Extensive unrest due to over taxation can lead to negative consequences, including the total collapse of your nation!Īs a highly regarded strategy game, Struggle of Empires has long been a candidate for a deluxe edition - and Eagle-Gryphon Games is known for its expertise in creating deluxe quality game editions. Although gold is always available through taxation, it comes at the cost of increasing unrest among the citizenry of your nation. Players may take advantage of various tiles and tokens - including local alliances, trade, special abilities, improvements, military tactics, and covert operations - that grant economic, military, and political benefits. Your challenge will be to balance your military and economic needs. Although military units can be used to capture or defend control markers, they do not represent control of a country themselves. At the end of each War, you will score victory points based on the relative number of each major power’s control markers in each of 11 countries in Europe and the colonies. In each round of play, you will perform two actions, and if available, any number of free actions.

Each War begins with the formation of two grand alliances of the major powers and represents a period of approximately two decades. The game consists of three major Wars each lasting for 5 or 6 rounds of play depending on the number of players.

Empire deluxe game