Epic Dice Battles: Japanese Warfare
(2010)
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 12 and up. You can play with 2 to 5 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Area Majority / Influence, Area Movement, Dice Rolling, Secret Unit Deployment und Worker Placement...
Game Data
| Average time to play: | 60 |
| Minimum age: | 12 |
| Number of players: | 2 - 5 |
| Publisher: | (Self-Published), (Web published) |
| Designers: | Konrad Anft |
| Artists: | Unknown |
| Mechanics: | Area Majority / Influence, Area Movement, Dice Rolling, Secret Unit Deployment, Worker Placement |
EDB: Japanese Warfare was submitted for the "Dicefest Contest - A Tribute to Chessex" held in 2010.
It uses 36 dice in each players color to represent armies, units, actions, and rice production by each player.
Tokens are added to the game to enable hidden unit assignments to the armies, as well as an amount of castles and resources.
Set in feudal Japan, in the end of the Muromachi Period (1136 till 1568 A.D.) before firearms ever made it to the islands, the battles will be conducted between unit of archers, cavalry and Samurai.
EDB: Japanese Warfare is supposed to be the first of a series of games, which use a vast number of dice to represent units in battle scenarios and a simple action-point system to build and strengthen ones armies.
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Epic Dice Battles: Japanese Warfare
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