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Description provided by The War Room on YouTube:
1st scenario: the first Diadochi war.
Imperials (green) have military advantage along with high legitimacy, and victory points. Legitimacy means they can use their Royal Macedonian CUs, and the Regents cannot. They also have a clear shot to Phrygia for even more points.
Regents (black) have Alexander’s body. Though they cannot bury it per rules, Ptolemy can bring it with him from Egypt, and use the 4 prestige points to add to the legitimacy to even the odds… but Ptolemy has a weak army. Antigones has a good shot at taking Hellas if he can siege just one minor city for 6 points to even the playing Fidel’s.
What will you do?
Mostly how-to-play and unboxings. Successors (Fourth Edition) is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 5 reviews, 12 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, 7 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
2 - 5 players
300 min
Very heavy weight: Rules-dense, long sessions
About Successors (Fourth Edition), from BoardGameGeek:
When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, he left no clear heir to the immense empire he had conquered. It was not long after his death that the Macedonian generals began to war among themselves over who would be the regent or successor to Alexander's empire.
By 305 BC they had given up on succession and began to carve out their own kingdoms.
Successors is a 2-5 player card-driven wargame based on those wars.
Successors was first published in 1997 by Avalon Hill.
Some years later a second edition rulebook was published that gave more options for the Tyche cards.
Then Successors III, built on the foundation of the Successors II rules set plus expansion cards, appeared in the Boardgamer.
The fourth edition of Successors includes more generals, more scenarios, new Tyche cards, plenty of new components, and a changed map, with Libya and Cyrene being merged.
Designers
Richard H. Berg, Mark Simonitch
Artists
Grzegorz Bakera, Bartek Jędrzejewski, Łukasz Strupiechowski, Rafał Zalewski