High Frontier
High Frontier 4 All is a game of exploration of the solar system. Players trade for technologies, build rockets, and travel to solar objects. Once there they prospect, industrialise, and colonise.
The game seems very complex at first but, once you get the hang of it, makes sense and becomes easy to play.
It's great fun, but set aside four to six hours for a game, depending on the number of players.
The game seems very complex at first but, once you get the hang of it, makes sense and becomes easy to play.
It's great fun, but set aside four to six hours for a game, depending on the number of players.
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IanH
IanH
Online site gazetteer
I have created an online searchable list of the High Frontier 4 All sites, based on the site list (see below).
This is, as before, based on the data from Andro Hsu (on BoardGameGeek), with added burn data from Geoff Speare's gazetteers, and (x,y) coordinate map coordinate data from me.
- Use the 'Quick find' to lookup single sites or groups.
- Click 'Show advanced filters' if you want to filter the sites to show, for example, all the Humea sites that lack crash hazards (there are two).
- Click the 'Sort' buttons to order the data in the bottom list.
There are five 'Burns' columns in the site data:
- 'Burns' is the value from Andro Hsu.
- 'BurnsS1' is Geoff Speare's first value (no pivots).
- 'BurnsS2' is Geoff Speare's second value (one pivot, the number in brackets).
- 'BurnsS1' is Geoff Speare's third value (multiple pivots, the numbers in brackets).
- 'BurnsS' is the minimum of the three Geoff Speare values.
Gazetteer maps
I have made some maps based on the gazetter (see above).
The first burns map is based on the Andro Hsu data.
The second burns map is based on Geoff Speare's data.
Site list
Andro Hsu (neandrothal) has produced a very useful spreadsheet of all the sites in the game. It is available here on BoardGameGeek: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/206453/hf4-site-list
I wanted something that I could print out so I modified and reformatted it in Apple Numbers, and generated a 4-page PDF.
Note: I have since discovered that there are official site lists. You can find them on the Ion Game Design website. Look for Downloads: High Frontier 4 Gazetteers.
You can download my list from here:
I wanted something that I could print out so I modified and reformatted it in Apple Numbers, and generated a 4-page PDF.
Note: I have since discovered that there are official site lists. You can find them on the Ion Game Design website. Look for Downloads: High Frontier 4 Gazetteers.
You can download my list from here:
Card list
Andro also made a list of the patent cards used in the game. It is available here on BoardGameGeek: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/207172/hf4-card-list
As before, I wanted something that I could print out so I modified and reformatted it in Apple Numbers, and generated a PDF.
This has 18 pages:
Note: I have since discovered that there are official site lists. You can find them on the Ion Game Design website. Look for Downloads: High Frontier 4 Colonization Cards with Therms HF4 v05c.
You can download my list from here:
As before, I wanted something that I could print out so I modified and reformatted it in Apple Numbers, and generated a PDF.
This has 18 pages:
- 1 to 9 - all cards, printed as compact as possible.
- 10 to 18 - one page per card type, wherever possible (Colonists needed two).
Note: I have since discovered that there are official site lists. You can find them on the Ion Game Design website. Look for Downloads: High Frontier 4 Colonization Cards with Therms HF4 v05c.
You can download my list from here:
Spot an error?
Some errors may have crept into my PDFs (I had to do a lot of spreadsheet editing).
Please contact me if you spot any errors or omissions, or if you find these sheets useful.
Please contact me if you spot any errors or omissions, or if you find these sheets useful.