Playing a card requires payment of 0-13 gold coins to play. Each card has tags from one or two of the six factions in the game. Players must build a card from their hand into their “mine” (tableau) each turn, following an event that changes the rules for the current round. In fact, Imperial Miners is so light on interaction that I would argue it is a solo game with a multiplayer variant, and not the other way around. Imperial Miners has zero player interaction, simultaneous turns, and simple scoring conditions. Enter Imperial Miners, a 1-5 player, 10-round tableau builder that takes place in the Imperial SettlersVerse with some factions from other Imperial Settlers games. Yeah, I think we know the Imperial Settlers line quite well.Īnd in the spirit of nearly every established gaming system I know, Imperial Settlers needed a version that was even lighter and faster than the original base game. The team at Meeple Mountain has covered the base game, multiple expansions, the roll-and-write version, and Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North.

Portal publishes the Imperial Settlers line of games. Welcome Back to the Imperial SettlersVerse It’s not legendary, but it manages both its aspirations and my expectations exceptionally well for a quick tableau builder. All the games were full of rich choices and abundant laughter.

One of my favorite gaming highlights from 2021 occurred when I got a group together to play six games in seven hours. As much fun as the act of playing games is, I want maximum fun per minute. I’m a parent who gets limited chances to play a lot of games. As you’ve probably guessed, I’m obsessed with time. As hard as I tried, I couldn’t get a game to last longer than 30 minutes. Successive plays of Imperial Miners back home yielded similar timing. We stopped two rounds short of the normal end condition because I botched one of the rules…and that was around the 18-minute mark of our meeting. Not believing that this was possible-an Imperial Settlers-adjacent game in 20 minutes!!-I made my way to the Portal team to talk shop. Between the teach and playing a full game, it was all done in about 22 minutes.” “I played Imperial Miners during the meeting. I ran into another reviewer at SPIEL 2023, and he discussed his meeting with Portal Games about their 2023-2024 lineup.

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