Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps – We’re in the Pipe, Five by Five Expansion Review

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Back in 2020, publisher Gale Force 9 released a fun combat game called Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps. Ultra wordy title aside, I really enjoyed this game even with some ambiguous rules that needed clarification. But as a coop game that tries to recreate the experience from the movie, it succeeds in spades.

Fast forward to 2023 and we now have the third expansion released for this miniatures game. Joining the first 2 expansions (Ultimate Badasses and Get Away From Her, You B***h!) comes We’re in the Pipe, Five by Five, and if you are familiar with the movie at all, you should have a pretty good idea of where this one is going.

One of the nice things about this expansion is that it’s not just more of the same stuff, but they actually created a bit of variety. The main highlights are 2 new marines, 4 unique aliens, and 2 new(ish) missions.

Joining your squad of Marines are Corporal Ferro, the Dropship pilot, and Pvt. Spunkmeyer, her crew chief. Both are more tech-oriented characters, but still have their uses in a fight. To go along with them are two new sets of experience cards: pilot and quartermaster. These first showed up in the Ultimate Badasses expansion and allow your marines to gain special skills during the campaign.

Also new are 4 alien variants. These are unique aliens that have a special abilitie:
Alien Brute: Requires marines to roll 2 defense dice when attacked and take the higher result.
Alien Scout: Breaks through barricades easier
Alien Guard: 50% chance it doesn’t die after you kill it.
Alien Skulker: If it doesn’t attack in a turn, it will move out of line of sight of the characters.

Finally, the expansion comes with two new missions. There is Mission 2.5: Chase, which replaces the mission of