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Twilight Imperium: Third Edition – Shattered Empire

3–8 players · best with 6 · ~240 min to play · ages 12+ · 2006

kind · Wargame complexity · Heavy

language · Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable (43 votes)

BGG 8.5/10 (4,712 ratings) · weight 4.2/5 View on BGG ↗

Questions here read: Twilight Imperium: Third Editionbg-12493-en-1e · Twilight Imperium: Third Edition – Shattered Empirebg-22821-en-1e This box expands Twilight Imperium: Third Edition, so a question here is asked on the base game and reads both books.

Asked on Twilight Imperium: Third Edition, with this expansion included.

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🔧 BGG — every figure this page shows, and where it came from
the word this page prints
Heavy
community weight
4.20 of 5
votes behind it
462 weight votes
community rating
8.54 of 10
ratings behind it
4,712 ratings
players
3–8
best with
6 players
how that best-with count was read
BGG's own poll summary
recommended counts — read out of BGG's poll-summary sentence
4–8
language dependence — the level BGG's poll names, ties read upward
4 of 5 — Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable
votes in that poll
43 votes
minimum age — the figure BGG reports, which a printed box can disagree with
12+
play time — the min and max BGG reports
240 min
play time — the headline figure BGG reports
240 min
year published
2006
captured
Aug 24, 2026
source
BoardGameGeek XML API
🔧 Kinds — what each one rests on, and when it was approved
Wargame · the kind of evening
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Approved Aug 17, 2026, one at a time.

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