Game Features and Rules
This game design is a brilliant work of art that clearly has countless ingenious hours of crafting behind it.
ASH & MISTY @QUEERTABLETOPS
There is a lot to this game at the core of the game, you need to play it again and again before you really appreciate how simple and complex this game is…
You only realise how easy it is to pick up and play once you’ve reset the game for the fourth time and you’re still having fun…
In the year 607 B.C., two years after succeeding to the throne of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar dreamt of himself as a terrifying statue with a head of gold; chest and arms of silver; stomach and hips of bronze and legs of blackened iron. Daniel interpreted the dream for him, telling him ‘You are the head of gold, all powerful ruler of all of the Babylonian Empire. The Median Persian Empire – the silver chest and arms, will rise to power after you. Next will come the stomach and hips a kingdom of bronze, that will rule the whole world. The final kingdom, the legs, will be as strong as iron, taking power by smashing and shattering everything in its path.’ Now you must take on the role of one these great empires and find out if it is your time to rule over all others. Nebuchadnezzar was famed for his military might, his brilliance as a tactician and strategist – can you match his skills on the Empire Plateau battlefield?
A Chess player all my life I wanted to create a game that used just as much lateral thinking but on a larger scale and that could involve more people, up to 4 family and friends.
However due to many other chess-like games already being available where players face off against one another across a common grid I shelved my idea as I wanted to offer something completely unique, that had never been seen before and that would be set it apart from other Tactical strategy games.
Years later, during the first lock down in 2020, after being inspired by the shape given from a Longitude and Lattitude map, I finally discovered the unique layout for my board that I had been searching for. The very same day I purchased a corkboard and other over the counter items and using my artist, sign writing and tech drawing skills created the very first crude prototype to play test.
Since then, the game has been developed, reproduced and cold-played by dozens of game testers (as well as having our unique grid copywritten). We now at Frances Games are delighted to be able to present to you and the rest of the world the finished version we have today.
Simple to set up, fast moving, fun and exciting to learn, an entertaining yet complex game. No Dice, No Cards and No Luck!