As the Western Roman Empire faces its twilight, emerging kingdoms embark on an unrelenting quest for supremacy over Western Europe, while the Hun horde sweeps across the continent.
This is the setting of Barbarian Kingdoms, an asymmetrical and competitive strategy game for 2 to 6 players, designed by Christophe Lebrun and published by Jester Games. It was funded on Gamefound in October 2022, and is now releasing to retail, with English edition distributed by Ares Games in the US and non-European countries.
The game is now shipping to distributors and will start to hit the US stores on July 15th. Barbarian Kingdoms offers a fast-paced, yet deeply strategical and immersive, board game experience.
Players assume the roles of leaders of the six most famous barbarian nations - Huns, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Visigoths, Franks, and Anglo-Saxons. They engage in a tumultuous struggle for dominance, guiding their burgeoning kingdoms through the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
With a balanced asymmetry, ensuring different strategies and high replayability, Barbarian Kingdoms blends conquest, bluffing, and diplomacy, emphasizing strategic skill over chance. Recruiting warriors, collecting taxes, assaulting provinces, manoeuvring units, and claiming territories are strategic actions crucial in the race to be the first to control seven territories or eliminate two rival kings.
The game ends when the first player meets one of the these two victory conditions, territorial or military. This allows for strategic variety and allows players to keep on playing... even after the loss of their King.
For more information about Barbarian Kingdoms, visit the game's page on Ares Games website and on Jester Games' website.
