Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, and Cities: Skylines Come to the Tabletop

You are a crusader King, striving for wealth, political power, religious influence, and military might across the continent and across generations. Reshape the history of medieval Europe in your own image — if only that dimwitted son of yours set to inherit the throne doesn't spoil your grand plans...

The board game Crusader Kings captures the essence of the Crusader Kings video game experience in a physical tabletop format. This is a strategy game at heart, but with a special focus on characters, intrigue, and drama. It's a big, beautiful game centered on a map of medieval Europe, using cards for actions, characters, and events and well-crafted plastic miniatures to represent knights, armies, castles, and more.

In this game, your goal is to spread your influence over medieval Europe and lead your dynasty to triumph over its rivals. To do that, you need to groom your family over the generations, build and develop your dominion, be shrewd in the realm of diplomacy and intrigue, and use your vassals wisely to grow your wealth and military power, while at the same time fulfilling your duty to partake in the crusades to the Holy Land.

To win, you need to survive invasions, plots, crusades, and even marriage! Or at least have children or siblings standing by to take over the throne if your regent dies. Failure to raise a suitable heir can mean the end of your dynasty.

Govern one of Europe's great nations through the Ages of Discovery, Reformation, Absolutism and Revolutions — spanning more than three hundred years of history. Lift your nation out of the slumber of the Dark Ages and create a glorious empire, through clever diplomacy, brave exploration and ruthless conquest. Each of the playable nations have their own very unique opportunities and challenges.

Europa Universalis is a strategy board game that gives players a full 4X game experience in a historical setting. Through strategic use of cards and careful management of resources you can expand your realm on the map board, while at the same time developing the internal machinery of the state on your player board. You must build diplomatic relations that support your ambition and you can explore far-away parts of the world. By recruiting skilled advisors and carefully investing monarch power in great ideas, province development, and long term strategies, you may well be able to outshine your historical counterparts.

This is a game for 2–6 players (depending on the various scenarios included). The goal of the game is to build the most successful empire, and points are scored for (amongst other things) owned provinces, explored territories, diplomatic relations, victories in wars, and secret objectives that have been accomplished.

Each round in Cities: Skylines, players place buildings in the city to satisfy the demands of constituents and lobbyists, which are represented by cards in hand that show a specific set of buildings built in a specific area. After rolling two dice, players choose buildings from a group based on the rolled numbers, always choosing from the smallest buildings in that group. Buildings are zoned as commercial, residential, industrial, public safety, healthcare, etc.

Each player can score based on the buildings placed each turn, so you want to satisfy your demands while trying to suss out what opponents want and avoid handing points to them — unless you can find objectives that match what you think they're doing in which case you might help each other to points. You can also place special buildings that provide unique abilities to players, such as a recycling center that lets you adjust your hand or a tax office that redistributes wealth to whoever has the least money.

Hearts of Iron: The Board Game is a game of grand strategy warfare, tactical battles, and shrewd diplomatic choices based on the popular "Hearts of Iron" video game franchise released on PC by Paradox Interactive. The board game takes place during the WWII era, and with the expansions, allows for players to battle for territories across the world. Get ready to change the course of history and forge your nation's path to victory and glory!

This is the core base game and features the Eastern European war theater.