Build An Empire. Keep Your Rivals Guessing.

Build An Empire. Keep Your Rivals Guessing.

Name: Build An Empire. Keep Your Rivals Guessing.
Brand: First Backer
Price: 29.0 USD
Availability: InStock

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$29.00

Build your empire, recruit powerful heroes, and see who can outmaneuver everyone else on the road to conquering Japan 🏯

Samurai Empires + Eiy Expansion is a competitive strategy board game set in feudal Japan, where each player leads a rival house as a Daimyō. Across three eras and nine rounds, you secretly plan your actions, then watch the battlefield unfold as your orders resolve. With action programming, area control, hidden information and resource management, every decision shapes your rise. Recruit troops, move by land or ship, attack, harvest and build as Japan's regions and provinces shift under your control. Add the Rise of Tokugawa expansion and the Eiy heroes to deepen each session. Back Samurai Empires + Eiy Expansion on Kickstarter now.

About

At Archona Games, our mission is more than just crafting board games; it's about creating unforgettable moments that bring people together. We believe in the power of play to inspire, connect, and entertain, and it's this belief that fuels our every endeavor. Our games aren't just cardboard and components they're gateways to new worlds, avenues for strategic thinking, and catalysts for endless laughter.

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Reviews

i like strategic board games ; Wanted to get the expansion ; Game design and asethetic ; Backed previous campaign ; I’m a big board game and TTRPG fan, with a love for domain level play. The regional map of Japan l ; Interesting time period ; Im a returning backer that has all of the other content for Samurai Empires. I also backed Small Rai ; I had backed the original project. ; I love what you have created in Samurai Empire (previous backer). My gaming group loves the game and ; Returning Kickstarter backer from previous expansion campaign. ; I enjoy the game and wanted the expansion. The free shipping for previous backers helped a lot. ; I have several of your other games ; I have the base game ; I backed the previous campaign and like the game ; had a chance to play a demo at Essen, enjoyed it ; I have all the other items of the game. ; I like games such as Rumble Nation and Joraku, this one seems similar. ; Design and strategic gameplay ; I have backed the previous campaigns and wanted the new stuff. ; Recent trip to Japan. Game concept looks fun and not too long for a mid week game night. ; I like the original game; always interested in more content ; area control, action-programming, and nice looking game ; Jai déjà Samurai Empires ; Backed original ; backed previous projects ; Area control looks interesting. Didnt know about game previously ; Great mechanics, deep strategy, original ; Japan, area control... sounds good ; The theme ; Enjoy the Empires games, including Samurai Empires ; Love area of control games, and feudal japan ; I enjoyed the game ; I like small sam empires ; I love yours games and I wanted to complete my Shogun Pledge.^^ ; Because i love Japan and a type of game with worker placement sound intereting ; Return backer. ; Own the orgingal like ; I love the epic of the samurai. ; For the Eiyo expansion ; I like small samurai and backed it years ago. And the free shipping for expansion was a huge part wh ; Backed the original and expansion campaigns ; I backed the original game before and love it! ; Because I wanted to complete my collection of samurai empires. I have the core game and first expans ; Less complex area control game that looks easier to get to the table ; I backed the main game ; Looked like a fun game ; Because I backed and own the original game. ; Already have the base game. ; I have everything else in the game ; I already own small samurai empires ; I purchased the base game and expansion already ; Own the base game and expansion ; I liked the mechanics and also like Samurai games. ; Have the other parts of the game and look forward to the expansion ; Returning Backer Live the Game ; Reminds me of Shogun/Samurai Swords ; Subject mater and product appearance ; Looks fun ; Backed Samurai Empires and Tokugawa extension, I am a returning backer ; Sequel to a game I already love ; completionist tendencies ; Its an expantion to a project i backed before ; Because I already own the original game and previous