Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East is brought to you by the same team that created Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea - designers Christopher Vorder Bruegge and Mark McLaughlin, with developer Fred Schachter. This game is neither a sequel nor an expansion, but a stand ...Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East is brought to you by the same team that created Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea - designers Christopher Vorder Bruegge and Mark McLaughlin, with developer Fred Schachter. This game is neither a sequel nor an expansion, but a stand-alone game using the same multiplayer and solitaire systems as its predecessor, with many new and exciting features to intrigue its players.
Covering the ancient world from the Hellespont to the Indus, from the Caspian to the Red Sea, and from the early Bronze Age to the Hellenic Age, Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East lets you command not 10 but 17 civilizations. If you want a war game, you've got it. If you want a friendly game, you've got that too! Like Ancient Civilizations of the Inner Sea, Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East can be a war game, but it doesn't have to be.
It can be a friendly game of exploration, city-building, trade, and faith. Players (solo, in groups of up to six, or even a mix of live players with a system-driven civilization of two or more) can make Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East whatever they wish or imagine. The competition can be martial or cultural, warlike or friendly, or a combination of both - how the game unfolds depends entirely on how the players want to play it.
The length of the game also depends on the players: from an odyssey lasting several hours across the four eras to a shorter competition lasting an hour or two, or an agreed threshold of sudden death victory points.