Produktbeschreibung
Mediterranean Empires is a strategy game for 2 to 8 players representing the turbulent power struggle between the various powers of the Mediterranean Sea before the emergence of the Roman Empire, which after conquering the lands surrounding this sea called it Mare Nostrum (our sea). Each player will lead one of these empires, in his hand, the cunning and luck will guide either to victory or annihilation.
Mediterranean Empires is a game accessible to players of all levels of experience from 12 years, not a war-game but a simple strategy game. The game is designed to prime fun and playability, and the key to this is the constant interaction between players.
Each player has a deck of cards, these cards are the player's resources (troops, fleets, leaders etc.). The game is played in 3 turns, each turn is divided into a variable number of rounds of play, players will not know how many rounds will be played since the end of the turn is decided by a dice roll.
The game has also a historical component. Each player controls an empire that has its own separate game deck with its own historic features. However in order to improve balance, fun and chance of victory, each deck is based on different periods of classical antiquity:
Components:
- Mounted full color game board: A Anciente map depicting the Mediterranean divided into historical regions used according to the scenario. On the board are the most important cities of antiquity represented by a symbol of the city (and a boat if the city has a port) and barbaric areas represented by a circle. Cities and barbaric areas are connected by roads and straits.
- 280 game cards over 8 decks of cards of 35 cards, one for each empire. In each deck you can find 7 different types of cards: Troops, Fleet, Leader, City Defence, Attack on City, Empire and Special Cards.
- 330 wooden disks: 32 fortification markers per Empire, 50 fortification neutral markers, 24 barbaric pacified zone markers.
- One 3/4" countersheet of die-cute counters.
- 12 wooden six-sided dice. |
