Twilight Imperium 4th edition Review and Tutorial

The Board Game Kaptain reviews and shows you how to play Twilight Imperium 4th edition.

[Andy-dmoh]

I have yet to play this version, but I'm looking into the rules ahead of time to avoid spending more time looking at the rules than the board. I'd like clarification on a few things from the demo play. First, for play order after selecting the strategy card does it play in order of the lowest number to highest, or start with the lowest and go clockwise? I wasn't sure since it was only a 3 player demo. Second, at one point you left 2 fighter ships alone in the home system. Is this allowed? I thought they had to be with a carrier of some type. Lastly, after building fighters for the war sun you said it was okay to do so because there were only 2 ground units and 2 fighters, however the ground units were already on a planet, so the ground units would not count against the capacity in this case I am guessing? I enjoyed the video greatly though, the only one I found to show an actual gameplay demo without an entire gameplay session.

[alexcamacho]

If a group is short on time what if they played to less victory points say 7? Would this ruin the end game where more battles may occur? Any thoughts?

[eddieb]

I would disagree on the length. I’ve played six player, with set up and tear down, and with three guys late by 30 minutes. Under 7 hours total. Started 8 am, with set up. Last guy there at 845am. Game over at 2pm. Tear down and put up at 245pm as we kept talking instead of putting up. So game went 5 hours. Plus set up and tear down included, under seven hours.
3 of us played TI4 before, 3 had only played TI3. But had watched videos.