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Mija–drop me an email (rex.brynen@mcgill.ca) and I can help you with that. We’ve used it extensively in university courses, as have others.
We are trying to explore if Aftershock can be used at our university course on humanitarian assistance. However, despite reading the elaborate instructions we are unable to figure out how to play it. The instruction film only provided info on the set up. Not on how to play. Do you have informative n more detailed instruction videos. Thanks.
At-Risk cards are only resolved by event cards (or by the Strategic Planning coordination card).
I would like to ask a question about resolving at-risk cards. Are at-risk cards resolved after players fulfill all the requirements on the cards? Or the cards can be resolved by event cards only? Thank you in advance for your answer.
Julia: The Game Crafter is awaiting new supplies of a game component, at which point it will again be available at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/aftershock . If you’ve registered for email notification there, they’ll let you know when it is back in stock (in a few weeks, they assure us).
Where can the game be purchased? The “add to cart” button just went to more info about the game
Riccardo: I’ve answered your queries in the FAQs above.
Good morning sir,
playing the game with some colleague different questions have arisen:
During the Supplies Phase where do we place the new teams arrived? In the Port/Airport and they’ll enter into the clusters at the next supplies distribution or immediately where the current situation is demanding?
About the Social Unrest Card, we place one of them every time we’re not able to bring complete relief during phase 4?
During the game how we gain OP? Only if there’s Media in the cluster and everything goes well?
The At Risk Card has to be resolved immediately during phase 2 with the resources we have in that exact moment or immediately during the same turn but in phase 4?
Thank you very much for your efforts, the game is really intriguing and opens minds
Best regards