StarCitizen:Squadrons (card game)

Squadrons is a trading card game based on Star Citizen.<ref name=":0">Squadrons, Interview with Creator, Thomas Eberhard, Neil | team Brigade, YouTube, 18 January 2023</ref> It has a non-commercial license from Cloud Imperium Games.<ref name=":1">Squadrons – A Star Citizen Card Game, starcitizenbase.de, 23 December 2018</ref>

Since the license is non-commercial, the Star Citizen physical cards cannot currently be bought, and can only be obtained by attending some events, watching twitch streams, or during giveaways.

Gameplay

The player builds his your own squadron with StarCitizen:ships from the Star Citizen universe and leads it into battle in duels and multiplayer matches.<ref name=":1" />

The aim of the game is to conquer the majority of five contested locations with the squadron. The ships in the player squadron can be supported by additional combat and supply cards. The gameplay features reduced resource management, expanded card drawing, a selectable starting hand as well as first round claiming and tactical but fast space combats. The random battlefield makes each match unique.<ref name=":1" />

A game between two players takes between 10 and 50 minutes.<ref name=":1" />

From the beginning, Squadrons was designed with modularity in mind. The Star Citizen card game can easily be expanded with new squadrons and new rules.<ref name=":1" />

Development

Thomas Eberhard saw a two square meters Star Wars: The Clone War board game which resulted in a more compact card game spin-off for his son. Then he met his new love: Star Citizen. Around mid-2016 he started developing a Star Citizen card game. <ref name=":1" />

Video game

A digital adaptation called Star Squadrons: Galactic Trading Card Game is set to release on StarCitizen:Steam in Q4 2025, still free.<ref>Star Squadrons: Galactic Trading Card Game, Steam</ref>

Trivia

The author, Thomas Eberhard, is a police officer.<ref name=":0" />

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