Commercium - The Silk Route Empires

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Commercium – The Silk Route Empires est un jeu de placement d’unités compétitif de complexité moyenne, destiné à 2 à 5 joueurs, qui se déroule au Ier siècle après J.-C. dans les empires romain, parthe, kouchan et Han. Les joueurs s’affrontent pour remporter le plus grand nombre de points de victoire en voyageant d’empire en empire, achetant et vendant des marchandises de grande valeur historique propres à chaque région, tout en se disputant des opportunités limitées sur un plateau commun. Un objectif global différent et une sélection changeante de marchands dotés de capacités spécialisées créent de nouvelles combinaisons et priorités à chaque partie. La tension principale réside dans le choix de vos propres objectifs secrets : en prendre davantage augmente votre potentiel de score, mais les objectifs non atteints entraînent des pénalités. Vos rivaux peuvent s’emparer des ressources sur lesquelles vous comptiez, transformant ainsi vos plans à long terme en décisions tactiques : quand s’engager, quand changer de stratégie et quand saisir une autre opportunité. Facile à prendre en main mais très varié, Commercium combine un placement compétitif des pions, des capacités asymétriques, une sélection d’objectifs où il faut tenter sa chance et de multiples voies vers la victoire. —description de l’éditeur

Présentation de la campagne

Commercium™ – The Silk Route Empires is a competitive unit-placement game for 2–5 players, set across the Roman, Parthian, Kushan, and Han Empires of the 1st century AD.

Players travel from empire to empire, buying and selling historically valuable goods unique to each region while competing for limited opportunities on a shared board. A different global objective and changing selection of merchants with specialized abilities create new combinations and priorities each game, rather than rewarding a fixed strategy.

The central tension comes from choosing your own secret objectives: taking on more creates greater scoring potential, but unfinished objectives carry penalties. Rivals may claim resources you were counting on, turning long-term plans into tactical decisions about when to commit, when to pivot, and when to pursue a different opportunity.

Easy to learn but highly variable, Commercium™ combines competitive unit placement, asymmetric abilities, push-your-luck objective selection, and multiple paths to victory.

All art, components, rules, and materials shown are subject to change as we refine the final product.

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AI Disclosure

Due to a poll, though the vote was close, I've removed the partially AI generated box cover image for a new one I've generated myself, mostly in Photoshop and using R for the map projection. Primarily my philosophy is to use AI to teach myself how to do things which I've done extensively. That said I have used it in a more pure sense to generate a few illustrative images for the objective cards and I used it to "dress up" the merchants which were otherwise based on real pictures of people from the appropriate regions. The side decorations on the merchant cards are primarily based on museum relics from the appropriate cultures that I've then modified in Photoshop for fit, color, etc. Whatever the method of production I looked over everything carefully and used alternative designs or alternative production methods for anything that didn't meet my vision. I hope you like the results.