Imperial Settlers

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Imperial Settlers
Game data
author Ignacy Trzewiczek
graphic Tomasz Jedruszek
publishing company Portal Games, Pegasus Games
Publishing year 2014
Art Board game
Teammates 1 to 4
Duration about 45 - 90 minutes
Age from 10 years on

Awards

2014 Golden Geek Best Solo Board Game Winner

Imperial Settlers is a board game by game designer Ignacy Trzewiczek , which is based on his game 51st State . It was published in 2014 by Portal Games in a Polish version and shortly thereafter in an English version, and in 2015 it was published in German by Pegasus Spiele , among others . The game is suitable for one to four players, ages 10 and up, and lasts around 45–90 minutes.

Furnishing

The game has playing cards, a female and male peoples board for each nation and a total of 136 wooden pieces as raw materials, as well as a further 68 tiles. The game consists of:

1 scoring board, 4 peoples tiles, 1 round counter tile, 4 peoples tiles (barbarians, Egyptians, Japanese and Romans), 120 peoples cards (each 30 × barbarians, Egyptians, Japanese and Romans), 84 general cards, 16 attack cards, 38 wooden, 38 stone cards , 38 food and 40 worker tokens, 18 destruction and 10 defense tokens, 24 gold tokens, 6 duplication tokens, 1 starting player token, 4 Egyptian special tokens and 4 game tables.

Several expansions with other races are available for Imperial Settlers

Gameplay

The players slip into the role of the rulers of ancient empires and build monumental great powers. This can be done in a martial or peaceful way. In each round you can choose from a variety of actions from your own cards in order to erect buildings, trade with raw materials and gold or fight other players. You organize the expansion of your empire with your card display.

There are various game variants as well as a solitaire mode for sole rulers.

Game flow

At the beginning each player chooses a people, Egyptians, Japanese, barbarians and Romans. There is an individual deck of cards for each nation and a common general deck of cards for all players. The game runs over 5 rounds each with 4 phases:

  1. Card phase: Draw one nation and two general cards
  2. Revenue phase: Production of new goods (raw materials, gold, workers, destruction & defense tiles, cards, victory points) from the following sources: people boards - trade agreements - production locations
  3. Action phase: There are numerous actions available (the actions are played in turn as long as the last player has passed):
    1. Build a place (including the income of this place). There are three types of locations: Production (bring raw materials) - (special) abilities - Actions (can be used against goods)
    2. Make trade deals
    3. Destroy: Choice between destroying cards in hand and destroying an opposing location for goods.
    4. Activate the action location
    5. Exchange workers for raw material / cards
  4. Clean up and prepare for the next round

At the end of the game, the victory points that were collected during the game as well as the places displayed in the final scoring count.

Expenses and reception

The game Imperial Settlers was developed by Ignacy Trzewiczek based on his game 51st State and published in 2014 by Portal Games in a Polish version and shortly afterwards also in an English version. In 2015 several other versions of the game appeared in various languages, including a German version from Pegasus Spiele , a Dutch version from White Goblin Games and a Spanish version from Edge Entertainment ; other versions appeared in Czech, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Hungarian, French, Japanese and Chinese.

The game has been reviewed by numerous blogs, review platforms, and magazines and has generally received good to very good ratings. In a review by Roy Burger in the spielbox it was rated 7 out of 10 points, with the main criticism relating to the lack of interaction between the players. This was also confirmed by other reviewers of the magazine and Edwin Ruschitzka even described it as an "autistic game".

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Rules of the Game for Imperial Settlers
  2. ↑ Versions of Imperial Settlers in the BoardGameGeek database; Retrieved July 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ Roy Burger: Imperial Settlers: Don't leave anything! In: spielbox 6/2015, pp. 50–51.

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