With Small Samurai Empires, the publisher Archona Games has released another small-format strategic board game. Around 42.000 euros were raised through crowdfunding Kickstarter a. The copies have probably reached their supporters by now.
We are taking the strategic board game Small Samurai Empires as an opportunity to establish a new format. Instead of many words, the "Blick aufs Brettspiel" series is simply about photos that showcase the game and parts of the material.
In Small Samurai Empires, two to four players vie for control of Japan during the samurai era. The aim is to recruit warriors and conquer regions in order to collect victory points. Players go through one planning and one covering phase per epoch, three epochs are played. Which actions players use is decided in secret. All actions are revealed at the same time. So it is important to enlarge your own army, collect resources, build fortresses or let your warriors invade the provinces. The simple goal: to achieve a higher number of points than the opponents.
Archona Games wanted to collect almost 9.000 euros via "swarm financing" in order to complete the financing campaign for the board game. In the end, the amount was exceeded four and a half times. Almost 1.400 supporters made the crowdfunding project with the wooden samurai meeples in mini format a success. For just under 26 euros plus shipping costs, players now have an action programming board game in their hands that does not have to hide behind the competition in terms of concept.
Photo gallery of Small Samurai Empires:
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From now on, the new format “Blick aufs Brettspiel” regularly focuses on parlor games and their material components: the photo spreads will contain exactly 15 photos per game. Why? To show that board and card games can also be small works of art that people not only like to put on the shelf, but even prefer to take off the shelf and put on the table.
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