You will meet extraterrestrial races while fighting for survival and conducting diplomacy signing treaties between empires, trade agreements to full-blown partnerships, and even create protectorates. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems. Sometimes they benefit just one ship, sometimes a group, and sometimes a fleet.įacilities Game: Two new facilities will be added to complete the facilities game.Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. Some will really be worth fighting over as they will have different abilities and bonuses.Ĭrew Cards: Notable crewmen that bring bonuses will be on some of your ships. More work, but more reward.ĭeep Space Planetary Attributes: The NPA planets in deep space will now have a bit of personality. Missions: Missions are Resource Cards that can't just be played but require you to complete something on the map to gain a larger benefit. A couple of these are from the scenario book, but most are new. Scenario Cards: 30 or so cards, and 1 or 2 could be flipped to change the overall galaxy conditions for the game. However, you will never know for sure exactly what will be in your home system from game to game.

Variable, but balanced home systems: Everyone has the same home system for balance reasons.

Even in a 2-player game, you can now play it 5 different ways.

Allows you to play Space Empires as a 6-player game without Replicators or a 7-player game with them.

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