Theme: Rule over a galactic empire in Twilight Imperium as one of 10 races. An epic game of galactic exploration, development and conquest, Twilight Imperium is the game for players looking for an immersive space exploration game. You'll explore worlds, play politics, develop your technology and culture and lock in deep space combat against multiple opponents in Fantasy Flight's classic game.

The third edition of Twilight Imperium comes with new design features, faster gameplay, more interaction and less 'downtime'. This over-sized box includes over 200 detailed miniatures, new cards, rules for the civilisations of the Imperium and a complete graphics overhaul. This is the ultimate Twilight Imperium collection and true value for money.

Gameplay: In Twilight Imperium, players are in control of an alien race in an attempt to expand their galactic empire. Each race has their own special ability, technology tree and starting planet. In the official rules, the map is created through a random set-up that is influenced by the players.

Twilight Imperium's main mechanic during turns is that of Puerto Rico. A series of roles are available each round and each player chooses a role on their turn. The player who chose the role gains a special benefit while all other players may choose to spend 'strategy counters' to make use of the secondary power of the role.

All other actions in the game are influenced by the spending of the 'strategy counters' to activate systems and to move your fleet. Combat in Twilight Imperium is dealt with by dice rolls amongst opposing fleets and planets being 'taken over' by troops landed from orbiting ships.

Balancing the development of international politics, trading and military development is one of the key points of Twilight Imperium, with players who fail to do so properly falling behind.

The overall goal of Twilight Imperium is to gain 10 Victory Points, which are garnered from the role cards and the completion of the game objectives.

With a myriad of options for gaining VPs including the Imperial Role choice, Political and
Content

• 6 frames of plastic components, each contains:
  
  • 5 Dreadnoughts
    
  • 4 Carriers
    
  • 8 Cruisers
    
  • 8 Destroyers
    
  • 2 War Suns
    
  • 12 Ground Forces
    
  • 10 Fighters
    
  • 6 Planetary Defense Systems (PDS)
    
  • 3 Space Docks
  
  
• 144 Technology Cards
  
• 51 Planet Cards
  
• 103 Action Cards
  
• 60 Political Cards
  
• 30 Objective Cards (Secret and Public)
  
• 20 Trade Cards (2 each for 10 races)
  
• 10 Race Sheets
  
• 30 Leader Counters
  
• 8 Cardboard Strategy Cards
  
• 160 Command Counters (16 each for 10 races)
  
• 150 Control Markers (15 each for 10 races)
  
• 8 Bonus Counters
  
• 40 Trade Goods Counters
  
• 23 Fighter Supplement Counters
  
• 23 Ground Force Supplement Counters
  
• 1 Speaker Token
  
• 1 Victory Point Track
  
• 43 Hexagonal Board Tiles
  
• 1 Rules Booklet
  
• 4 10-sided Dice
  
• 44 Domain Counters