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2015 Ranked #16,703

Medieval Conspiracy

A political strategy game has noble families gain countries, bid for events, and win electoral-prince votes to become emperor. Dice, action cards, and forceful conquest continually change the path to power.

Strategy Games Fighting Medieval Campaign / Battle Card Driven History: Holy Roman Empire

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

14+

Complexity

2.5/5

Rating

6.40

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.6/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Medieval Conspiracy introduces players to the Holy Roman Empire of Germany. That Empire is divided into numberless small earldoms, principalities, and bishoprics.

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Medieval Conspiracy introduces players to the Holy Roman Empire of Germany. That Empire is divided into numberless small earldoms, principalities, and bishoprics. The Ruler of the Empire is the Holy Roman Emperor who is elected by the 7 electoral princes. In Medieval Conspiracy you take the role of a mighty noble family. Increase your power, gain new countries, get votes of the electoral princes to finally be elected the new Holy Roman Emperor. Game Play Medieval conspiracy is run by Action cards and Event cards. After collecting income players bid for Event cards. 3 Event cards are displayed on their open side. Thereafter players bid for them in turn order. The player who got an Event card can use it later during his turn. During a player turn players roll the dice of destiny and play event and action cards. That card play results in numerous effects giving each game a new special course. Players gain new countries or conquer them by force from others. Are you up to be the new Holy Roman Emperor?

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
4–6
Play time
240 min
Age
14+
Complexity
2.5/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Dietrich Potthoff Stephan Rensing

Artists

2
Dirk Blech Dietrich Potthoff

Publishers

2
GMT Games Udo Grebe Gamedesign

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