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We are delighted to announce that in May 2021 we will be bringing out Imperium: Classics and Imperium: Legends, a pair of standalone asymmetric deck-building games designed by Nigel Buckle and Dávid Turczi, with art by Mihajlo 'The Mico' Dimitrievski.Continue Reading

In May we’re releasing Imperium: Classics and Imperium: Legends, two standalone deck-building civilization games designed by Nigel Buckle and Dávid Turczi. Today on the blog we’re looking at the great maritime power of Carthage, an empire that dominated the Mediterranean for centuries before eventually falling to the might of Rome.Continue Reading

Today on the blog we’re looking at the empire of Egypt, which lasted for three millennia. It is impossible to capture the depth and diversity of this culture in a deck of 23 cards, instead we have tried to highlight a few aspects. The Egyptians are one of the 8 civilisations included in Imperium: Legends.Continue Reading

Today on the blog we’re looking at the Persians (also known as the Achaemenid Empire), an ancient Iranian empire which ranged at its peak from the Indus Valley in India to the Balkans, spanning around 5.5 million square kilometres, with its cultural influences extending even further than this.  Continue Reading

Today on the blog we’re looking at the Maurya Empire (322 BCE to 184 BCE) which was the largest empire to exist on the Indian subcontinent extending over 5 million square kilometres.Continue Reading

Today on the blog we’re looking at the Celts, who were a collection of different tribes who shared a common language and other cultural similarities rather than a cohesive empire. For the purposes of Imperium we have combined the Gauls (who lived in modern day France) with the tribes from Britain and Gaelic Ireland.Continue Reading

Today on the blog we’re looking at the short-lived but extremely impactful Qin Dynasty of Imperial China, an empire that lasted from 221 BCE to 206 BCE. In Imperium, the Qin deck considers their rise to power, and so also covers the preceding Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period in general.Continue Reading

Today on the blog we’re looking at the ancient civilisation of Rome, one of the largest empires in the ancient world containing roughly 20% of the world’s population at the time. The Rome deck covers the Roman Republic (509 BCE – 27 BCE) and the Roman Empire (27 BCE – 476 CE)..Continue Reading

Today on the blog we’re looking at the Ancient Macedonians. In the 4th Century BCE, they briefly became the largest empire in the world under the reign of Alexander the Great, stretching from Greece to India. As we state in the rulebook, the Minoans, the Greeks and the Macedonians all represent different, and sometimes overlapping, subgroups of Ancient Greeks.Continue Reading

Today on the blog we’re looking at the Minoan civilisation. This island empire flourished from around 3000 BCE to 1400 BCE on the Aegean Islands and in particular Crete.Continue Reading