Space Empires 4x

Space Empires is a game in the finest tradition of 4X space games - eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate.

Each player builds a space empire and uses it to conquer the other players. Exploration on the mounted map is easy for players (and dangerous for their ships) and reveals various space terrains that affect movement and combat.

The game includes carriers and fighters, miners, cloaking, a very large technology tree, fifteen ship classes, trade ships, colonization, mining, terraforming, bases, shipyards, black holes, warp points, and NPC aliens. Yet, the rules are short and intuitive: The basic rules are 8 pages long and increase to 11 pages when the advanced rules are included.

The game is identical to the 3rd printing, except that all known errors have been corrected.

How to play Space Empires 4x:

In the first round of the game, players roll a die to determine who the
first player is, and the player order continues clockwise. After the first turn, the player order is determined by bidding in the economic phase.

You have the following options on your turn:

• Move, you may move your piece to an adjacent system, how much you may move is determined by your Movement Technology Level.
• Combat, if two different players' ships are in the same system, a battle starts between them in the Combat phase.
• Exploration, if you land on an undiscovered system (face down), you must explore it in the Exploration phase. 

At the end of every third round, the Economic phase starts. This phase consists of a series of tasks that players must perform both secretly and simultaneously: 

• Collect colony income
  
• Collect mineral income
• Collect only MS Pipeline income 
• Deduct maintenance
  
• Bid to determine player order 
  
• Purchase units and technology
  
• Place purchased units on allowed colonies
  
• Adjust colony counters to reflect growth

After the Economic phase, the turn marker is reset to 1, and this continues until a player has won. You win by eliminating the other players.

Space Empires 4x includes:

• 1 Game Board
  
• 4 Counter sheets
• Player Aid Sheets
• 4 2-sided Player Reference cards
• 16-sided rulebook
• 16-sided Play Book
• 4 D10s