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Europa Universalis (board game)

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This atypically long board game has an official playing time of six hours according to the game box, but games can last for weeks; Board Game Geek estimates the playing time to be 15 days. About 1,000 markers are used, as well as two 56 cm × 86 cm (22 in × 34 in) maps:
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A first official extension was released and introduced new rules for forts and missionaries, as well as a new set of objectives. A second extension has been widely circulated on the internet. It introduced yet another set of rules, such as palaces, including historical monarchs with predefined
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The players have extraordinary freedom of choice regarding economics, military, maintenance, discoveries, and colonial investment. One drawback is that there is a lot of calculation and management required during the game regarding computing income, price changes, maintenance and purchases of
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are controlled by Spain. However, as the game progresses, Spain receives events where they lose their provinces in the Netherlands to Holland. When these events occurr in 1560, the Venice player changes his country to
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by Risto Marjomaa and the Europa8 version by Pierre Borgnat, Bertrand Asseray, Jean-Yves Moyen and Jean-Christophe Dubacq, which introduces two more players, revised counters and maps, and is not finished yet.
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characteristics and a faster combat system that could divide by ten or more the time for one battle, as well as many new minor countries and counters. It was never published officially.
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and other players are unable to interact with it, until 1560 when Portugal player switches his country to Russia, making it a major country
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one for Europe and one for the rest of the world. The English rulebook is 154 pages long including player guides and various tables.
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Each country has unique events, objectives, and special rules, for example, Turkey deal with corruption of
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The game is primarily designed for 6 players, but a 5-player variant also exists. Playable countries are
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Under certain conditions, Spain player has the choice of switching over to Austria in 1700
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In 2023, Paradox also published their own boardgame based on their video game,
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and released by Azure Wish Enterprise on 27 April 1993. It is a
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Index

board game
Philippe Thibaut
geopolitical
strategy game
Europe
Spain
Austria
France
Turkey
Portugal
Russia
England
Venice
Holland
the pashas
Peter the Great
Casus Belli
Swedish
Paradox Interactive
video game
turn-based
realtime


"Board Game Geek description of the game"
Europa Universalis Manual
"Board Game Geek description of the extension"
"Risto's rewrite"
"Europa 8 variant"
"Casus Belli #079"

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