Dark Ages: Heritage of Charlemagne

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Dark Ages is a building game based on historical events that features innovative action selection mechanisms. As long as your action tokens remain on the game board, you can gain secondary bonus actions whenever you or another player repeat an action.

While Dark Ages includes goals commonly found in 4X games - prompting you to explore surrounding regions, expand territories, utilize resources, and eliminate opponents - it incorporates several eurocentric mechanisms. Gather resources from territories under your control and use them to build cities and fortifications. Some types of buildings provide multiple ways to gain important gameplay advantages, while others increase your military strength or simply earn you victory points. As you expand your territory, you will claim noble titles, acquire new technologies, and train your military units. Each region and leader offers asymmetric choice options with their unique abilities.

Dark Ages comes in two versions: Western Europe (subtitled Charlemagne's Heritage) and Central Europe (subtitled Holy Roman Empire). While both versions feature identical gameplay, each focuses on a specific part of Europe during the dark ages (western or central). As a result, the maps of the game boards in both versions differ, as do the countries over which players compete for control, along with the character of the inhabitants and leaders of these countries. By combining both versions, however, you can expand the map for an epic battle for dominance for five or more players!

Each game box is filled with meticulously modeled miniatures of cities, fortresses, farms, and other buildings. Various types of troops - infantry, archers, and cavalry - are represented by unique miniatures.

The game is in English.