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#186: Imperium: The Contention

So Very Wrong About Games

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Imperium the Contention

Onc gods of Egypt is an Eric Lang game that's almost deterministic in the way that it works. The action selection alone, I really quite enjoy long story short. You can do two actions in a turn if your second action is lower on the action selection board. At the end of each track before the track resets to do a certain action is an event and these events can be extremely consequential. How do you build more monuments? Well, that's determined by combat. And how do you score extra points through doing the so-called Loki strategy of desiring to lose? well, that's built into the combat deck.

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