Fame – a set of cards awarding great power and many Progress points – leading up to the King of Kings card OK, almost – there is literally ONE Region card that is a duplicate in resources and powers… but it has a different name & different art.

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A state card – which lets everyone at the table know whether you are barbarian or empire… and serves as a nifty place to hold your action & exhaustion markers. Imperium is great. I think that’s the best way to sum it up. I love games that delve into history but do away with the stuffy bean-counting that you often get with games of their ilk. Imperium keeps the complexity but moves it out of its core mechanics and places it within the asymmetry of each faction that you’re free to explore when you’re ready. Alan How: I’ve only played half a dozen times and several times I’ve had to re-learn the terminology as Mark says. There’s a lot going on and you have great choices to make each time you play, while the different civs require you to concentrate on different aspects of play. I’d agree with Mark on timings which match my experience.I know it’s somewhat odd to start with the feeling that a game evokes in a review but I honestly think that Imperium might be one of the most satisfying games to look at and play that I’ve seen in the last few years. The aesthetic of a game is often what draws people in and I think Osprey has really hit the nail on the head here. I’d say this is something Osprey has been doing for a really long time too as pretty much all of their recent games have been a delight to look at as well as play. An asymmetric card-based civilization building game for 1-4 players, charting the rise and fall of some of the greatest civilizations from history and legend. In most cases, your turn will use three actions to play three cards from your hand. Some cards – all regions and some others – will stay in front of you to form a tableau, and some of those can be exhausted (tapped) each turn for an additional effect. Other cards you will play for an effect and discard, while some might be removed after a single play, either to your history, where they will stay until game end scoring or to exile where they are generally off to the box lid for the rest of the game. There are two ways get Civilized, Uncivilized, Tributary, and Region cards from the market – each with its own keyword. Revolt– similar to Trains, where you spend a turn returning all of the Unrest cards in your hand to the Unrest pile in the market

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The rule books (both multiplayer and solo) are identical in each box – and cover both boxes worth of material. They also include instructions for playing civilizations from different boxes against each other… which primarily means you have to look for Tributary cards with the same name as civs in play and replace them with a random Tributary from the other box. Finally (in an unsolicited plug), the high quality of the solo system makes me doubly excited about the impending release of Undaunted: Reinforcements from Osprey Games! Thoughts From Other Opinionated Gamers In most cases, your turn will use three actions to play three cards from your hand. Some cards will stay in front of you to form a tableau. Certain cards can be exhausted each turn for an additional effect. Other cards you will play for an effect and discard, while some might be removed after a single play. These either go to your history, until game end scoring; or to exile, where they are generally off to the box lid for the rest of the game.The center of the board contains a strip of cardboard that shows where all the cards in the common market are placed.

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Az Imperium sajnos nagyon radar alatt van itthon. Én mindenkit biztatok, hogy tegyen vele egy próbát, stratégáknak szerintem jó kis csemege.

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