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Designed By	Anthony F. Buccini Jim Dunnigan Redmond A. Simonsen
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Published By	Decision Games Hobby Japan SPI (Simulations Publications Inc.)
Year Published	1980
# of Players:	1 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 5, 6 players Recommended with 3, 4, 5, 6 players (2 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	240 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	14 and up
User Suggested Ages	(no votes yet) [poll]
Language Dependence	(no votes yet) (0 voters) [poll]
Category	Civilization Economic Medieval Political
Mechanic	Voting
Primary Name	Empires of the Middle Ages
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This classic SPI game from 1980 covers the economic and political landscape of Medieval Europe from 771 to 1467. Several scenarios allow players to do anything from a solitaire game during the Charlemagne's reign to the "Grand Scenario" that covers historical trends throughout the period.

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Very Good	€55.00	5-Jul-2009
New	$66.99	18-May-2009
Like New	$68.00	16-May-2009
New	$88.00	19-Apr-2009
Very Good	€75.00	4-Mar-2009
New	€99.99	16-Sep-2008

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Empires of the Middle Ages (GAME)	25d 5h 28m	$ 80.00
Empires of the Middle Ages (Decision Games) sealed	14d 15h 58m	$ 109.05
Empires of the Middle Ages, Decision Games - NEW -	12d 19h 32m	$ 85.99

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0	General compare contrast with 7 Ages ?	2009-07-04	Gronak	2
0	General Photocopy of original edition rules?	2009-05-02	Robbage	3
0	Variants Idea For New Leader Cards	2009-03-28	paisiello	7
1	General Campaign game issues	2009-01-22	Neopeius	12
0	General Raiders too powerful?	2009-01-13	Neopeius	4
3	Sessions Empires of middle ages - Charlemagne and the frankish kingdom (Portuguese)	2009-01-05	jaugusto72	0
0	Rules Magnates	2009-01-05	jaugusto72	2
0	General What is the game-play length of this game's various scenarios?	2008-08-31	whac3	2
3	General Empires of the Middle Ages vs. Age of Renaissance	2008-04-12	Ori Ironarm	8
5	General Looking for a quick scenario?	2008-03-15	robvollman	1

	Recommendations

Standard Recommendations
Europa Universalis	Carthage - The Ancient World: Vol. II	Lords of the Sierra Madre	Medieval
Pax Britannica	Rise of the Roman Republic, the - The Ancient World: Vol. 1	Assyrian Wars	Peloponnesian War
Imperium Romanum II	Frederick the Great

Weak Recommendations
Viceroys	Trajan	The Seven Years War	The Siege of Constantinople
Alesia: Great Battles of History	Germania	Breitenfeld	Conquistador
Seven Years World War	Lords of the Renaissance	The Sword and the Stars	Kingmaker
World War 3	War Between The States	Barbarian, Kingdom & Empire	1776
The Republic of Rome	Down With The King	Freedom in the Galaxy	The Civil War
War of the Ring

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eotma2e-tables.doc

Tables, redone, corrected to match my rules rewrite, and with an 'endeavours' player-aid added to them.

mym-uk

2006-12-18

eotma2e-rules-rewrite.doc

The rule book issued with the game is riddled with numerous errors, omissions, examples of bad logic, spelling mistakes, abstruse language and other Bad Things. I have done a fairly comprehensive re-write over the last year which is now complete as far as I am concerned - having said which, any comments or questions or error-spotting is welcome - please email me via the link at the bottom of http://www.druidic.org/eotma/

mym-uk

2006-12-18

EotMA2 Cheat Sheet Turn&Taxation v1.0.pdf

Play Aid with Game Turn Sequence and Income procedures

Nikator

2006-12-18

EotMA2 Cheat Sheet Endeavors v1.0.pdf

Play Aid for conducting Endeavors

Nikator

2006-12-18

EOMA endeavor chances.xls

Gives "Effective Value" vs. "Chance of Endeavor Success/Failure".

Spoonfed

2005-09-13

Empires of the Middle Ages Player Aid.doc

Player Aid for 1st Edition

tobyhales

2005-03-31

EotMA2ed_player_turn_summary.doc

EotMA 2nd Edition Summary of a Player Turn

Gryfon

2005-01-21

eotma2.rtf

2nd Edition Errata

Gryfon

2005-01-20

Empires of the Middle Ages (SPI).zip

Cyberboard gamebox

Robrob

2003-09-25

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141	Games that take weeks/months to play. Super Long, 100+ hour games.	2008-02-16
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Users Owning:	373
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Information at Spotlight on Games	http://spotlightongames.com	2002-09-27
Rules for proposed new DG edition, part 1	http://miketaber.freeservers.com/eotma/eotma_rules...	2003-08-18
Rules for proposed new DG edition, part 2	http://miketaber.freeservers.com/eotma/eotma_rules...	2003-08-18
Decision Games' site for their new edition of EotMA	http://www.decisiongames.com/html/middle_ages.html	2004-04-12
Review of 2nd edition by John Graham Leigh	http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?13@87.w28paWvhG9h...	2004-08-21
Errata for 2nd edition (Web Grognards)	http://www.grognard.com/titlee.html#e5	2004-09-06
EMA Help Sheet	http:// http://spotlightongames.com/chart/ema-ende...	2004-09-26
Corrected Rules and other Errata.	http://www.druidic.org/eotma/	2005-01-08
Empires of the Middle Ages discussion group - variants, pbems, etc.	http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/EmpiresMA/?ygu...	2008-05-31
Wikipedia Entry	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empires_of_the_Middle...	2008-11-24

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