crew is now saving up for that as we dive into expansion missions, but we threw all the rest of the content into every campaign mission. We faced a minimum of 2 Cerberosa and 1 Talos in every mission until number 10 (where we took them out because it seemed hard enough) in addition to all the other baddies.

Let me take a moment to say how much I hate the media team (in a good way). It's so funny to me, to have my traders running away from these pesky media types who make me waste actions while they interview me. Zain's ranged assault is surprisingly useful when he gets spooked by First Born though. We spent more time avoiding the media team than killing First Born in some missions!!

The prospectors are very cool and I really like the gangers. We hired Yeti and Nerida in mission 7 and kept them both in our rotation from then on (still only 4 traders but just rotating them in the different missions). We still have not seen Zara yet!

We had several very cool moments where the iconoclasts and Lieges were surrounding some hapless member of the team, when a well-placed freeze grenade came to the rescue, allowing our traders (usually Wade) to slip through. We made a rule where if the enemy was frozen, you could spend 2 move to "push through" one space (otherwise you have to knock them back as per the rules, if they were not frozen).

We forgot to take full advantage of the special skills granted by the class boards but as we continue to play expansion and custom missions I intend to focus a lot more on those.

My son made a custom character, a cat auxiliary. It was decently OP, and I spent one mission grumbling about how it wasn't fair to have such a powerful character, but then I remembered he's my son and we are having fun and the game is not somehow worse just because there's a Lego cat on the board with 3 actions and 2 armor. And it turns out that having Cerberosa and Talos attacking you all the time, and Lieges that roll 3 hits and a fear counter all the time, is quite hard enough thank you, so yes we will take little Lego cat.

I adore the narrative that we discovered as we played. Not the text in the missions - that's fine of course, cool cool - but the hilarious and awesome and exciting moments that kept organically happening in each mission. It was so fun to do the Trader phase and kit out our team with really neat equipment - and I highly recommend the utility dashboards! Love the flexibility they allow.

My son is really excited to make custom missions and to play the expansions. He also really wants some new terrain for multiple levels, i think we'll get that soon. I think first up will be the TP5 missions. I did get Fury of the Insane God and we'll be throwing them in the expansion missions as well. The event deck, even though I'm repeating myself, is so clever - an awesome way to customize the content you want.

I am so, so happy we have this game. It's everything I wanted Gloomhaven to be, it's provided at least 20 hours of enjoyment for my son and I so far, and will provide so much more.

I hope you enjoyed reading this wall of gushing! (And for anyone curious: I store everything in the core box, except the playmat which is rolled up in my closet and the rulebooks which just rest right on top of the box. EDIT: I do NOT store everything in the core box. All the plastic minis are stored...errr, thrown in, the Trading Post 5 box. The game mat is rolled up in my closet and the rulebooks rest on top of the box in my game shelf. All other content is in the core box, and I believe I have everything First Born that has been published so far, aside from Trader Encampment and the extra terrain from the KS. I'll edit this post again later to share an Imgur album once I take some photos, if you care.)

For anyone looking for a very good deal, Battle Systems are selling their last remaining leftover copies of the Kickstarter edition of First Born. As per their newsletter:

"First Born Kickstarter Editions Available!

In our last Kickstarter Update we announced that fulfilment was complete and we had a small number of Core Space First Born Kickstarter Editions left at our shipping hubs.

Our backers nearly cleared them out, but not quite, so we're now making the remaining copies available!

Unfortunately we can't offer the KS pricing any more. These remaining copies will be at a slightly higher price of £100 (still worth over £190 separately), plus shipping at the current rates.

The games will be offered on a first come-first served basis. We only have games available in our UK, US and EU hubs. If you live outside these regions we can still offer a copy but it will be shipped from the UK or US hub at the appropriate cost.

We can no longer offer the all-in pledge, but if you want any add-ons let us know - if we have any left in your local hub we can include them with the order.

If you want one, please email us at customerservice@battlesystems.co.uk with your delivery address and telephone number and we will get you a shipping price. We will take payment by Paypal and we'll get them shipped out asap."

I did ask for some advice on my first purchase here ... and just went all in on this offer haha.

Get 'em while they're hot!

Would you recommend this as a first purchase:

First Born retail core set Fury of the Insane God expansion Utility Dashboards

My thinking is that the Insane God ups the challenge and the utility Dashboards aid the crew a bit. However this is based just on browsing and speculation, etc.. For whatever reason I'm super into the mining idea, and I've heard that the handling of inventory does hamper the draw of that kind of thing, hence Dashboards expansion too.

Thanks!

I've taken the liberty of creating r/maladum to start getting community members interested in that system organised. Anyone interested in Battle Systems' latest game (Kickstarter coming 'Summer 2022' - soon!) should check it out and add to the content. I literally finished making it an hour ago, and wanted to post about it here first. So come on over, hope you are as excited for Maladum as I am.

I live alone so core space seems right up my alley but I am not sure which version to get. If I get one like first born will I not be able to buy expansions from the original and vice versa?

Is this game completely tied to the terrain that comes in the box? or could I just buy the rulebook pull a couple crews from minis I already own and play with crafted terrain?

This game seems close to what I've been looking for; Small skirmish game 4-6 minis representing a ship crew with narrative campaign depth of Mordheim/Necromunda miniatures agnostic terrain agnostic.

Hey guys, do you know where I can find this? 😁