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3… 2… 1… Let’s Jam with the ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Board Game

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Jan 6 2020
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Carry your weight as you zip around the system collecting bounties and solving your own personal issues.

Cowboy Bebop: Boardgame Boogie is a cooperative resource management game with unique player powers. Each character has a 2 part story arc. In order to win the game, players must complete all character’s story arcs before they run out of food, fuel or cash.

Players all have a hand of cards each representing Combat, Piloting, Hacking or Investigation, each with stills direct from the anime.

Images taken from Rockford CCG

Completing a Session involves discarding a certain number of each of the different types, but no player has enough to complete their Session on their own, and will need some help from their friends. Completing both parts of every player’s Session wins the game for the players.

Sounds easy enough, but completing each part of a Session requires flying around the system, which uses up your resources. Gotta buy more stuff. Need money to do that. How do you get more money?

Collecting bounties requires following leads. Finding leads requires reaching out to contacts. Each contact card will grant the players leads. Lead cards will show which sector, location and terrain type in which the bounty can be found. Once the players have enough leads to match to a bounty, they can begin the chase.

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Chasing a bounty requires using your player cards with an additional few cards thrown in for a few unexpected twists and turns.

If the players can each complete their story arc before going adrift or starving, they win the game!

Cowboy Bebop: Boardgame Boogie$39.99 – Available Now

3…  2…  1…  Let’s Game!  Choose your favorite member of the Bebop crew and take on their role and carry their weight as their space adventure unfolds!

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In the cooperative game Cowboy Bebop: The Board Game, players work together to complete each character’s story arc and win the game, encountering iconic characters and obstacles from the anime series along the way.

Travel the Solar System!  Fly between the Astral Gates, visiting contacts, bars, shops, and spaceports to gather leads and resources!

Face your Demons!  Complete your personal Session with a little help from your friends.  Everyone wins when the past is put to rest!

Get Paid, Keep Flying!  Combine your leads to locate iconic Bounty Heads and chase them down!  Earn enough woolongs to pay for fuel and delicious bell peppers and beef to keep your adventures going!

  • 1 – 4 Players
  • 60-90 Minutes
  • Ages 14+

Admit it. You expected me to end this with “See you space cowboy…”, didn’t you?

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Author: Matt Sall
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