The designer of Pandemic and Forbidden Island has been tapped to make a new board game based on Thunderbirds, and the Kickstarter drive has been insanely successful.
Raking in £143,367 of its comparatively tame £20,000 goal, the Thunderbirds board game is a 1-4 player coop game where players work together to rescue people, foil The Hood, and generally make it home by dinner.
In Thunderbirds, you and your friends take on the role of International Rescue – a secret organization formed to render aid when all other means have failed. Meanwhile, your arch nemesis, The Hood, is threatening to trigger terrible disasters around the world in an effort to learn your secrets. If you can foil his scheme while completing your missions, then you and your fellow players win the game!
Each person plays different character in the game, for example, you might be Scott Tracy or Lady Penelope. All the different characters can operate any of the different vehicles. You might load up the Mole, fly Thunderbird 2 to Tracy Island, then hop into Thunderbird 3 with Alan and dock with Thunderbird 5 in Geo-stationary orbit. You’ll use all of the vehicles to complete different missions around the world and in outer space. And you’ll be continually weighing the threat of any of these individual missions against the overall danger of The Hood’s scheme.
The rules are actually visible to the public as designer Matt Leacock writes them, so check them out here on Google Docs.
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