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Designed By	Bill Eberle Jack Kittredge Peter Olotka
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Published By	Edition Spielkunst Eon Welt der Spiele
Year Published	1982
# of Players:	2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 3, 4, more than 4 players (6 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	120 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	(no votes yet) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (1 voter) [poll]
Category	Bluffing Civilization Fantasy Negotiation Political Show More »
Mechanic	Area Movement Trading
Primary Name	Borderlands
Alternate Names	Ascalion
Expanded By	Borderlands Expansion Set #1 Borderlands Expansion Set #2
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	Description Edit \| History

Trying to squeeze Diplomacy into a reasonable amount of time, Eon designed Borderlands to be a game where political wrangling is a must, and a free market society fuels the ambition for conquest. Borderlands blends the conflict and deal-making elements from Diplomacy with resource management akin to Settlers of Catan.

The German edition of the game, Ascalion, contains elements from the two Borderlands expansions.

Expanded by:

	More Information Edit \| History

Awards:
GAMES 100 1982 Games Magazine
Honorable Mention "Ten Best Games" 1982 Omni Magazine

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Like New	€50.00	5-Nov-2009
Good	€29.00	28-Aug-2009
Very Good	$235.00	2-Jan-2009

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0	News Has anyone heard anything lately about the new FFG Version?	2009-03-24	swandive78	3
1	Variants Borderlands on a Risk board?	2008-05-14	garygarison	6
5	Sessions What a great ending!	2008-05-12	luckacs	4
7	Reviews Bookshelf Games Video Review	2007-12-09	Subhuman	1
14	News FFG to reprint Borderlands	2007-08-20	DSpangler	14
1	General Is it possible to make a copy of this game?	2006-12-11	craniac	7
22	Reviews Review of Borderlands: A Game Ahead of its Time	2006-10-15	Larry Levy	7
0	General Cover art	2006-05-14	mevans444	0
0	Rules Cites count 3 points for attack?	2005-11-10	havoc110	2
0	General Borderlands vs Ascalion?	2005-10-11	ivefa9	3

	Recommendations

Standard Recommendations
Suzerain

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Lords of Creation	Summit	Venture	Die Magier von Pangea
Die 1. Million	Anno 1452	Focus	McMulti
Marracash	Dicke Kartoffeln	Executive Decision	Stellar Conquest
Terra Turrium	Das Regeln Wir Schon	Cartel	Quirks
Speed Circuit	Stimmt So!	Die Schlacht der Dinosaurier	Nanuuk!
Spanish Main	Mississippi	City	Auf Achse
Age of Arguments

Very Weak Recommendations
Wizard's Quest	Down With The King	Cosmic Encounter	Dampfross
Heimlich & Co.

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Pocket Borderlands

PDF File to Make pocket Borderlands

pirtrom

2008-09-25

2-4 player map

Original map i made from the Vassal mod.

luckacs

2007-11-05

Official Borderlands Rules Answers.doc

Q&A from Eon's Encounters magazine

tool

2007-09-21

borderlands_exp_tokens.zip

Extra tokens required for Exp #1 - Ships, Islands and Bridges - 5th player armies already in tokens.zip

MattDP

2006-08-25

6playerMap.zip

6 Player map by Tony Barber

pirtrom

2005-10-06

5playerMap.zip

5 Player map by Tony Barber

pirtrom

2005-10-06

Tokens.zip

Replacement Counter Tokens

Robrob

2005-04-01

Borderlands.mod

Borderlands Module for VASSAL

badinfo

2005-01-11

Borderlands_spanish.doc

Game Rules Spanish Translation - Reglamento en Español

Adeptus

2004-11-12

left.zip

Replacement Map--Left Panel

ColdBeverage

2004-10-05

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1491	The Definitive List of Board Game Videos and Interactive Tutorials	2007-08-12
310	The Best of Chit Chat 2008	2009-01-14
292	The BoardGameGeek VASSAL Competitor's Directory -- wargamers wanted!	2007-09-09
235	Games worth gold!! (they easily sell for about $100 USD or more on the current market)	2005-08-09
215	My Mapmaking Odyssey	2006-12-20
172	Upcoming games	2008-01-21
167	Boardgame Spoonerisms	2007-03-30
164	The Best of Chit Chat 2007	2008-01-06
149	The Holy Grails of Collecting	2004-05-22
142	Upcoming Releases 2008	2008-02-12

	Statistics

Board Game Rank:	1184
Num Ratings:	175
Average Rating:	6.88
Standard Deviation:	1.57
Num Views:	39185
GeekBuddy Analysis:	Analyze
Similarly Rated:	View
Avg. Game Weight:	2.9
Fans:	2

Personal Comments:	129
Users Owning:	303
Users Wanting:	91
Users Trading:	11
Has Parts For Trade:	0
Want Parts In Trade:	1
Price History:	View
Total Plays:	109
Plays This Month:	0

Linked Items Relationship: Expansions for this Game	[Submit Corrections »]
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Borderlands Expansion Set #1

Rank	0
Num Ratings	21
Average Rating	7.29
Average Weight	1.00

Owned	86
Prev. Owned	11
For Trade	0
Wanted in Trade	13

Wishlist	8
Comments	10
Year Pub.	1982

Borderlands Expansion Set #2

Rank	0
Num Ratings	17
Average Rating	6.35
Average Weight	0.00

Owned	78
Prev. Owned	7
For Trade	0
Wanted in Trade	13

Wishlist	12
Comments	7
Year Pub.	1983

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Review of Ascalion on Reich-der-Spiele (DE)	http://www.reich-der-spiele.com/kritiken/Ascalion	2009-08-19
Medieval Borderlands - a variant	http://web.archive.org/web/20060302040844/http://r...	2009-03-16
Borderlands Video Tutorial (Bookshelf Games):	http://www.archive.org/download/BookShelfGamesBSGE...	2007-10-15
BookShelf Games Video Review	http://bookshelfgames.com/Permlink/Ep018.html	2007-10-14
Lords of Conquest online (browser-based)	http://members.cox.net/rgettman/index.html	2006-10-06
Medieval Borderlands: variant	http://rockford.com/donhesso/MedBLand/MedBLand.htm...	2005-10-18
Lords of Conquest Download (DOS)	http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=1425	2005-09-15
Lords of Conquest Computer Game (based on borderlands)	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_Conquest	2005-09-15
The Games Journal Review	http://www.thegamesjournal.com/reviews/Borderlands...	2003-01-06

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