Space Empires is a game in the finest tradition of 4X space games - eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate. Each player builds up a space empire and 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 and combat.
Space Empires was developed to keep a rich theme without overcomplicated rules. The game includes carriers and fighters, mines, cloaking, a very large technology tree, fifteen ship classes, merchant shipping, colonization, mining, terraforming, bases, shipyards, black holes, warp points, and non-player aliens. Yet the rules are short and intuitive: The basic rules are 8 pages long and increase to 11 pages in length when the advanced rules are included.
Awards & Honors
2011 Golden Geek Best Wargame Nominee
2011 Charles S. Roberts Best Science-Fiction or Fantasy Board Wargame Winner
2011 Charles S. Roberts Best Science-Fiction or Fantasy Board Wargame Nominee
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2011 Charles S. Roberts Best Science-Fiction or Fantasy Board Wargame Nominee
2011 Charles S. Roberts Best Science-Fiction or Fantasy Board Wargame Winner
2011 Golden Geek Best Wargame Nominee
Auction/Bidding
Dice Rolling
Grid Movement
Hexagon Grid
Income
Movement Points
Paper-and-Pencil
Secret Unit Deployment
Simulation
Tech Trees / Tech Tracks
Designer
Jim Krohn
Categorie
Bluffing
Civilization
Science Fiction
Space Exploration
Wargame