Note on 5th Printing: This 5th Printing includes a 3" box with new cover art. The game is otherwise identical to the 4th Printing, except that we have corrected all known errata.
Space Empires is a game in the finest tradition of 4X space games - eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, as well as eXterminate. Each player builds up a space empire as well as uses it to conquer the other players.
Exploration on the mounted map is simple for players (and dangerous for their ships), revealing different space terrain that affects movement along with combat. Space Empires was developed to keep a rich theme without overcomplicated rules.
The game includes carriers along with fighters, mines, cloaking, a very large technology tree, fifteen ship classes, merchant shipping, colonization, mining, terraforming, bases, shipyards, black holes, warp points, along with non-player aliens. Yet the rules are short along with intuitive: The basic rules are 8 pages long along with increase to 11 pages in length when the advanced rules are included.
COMPONENTS One mounted map (backprinted) Four counter sheets One Pad of Player Aid Sheets Four 2-sided Player Reference Cards 16-page full-color Rule Book 16-page full-color Play Book 4 10-sided dice Vendor: GMT
