Hidden Empires II
Hidden Empires II 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: 2-3 hours
- Number of Players: 2-6
- Complexity: Medium
- Playing Time: 2-3 hours
- Age Group: 13+
- Skill vs. Luck: 67% skill
- Parts Needed: 10 small, 6-sided dice for each player.
Download
Hidden Empires II is available in Portable Document Format (PDF.) The file size is 10MB.
| Pages | Content |
|---|---|
| 1 - 17 | Basic Rules |
| 18 - 25 | Advanced Rules |
| 26 | Optional Rules |
| 27 - 28 | Summary Sheet - print 1 for each player |
| 29 - 30 | Nest Sheet - print 1 for each player |
| 31 - 39 | Cards |
| 40 - 43 | Map |
| 44 - 46 | Ant Counters |
| 47 | Discovery Markers |
| 48 | Other Markers |
français
Yann provided a full translation of the rules and cards into French. Merci Yann!
| Pages | Content |
|---|---|
| 1 - 15 | Règlas de Base |
| 16 - 23 | Version Avancèe |
| 24 | Règlas Optionnelles |
| 25 - 27 | Rèsumeè |
| 28 - 29 | Feuille de Nid - imprimer 1 pour chaque joueur |
| 30 - 33 | Carte |
| 34 - 38 | Jetons |
| 39 - 48 | Cartes |
antARK.net
Visit antARK.net to learn more about ants and the study of ants. antARK also supplied the illustrations we used on the Media and Major Caste Trait cards. Thanks!
Protospiel South
Many thanks to the folks at Protospiel South 2011. Their encouragement and excellent ideas helped us add enough pizzazz to Hidden Empires to call it Hidden Empires II.
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.
Acrobat Reader
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