Volatile Deposits

Setup: Place obstacles as normal, adding the 2 dust fields and excluding the station.

Special Rule: While a ship is attacking a ship, the attacker can choose 1 obstacle at distance 1 of the defender, then resolve the following critical effect:

Blue [Critical] : Each ship or squadron at distance 1 of the chosen obstacle suffers damage equal to half of the total number of [critical] icons in your attack pool, rounded up.

If the defender is one of the first player’s ships, the attacker can resolve this effect with any [critical] icon.

End of Round: For each asteroid field, each player sums the command values of their ships at distance 1. Then for each asteroid field, the player with the highest total gains 1 victory token.