To our players: As a Christmas present to you, we have prepared

To our players:

As a Christmas present to you, we have prepared this mini-expansion for the game Galaxy

Trucker. Christmas is traditionally a time of peace and calm – which seems unfair to those who

cannot be with their loved ones. That’s right. We’re talking about the brave Truckers who face

the remorseless universe and the shady practices of the competition. So we have decided to

bring a bit of their cold, bleak hopelessness into your cozy homes.

CGE wishes you hours of relentless entertainment

This expansion is designed for experienced Truckers. If you

routinely build ships that overcome every obstacle and arrive

nearly unscathed, if you shed a nostalgic tear recalling your

first flights when your ships were smashed to pieces and you

arrived with only a few sad fragments, then this expansion is

for you. This expansion puts the kick back into space travel,

and it kicks so hard that the tears will be in your eyes once

again.

On the other hand, if you don’t think it’s funny when your ship

breaks into two pieces, this expansion is not for you.

If you have only played a few games of Galaxy Trucker and your

ships often fall apart en route, we recommend you do not

use this expansion yet. This expansion, like the universe, is

unfair. Save it for later, when you begin to feel that the game

is too simple.

But most importantly: Do not use this expansion when

introducing new players to the game.

Company policy forbids the exposure of new Galaxy

Trucker recruits to holographic, video, or even audio

recordings (often lled with screams and expletives)

from the harsher regions of the galaxy.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

PARANOIA

After everyone decides whether to land, the first player to land

rolls dice to determine the location of the heavy cannon fire for

everyone.

PANIC

Check for panic when crew are first added to the ship as well as

each time a player loses a component.

COSMIC PSYCHOSIS,

METAL FATIGUE

Roll for coordinates as with the Sabotage card, but only once. And

yes, if you roll 7-7, the card affects your starting component.

In Trucker lingo, crew members affected by Cosmic

Psychosis are said to have “spaced away”.

ROUGH TRIP

In Round 1, you add 2 level III cards. In Round 2, you add 3 level III

cards. In Round 3, you add 4 level III cards.

REMORSELESS FATE

Sabotage, for example, will affect everyone except the player with

the biggest crew. (In case of ties, the one flying farthest behind is

the only one not affected.) In a Combat Zone, each shot location is

rolled once for all affected players. The three Sabotage rolls are

also done for all affected players at once, but once sabotaged, a

player ignores the following rolls.

LIGHT-FINGERED CREW

Players decide in order, starting with the leader.

STIFF COMPETITION,

ENGINE ENV Y

The hit location dice are rolled by the players doing the shooting,

not by the affected player. If the player who is supposed to be

doing the shooting has no forward-pointing simple cannon and

does not spend a battery token to power a forward-pointing

double cannon, then that shot is not fired.

When the Stiff Competition card is in play, players wait to decide

whether to spend battery tokens to make themselves stronger

until after a player has decided to use the Abandoned Station or

Spaceship.

PIERCING PROJECTILES

The projectiles only hit a component in the square immediately

behind the component that was hit. If that square is empty, then

no additional components are hit.

EX PLOSI VE GOODS,

EXPLOSIVE BATTERIES

The eight neighboring squares include the 4 adjacent squares

and the 4 squares on the diagonals.

This card applies to components which are destroyed by cannon

fire, meteors or explosions. It does not apply to components

which simply fall off after becoming disconnected from the ship,

or which are lost because of Star Dust when Remorseless Fate

card is in play, or because of Metal Fatigue card.

Note that the Explosive Goods card applies to components “with

goods” not just those with hazardous goods.

These two cards in combination can produce

spectacular effects in the night sky. When watching

for exploding spaceships, choose a clear night with

no moon and be sure to dress warmly.

ROUG H RO A D CA RD S

The text is usually self-explanatory. If a card seems unusually harsh to you, that means you understood

it correctly. Cards that can affect your ship’s components (such as Cosmic Psychosis, Panic, and

Metal Fatigue) can also affect your starting component. If a Rough Road card says that something

happens “after each adventure card” that means that you resolve the adventure card first, then deal

with Rough Road card’s special effect before drawing the next adventure card.

Here are a few card-specific clarifications:

Well, it looks like our warnings didn’t turn you away. Let’s get

truck in’.

Before you begin, the players should agree on a difficulty level. We

recommend level 2 or 3. Everyone must agree. If you can’t get

everyone to agree, play at the lowest suggested difficulty level. Of

course, it’s possible that one of the less courageous players will

insist that you play without this expansion (or that you toss it into

the wastepaper basket) and you will have to play the basic game

(or play concentration with the spaceship components).

Shuffle the Rough Road cards. At the beginning of each round,

before you begin building, draw a number of Rough Road cards

equal to the chosen difficulty level. Place these cards face up

where everyone can see them. They describe special rules that

will apply for that round’s voyage.

Draw new cards at the beginning of each round (discarding those

from the previous round). Players know about the special rules

even before they begin building and have some chance to prepare

their ships for the upcoming flight (and prepare themselves

psychologically for the fact that they might be taking a loss this

round).

Note: It might not be the best idea to combine Rough Road Ahead

with ships of Class IIIa, but we’ll leave that up to you. If you do try

it – don’t let us scare you or discourage you – don’t forget about

the rules for voluntarily giving up before the next adventure card

is revealed.

H O W TO U S E T H I S E X P A N S ION