Fleet Commander: 1 – Ignition
BGG rank
BGG #7,820
BGG rating
7.6

Fleet Commander: 1 – Ignition

2014

Rules assistance for Fleet Commander: 1 – Ignition

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 60 min
  • 12+
  • Complexity 2.5/5

For 2 players

Rules assistant for Fleet Commander: 1 – Ignition

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Fleet Commander: 1 – Ignition is a board game released in 2014 for 2 players, 60 minutes per game, and ages 12 and up. It was designed by Didier Dincher and Elwin Charpentier and its main mechanics are Hand Management, Dice Rolling, and Grid Movement.

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About the game

Fleet Commander: 1 - Ignition Step into the shoes of an interstellar admiral in just a few minutes. With your fleet of powerful spaceships, enter the zone of battle in which Frigates, Destroyers, and Battleships compete tirelessly under your command for supremacy over the known universe. Fleet Commander: 1 – Ignition is a space battle game with miniatures for two players. Each player controls a fleet of seven ships on a 5 x 5 checkered board, which may integrate terrain features such as asteroid fields. In turn, a player chooses three dice among his Command Dice, throws them, and either acts according to the outcome or saves the dice on his Command Bridge for the following rounds. There are dice to move, attack, and put energy into the shields. Fleet Commander: 1 – Ignition has been designed to make epic space battles easy to play and to enjoy without having to remove the living room table, acquire many miniatures, or learn complex rules. The whole atmosphere of such battles is transcribed here in one "small" box with a simple but deep game system and beautiful miniatures. It features a high replayability -- and with a modular board, six special weapons to equip the Battleships, advanced and optional rules, and four scenarios -- no battle will be the same. The game system of Fleet Commander: 1 – Ignition is flexible and allows for expansions, with multiple ones now available. For more detail on the latest evolution of this game, see Fleet Commander: Genesis.

Questions and answers

Fleet Commander: 1 – Ignition supports 2 players 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.