Created by Bernard HP Gilroy and students
(c) 2005 Gilroy. Free for non-profit use.
More information (including a consolidated list) is available.
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Nuclear War Expansion Cards Created by Bernard HP Gilroy and students (c) 2005 Gilroy. Free for non-profit use. More information (including a consolidated list) is available. |
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Top Secret | |
| Mars Attacks! | ||
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Marauding Martian saucers attack a random country each turn, killing 1d6 M citizens per attack. The target can avoid deaths and eliminate the Martians by expending a nuclear warhead (before fatalities are determined). To succeed, he/she must roll equal to or lower than the megatonnage, on d100. The Martians are also destroyed if they attack a nation undergoing biological catastrophe (Supervirus, Son of Supergerm, etc.) |
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| Admittedly inspired in part by Spielberg's War of the Worlds (though, thankfully, not because I saw that) and its much better predecessors, this card draws its name from, of course, the Tim Burton spoof Mars Attacks! (which in turn was apparently based on a 1950s collectible card series). The biological escape clause is an homage to H.G. Wells and the ending of his novel. The three rays, which form a sort of death-ray tripod, is an homage to the 1953 movie, which wanted its saucers to fly on electric legs. | |