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2009 Ranked #8,878

Albion

A Roman-era development game has players establish settlements, castles, and fortifications across Albion. Managing nobles, legionnaires, resources, and defense in the right order determines who fully develops three settlements.

Strategy Games Ancient Territory Building Area Majority / Influence Worker Placement

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

2.5/5

Rating

6.06

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Being almost at the top of its power, the Roman Empire plans to conquer the British Isles, also known as Albion in those times.

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Being almost at the top of its power, the Roman Empire plans to conquer the British Isles, also known as Albion in those times. To be successful in the game, the players have to cleverly choose their settlements, castles and fortifications as well as carefully plan the development of these. They have to balance the different resources, their defence and the number of nobles and legionnaires. In fact, all of those are necessary, but the different choices have to be carefully timed. The game is won by the player who accomplishes to fully develop three settlements. Announced for Essen 2009.

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
3–4
Play time
60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.5/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Klaus-Jürgen Wrede

Artists

1
Dennis Lohausen

Publishers

2
AMIGO Rio Grande Games

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