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Empires of the Void II

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  1. 9 out of 10

    Faster and easier than eclipse. High replayability and the alien races are created with a lot of love. It is another great ryan laukat!

  2. Kind of 4X (little exploration) empire building Euro game with some luck elements (card draw) about role selection (Puerto Rico), area control, card management, unit management, and alliances. Actions: Turns consist of the active player selecting one of four available actions. There are 5 in total, but the previous action can't be selected twice in succession. The actions are: * Move/Attack - Move a group of your ships to explore, attack, complete cargo delivery missions or various other missions. You can also attack an alien planet or another player. * Research/Build - You can upgrade your factions abilities, and build structures on a planet you control or on your worldship * Card action/Diplomacy - Certain cards require you to activate them in order to accomplish the objective, which usually has a cost attached to it and some give you victory points when you completed them. Diplomacy allows you to spend cards from your hand to attempt to gain friendship with the alien races, this opens up the ability to recruit their unique units to aid in your conquest and gives you an ongoing bonus ability attached to each specific alien race. * Recruit - Allows you to employ the services of any alien races you are allied with and/or deploy your own faction units. * Scavenge - As the active player, this allows you to refresh you command actions, gain income and draw cards back to your hand limit. Pros: + Artwork and components + Action selection + copy ability for other players + Aggressive play is promoted over defensive play, however, it is not devastating (just retreat, do not loose anything) and it is mostly against NPCs + Simple combat or diplomatic + Little downtime (non-active players can "follow") + High variability (set-up, planets, events, races) + Events for each planets (different each game) + Alliances with Alien species with different abilities and units + Collecting bonus card for end-game scoring + Simple core base game (select one of 4 simple actions) Neutrals: # Rather long playing time but quite fast for this kind of game # Some pick-up-and-delivery elements # Luck of the roll for some events and combat. Roll x dice and pick the highest, then play an additional card to boost the die value. # Luck of the draw to find a specific influence cards may feel quite random. # Very different game compared to the 1st edition # Non-destructive player interaction / combat (units retreat) # Long rulebook (35 pages) Cons: - Set-up time (many pieces, sorting cards and planets) - Takes time to teach See also: * Islebound (similar game mechanics, shorter, simpler, less narrative) * Scythe (area control, events, movement, push-your-luck combat, encounters) * Conquest of Paradise (more quick and easy)

  3. 8 out of 10

    A great space-themed board game with gorgeous art, and far shorter and more enjoyable than many 4x board games, while still feeling grandiose (although it still takes nearly 180 minutes every time instead of 90 minutes). I do wish the rules were a little less fiddly, with some questionable movement, influence, and action rules that make moving and attacking feel far too weak. If you adjust the movement to reflect that in Scythe, the gameplay flows so nicely, and feels more balanced. I also wish Ryan had implemented a single-player variant, since I hardly get it to the table due to the long setup.

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The Kurross Empire emerged from the deep, endless pool of space, dark and undetectable. They crushed Earth’s paltry fleet within a week, and broke through the great planetary shield that protected the surface. Bright blue oceans turned to an irradiated wasteland as they bombarded the planet, shredding the remnants of thousands of years of human history. Markan, last captain of Earth’s forces, made a final, desperate attempt to survive, salvaging an abandoned Worldship from hundreds of years past. She took command and headed for the fringe of the galaxy, where there was a chance to gain a foothold, grow in strength, and find new allies for the fight against the Kurross. Earth’s long-time enemies, the Zun and Decima Empires, soon followed in their own Worldships, leaving behind decimated worlds and lost family, determined to stake their own claim of the fringe.

In Empires of the Void II, you have been given a mission to establish a foothold at the fringe of the galaxy for your galactic empire. The game begins when your massive Worldships reach the fringe, where you must explore, wage war, use diplomacy, and construct buildings to gain victory. The fringe is sparsely populated and the few local sentient species are struggling to survive, leaving huge regions of planets open for exploration and colonization. Many species are eager to ally themselves with a powerful empire to gain security and stability in a chaotic and difficult time.

As you explore and interact with planets, you will discover unfolding stories of the fringe. Each inhabited planet is home to a unique alien species, with their own goals, values, and problems. Will you give aid by fighting off pirates, transporting goods, and curing strange diseases? Or will you invade and rule with a cruel hand? This may be your last chance to prepare before the Kurross meet you again.

Ages

13+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players
Play Time

90m – 180m
Designer

Ryan Laukat
Mechanics

Action Points, Area Majority / Influence, Follow, Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Modular Board, Point to Point Movement, Variable Player Powers
Theme

Civilization, Economic, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Exploration
Publisher

Red Raven Games
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