The game includes carriers and fighters, mines, cloaking, a very large technology tree, fifteen ship classes from scout to dreadnaught, merchant shipping, colonization, mining, terraforming, bases, shipyards, black holes, warp points, and non-player aliens, yet the rules are short and intuitive and the game can be finished on one sitting. Space Empires has been almost 20 years in the making and, during that time, many elegant solutions have been developed to keep the theme rich without a lot of rules. One difficulty in games of this genre is that they are often either overly simplistic or tediously detailed. This is a wargame where the purpose of building your empire is not to feel good about your achievement, but to destroy your enemies and burn their colonies. All four "X's" are included in this game. Space Empires is a game in the finest tradition of 4X space games - eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate. 2.0 (Includes BOTH the Original and Expansion game!)
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