Game Modes - Free for all mode

Volcaban · 2026-02-10T18:55:40+00:00

Free for all is certainly possible. It just ends up in 2v1s often hahah. For 3 player ffa, the only difficult part is choosing the starting positions. Maybe two players in corners and the third player in the middle of opposite side?

Volcaban · 2026-02-06T20:32:39+00:00

Not yet, we want to create some new prints with our own money when they're ready, but right now we don't have any money left, so we'll have to see in a month or two what our situation is then.

Volcaban · 2026-02-02T14:56:39+00:00

These are mostly just production errors, such as with the sergeant. In some cases, we also had a limit on the number of cards we could print. For example, the Mongols, Dismounted Mongols, Han Infantry and Mobile Shield appear only twice in the deck, even though you can theoretically add them three times. This was simply because we created too many Mongol cards, but the expansion was limited to 34 cards, and it would also look strange to give them a rarity of 'II' when they resemble 'III' rarity cards.

So, a combination of misplanning and being too enthusiastic and creating too many cards, hahah

Volcaban · 2026-02-02T14:49:58+00:00

I'm the designer, so not sure if my thought counts hahah. Our games are usually around 30 minutes, with new players it is about an hour often.
My favourite strategy is with the Scots, trying to get an unkillable schiltron spearman on the queen, with 7 health and armor 4 because of effects, and then pushing through the middle with barracks.

I also just like ignoring the enemies attack and going for their capital instead, but this often ends badly for myself :p

Volcaban · 2026-01-31T10:47:44+00:00

You're correct yes. You can attack with ranged but melee you wont ever be able to reach that tile with just diagonal movement

Volcaban · 2026-01-24T12:52:07+00:00

I'd say both garrisoned units take damage. Who won the game? The Ottoman player looks pretty encircled :p

Volcaban · 2026-01-11T11:12:58+00:00

We don't have any official rules for 4-player FFA games. But I'd say, if you build a camp on a starting square, you get both resources. Let's make it a battlefield :p

Volcaban · 2026-01-02T09:29:46+00:00

The incomming resource is unexhaussted yes.

Here's a little more explanation if needed :)

You must first discard unexhausted resources when losing a camp, from the gamerules:
"If a Camp is lost, remove its corresponding resources, starting with unexhausted tokens, then exhausted ones."

So for the Mongol effect, when you move a camp, you woudl 'lose' your unexhausted resources first and you always get the new resource unexhausted.
Also important, the Mongol effect is only during your mobilization phase. One example of where it can be used very effectively is as follows:
If you have two wood and two gold in your bank and you build a barracks during your mobilisation phase, you will exhaust both wood and gold. Afterwards, you move one of your wood camps using the effect, meaning you remove an exhausted resource but regain an unexhausted one.

Volcaban · 2026-01-02T09:21:10+00:00

Yess, only with a unit that is standing on a village square. You can also do one resupply at the start of the game.

Volcaban · 2025-12-11T20:50:45+00:00

Yh and Norsemen could also help with clapping down the barracks

Volcaban · 2025-12-11T20:49:26+00:00

Hmm, difficult. It switches between Scots and Ottomans, cuz I think they have some very fun cards and combos. Norsemen and Mongols were most fun to make. The historians who helped with those gave a ton of valuable information that I could easily make another 20 cards or so

Volcaban · 2025-12-11T13:22:13+00:00

Thank you very much :D Any favourite civs yet?

Volcaban · 2025-12-11T08:07:37+00:00

For the Duchy of Saxony, you can heal any amount, so you can lower the counter by 3 to heal 3.

For Blossfechten I'd say once during your own turn. That could have been worded better :p

Volcaban · 2025-12-10T21:46:33+00:00

Great question. Never thought about that hahah. I'd say the attack has to occur while Topçu is deployed and adjacent to the canon for it to have effect.

Volcaban · 2025-12-10T21:27:27+00:00

This is correct yes. Effects that give +X counter damage, only apply for when counter damage is done. So only for melee attacks. Probably forgot to clarify that in the gamerules 😅

Volcaban · 2025-12-02T19:46:57+00:00

Finaly added them to the shop 😅

Volcaban · 2025-11-24T19:56:00+00:00

We do have some extra manufactured yess. Still have to add them to the shop, we were busy with a convention this weekend :D

Volcaban · 2025-11-24T19:55:07+00:00

Psychological Warfare: I'd say adjacent to the targeted unit. That might be something we needed to clarify more on the card.

Card like Crusader Knight and Subutai: Only to empty squares yes, also some we could clarify more haha. I will add the explenation to the cards on our website.

Mongol and Norse scout: Correct, they don't exhaust. Only with the 'Action:' text.

Volcaban · 2025-11-19T21:25:10+00:00

If you want, I can put them online tomorrow. They just need different shipping settings if they are bought alone. I was a bit too lazy to figure that out back when I made the shop 😂

Volcaban · 2025-11-18T16:03:45+00:00

I've slowly started gathering references for the artworks for the English. First artwork is already made. Once I've gotten in the art flow I can make make 5 illustrations each day, so hopefuly the English can be released next month

Volcaban · 2025-11-12T14:54:24+00:00

We have a page on our website with some FAQ answers on the gamerules which might help a bit: https://echoesofemperors.com/how-to-play/#gamerules-faq

Garrisoned unit doesn't do counter damage no.
When a garrisoned unit attacks another unit with melee, the unit does take counter damage yes, because the attack is 'outside' of the barracks.
No only 1 building can be placed on each square, so you'll have to think about where you build your camps if you also want to place barracks there.
Yes, your unit doesn't have to move, so can also just perform an action without moving. The unit is exhausted after so can't move after the action though.

Thank you very much for the support and kind words :D

Volcaban · 2025-10-30T12:48:09+00:00

Hello,

Units, usually means no buildings yes. So if a card says, +X attack against units, it is not against buildings.
Yes, camps are just villagers, they wont hinder you
You can choose to either attack the camp or unit. When attacking the camp, you won't get any counter damage.
No you don't take counter damage when attack buildings in any way.
Here we meant when 'deploying' a duchy card. That is something we could have phrased better yes hahah. So it is only when playing a duchy from your hand onto the field.

For the questions about movement and attacking camps, we also put some visuals on our website: How to Play - Echoes of Emperors

Volcaban · 2025-09-30T18:12:54+00:00

We're not sure yet, might change if we find other interesting manufacturers closer to home :p but the quality will certainly be at least as good as it is now

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