Escape Velocity Nova is an expandable card-driven board game based on the popular computer game from Ambrosia Software!. In this game, you will take the role of a trader captain in a vast and dangerous galaxy. There are pirates, aliens, and enemies lurking behind every asteroid, waiting to strike when you least expect it. Meanwhile, there are vast riches to acquire, intriguing missions to run, and new technologies to discover.

This game intricately weaves adventure, trade, political conflict, military tactics, and strategy together to give you the best of what makes Ambrosia's computer game a classic, and what makes the DG Associates Card Gaming Systems so ground breaking! There is almost nothing you can do in the computer game that is not represented in this game, and yet, it is still simple enough for an 8 year old player to understand. Escape Velocity: Nova has fast action, political intrigue, immense variety of options, and an intense struggle for survival!

The boxed set contains everything you need to play a 2-player game including the full color 20 x 20 inch game board, 5 colored playing pawns, an 8-page rule sheet, 16 hostile government markers, and 120 Nova Cards that represent ships, missions, outfits, planets, trade routes, and events that truly bring to life the Escape Velocity: Nova universe.

Want to know more about the Escape Velocity: Nova universe? Click on the links below to download Ambrosia's incredibly detailed Nova Preamble pdfs!

You can also download and try the computer game that inspired this game by clicking HERE to visit Ambrosia's Website!

The full color 20 x 20 game board contains the entire Nova universe. Here are links to a full size .gif file of the GAME BOARD (300 dpi 20" x 20"), and a .pdf file of the RULES.