Empire 1 (1973): Buy or sell now
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 12 and up. You can play with 2 to 4 players.
Playtime is roughly
300 - 300 Minutes.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Alliances, Dice Rolling, Grid Movement, Hexagon Grid, Movement Points, Paper-and-Pencil, Player Elimination, Ratio / Combat Results Table und Variable Set-up
The game is published by: Third Millennia, Inc.
And was developed by: William Gemmill und Randall Thomas
Alternative names
Heavy-duty strategic SF wargame; doesn't have a lot of components (it can fit inside a large Ziploc style bag), but is still extremely involved. Four empires -- Antares, Crate Armada, Chroma Raphael, and Star Concord -- engage in a major interstellar war. Game rules cover space and ground combat, exploration of new systems, economic development, ship and planetary-shield construction, troop recruiting, the whole nine yards. Four different winning conditions are suggested: (1) the last surviving player; (2) the first player to control more than 50% of the star systems on the map; (3) the strongest player after a set number of turns; or (4) the strongest player after a set time limit (they recommend five hours).
The rulebook states that the game was "formally" (believed to be a typo for formerly) "referred to as The Fourth Galactic War."
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