
- BGG rank
- BGG #15,273
- BGG rating
- 7.4
Space Kraken
- 1–4 players
- 45–300 min
- Complexity 3.5/5
- 2023

Expansion for This Is Not a Test: Post-Apocalyptic Skirmish Rules
2021
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This Is Not a Test: Broken Vaults is an expansion for This Is Not a Test: Post-Apocalyptic Skirmish Rules released in 2021 for 2 players. It was designed by Joseph McGuire and its main mechanics are Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game.
Broken Vaults is an expansion for This Is Not a Test, a 28mm wargame set in a post-apocalyptic United States, where warbands fight for survival, power, and greed. This expansion rulebook features: Explore Beneath the Wastes – For the first time, this supplement explores the ruins of the wasteland’s shelters, vaults, and bunkers, featuring new rules and fiction tied to this unique environment. Now you can learn how to set up underground bunkers for your warbands to fight over. The Last Americans thought they were safe, but their faith in steel and reinforced concrete failed them, maybe you can do better. Four Brand New Scenarios – In Give Me Shelter your warband must race to the safety of a vault before a calamitous storm hits and they plunge through the cold and dark depths of a flooded vault in Dark Waters. In Property Rights you warband must fight for possession of a newly discovered vault, ripe for the picking, and finally in Rats in the Walls, there are rats. Lots of rats. Including rats that make other rats. Rats! It’s All Your Vault – A new six scenario campaign that will have warbands run a gauntlet of scenarios where they are stuck underground and cannot resupply or replenish their losses. This campaign features new exploration tables for finding relics and a Wasteland Deck unique to underground encounters. Unique Vault Hazards – What happens to your hapless warbands when the lights go out, their section of the vault floods, the roof over their heads collapses, or they encounter strange glowing mushrooms in the deep dark? New Creatures – Can your warband stand strong against the bizarre and physics defying eye tyrant? How about blinder bats, stalkshrooms, and something called the Ewwze!? Lots of new creatures to kill and be killed by. Brand New Fiction – Explore the world of This Is Not a Test with awesome stories by Gaven Conrad and Kyle Nixon.
This Is Not a Test: Broken Vaults 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.
This Is Not a Test: Broken Vaults belongs to these categories: Wargame, Horror, and Miniatures. Its main mechanics are 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 This Is Not a Test: Broken Vaults are: Joseph McGuire. 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 This Is Not a Test: Broken Vaults as an expansion for This Is Not a Test: Post-Apocalyptic Skirmish Rules. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need This Is Not a Test: Post-Apocalyptic Skirmish Rules to use it. Check that your edition of This Is Not a Test: Post-Apocalyptic Skirmish Rules is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.