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8-player Twilight Imperium and 7 Ages all in one weekend!

We arranged an 8 player TI3 game at Corbon's on Saturday, March 1st. As usual a great game with some usual suspects and new faces. 1. Corbon 2. Ur 3. Michael U. 4. Gibson 5. Ken Lee 6. Mark 7. Ivan 8. Gabriel Michael took a well deserved win with the Hacans. A long day but most of us had fun. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/imperiumsingapura/conversations/messages/457 Photos here: http://s194.photobucket.com/user/imperiumsg/library/Twilight%20Imperium%2001032008?sort=3&page=1 Then on Sunday we have a game of 7 Ages! http://s194.photobucket.com/user/imperiumsg/library/7%20Ages%2002032008?sort=3&page=1 Thanks to Andy for hosting.

Singapore Open Gaming (SOG) XIX

Another SOG session, Iliad is great fun! http://www.meetup.com/Boardgames-Singapore/photos/212798/ http://www.meetup.com/Boardgames-Singapore/events/6190968/

Mega Meetup

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This was a meetup organised by Gabriel and his parents at their residence. We had a great session of TI3. 8 players in one of our shortest session at 6 hours, the Emirates of Hacan won. There was also an excellent game of Descent going on:

Imperium- Mega Gaming in the Lion City

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Given how much we enjoy very long sessions I decided to start a Yahoo group just to organise them: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/imperiumsingapura/info Looking forward to many more sessions of mega gaming! First up, Twilight Imperium of course. ;)

Singapore Open Gaming (SOG) XII

As mentioned, trying to document as many sessions of SOG as possible. Here's a link to the event. http://www.meetup.com/Boardgames-Singapore/events/5414594/ And the photos: http://www.meetup.com/Boardgames-Singapore/photos/129901/1028919/

Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition - Rules Introduction Pt 2

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In this next part I describe in some detail the Action Phase , which is where players will spend the bulk of their gaming time. There are four kinds of actions that can be executed: 1) Strategic Action 2) Tactical Action 3) Transfer Action 4) Action Card A player can play #1 to #3 anytime when it is his turn in the Action Phase. Once you have Passed, you may not take any further actions in this phase. Strategic Action A player execute a Strategic Action by playing his Strategy Card. He first reads and then resolves the Primary Ability as printed on his Strategy Card. After the active player has finished resolving the Primary Ability, the other players may each spend one Command Counter execute the Secondary Ability of the current Strategy Card. Tactical Action It is during a Tactical Actions that you will move your fleets on the board,engage in space battles, transport your Ground Forces to new planets, build new units, etc. You activate a system by spending a Com...

Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition - Rules Introduction Pt 1

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From as far back as I can remember, I have always dreamt of controlling a star-spanning empire; the political intrigues, military battles, the conquests. Twilight Imperium Third Edition (TI3 for short) delivers that not on a computer screen but with face-to-face human adversaries in a good all day (or night) tabletop session. A great way to spend a weekend. ;-) You can get the rulebook from the Fantasy Flight Games website . It takes about half an hour or so to go through the rules. Its not too difficult to imagine some folks who need to turn up for a session on the morrow and need a quick run-down before the game. What I intend to do here is to cover in 2 short parts the basics of the game, enough to get anyone started. I will not talk about game setup for that is easily covered during the actual session since there is little to actually 'learn'. Objective of the Game The objective of the game is to be the first to accumulate 10 victory points by achieving objec...