Imperial (board game)

Game of the Year 2007: Recommendation List German Games Award 2007: 7th place International Gamers Award 2007: Finalist Multiplayer Portuguese Games Price: Jogo do Ano 2006 Golden Geek Award 2007: 2nd place

Imperial is a 2006 for the PD -Verlag in cooperation with eggertspiele strategy game published by Walther "Mac" Gerdts for 2 to 6 players. The illustrations are by Matthias Catrein.

Description

Each player assumes the role of an investor who is trying to decide on lending to the six major powers Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Austria and Russia, whose policy at the beginning of the 20th century. The player who granted to a country the highest loan amount will decide whether the country in defense factories and their production invested, moved its ships and cannons in other countries and fiefdoms, taxes collected or the interest on the loans to repay, with which the player then issue new loans. For each tax receipt the country back on a scoring track before, reached a country the maximum value of 25 points, the game ends and the interest amount of the loan is multiplied by a factor on the scoring track. Who will reach together with the cash still exists the highest value wins the game. Taxes are levied on factories and occupied lands and seas.

Performs the action of the individual state is decided by the position of his game piece on the rondel that is divided into different sections. Each piece may be moved to free three sections, each additional section must be paid 2 million to the bank. This item has been modified from the game antiquity taken over by Mac Gerdts, published by the same publisher in 2005, and is also used in the game Hamburgum.

Awards

  • 2007: 7th place at the German Games Award 2007
  • 2007: Recommendation List for Game of the Year
  • 2007: nominated for the International Gamers Award 2007
  • 2007: Portuguese Price Games

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Imperial can also be played in the board game world.

Source

This article was first published by the creator in the Ludopedia.

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