Charon Inc. is essentially a resource gathering and building game, where you place miners on various quadrants of the moon in order to capture the proper number of gems/materials to build outpost buildings. This game is simple but the depth of play is incredibly strong.

The Game
In the setup phase you get a hand of cards and each card is an outpost building with a set value of points. Each building is available for each player, but you may only build a building once. For example you can only build the 10 value building once, but others can also build that. The buildings take various combinations of resources to build and this is where the game really gets interesting.

Next, the board is seeded with different colored materials and you have to beat your opponents to these. This is done by strategically placing your miners. In a rock-paper-scissors type of game, you have three options for placement. . .in a quadrant, which trumps middle and corner of quadrant. You may ask, why not just jump for the quadrants you want, well, that’s the beauty of the game and the chess match that lies within. Players can accumulate miner placement whereas they could have three edge pieces to your one in the middle which overrides the trump. It’s diabolical elegance at its best here on the moon of Charon. It's diabolical because if you play your miners wrong, you can easily get out-placed, out-gunned and out built. Sometimes you have to cut your losses to cutoff the leader. Or, simply change plans as competitors attack your placements.

Here is your playground. Feel free to play dirty--trust me, you'll need to. . .