
- BGG rank
- BGG #4,775
- BGG rating
- 8.5
Five Parsecs From Home: Solo Adventure Wargaming
- 1–2 players
- 90 min
- Complexity 2.9/5
- 2021

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Five Parsecs: Officer Down is an expansion for Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition released in 2018 for 1 player. It was designed by Ivan Sorensen and its main mechanics are Solo / Solitaire Game and Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game.
Welcome to Officer Down, a scenario for Five Parsecs campaigns. Take your existing crew from any of the campaign games and try your luck against hardened criminals. Or if you prefer, use the quick generation methods in this scenario pack to generate a fierce squad of Enforcers. The scenario includes tools for determining the opposition, campaign notes and random tables to generate variant scenarios, allowing no two games to play exactly the same. Officer Down can be used with of the Five Parsecs campaigns. Please note that this is NOT a stand-alone title. You MUST own a copy of one of the following games to use this except as inspiration: Five Parsecs From Home: 2nd Edition Five Parsecs: Gang Warfare Five Parsecs: Bug Hunt Five Parsecs: Salvage Crew —description from the designer
Five Parsecs: Officer Down supports 1 player according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
Five Parsecs: Officer Down belongs to these categories: Expansion for Base-game. Its main mechanics are Solo / Solitaire Game and Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Five Parsecs: Officer Down are: Ivan Sorensen. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Five Parsecs: Officer Down as an expansion for Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition to use it. Check that your edition of Five Parsecs from Home: 2nd Edition is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.