Ironclad

About this board game

Ironclad is a cooperative space opera game for 1–3 players, with sessions lasting around 90 minutes. Its narrative-driven campaign follows freelancers aboard a powerful, battleworn warship that has defected from the Gaia Nova Federation Navy.

Across more than 10 scenarios and over 15 hours of content, players undertake missions for different galactic factions. Objectives range from smuggling and collecting bounties to destroying formidable battle space stations and joining massive space battles. The campaign’s story develops through meaningful choices, with decisions creating benefits or repercussions in the current mission and in future scenarios.

Players collectively control the Ironclad through its vital Bridge, Weapons, and Hangar sections by assigning Heroes. They must keep the ship and its systems intact while managing the Crew and their Morale. To meet each challenge, the group can customize its Hero Roster and upgrade the Battleship according to the dangers it expects to face.

• Modular space sectors: Hexagonal map tiles represent stations, planets, cosmic events, and the vastness of space.
• Dynamic encounters: AI-controlled enemy ships and cosmic events create threats during each mission.
• Exploration and objectives: Reach the mission goal while searching for possible secret objectives along the way.
• Replayable campaign: Choices, roster decisions, and ship upgrades shape how the unfolding story is experienced.

From hostile pirates and warmongers to solar flares and black holes, every journey places pressure on the crew and their ship. Ironclad is designed to be challenging, so learning through defeat may be part of the route to victory.