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Twilight Imperium: Third Edition

BGG Rank: 139

Players: 3 - 6, Recommended: 6+, Best: 6+

Playing Time: 240 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 4.26 / 5

Mechanisms: Action Points, Area-Impulse, Dice Rolling, Follow, Grid Movement, Hexagon Grid, Increase Value of Unchosen Resources, Modular Board, Player Elimination, Tech Trees / Tech Tracks, Tile Placement, Trading, Variable Phase Order, Variable Player Powers, Voting

Category: Civilization, Negotiation, Political, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Wargame

Family: Components: Hexagonal Tiles, Components: Map (Interplanetary or Interstellar scale), Components: Miniatures, Game: Twilight Imperium, Mechanism: 4X, Misc: Dice Tower Hall of Fame, Misc: Made by Panda, Series: Fantasy Flight Big Box

Designer: Christian T. Petersen

Artist: Scott Schomburg, Brian Schomburg, Tyler Walpole

Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games

Category: Wargame

Twilight Imperium Third Edition is an epic empire-building game of interstellar conflict, trade, and struggle for power. Players take the roles of ancient galactic civilizations, each seeking to seize the imperial throne via warfare, diplomacy, and technological progression. With geomorphic board tiles, exquisite plastic miniatures, hundreds of cards, and introducing a rich set of strategic dimensions that allows each player to refocus their game-plan, the original designer (Christian T. Petersen) has seamlessly incorporated the better qualities of other recently popular games to improve on the game-play of the original TI, making it at once perfectly well-rounded and pleasantly familiar to experienced gamers. TI3 is played by at least three players who belong to ten possible alien races, each with their own advantages and quirks. The 'designer notes' in the rulebook candidly and humbly acknowledge the inspiration for some of the improvements to the original game. The strategic game-play borrows the governing element from Puerto Rico to involve players in an iteratively complex and yet fast-paced game experience with very little downtime. The game map, basic player progress and overall victory are dynamically determined in almost exactly the same way as they are by imaginative players of CATAN, while the "Command" system cleverly improves on the 'oil' logistical mechanism of Attack! to both manage turn-based activity and limit the size of armies, uniquely enabling weakened players to bounce back if they play their cards right. Part of the Twilight Imperium Series. Re-implements: Twilight Imperium: Second Edition Expanded by: Twilight Imperium: Third Edition â€“ Shattered Empire Twilight Imperium: Third Edition â€“ Shards of the Throne Re-implemented in: Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition

Average Playing Time	All day
Best Player Count	6 Best
Collection	Kevin
Difficulty	Heavy
Played	Played
Recommended Player Count	4 Players, 5 Players, 6 Players

Players: 3 - 8, Recommended: 8+, Best: 8

Playing Time: 240 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 4.32 / 5

Game description from the publisher: The legacy of a ruined empire silently echoes across the stars, its presence still felt as a timeless entity. It is hope. It is a promise. It corrodes the dreams of a peaceful universe into visions of alluring conquest, propelling the entire galaxy into an endless struggle for power. Shards of the Throne is an epic expansion for Twilight Imperium, adding new races, new units, and many new options to create an even more incredible power struggle in the far reaches of the galaxy. Mercenaries, Mechanized Units, and all-new Flagship units give players more options for customizing their fleets and Ground Forces, while the Political Intrigue option will crank up the agendas and espionage of the political phase. Also adding Race-Specific Technologies, alternate Strategy Cards, new System Tiles, Space Domains, and an all-new scenario that puts one player in control of the legendary Lazax Empire, Shards of the Throne creates a completely new way to wage your galactic conquests! Part of the Twilight Imperium Series.

Players: 3 - 8, Recommended: 8+, Best: 8

Playing Time: 240 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 4.20 / 5

The first expansion for Twilight Imperium: Third Edition features four new races that are unseen in previous editions, more balanced Strategy cards, more belligerent Objective cards, several new surprises for neutral planets, two more sets of plastic units, rules (with more than a dozen new optional variants), and enough additional systems for a fourth ring around Mecatol Rex. Now it's 3-8 players. If you played TI3 and had some ideas for potential improvements, they are probably incorporated in Shattered Empire.

nightmarestop rated: N/A/10

i'm a big fan of twilight imperium 2nd edition, though it takes way too long to play. i'm hoping that the demoer at GenCon was right about 4 hours.

Larry the Satyr rated: N/A/10

MUST HAAAAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grym rated: N/A/10

Gaaah, I haven't even played my copy of TI2 twice yet. After all the work of setting it up. Sigh..on the wishlist anyway.

etherton rated: N/A/10

Sold for $40 @ Dec OCBG

swissjak rated: N/A/10

waiting for arival...

Kruppe rated: N/A/10

Too cool, will probably never have the time to play it 🙁

derscheid rated: N/A/10

Oh, god. I want it so bad, but I will resist. It's going to be worth a hojillion dollars someday, too.

ares2 rated: N/A/10

I just picked this up and am itching to play.

threlicus rated: N/A/10

(1 incomplete play) No rating because it was incomplete. If I were to rate it, it would probably be a 6. My main complaint is that it feels like there's a lot of potential imbalances -- nearby planet quality to start with, and the effects of laws and action cards moving on from that -- which are hard to rectify even diplomatically (and I'm a fan of Diplomacy). This feels problematic in a game of this length; I would be worried about getting screwed in a bad position for 4 hours of fighting from behind; no fun. But I'll sit down again *with players who have read the rules beforehand* with enough time, to try it again, if someone pushes it.

beyondmaster rated: N/A/10

+ Shattered Empire

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