Four Colonial Marines Against the Darkness of Space
A downloadable game
"they mostly come at night. mostly"
-Newt
Four Colonial Marines Against the Darkness of Space is a solitaire sci-fi survival horror hack of Four Against Darkness originally by Andrea Sfligoi. The 47 page booklet contains the rules needed to lead your USCM squad into dangerous missions for corrupt galactic corporations, while they make money and you die.
Requires Four Against Darkness for map generation, or you can use pre-generated maps found elsewhere.
This release is the version 1.2 rules.
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Development log
- Version 1.2 UpdateJan 22, 2022
- Verison 1.1 ReleaseJun 03, 2021
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I tried this for the first time today and enjoyed it. Hand grenades seem OP (never miss, multi-kills?) and launchers seem like another rifle, if I read all of it correctly. Also, what are "personal items" and how are they used?
Also, do leaders lose a level when under half HP as they do in versions like Four Against the Titans?
I hope you continue to develop this game and thanks for putting up with questions from the FNG.
Hey! Thanks for the kind words, and thanks for playing! Grenades are OP I admit, but I kind of want it that way. For now at least. They modeled after the fireball spell.
A personal item is something personal to the marine.
No rules from Four Against Titans -I mean, unless you want to.
No updates planned for the moment as I’ve been working on Songs of the Northlanders.
Thanks again!
I just discovered this. Cool idea. I skimmed over it & I didn't see it actually used anywhere but on page 5, dice code - meaning has D6xD6 result as 1-66. I think it should state 1-36. Just wanted to mention that if you ever get a chance to update.
Thanks for the heads up!
a fan made an interactive character sheet creator, you can get it form his github https://github.com/tvance929/4ADCharacterSheets
Have there been any updates?
sorry friend, no update yet. I guess I should sit down and make a character sheet when I find some time. Thanks for the interest.
This sounds cool! :) I was looking for something like this.
Btw. the artwork is amazing, love it, the b&W images but also especially the cover, simple but very thematic.
Thanks so much! Let me know how your missions go!
this game is amazing? Is there a character sheet at all?
Not yet unfortunately. It is on the slate for a future update, just no ETA at the moment as I’m deep in another project. Thanks!