Twilight Imperium is 25 years old this year. The first edition of the game landed in 1997 with the iconic ‘wonky cat-lion-man’ on the cover, and subsequent editions make improvements on the game itself (and the lion-man, who becomes less wonky, and wiser looking) to the point where Twilight Imperium Fourth Edition happily sits at number six in the Board Game Geek top 100. Famous for its lengthy play times, faction powers, and full on space 4X experience. The word is, if you want to get exploring, expanding, exploiting and exterminating this is the real deal (if you can get everyone to commit for a whole day).
How then, could we possibly see this turned into a quite accessible roll and write game? Surely it can’t all fit on one of those little pads? Well, no, actually, you’re going to end up with four different