Imperial (game)
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| author | Walther "Mac" Gerdts |
| graphic | Matthias Catrein |
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PD-Verlag , eggertspiele , sales D, A, CH: Heidelberger Spieleverlag , USA sales: Rio Grande Games |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| Art | Board game |
| Teammates | 2 to 6 |
| Duration | 2 to 3 hours |
| Age | from 12 years
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Imperial is a strategy game by Walther "Mac" Gerdts for 2 to 6 players, published in 2006 by PD-Verlag in cooperation with eggertspiele . The illustrations are by Matthias Catrein .
description
Each player takes on the role of an investor who tries to determine their policies at the beginning of the 20th century by lending to the 6 great powers Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Austria and Russia. The player who grants the highest loan amount to a country decides whether the country invests in armaments factories and their production, moves its ships and cannons to other countries and spheres of power, collects taxes or repays the interest on the loans that the players then use issue new loans. With every tax collection the countries advance on a scoring track, if a country reaches the maximum value of 25 points the game ends and the interest amount on the loans is multiplied by a factor on the scoring track. Whoever achieves the highest value together with the remaining cash has won the game. Taxes are levied on factories and occupied lands and seas.
Which action the individual state carries out is decided by the position of its piece on the roundel, which is divided into different sections. Each token can be moved by 3 sections free of charge, each additional section must be paid to the bank with 2 million. This element was adapted from the game Antike von Mac Gerdts, which was published in 2005 by the same publisher, and is also used in the game Hamburgum .
Awards
- 2007: 7th place at the German Game Award 2007
- 2007: Recommended list for the game of the year
- 2007: nominated for the International Gamers Award 2007
- 2007: Portuguese Games Award
Translations
- English: Rio Grande Games
Online implementations
Imperial can also be played in the board game world .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://spielportugal.blogspot.com/
Web links
- Imperial at eggertspiele
- Imperial at PD-Verlag
- Rules of the game (PDF; 1.12 MB)
- Imperial in the Luding games database
- Imperial in the games database BoardGameGeek (English)
- Instructions and online game in the board game world (requires Java)