Imperium: Classics

Imperium: Classics BGG ↗

Imperium: Classics · English edition · (2021)

Your rating: 8.5

My BGG Comment

Deckbuilding civilization game. Lead your tribe from barbarians to nation. This avoids the tech tree trap by ending much earlier than most civ games. Each civ plays quite distinct. A few observations: 1) setup takes a bit but tear down really takes the cake. I need to sleeve the cards or they‘ll be damaged from the shuffling of the main deck (4 types of cards get mixed hier, but since the market has small decks for 3 of those types they have to be sorted and mixed every game) 2) The deck building in this is tight. You want a small deck in most cases and this does much better at continuous deconstruction than Dale of Merchants. Awesome. 3) Great if fiddly solo mode. I believe I have yet to play a game without making half a dozen mistakes for the bot player 4) Interaction on this is quite light. The shared market of course and a handful of minor „take that“ cards. Other than that it‘s a race to one of several game end conditions.

BGG Game Details

Year 2021
Designers Dávid Turczi, Nigel Buckle
Artists Mihajlo Dimitrievski
Publishers Korea Boardgames, Devir, Hobby Japan, CMON Global Limited, Origames, Osprey Games, Gémklub, Banana Games, Giant Roc, Lucrum Games, Fox in the Box, MeepleBR, Niza Gams, Board Game Rookie
Players 1–4
Time 40–160 min
Status Owned
BGG Rating 7.6
Categories Ancient, Civilization, Card Game
Mechanics Hand Management, Take That, Open Drafting, Variable Player Powers, End Game Bonuses, Variable Set-up, Move Through Deck, Solo / Solitaire Game, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building
BGG Rank 336
Complexity 3.62 / 5
Language Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable

In Lists

My Collection Notes

Segmentation KEEPER
Box size M
Contains Imperium: Horizons , Imperium: Legends
My category Civilization
My mechanic Move Through Deck

Play History

Date Location Duration Qty Players Scores Winner
Imperium: Classics 2024-10-19
Details
Expansions
  • Imperium: Legends
  • Imperium: Horizons
At home 1 Turczi 🤖 (Scythians), Yashima (Macedonians) 51.00, 103.00 103.00
Imperium: Classics 2024-03-10
Details
Expansions
  • Imperium: Legends
  • Imperium: Classics
  • Imperium: Horizons
At home 1 Bot 🤖 (Abbasids), Yashima (Guptas) 108.00, 80.00 108.00
Imperium: Classics 2024-03-09
Details
Expansions
  • Imperium: Legends
  • Imperium: Classics
  • Imperium: Horizons
Notes
First turn collapse? triggered by the bot
At home 1 Bot 🤖 (Abbasids), Yashima (Guptas) –,
Imperium: Classics 2022-03-07 At home 1 Bot 🤖 (Celts), Yashima (Macedonians) 60.00, 92.00 92.00
Imperium: Classics 2022-03-06 At home 1 Bot 🤖 (Macedonians), Yashima (Celts) 79.00, 72.00 79.00
Imperium: Classics 2021-07-28 At home 1 Bot 🤖 (Macedonians), Yashima (Atlanteans) 114.00, 89.00 114.00
Imperium: Classics 2021-07-27 At home 1 MourningDragon (Persians), Yashima (Scythians) 82.00, 65.00 82.00
Imperium: Classics 2021-07-23 At home 1 Bot 🤖 (Carthaginians), Yashima (Persians) 49.00, 91.00 91.00
Imperium: Classics 2021-07-21 At home 1 Bot 🤖 (Romans), Yashima (Carthaginians) -1.00, 27.00 27.00
Imperium: Classics 2021-07-21 At home 1 Yashima (Greeks), Yashimii 🤖 (Romans) 51.00, 50.00 51.00