Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Wilderness Empires is a Strategic level board wargame of the French and Indian War. Were we to become English, French or Native American?
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Area Majority
Compete to have the strongest presence in areas that award control or points.
Campaign Card Play
Play cards to command conflicts and carry consequences through a campaign.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Team-Based Game
Players compete in fixed teams and coordinate toward a shared team result.
Point-to-Point Movement
Move along explicit connections between named locations or nodes.
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Wilderness Empires is a Strategic level board wargame of the French and Indian War. Were we to become English, French or Native American? A French wilderness empire stretches across vast tracts of the North American forest, along its rivers and the Great Lakes. It is growing, pushing further south and east. They have embraced and supported a Native American empire in the western wilderness. Both depend on each other for commerce and protection. Both are threatened by British expansion from the east. Both have aligned themselves together to stop it. Then a small skirmish on their frontier ignites a world war that engulfs them all and changes their empires forever..... Wilderness Empires is a point to point Strategic level board-wargame of the French and Indian War. Players take the roles of the French and their Native American allies or the British and their American Provincials. Game play is fast and fun with clean mechanics and short rules. Wilderness Empires uses event cards to bring the detail and rich history into the game and showcases this important time in American and European history.