In Tiny Epic Kingdoms, you are a tiny kingdom with big ambitions. You want to expand your population throughout the realms, learn powerful magic, build grand towers, and have your neighbors quiver in fear at the mention of your name. The conflict? All of the other kingdoms want the same thing and there's not enough room for everyone to succeed...  

Tiny Epic Kingdoms (TEK) appeared on Kickstarter six months ago with great success. Here on Giochistarter we present the project for publish the official Italian edition (under Gamelyn games lincense).

Tiny Epic Kingdoms is a strategic 4X gamme for 2-5 players and takes 30 minuts to play.

What does 4x mean?

It means eXpand, eXplore, eXploit and eXterminate and usually only shows up in expensive games that take 2hrs+ to play. Well not anymore! Tiny Epic Kingdoms has all the strategy of a traditional 4x game without the cost or the long playing time.

Game overview

Each player starts with a unique faction, a small territory, and a technology tree to grant them unique faction-specific magical abilities as the game progresses. Players will collect resources, explore other territories, battle each other, research magic, and work to build a great tower to protect their realm. The final round of the game is triggered when a player maxes out either their Magic Level, Population, or Tower.

The Factions: Magic Levels & Kingdom Resources

Each faction has a unique set of skills known as Magic Levels. Players can unlock these abilities by Researching Magic during the game. The abilities stack, eventually creating a very powerful entity.

In addition to Magic Levels, each player will have access to their Kingdom vault where they will manage and track their resources. Resources are used for several aspects in the game; researching magic, expanding population, building towers, and battling opponents. 

The Territories & Population

Each player will be the landlord of a unique Territory. They will Expand their population across the regions and even explore into other player's regions. This is done to gather resources and/or block their opponent's resource supply.

They will also battle each other for position and/or fortify their Kingdom's defense.

 The Elven Player is gathering Mana from the Forest and the Orc Player is gathering Food from the Heartlands.

The Dwarven Player is gathering Ore from the Mountains. The Human Player and the Orc Player are either battling or cohabiting... most likely battling :-D

Cohabiting is when two players create an alliance and share the benefits of that region. The alternative would be to battle, in which one player will lose his meeple and the other player's meeple will remain. War is resolved through a resource bidding system.

The Orc Player is gathering all 3 resource types.

The Elven Player is fortifying the Forest so that no other player may enter. However, she is gathering 1 Mana, not 2. The Human Player is gathering 2 Food.

The Big Tower

Every player will be competing to build a great Tower. They will keep track of their status on a community Tower Card. Because the Tower does not offer any immediate benefits, it is worth additional Victory Points in the end.

The Action Selection Card & Exploitation

The Action Selection Card is the driving engine in Tiny Epic Kingdoms. The players share a community Action Selection Card and even community actions. During a turn, the active player selects an action by placing a Action token next to it. He may either perform the action he selected OR perform no action at all. Now, the other players, in order, must perform the action that the active player selected OR gather resources.

It is now the next player's turn, he is now the active player that is selecting the community action. He may not select an action already chosen in previous turns. Once all the tokens have been placed, they will wipe on the following turn. That active player will now have a clean slate to choose from.

The number of resources gathered is based on where a player's cubes are placed on the Territory Cards. A player gathers 1 resource per region that he has at least 1 cube in. The type of resource gathered is based on the type of region occupied.

Who is this game for?

If you are fans of the fantasy genre and 4x games and are looking for a simple game in the rules, but deep in the strategy, Tiny Kingdoms Epic is the one for you. Its small box makes it a fun easy to transport, in order to play everytime and everywhere.

Which edition?

All backers will recive the Italian edition published by Giochix.it.

Components

6 Faction cards (+7 other faction cards depending by stretch goals)
7 Territory cards
1 Tower card
1 Actions Selections card
35 Meeples (7 per color)
10 player markers (Tower and Magic level, 2 per color)
5 Action markers
5 Mana markers
5 Food markers
5 Ore markers
1 First player marker
2 War dice (12 sided)

Stretch Goals

Are planned these Stretch Goals:

500 euro: It will be added to the game the Lizardmen faction.
1000 euro: It will be added to the game the Undead faction.
1500 euro: It will be added to the game the Valkirie faction.
2000 euro: It will be added to the game the Dark Elves faction.
2500 euro: It will be added to the game the Merfolk faction.
3000 euro: It will be added to the game the Centaurs faction.
3500 euro: It will be added to the game the Shapeshifters faction.
4000 euro: It will be added to the Addon for the deluxe version the Expansion Exploration. It includes 4 variants: Crown of Valor, Dragon's Lair, Buildings, Exploration.

Social Stretch Goal

If the Twitter account of Giochistarter will reach 400 followers it will be added to the special terrytory Capital Cities and Ruins.

Addon: Deluxe edition!

Spending 2.50 euro more it's possible to add to your game the factions Satyrs, Costructs, and Order of Gamelyn. These cards are exclusive and will be not sell in shops.

How to pay?  

It's allowed to pay with credit cards (Paypal) or by Bank wire transfer. Payments must be made within 7 days from the date of the order or the order will be canceled.

Shipping

Shipping by mail to Italy costs simbolically 1 euro. For other Countries the shipping cost will be shown after clicking "Proceed to checkout” button on the cart. Aproximately the cost to ship a game to European Union/USA/Canada is about 7-10 euro.

It’s possible pick-up your copy here in Rome for free. Those who choose this option will be able to do it for a week earlier than the beginning of shipments.

We strongly suggest to specify a telephone number in your profile. This helps a lot the game delivery.

When I will receive it?

We will start to ship on June-July 2015 or as soon we will receive the games in our warehouse. We will ship games following the order date. Their completion will take a few days depending on the amount of participants in the project. Shipments to the participants in the campaign will be made at least one week in advance than that to stores and Italian distributors.

Note: the game release date is approximate and can change.

Risks and challenges

Production. Rarely occur production delays out of our control and by our actions. For example there may be a technical problem in the printing the box or a delay of the supplier of the parts of the game. This fact should be taken into account. We will notify you promptly if something like that were to happen.

Contents. Game specifications and contents are indicative and can be changed during final production.

Shipments. Depending on the game we ship by Postal mail service and/or by DHL. This is specified on "Shipping option page".

Shipments made by Postal service can not be traced and, although it rarely does, it can happen that they delay or are lost. We recommend to those who want to avoid any problem to use the insured shipping.

Shipments made by DHL can be tracked. If you live in a remote place, like an atoll on the Pacific Ocean or a village on the Mount Everest, there will be a supplement on the DHL shipping cost. This aspect will be evaluated at the end of the campaign and the we will ask to you to pay the supplement before to do the shipping. You can check all DHL world remote areas on this link. 

Insurance of shipments do not cover in any case any external damage to the box.

If the game will not be delivered because of your mistake (wrong address, recipient repeatedly absent, do not pick up the package after the passage of the courier, etc.), You will have to pay an additional shipping cost for re-send you the game. This cost will also include the return costs of the game. Otherwise we will send it back at our expense.

If live out of the European Community, customs taxes could be added. This usually doesn't happen for USA. Check your Country legislation.