Empire (strategy game)

"Empire" is a turn-based strategy game of industrial development and military conquest. "Empire" is played on large maps with off-set squares that typically display one or more continents and featuring various resource squares. The military component of the game is based on " Tactics II", particularly the combat results table. "Empire" was developed in the fall of 1960 and played regularly through the 1960's and occasionally thereafter at Reed College. The original board was a hex-gridded paper map of several artificial continents, about 3 feet by 5 feet, populated at the height of a game by nearly a thousand individual game pieces of various descriptions. Each game lasted an entire four-month semester, and each of the six or seven players needed an hour or more to complete each move in succession, handled asynchronously. The board was located on a large table in a popular campus social hall; it is an interesting commentary on the school and/or the times that virtually never in the entire history of the game as a public campus institution was it maliciously disturbed or its participants harassed.

External links

[http://www.wolfpackempire.com/infopages/Overview.html As discussed in the overview for the "Empire" computer game]