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From days of long ago, from uncharted regions of the universe, comes a legend; the legend of Voltron, Defender of the Universe, a mighty robot, loved by good, feared by evil. As Voltron's legend grew, peace settled across the galaxy. On Planet Earth, a Galaxy Alliance was formed. Together with the good planets of the solar system, they maintained peace throughout the universe, until a new horrible menace threatened the galaxy. Voltron was needed once more. This is the story of the super force of space explorers, specially trained and sent by the Alliance to bring back Voltron, Defender of the Universe!

And now you can play it on your very own table. The pack contains all you need for two players to play on a Voltron Map, brawling over a Super Nova or over a Blazing Comet! It's all fun and games with the Great Protector, Voltron, and his Fiendish Arch Nemesis, Lo-Tron!

Now the Voltron box is not your standard starter set. In the Voltron box, you receive your pre-set figures of 5 u nits and 1 Morpher Monster, a Pentamorpher which I will discuss later, for each side. You get a double sided map specially designed for the Voltron sets. The play area is smaller than the standard Monsterpocalypse map size, but makes up for it by having ability descriptions on each side of the sheet, along with health and dice trackers.

The trackers aren't your traditional Plastic Doohickey with nubs that click across. They are 4 counters you place over rows of numbers set in your side of the Play Mat and you share the set of 24 dice provided in the box.

You play your figures as you normally would for Units and Morphers, but it's a Pentamorpher. One Morpher from each side has the ability Quick, so players who are still used to the Series 3 monsters with 4 morpher figures, there's no worry about it being overly expensive to move your monster around the board. If anything, you can spread out a bit more and have an extra boost to your flanks.

Quick: If this figure is the same FAC as your monster, this figure can advance without spending an A-Die.

Entering your Hyper Form is exactly as it was before. Pick a space where a morpher figure occupied and place a portion of your Hyper Forms base on that space. However, Hypering Down has changed for Pentamophers. The rule for standard morphers is to place the figures within the four spaces the Hyper form occupied. Pentamorphers are different.

You pick a space within the area occupied by your Hyper Form and place one of your five Pentamorphers. The remaining four Pentamorphers are placed anywhere adjacent to that figure. As far as I know, this does not change the rule for standard Morphers.

Aside from those differences, there are no buildings or standard Monsterpocalypse Maps available in the Voltron set, which is easily remedied with buying unit boosters and a Map Pack.

Shameless Plug: Fastbreak has a good stock of Series 1 Map Packs, which contain a large number of maps along with the Government Building, along with unit boosters from all series for sale.

We're ready to form Voltron! Activate interlocks! Dyna-therms connected. Infra-cells up; mega-thrusters are go!
Let's go, Voltron Force!

Next Friday: "So Jealous Right Now"