Europa Universalis: The Price of Power is a Strategic level board-wargame that gives players a full 4X game experience in a historical setting. Through the strategic use of cards and careful management of resources, you can expand your realm on the map board, while at the same time developing the internal machinery of the state on your player board. You must build diplomatic relations that support your ambition and you can explore far-away parts of the world. By recruiting skilled advisors and carefully investing monarch power in great ideas, province development, and long-term strategies, you may well be able to outshine your historical counterparts.
This is a game for 1–4 players (depending on the various scenarios included and up to 6 with the expansion). The goal of the game is to build the most successful empire, and points are scored for (amongst other things) owned provinces, explored territories, diplomatic relations, victories in wars, and secret objectives that have been accomplished.
This one is a massive, sprawling, rich Eurogame, that takes an age to play and will be good for specific groups, but not necessarily for the masses.
-Grant
We played the shortes possible scenario with four players and it took the whole day even with everyone reading the rules beforehand. Still we made loads of mistakes and had to read the rules again and again. We had fun time and lot of interesting things happened. Still, it is hard to see that we would return to this – it is just too cumbersome beast.
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Thanks. I didn’t dislike the game but agree that it is very long for what it is. I do know that others have said the pace quickens once it has been played a few times but we felt “the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze” but that was just us.
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