We played our first two-player game of Star Trek: Away Missions tonight! I played the Romulans who are trying to gain infomation on Borg technology, and @yayKM@aus.social played Chancellor Gowron's Klingons who really just wanted to do honorable battle with everyone. The Romulans won 120-65, and I think the Klingons' deck needed a bit of a better shuffling because they were able to score nothing in the first turn oops, though it'll probably go better in future now we've both got a better idea of what cards are actually in the decks and so have more of a sense of how the boards should be placed at the start.
We did the Borg side of the map this time which was pretty cool. I really enjoyed the Romulans' gameplay, it was more about sneaking around trying to gather intel and position your characters carefully. There were a few things I forgot like the ability to spend Intel tokens to move the two Tal Shiar operatives around the board when you complete a Covert mission which would have made it easier to get across the board and complete other missions.
Annoyingly I didn't have enough clear card sleeves for the House of Duras expansion so that'll need to wait until next week, and I've ordered enough spares that all of the extra cards that you can customise the existing decks with will be sleeved too (they all start with a starter deck designed for one specific mission of the two core missions you can choose, then you can customise the decks as you get a handle on how they play and how you want to make changes).
Looking forwards to playing lots more!
Posted on 20 April 2026, 22:07