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▲{{quote box| How many board games let you play as a lion? [[Recycled in Space|In space?!]]}}
{{quote|''The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.''|James S. McDonnell}}
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The throne to galactic empire is empty and several alien races put forth bids for it. Your goal is to guide your race to meet the conditions necessary to claim the throne and take control on the known galaxy/universe.
'''''[http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12493/twilight-imperium-third-edition Twilight Imperium]''''' (now in its third edition) is a tabletop/board game that uses hex map tiles to build a new map for each game. The setting takes place in a galaxy where a minimum of three players (and maximum of six, unless you purchase an expansion set) can choose from among [[Loads and Loads of Races|ten different alien races]] (even more with the expansion sets). Gameplay strategies may include battles, trade, politics, and/or any combination of things. In fact, it is entirely possible to win the game without fighting a single battle, by earning points for accomplishing certain goals set by goal cards.
The game set includes the map, race sheets, ten-sided dice, several different types of cards (action, political, technology, and objective), plastic pieces, and many other extras. The ultimate goal of the game? <s> [[Take Over the World|To conquer the universe]]!</s> <s> To destroy your enemies!</s> <s> To subdue your enemies?</s> To get ten objective points.
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The ''Shards of the Throne'' expansion added a few more new races, a few more cool new optional rules, and a scenario covering the end of the old empire.
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* [[All Planets Are Earthlike]] - [[Averted Trope|Averted:]] Each planet has its own unique description.
** Though the description doesn't have much real affect on the game.
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** Most of the new race-specific Flagship units also qualify as Battlestars.
* [[BFG]] - Certain weapons upgrades.
* [[Big Creepy
* [[Bilingual Bonus]] - The name used for the Earth - Jord - means earth in the Scandinavian languages. Not ''the'' Earth, mind, just earth.
* [[Binding Ancient Treaty]] - One of these falling apart is the [[All There in the Manual|background]] for the game..
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* [[Body Horror]] - The [[Cyborg]] race might count.
** The Arborec from the ''Shards of the Throne'' expansion definitely count. They're a race of sentient plants that infest the corpses of other races with their spores, turning them into zombies they can use to communicate. The race description suggests this practice has led to them developing imperial ambitions through osmosis.
* [[
* [[Casual Interstellar Travel]] - Played so straight it hurts. Also highly depends on how many parsecs per hex. Though one hex includes planets [[Sci
* [[Cool Starship]] - The Dreadnought and the WarSun are both [[Incredibly Lame Pun|dreadfully]] awesome.
* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]] - Inverted (mostly). More is nearly always better, except that a few Action cards that will have you shooting your own fighters and the like.
* [[Conveniently
* [[Corralled Cosmos]] - [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] if you have extra players using the expansion, but mostly played straight.
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]] - The L1Z1X Mindnet are a completely cyborg race that seem to have lost touch with their original race characteristics. Rather reminiscent of a certain [[Star Trek]] species...
* [[Cyborg]] - The
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] - You know that you can take advantage of fighting strength, political tactics, and trading to manipulate your opponents so that you get what you want and win the game. Your opponents know it too.
* [[Deflector Shields]] - Defense weapons that you can set up on captured planets double as shields to prevent bombardment.
* [[Divide and Conquer]] - A reasonable strategy if you control politics or trade.
* [[Earth Is the Center of
* [[Fantastic Racism]] - Almost every race has another race that they absolutely cannot stand.
** Though that's only in the background fluff. Anyone can ally with anyone in the actual game.
* [[Fantastic Science]] - Most acquired technology in the game.
* [[Fish People]] - The same race that count as [[
* [[For Massive Damage]] - Most ships (except two) go down in one hit. Somehow a single shot from a fighter can take down much larger hits. Ouch.
** Of course, the fighter tokens may represent squadrons of fighters rather than just one.
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* [[Galactic Conqueror]] - One possible way to achieve victory.
* [[Gambit Pileup]] - Likely to happen with several opponents trying to out-think each other.
* [[Half
* [[Hive Mind]] - The L1Z1X Mindnet. [[
* [[Humanoid Aliens]] - Most of the races.
* [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet]] - Huma- I mean, Terran- erm, [[Call a Human A Smeerp|Those People From Jord]] are seen as latecomers to the galactic scene. They're pretty good at making lots of ground troops but don't have a whole lot of other advantages over other races.
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* [[Landfill Beyond the Stars]] - One of the homeworlds is described as this.
* [[Loads and Loads of Races]] - Ten in the regular game, four more in the first expansion, and four more in the second.
* [[Lost Colony]] - A few of the planets that are unclaimed when you start the game are said to have belonged to certain races at [[
* [[Mechanical Monster]] - The Nekro Virus is an offshoot of the L1Z1X Mindnet obsessed with rendering all organic life into a fine paste, then dumping the paste into a gravity rift.
** [[You Will Be Assimilated]] applies as well, but only for tech — if the Nekro Virus player blows up an enemy unit in battle he gets to copy a technology belonging to the unit's owner.
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* [[Naming Your Colony World]] - Although the game makers were nice enough to name all the planets for you, they certainly used several of the methods here.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]] - Different races... [[Your Mileage May Vary]].
* [[Not Worth Killing]] - Probably a good idea if you don't want to start a war with everyone. Unless you [[Ax Crazy|like]] [[Attack! Attack! Attack!|that sort of thing]].
* [["No Warping" Zone]] - Certain map hexes restrict movement of ships.
* [[Numbered Homeworld]] - The L1Z1X Mindnet have their homeplanet numbered as the galactic center: "[0,0,0]".
* [[One
* [[One
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]] - The ''Barony of Letnev'' race look suspiciously like vampires. They even have super-strength and the aristocratic air to them. And they're pale!
* [[Our Wormholes Are Different]] - Yes. Wormholes.
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* [[Recycled in Space]] - Duh.
* [[The Reptilians]] - Actually more like snapping-turtle-folk. But they're in there. The joke is that the name of their race (Xxcha) is actually just the sound of a jaw chomp transliterated into English letters.
* [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]] - Averted. It's actually very difficult to completely wipe out another race in this game.
* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]] - The Yin Brotherhood, a group of religious fanatic clones. They can convert others and employ suicide ships.
** The Nekkro Virus as well.
* [[Shout
** The [[All in The Manual|manual]] has several to well-known sci-fi authors and entrepreneurs.
** The ship pieces are obvious shout-outs to older sci-fi ships. [[Star Wars|There's a Death Star, a Corellian Cruiser, a Tie Fighter, a Star Destroyer,]] [[Battlestar Galactica|the Battlestar Galactica,]] and [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]].
* [[Small Universe After All]] - See [[Conveniently
* [[Space Cold War]] - Pretty much the point of the game. But [[Your Mileage May Vary]] depending on how you play.
* [[Space Does Not Work That Way]] - Map edges. [[Justified Trope|But it is a tabletop game, after all.]]
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* [[Space Pirates]] - The ''Mentak Coalition'' race.
* [[Space Station]] - Certain expansions have a few of these built into the map hexes.
** Although the spacedocks look like [[
* [[Standard Sci
* [[Starfish Aliens]] - There's the Arborec (sentient plants), the Nekro Virus (insane machines), the Ghosts of Creuss (other-dimensional energy wisps) and the Embers of Muaat (living flame).
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] - A few races start off with more technology bonuses than others. One race gets bonuses for the acquisition of technology.
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* [[That's No Moon]] - The WarSun.
* [[Trigger Happy]] - A few races seem to be intended for war over politics or trade.
* [[
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]] - Slaughter, trick, or [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|trade with]] your opponents so that your race controls the throne of the galactic empire. Then everybody is happy!
* [[We Have Reserves]] - If you have sufficient resources, you may be tempted to use this as a tactic.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]] - You might want to be capable of this ([[Xanatos Speed Chess|or even more]]) if you plan to win.
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