“Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps! is a co‑operative survival board game in which you and your team of specialist Colonial Marines will gear up with serious firepower and head into Hadley’s Hope to find survivors and answers. But you’re not alone. To survive, you’ll need to work together, keep your cool, and stay frosty to fight off relentless Xenomorph ambushes and get out of there alive.

Players can play up to six different missions, taking them into different areas from the Hadley’s Hope terraforming facility to the deep, dark recesses of an xenomorph nest. Aliens also offers an exciting campaign mode to play four of the missions linked together, so players will need to fight relentless xenomorph attacks and keep each other alive all the way to the end of the campaign. The remaining two missions are purely about survival, it’s kill or be killed. The players are dropped into the game with nothing more than a pistol. They will need to scavenge weapons and gear while hordes of Xenomorph aliens are trying to get at them. How long can you survive against the odds?” – description from the publisher

I have put together all of the models and will start painting them tomorrow.

For the alien warriors, there are 4 different body types (A-D), that come in two pieces. Each body type has 2 head options (#1: with jaw closed, #2: with jaw open, for A, C, D body, the inner jaw is visible). The heads come with part of their spine. Every tail and every arm is interchangable among the bodies. It looks like there are 2 tail variants (#1: longer, #2: S-shaped), and you get two pieces of each. The arms look either identical or very similar to each other. The arms do not have any connectors. When you build your models on a sprue, you’ll still have 4 extra heads with spines you can use as trophies.

I have not hyet had a chance to play the game but I have read the rules and had a really good look at all of the components. What I have seen I like. It seems like a cross between the old Aliens game from Leading Edge Games, Space Crusade, and Zombicide.

There have been several criticisms that with some scenarios the game starts to become unwinnable after 4 hero characters, as you draw an Alien reinforcement card for every hero every turn. With 6 heroes in the game, the aliens just swarm the board, killing everybody.

Others have complained that the game is very random. With some good rolls and draws, you can win the scenario easily, while at other times, the aliens will just crush the same team. Personally I like the randomness – hell their Aliens after all!

Looks well worth the investment.