EPOS: A Gentes Game

About this board game

EPOS: A Gentes Game is a historical strategy game for 1–4 players, with play lasting around 180 minutes. Set in the Mediterranean, it challenges you to lead your people toward prosperity and secure a fitting place in history.

EPOS is a game collection in the Gentes universe, combining a base game with eight scenarios and a campaign game. Play the scenarios in any order, repeat them, or skip them as you wish. Once you know the base game, take on a campaign using either all eight scenarios or a random selection of four.

• Kingdoms: Establish settlements, cities, and kingdoms while sending pioneers across as many territories as possible.
• Tributes: Compete for resources and power, and ask the gods for help as achievements vie for a place in history.
• Infrastructure: Develop trading posts and important trade routes that can become major sources of wealth and power.
• Expeditions: Discover distant regions, create new opportunities, and drive your population toward prosperity.
• Trade: Transport valuable goods, respond to changing demand, and trade at the right time to prevent shortages.
• Progress: Connect kingdoms through trade networks while developing technologies and skills.
• Turbulent Times: Face enemies, unrest, disasters, and plagues that demand shared investment of time and resources.
• New Era: Explore new paths and use culture and luxury goods to keep your population in good spirits.

Across these varied scenarios, your people experience expansion, competition, discovery, trade, development, hardship, and renewal. Each scenario offers a distinct historical focus while contributing to the broader journey of the Mediterranean peoples.

With flexible scenario order and multiple campaign lengths, EPOS: A Gentes Game offers a substantial way to explore the rise and transformation of your people across generations.