Designer	Martin Wallace
Artist	Peter Dennis
Publisher	Eagle Games Warfrog Games
Year Published	2004
# of Players	2 − 7
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 5, 6, 7 players Recommended with 4, 5, 6, 7 players (82 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	180 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	13 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (11 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (19 voters) [poll]
Honors	2005 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee
Subdomain	Strategy Games (47 voters) [vote]
Category	Civilization Fighting Political Territory Building
Mechanic	Area Control / Area Influence Auction/Bidding Dice Rolling
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Think of Civilization/Age of Renaissance set in the 18th century. Players take the role of one of the major powers of the period and fight in both Europe and the colonies. The twist to the game is that in each war, players must form into two alliances. Once allied with a player, you cannot fight each other. This means that you do not have the backstabbing of Diplomacy to worry about; if he's allied, he's with you until the end of the war. This means that a player has to think carefully about who he wants to fight against and who he wants to ally with. Very often he will want to ally with his natural enemy and go to war with the guy who doesn't really want to fight him. On top of this, you have lots of improvement tiles that you buy to shape your empire, plus alliances with minor powers, and the possibility of going into revolution. Even though it is a big empire building game, it will scale from 3 to 7 players and has pretty simple rules.

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Multilingual third edition

Publisher: Eagle Games

Artist: Peter Dennis

Year: 2010

Product Code: 101015N

Size: 12.50 x 8.88 x 2.00 inches

2.60 pounds

English, French, German

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Multilingual second edition

Publisher: Eagle Games, Warfrog Games

Artist: Peter Dennis

Year: 2005

Size: 12.50 x 8.88 x 2.00 inches

English, French, German

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Multilingual first edition

Publisher: Warfrog Games

Artist: Peter Dennis

Year: 2004

Size: GMT standard box

English, French, German

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0	General Incomplete rules after so many years...	2012-05-21	bandini	7
1	General Struggle of Empires with just 2 players, once again.	2012-05-16	solkan1	3
0	Rules Disbanding Units???	2012-05-14	paulnorell	2
1	Variants Alternative Victory Conditions for 1715 Scenario	2012-05-05	paulnorell	9
2	Variants Bonus Victory Points based on historical national interests	2012-04-21	Kinley	9
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4	Rules Why hiding unrest?	2012-04-19	GKow	16
1	General Bigger Board ?	2012-02-11	ferric	5
1	Variants Insurance for dangerous sea voyages	2011-10-12	dead jawa	7
8	News Struggle of Empires 2.0 Rules posted	2011-09-19	Windjammer	8

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National Bonus Points Table

This file is a tabulated version of Kinley Engvalson's excellent suggestions for variant victory points based on National interests. The file is posted with grateful acknowledgment to Kinley

paulnorell

2012-05-07

Struggle of Empires ~ Tile Track

This is designed to be used so that all players can see at a glance which tile(s) other players have. Simply use control markers to keep track

paulnorell

2011-12-15

Dutch rules

Struggle of Empires rules in Dutch, Version 1.0

Henrie

2011-11-16

Seven-Player Campaign

Spain emerges triumphant! Austria falls from glorious heights to the verge of revolution!

paulnorell

2011-11-07

Babylon 5: Coming of Shadows Retheme

Babylon 5: Coming of Shadows retheme for Struggle of Empires; version 1.0.

mwaschak

2011-10-31

Struggle of Empires battle odds calculator for Android devices

The title is mostly a lie, since it doesn't calculate much. It just has the odds precalculated. It's ugly, but it has the information. I just started learning Android development, and this was the simplest thing I could make. Since it's already done, maybe somebody else finds a use for it. I know I'll be using it to be very annoying while playing from now on. The app asks for permissions for reading/writing on the SD card and for getting the phone status. I don't know why, since that's not specified in the Manifest.xml. It doesn't use those permissions for anything, either. I haven't figured the issue out, but I didn't (and won't) devote much time to it. I'll just keep reading the book, and fix it for the next app I make.

nachof

2011-06-06

Game management and rules summary

Rules summary for quick refreshment of key rules. Not made to replace the rulebook, but as a reference to manage the game and remember key rules.

bigloo33

2011-06-06

Various Personal Variants for SoE

Various variants that I have used.I have tiles for the Alliances and Special powers for each Major power. If this gets some thumbs I will post them.

Mantuanwar

2011-05-30

SoE FAQ

Useful FAQ that was previously available at another (now-defunct) website. Not 100% complete -- one embedded image is missing -- but very informative / helpful nonetheless. Author of FAQ is innovan@bgg.cc -- content was all generated / compiled by him, and he kindly gave me permission to re-post the FAQ. I claim no right or interest, and take credit only for converting the FAQ to PDF and uploading it here. (Thanks are also due, however, to user hugh_g_rection, who sent me the electronic copy of the FAQ that I used to generate the PDF.)

Roland Mauve

2011-03-10

Re-imagined Struggle of Empires Map

Map is expanded to include spaces for Economic and Ally tiles. Elevated boxes denote required sea move roll in place of the "rope". Home countries not shown but dots denote starting adjacencies.

AngusBull

2010-05-16

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Polish review at http://planszowki.polter.pl	http://planszowki.polter.pl/Struggle-of-Empires-c1...	2011-05-13
Struggle of Empires FAQ	http://innovan.freelinuxhost.com/SoE.html	2011-01-04
Spiele Offensive TV Video Overview (German)	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjkoGzAx8C4	2010-05-12
Struggle of Empires @ Treefrog Games	http://www.treefroggames.com/struggle-of-empires	2010-05-03
English Session Report and Review at Hiew's Boardgame Blog	http://hiewandboardgames.blogspot.com/2009/10/stru...	2009-10-02
English review from Gamers Alliance	http://www.gamersalliance.com/Fall05/struggle2.htm	2009-09-21
English review from Gamers Alliance	http://www.gamersalliance.com/Spring2005/strugglee...	2009-09-21
A spanish review at www.labsk.net	http://www.labsk.net/index.php?topic=22804.0	2008-09-12
Review by Pevans (Flagship, February 2005)	http://www.pevans.co.uk/Reviews/Struggle.html	2008-08-31
Dutch Review on www.spellenclub13.be	http://www.spellenclub13.be/recensies/Struggle of ...	2007-05-22