Hidden Empires
Hidden Empires is a game for 2 to 6 players where each player assumes the role of an ant colony. You will guide your colony as it attempts to grow and thrive in a hostile environment while competing for resources with neighboring colonies. Your colony will employ unique survival strategies based on those of real world ant species. To win the game, you must give your species the best chance of survival by producing more reproductive ants than your opponents.
Stats
- Construction: 2-4 hours
- Number of Players: 2-6
- Complexity: Medium
- Playing Time: 2-4 hours
- Age Group: 13+
- Skill vs. Luck: 67% skill
- Parts Needed: 10 small, 6-sided dice for each player.
Download
Hidden Empires is available in Portable Document Format (PDF.) The file size is 8MB.
| Pages | Content |
|---|---|
| 1 - 23 | Rules |
| 24 - 27 | Appendix - First Turn Example |
| 28 | Bibliography and Credits |
| 29 - 30 | Summary Sheet - print 1 for each player |
| 31 | Nest Sheet - print 1 for each player |
| 32 - 40 | Cards |
| 41 - 42 | Map |
| 43 | Hex Template - for alternate setup |
| 44 - 45 | Ant Counters |
| 46 | Other Markers |
External Links
- Board Game Geek
- Visit the Hidden Empires page on the geek.
- Interformic Games Forum
- Discuss Hidden Empires on our forum.
- Русский
- Lex Rem has created a Russian language translation of Hidden Empires called Скрытые Империи. The translation comes complete with rules, cards, and counters. Спасибо Lex!
Copyright
You are free to make copies of our games for yourself and your friends. However, Interformic Games retains full copyright to all of its games.
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