Marcus Mattsson

There’s something very fascinating about board games that successfully envelop you in fictional universes in a way that’s usually reserved to computer games and movies. Twilight Imperium is the first big strategy board game I’ve tried, and it did just that. Yes, it takes several hours just to set up and get into, but when you’re there it’s very entertaining and actually not very complicated. Ten races make up the game, and in the duration of a single turn you set up trade agreements, vote on political issues, gain technology, increase your fleet size, invade and capture planets, fight space battles and much more. One game consists of 10 turns, which didn’t sound like much to me, but when we stopped playing after 10 hours, at 6 in the morning, we weren’t even halfway there.

Setting up the game and getting into the rules, which took us about 2 hours.

Under way!

Moving units.

This was near the end of the game, a lot of units and battles, but we were just too tired to continue.