My three favorite holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Twilight Imperium Day. As a married guy with kids who mostly games with other married people with kids, I get to play the game once, maybe twice a year. It ends up being a big production—I make a big pot of chili, another friend creates a playlist of epic space music, and another has brought in thematic lighting that changes depending on what’s currently happening in the game. It has transcended tradition and become a celebration of its own for me.

Why only once a year? For those who don’t know, Twilight Imperium is a massive, brain-melter of a game. In my experience, it takes about an hour to walk through the rules with a quasi-experienced board gamer and can take anywhere from 8-12 hours to play depending on player count. It has a number of great elements: area control and wargaming, political intrigue and subterfuge, economy/resource building, and a tree of technology for you to research that will often vary depending on which alien race you’re playing. And those are just some of the elements of the game.

The Saga Continued

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