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Twilight Imperium

Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition) is a game of galactic conquest in which three to six players take on the role of one of seventeen factions vying for galactic domination through military might, political maneuvering, and economic bargaining. Every faction offers a completely different play experience, but only one may sit upon the throne of Mecatol Rex as the new masters of the galaxy.

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  1. 10 out of 10

    Honestly didn't know how someone could take a 4x game and make a board game version but they did and its excellent. Never a dull moment as there is always something to do even during your oppositions turns. Just can't get it to the table enough!

  2. 10 out of 10

    Absolutely stunning upgrade to TI3. As a massive fan of TI3, I can tell that TI4 after 3 plays has become my clear favorite of the two. The box is a sensible shape now, the vacuuform insert really helps this behemoth stay organized, the tiles have been reduced to ONLY the ones that matter and none of that guff from all the expansions in TI3. (I do recommend experiencing a few games with every expansion rule but it wears out its welcome fast if you just want to have a TI3 night and no one wants to sit around for 9-12 hours.) Component quality is all-around an upgrade. No more plucking ships off sprues and finding obvious quality control issues. Now you get every single faction in one box, the trade goods actually make sense now and fix so many problems, the UI/UX has been updated and modernized so this game will age well on your shelf. The ship redesigns are really cool, though there's the occasional dud like Destroyer. The faction abilities appear to have become totally rebalanced to the point that even the Nekro Virus actually won a game! The ship upgrades being separated from the actual tech tree was a good streamlining measure to help players figure out how they should focus. It's so nice to see that the actually good expansions that add value to a play session are all included and unbalanced things like Shock Troops, weird planet systems, Mech Units, leaders, amabassadors, and so on have been omitted. I also love the redesign of the Strategy tiles which significantly improve over the white/black tiles from TI3, which we often had to mix with one another to make a proper and balanced set. They've removed a lot of the bland Action and Political cards though I don't think they went far enough in ripping out everything that could go. Still, it's a major improvement and now "draw an action card" doesn't feel like a waste. Everything in TI4 is a significant improvement. For expansions, I just want to see more colors (Orange/Grey/etc) and some extra tiles that aren't overly impactful or underwhelming so the board can be more than simply using every tile every time. The Political phase is still a bit of a slog but even that has been given a fresh coat of paint and feels like new. There is still some work that could be done here to improve things. Overall, TI4 is an absolutely worth-it game if you want to try a political style 4X experience and an absolutely must-have if you're a fan of TI.

  3. 9.7 out of 10

    El colmo de los 4X explayándose en duración. Mucho más amerithrash que euro. Tiene un componente de azar alto, sobretodo con las cartas y los dados. Asumiendo eso y su duración, es un juego de 10. Hacía años que quería probarlo y fue a 4, que cambia el gameplay, ya que cada jugador elige 2 tarjetas de estrategia en lugar de una con 5 o 6, y eso le hace cambiar mucho la forma de jugar. Otra partida a 6 uff y con novatos, locura. Creo que su mejor N° será a 5 jugadores. La 4a edición en castellano es una absoluta maravilla. Ganas de probarlo más, con diversas facciones, para sacarle todo el jugo y variedad que tiene.

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Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition) is a game of galactic conquest in which three to six players take on the role of one of seventeen factions vying for galactic domination through military might, political maneuvering, and economic bargaining. Every faction offers a completely different play experience, from the wormhole-hopping Ghosts of Creuss to the Emirates of Hacan, masters of trade and economics. These seventeen races are offered many paths to victory, but only one may sit upon the throne of Mecatol Rex as the new masters of the galaxy.

No two games of Twilight Imperium are ever identical. At the start of each galactic age, the game board is uniquely and strategically constructed using 51 galaxy tiles that feature everything from lush new planets and supernovas to asteroid fields and gravity rifts. Players are dealt a hand of these tiles and take turns creating the galaxy around Mecatol Rex, the capital planet seated in the center of the board. An ion storm may block your race from progressing through the galaxy while a fortuitously placed gravity rift may protect you from your closest foes. The galaxy is yours to both craft and dominate.

A round of Twilight Imperium begins with players selecting one of eight strategy cards that both determine player order and give their owner a unique strategic action for that round. These may do anything from providing additional command tokens to allowing a player to control trade throughout the galaxy. After these roles are selected, players take turns moving their fleets from system to system, claiming new planets for their empire, and engaging in warfare and trade with other factions. At the end of a turn, players gather in a grand council to pass new laws and agendas, shaking up the game in unpredictable ways.

After every player has passed their turn, players move up the victory track by checking to see whether they have completed any objectives throughout the turn and scoring them. Objectives are determined by setting up ten public objective cards at the start of each game, then gradually revealing them with every round. Every player also chooses between two random secret objectives at the start of the game, providing victory points achievable only by the holder of that objective. These objectives can be anything from researching new technologies to taking your neighbor’s home system. At the end of every turn, a player can claim one public objective and one secret objective. As play continues, more of these objectives are revealed and more secret objectives are dealt out, giving players dynamically changing goals throughout the game. Play continues until a player reaches ten victory points.

—description from the publisher

Ages

14+
Designer

Christian T. Petersen, Corey Konieczka, Dane Beltrami
Mechanics

Area Control / Area Influence, Area Impulse, Area Movement, Dice Rolling, Grid Movement, Miniatures, Modular Board, Set Collection, Trading, Variable Phase Order, Variable Player Powers, Voting
Play Time

240m – 480m
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players, 6 Players
Publisher

Playfun Games, ADC Blackfire Entertainment, Asmodee, Asterion Press, Edge Entertainment, Fantasy Flight Games, Galakta, Galápagos Jogos, Hobby World
Theme

Civilization, Economic, Negotiation, Political, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Wargame, Sci-fi
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