Dark Ages: Holy Roman Empire

Product detailed description

Dark Ages is a building game based on historical events that includes 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.

Dark Ages may contain goals common in 4X games - prompting you to explore surrounding regions, expand territories, utilize resources, and eliminate opponents - but it features several eurocentric mechanisms. Collect 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: Holy Roman Empire shares the same basic mechanisms as Dark Ages: Heritage of Charlemagne, but focuses on Central Europe. As a result, it has a different game board. Additionally, it features a different combination of cards with various unique culture cards for rulers, technologies, and units. The Heritage of Charlemagne also includes a set of vassals that are missing in the Holy Roman Empire. Instead, this version includes a set of Relics.

Both sets also differ in the micro-expansions ("modules") that are included. The Holy Roman Empire includes the Crusades and Pope modules.

The game is in English.