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Year Published
2011
# of Players
2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 3, 4 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players
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Playing Time
75 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
10 and up
User Suggested Ages
10 and up
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Language Dependence
Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet
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Ascending Empires
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Humanity has been at each other's throats since time immemorial. Now in another galaxy humans wage war amongst themselves again but this time with the aid of alien technology found on other planets. Ascending Empires offers a nice mixture of building exploring and development along with combat via a simple dexterity element. Ascending Empires is sure to sate the desire for a space empire building game that plays simply yet deeply.

The last survivors of the Human race have fled to a new galaxy in fear of annihilation at the hands of an unstoppable enemy. Now, having discovered the ruins of four long dead civilizations spread across the stars, the race to develop technology based on the alien relics has begun. Humans will once again ascend to the stars to claim the galaxy.

Players will colonize new worlds by building colonies, cities, and research facilities. They will develop new Technologies, and build up fleets of Starships. Ascending Empires is a fast paced game that utilizes a dexterity based Starship movement and combat system, and allows for many different strategies to be explored.

Contents:
9-piece puzzle board
4 player placards
32 wooden starship discs
4 wooden battleship discs
28 wooden planet discs
10 wooden asteroid discs
2 sticker sheets
56 plastic troops
64 wooden pieces (research facilities cities and colonies)
50 VP tokens
4 range ruler tiles
tech track tokens
rules

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First Edition
Publisher: Z-Man Games
Artist: Chechu Nieto
Year: 2010
Product Code: ZMG7065
Size: 11.80 x 11.80 x 3.00 inches
4.90 pounds
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3 Variable Factions (Cosmic encounter inspired)
This game has a very nice simplistic ruleset, that is not necessary improved by introducing more complexity, still factions give so much more theme that this game is lacking. I thought of a way of introducing asymmetric factions by stealing ideas from cosmic encounter. What do you guys think? Have any one tried this before? Which Factions need to be balansed. To play whit them: Print and cut them out and preferably sleeve them. Then shuffle them and each player randomly draws 3 factions and chooses one.
2012-02-02
12 Ascending Empires - Star Wars Ship Stickers 1.0
Sticker Sheet to be printed on Avery 5960 Labels sheet
2012-01-13
2 Magyar szabálykönyv
Magyar szabálykönyv v1.1 Néhány elütés javítva. Fixed some misspelled words.
2012-01-12
2 Variant: Non-Flick Movement System
A movement system not requring players to "flick" ships.
2011-11-13
2 Ascending Empires rules summary
Ascending Empires rules summary that I use to teach the game and to refresh my memory. Incorporates any clarifications from the FAQ 0.1 dated 29-Jun-2011 in the BGG Files section.
2011-11-04
10 Ascending Empires Mini Player Aid
Ascending Empires Mini Player Aid, v2.0 Small, colorful, thematic player aids for Ascending Empires. Two pages with four aids to cut out, each about 3.5" x 5.5".
2011-10-23
10 Ascending Empires Quick Rules
Version 1.1 A 2 1/2 page document for Ascending Empires. It is the complete rules, but not exhaustive or repetitive. I use it when explaining the game to a group of people. It assumes that you have the instruction booklet for reference. English 2011 (Thanks to JYoder for his input.)
2011-10-13
4 Ascending Empires Comprehensive English Player Aid
Comprehensive player aid for Ascending Empires, on a single double-sided Letter-sized page. Includes setup instructions on one side and rules aid on other side.
2011-10-03
7 Ascending Empires Short Reference (revised)
A turn options, special rules and statistics reference. I use this to make teaching the game easier. Fixed 9/06/11
2011-09-06
11 Tableros de jugador Ascending empires en Español
Los tableros de jugador traducidos al español
2011-07-18
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