Imperial Settlers
BGG Rank: 358
Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4+, Best: 4+
Playing Time: 90 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 2.77 / 5
Mechanisms: Closed Drafting, Contracts, End Game Bonuses, Hand Management, Income, Multi-Use Cards, Open Drafting, Solo / Solitaire Game, Take That, Turn Order: Progressive, Variable Player Powers
Family: Ancient: Egypt, Ancient: Rome, Components: Multi-Use Cards, Country: Japan, Digital Implementations: Tabletopia, Game: Imperial Settlers, Mechanism: Tableau Building, Misc: LongPack Games, Players: Games with Solitaire Rules
Designer: Ignacy Trzewiczek
Settlers from four major powers of the world have discovered new lands, with new resources and opportunities. Romans, Barbarians, Egyptians and Japanese all at once move there to expand the boundaries of their empires. They build new buildings to strengthen their economy, they found mines and fields to gather resources, and they build barracks and training grounds to train soldiers. Soon after they discover that this land is far too small for everybody, then the war begins...
Imperial Settlers is a card game that lets players lead one of the four factions and build empires by placing buildings, then sending workers to those buildings to acquire new resources and abilities. The game is played over five rounds during which players take various actions in order to explore new lands, build buildings, trade resources, conquer enemies, and thus score victory points.
The core mechanism of Imperial Settlers is based on concepts from the author's card game 51st State.
| Average Playing Time | 2-4 hours |
|---|---|
| Best Player Count | 2 Best |
| Collection | Kevin |
| Difficulty | Standard |
| Played | Unplayed |
| Recommended Player Count | Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4, Best: 4
Playing Time: 90 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 2.75 / 5
Description from the publisher:
Imperial Settlers: Aztecs bring new rules, a new resource, and a sixth faction to the world of Imperial Settlers!
Prayer actions and blessing tokens bring religion to the world, while the Aztecs build temples and organize festivals and ceremonies to gain favors and be blessed! With this expansion, all other factions will also be able to add religion and their own pantheon of gods to their Empires.
This expansion includes a new faction board, the Aztecs faction deck, blessing tokens, and expansion cards for the original factions that complement the Aztecs abilities.
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4, Best: 4
Playing Time: 60 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 2.82 / 5
Imperial Settlers: 3 Is a Magic Number, the second Empire Pack for Imperial Settlers, introduces a new rule: SET. This new ability allows players to score and trigger new effects each time they build three cards in a particular color. With this rule, the drafting phase and the choice of the "right" card to draft becomes even more interesting.
This expansion includes new cards for the common deck as well as new cards for each of the five factions and two cards for use in the solitaire game.
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 1, Best: 2
Playing Time: 90 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 2.25 / 5
Two new tiles that keep some resources between rounds. These two tiles help every player each round get a few more resources. Workers from Raze actions or leftover goods from previous rounds will get redistributed next round!
Official Rules:
During setup, place 0 to 2 Storage Tiles near the Score Track. Follow the instructions on the tiles during play.
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4+, Best: 4
Playing Time: 90 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 1.83 / 5
Imperial Settlers: Exploration Tiles is a mini-expansion consisting of four new tiles that make passing early in a round of Imperial Settlers a viable option. Now after passing, you send your scouts to explore the neighborhood — i.e., choose one of the tiles — and they return with bonus cards, resources, etc., whatever you choose that is still available...
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Players: 1 - 5, Recommended: 5, Best: 5
Playing Time: 90 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 2.87 / 5
Imperial Settlers: Atlanteans, an expansion that requires the base game to play, adds the option for playing Imperial Settlers with up to five players. The expansion includes a new faction board, the Atlanteans faction deck, technology tokens, and expansion cards for the original factions that complement the Atlanteans abilities.
The Atlanteans bring a new resource to the world of Imperial Settlers with technology that can unlock special abilities on faction cards and transform common buildings into powerful allies. The Atlanteans must use their abilities to find unique ways to score because their faction buildings sink at the end of the game and do not score points! While the other factions do not have the knowledge to use the technology of the Atlanteans, some buildings for each faction allow them to use some of that technology to their advantage.
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Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4, Best: 4
Playing Time: 90 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 2.61 / 5
Imperial Settlers: Why Can't We Be Friends, the first Empire Pack for Imperial Settlers, includes new common cards for the central deck, new cards for each of the base game's four factions, and two new cards for use in the solo game with some factions.
One new effect on the cards is "open production", an ability that allows an opponent to visit your building for the resource produced there while giving you the worker who made that trek. Hope you can put him to use once again!
Samuelw3 rated:
2024 Imperial Settlers: Amazons (2018)
flamejuggler rated:
used to be 51st state... picked up in math trade 2020
allenj82 rated:
Includes Why Can't We Be Friends expansion.
stofke rated:
R4
Kiyote rated:
Gen Con 2014
muaddib77 rated:
Storage Box 2 LN Expansion packed inside
griffinritmire rated:
Sent to Bill & Carrie Dec 2018
mischip rated:
Paul N, Paul S, Simon Brass, Si Barnes.
DAGOBAER rated:
German version
Finnan rated:
pl P25
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