Your fleets will actually feel like fleets! Building only the largest capital ship is not a good idea. Combat is simple (there are no complicated charts), but rewards good, balanced fleet construction. This is where your technology and fleet decisions will be proven. The competing empires quickly come in contact and vie to eXterminate each other. This infrastructure must quickly be eXploited to build a fleet from up to 10 different classes of warships and researching critical technology from among 50 levels of advances at your disposal. Players then eXpand their empire by forming colonies (long term, steady growth), harvesting resources (quick income), and building a merchant fleet (trade income). Terrain is important as it impacts both combat and movement, as well as how you will build your empire. Each space can reveal any of 12 different terrain effects like asteroids, nebulae, and planets. Almost 20 years in the making, many elegant solutions have been developed to remove complexity and make the game intuitive.ġ to 4 players eXplore the random map.
Despite that, the rules are Incredibly Simple. Carriers, fighters, mines, cloaking, dreadnoughts, merchant shipping, colonization, mining, terraforming, shipyards, black holes, warp points, non-player aliens, Doomsday Machines - everything an Epic Space Opera needs. Space Empires 4X is a game in the finest tradition of 4X space games - eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate. The game will be identical to the 3rd Printing otherwise, except that any known errata will be corrected.
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