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Year Published
2004
# of Players
2 − 7
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 5, 6, 7 players
Recommended with 4, 5, 6, 7 players
(82 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
180 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
13 and up
User Suggested Ages
12 and up
(11 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet
(19 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain
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Struggle of Empires
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Think of Civilization/Age of Renaissance set in the 18th century. Players take the role of one of the major powers of the period and fight in both Europe and the colonies. The twist to the game is that in each war, players must form into two alliances. Once allied with a player, you cannot fight each other. This means that you do not have the backstabbing of Diplomacy to worry about; if he's allied, he's with you until the end of the war. This means that a player has to think carefully about who he wants to fight against and who he wants to ally with. Very often he will want to ally with his natural enemy and go to war with the guy who doesn't really want to fight him. On top of this, you have lots of improvement tiles that you buy to shape your empire, plus alliances with minor powers, and the possibility of going into revolution. Even though it is a big empire building game, it will scale from 3 to 7 players and has pretty simple rules.

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Multilingual third edition
Publisher: Eagle Games
Artist: Peter Dennis
Year: 2010
Product Code: 101015N
Size: 12.50 x 8.88 x 2.00 inches
2.60 pounds
English, French, German
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Multilingual second edition
Publisher: Eagle Games, Warfrog Games
Artist: Peter Dennis
Year: 2005
Size: 12.50 x 8.88 x 2.00 inches
English, French, German
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Multilingual first edition
Publisher: Warfrog Games
Artist: Peter Dennis
Year: 2004
Size: GMT standard box
English, French, German
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2 National Bonus Points Table
This file is a tabulated version of Kinley Engvalson's excellent suggestions for variant victory points based on National interests. The file is posted with grateful acknowledgment to Kinley
2012-05-07
1 Struggle of Empires ~ Tile Track
This is designed to be used so that all players can see at a glance which tile(s) other players have. Simply use control markers to keep track
2011-12-15
1 Dutch rules
Struggle of Empires rules in Dutch, Version 1.0
2011-11-16
0 Seven-Player Campaign
Spain emerges triumphant! Austria falls from glorious heights to the verge of revolution!
2011-11-07
9 Babylon 5: Coming of Shadows Retheme
Babylon 5: Coming of Shadows retheme for Struggle of Empires; version 1.0.
2011-10-31
0 Struggle of Empires battle odds calculator for Android devices
The title is mostly a lie, since it doesn't calculate much. It just has the odds precalculated. It's ugly, but it has the information. I just started learning Android development, and this was the simplest thing I could make. Since it's already done, maybe somebody else finds a use for it. I know I'll be using it to be very annoying while playing from now on. The app asks for permissions for reading/writing on the SD card and for getting the phone status. I don't know why, since that's not specified in the Manifest.xml. It doesn't use those permissions for anything, either. I haven't figured the issue out, but I didn't (and won't) devote much time to it. I'll just keep reading the book, and fix it for the next app I make.
2011-06-06
3 Game management and rules summary
Rules summary for quick refreshment of key rules. Not made to replace the rulebook, but as a reference to manage the game and remember key rules.
2011-06-06
6 Various Personal Variants for SoE
Various variants that I have used.I have tiles for the Alliances and Special powers for each Major power. If this gets some thumbs I will post them.
2011-05-30
30 SoE FAQ
Useful FAQ that was previously available at another (now-defunct) website. Not 100% complete -- one embedded image is missing -- but very informative / helpful nonetheless. Author of FAQ is innovan@bgg.cc -- content was all generated / compiled by him, and he kindly gave me permission to re-post the FAQ. I claim no right or interest, and take credit only for converting the FAQ to PDF and uploading it here. (Thanks are also due, however, to user hugh_g_rection, who sent me the electronic copy of the FAQ that I used to generate the PDF.)
2011-03-10
17 Re-imagined Struggle of Empires Map
Map is expanded to include spaces for Economic and Ally tiles. Elevated boxes denote required sea move roll in place of the "rope". Home countries not shown but dots denote starting adjacencies.
2010-05-16
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