CHITS
Use ‘chits' or counters to represent all units: allies, armies, jumpships, etc.
Each player should have a set of blank 'control' marker chits of a unique color.
Put control markers on worlds and unit stacks to indicate ownership.
Ally chits are placed next to the owning player, not on the map.
SET UP
Each player begins with:
1 Homeworld
3 Nobles
3 House Troops
3D6 Solats
Any 2 Armies unique to that homeworld
1 Nuclear Arsenal
2 Jumpships
X Random Allies: 8 in a 2 player game, 5 with 3 players, 4 in a 4 player.
VICTORY CONDITIONS
Control every planet on the map.
VARIANTS
Larger maps, Specific scenarios, Jumpships move 4, Higher upkeep costs...
EVOLVED INTRODUCTON
It took 3.5 billion years to make this game.
WINNING
The player with the most species at the end of the game wins.
COUNTER SETS
Each player has a set of counters of a unique color.
Each counter set has 100+ counters.
Each set has ten counters marked #1, another ten marked #2, and so on.
THE GLOBE
The map is a 6 X 6 grid.
It has 36 spaces.
9 spaces are “Land” spaces.
9 are “Open Water” spaces.
18 are “Island” spaces.
The top row and bottom row are Arctic (Polar)
The two middle rows are Tropical.
The intermediate rows are Temperate.
SPECIES
Have an index card for each of your species.
Every species has 5 attributes.
Record on the card the values of the attributes.
Also, be sure to name your species.
(Kingdom, Phyllum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species)
SETUP
Each player starts with one species with the following attributes:
Diet = Herbivore
Terrain = Water
Climate = Hot Adapted
Size = Tiny
Speed = Slow
This will be each players “#1” species (use #1 counters).
Each player starts with 3 population counters.
Place counters in 3 adjacent spaces not containing opponent’s populations.
TURN SEQUENCE
The turn is divided into 6 phases:
Geologic Time Phase
Random Events Phase
Mass Extinctions Phase
Reproduction Phase
Speciation Phase
Migrations Phase
GEOLOGIC TIME PHASE
The game ends after 16 turns.
Move a time marker one space (Era, Period, Epoch) on the following track:
1. Archean (Start)
2. Proterozoic
3. Paleozoic
4. Cambrian
5. Ordovician
6. Silurian
7. Devonian
8. Carboniferous
9. Permian
10. Mesozoic
11. Triassic
12. Jurassic
13. Cretaceous
14. Cenozoic
15. Tertiary
16. Quaternary (End)
RANDOM EVENTS
Players share a common deck.
Each player fills hand to 7 cards.
If the deck runs out, shuffle the discard and draw from it.
MASS EXTINCTIONS
Extinction cards may not be played until the Ordovician Period
Players take turns playing Extinction cards.
The player with the (most) fastest species goes first.
If there is a tie, the smartest player goes first and play proceeds clockwise.
To play the cards Predation, Competition, and Parasitism you must have a
Species with the indicated attributes in the same space as an opponent’s
Species with the indicated attributes.
For example: You play Predation: Pick one of your Carnivore Species and
pick any one species of a smaller size. In all spaces that contain
populations of both, the prey populations are removed from play.
REPRODUCTION
A space may contain an absolute maximum of 3 species (Total of all players).
In each space that you have species, pick one of those species to reproduce.
Add one Population Counter of the appropriate type to the space.
SPECIATION
Play (discard) an evolve card to have one of your populations evolve.
Replace one population counter with a counter that has an unused number.
Roll once on the Evolution table.
The Roll determines which attribute of the population changes.
The Attribute goes up or down one level.
Roll 1D6: on 1-3 go up. On 4-6 go down.
If you are at one end of the scale you automatically move towards the other end.
The population becomes a new species.
Write up a new index record card for it.
A population may only evolve once per turn.
MIGRATIONS
For each of your species, you may pick up to X number of populations to
move to an adjacent space.
X is determined by the Species Speed Attribute.
You may move a species into a space that already has 3 species in it.
If a space has too many species, a random species in that space is destroyed.
CARD LIST
Card Name: # Notes:
Behavioral Isolation 1 Evolve
Temporal Isolation 1 Evolve
Geographic Isolation 1 Evolve
Mechanical Isolation 1 Evolve
Gametic Isolation 1 Evolve
Polymorphism 1 Evolve
Adaptive Radiation 1 Evolve
Genetic Variability 1 Evolve
Sexual Reproduction 1 Evolve
Mutations 1 Evolve
Natural Selection 1 Evolve
Survival of the Fittest 1 Evolve
Biodiversity 1 Evolve
Crossing Over in Meiosis 1 Evolve
Hardy-Weinberg Disequilibrium 1 Evolve
Glacier Movements 1 Evolve
Climate Shift 1 Evolve
Gene Flow 1 Evolve
Genetic Drift 1 Evolve
Missing Link 1 Evolve
Evolutionary Dead End 1 Extinction: Kill all populations of target Species
Predation 5 Extinction: Carnivore kills Smaller Species
Competition 5 Extinction: Kill Species with 2+ same Attributes
Parasitism 5 Extinction: Carnivore kills Larger Species
Asteroid Impact 1 Extinction: All Large and Huge species Killed
Ice Age 1 Extinction: All Hot Loving Species
Global Warming 1 Extinction: All Cold Loving Species
Volcanic Activity 2 Extinction: All populations in target space Killed
Sterile Hybrid 1 Extinction: Kill 1 newly evolved population
Mechanical Defenses 1 Negate a Predation card
Chemical Defenses 1 Negate a Predation card
Behavioral Defenses 1 Negate a Predation card
Symbiosis 1 Negate a Parasitism card
Mutualism 1 Negate a Parasitism card
Commensalism 1 Negate a Parasitism card
Resource Partitioning 1 Negate a Competition Card
Find new Niche 1 Negate a Competition Card
Find new Habitat 1 Negate a Competition Card
Hydrothermal Vents 1 Gain one Population of the starting Species type
Continental Drift 1 Move an extra population
Land Bridge 1 Move an extra Land population
Colonization 1 Move an extra population
Pangea Breaks Apart 1 Move an extra population
Pioneer Species 1 Move an extra Tiny/Small population
Geographic Dispersal 1 Move an extra population
Vestigial Organs 1 Pick result of any Dice roll
Directional Selection 1 Pick result of any Dice roll
Sexual Selection 1 Pick result of any Dice roll
Common Ancestor 1 Pick result of any Dice roll
Analogous Structures 1 Pick result of any Dice roll
Homologous Structures 1 Pick result of any Dice roll
Reproductive Success 1 Gain 1 extra population in 1 space
Exponential Growth 1 Gain 1 extra population in 1 space
Climax Community 1 Gain 1 extra population in 1 space
Keystone Species 1 Carnivore gets +1 Population in 1 space
Living Fossil 1 Target Population Avoids Extinction
Top of the Food Chain 1 Large/Huge Carnivore get +1 Population
# = number of that type of card in the deck.
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