Barbarian Kings (1980)

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Designer	Greg Costikyan
Artist	Jason Millet Redmond A. Simonsen
Publisher	Hobby Japan Jolly Roger Games Kokusai-Tsushin Co., Ltd. SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)
Year Published	1980
# of Players	2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players (1 voter) [poll]
Playing Time	120 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
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Category	Fantasy Negotiation Wargame
Mechanic	Secret Unit Deployment
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Family	Ares Magazine Games
Primary Name	Barbarian Kings
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Political and military wargame set in a fantasy world. The players assume the roles of provincial kings set on conquest and consolidation.

Two original editions of this appeared, one in Ares Magazine #3 and one in an SPI boxed edition.

A revised edition was published 2001 by Jolly Roger Games.

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9	General Why is this game at the top of "The Hotness"?	2009-12-04	Urza47	17
2	General Still confused about units...	2007-08-25	tempus42	2
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New counters and units for Barbarian Kings

See discription of units in accompanying text file.

phookadude

2008-06-26

Discription of new counters and stuff for Barbarian Kings

Document describing the use of the counters I made up for Barbarian Kings contained in BarbarianKingsCountersB.GIF not nessicarily intenended to all be used in a single game, but a few little tweaks and variations.

phookadude

2008-06-26

New counter sheet for the origional game

Made this after finding the Ares magazine version sans counters. Added counters to help keep trck of ownership changes on the map and an extra hero for each faction.

phookadude

2008-06-19

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Key unit and Control Marker counters

pierrot

2006-06-26

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Additional standard unit counters with higher IDs for game on PBEM map

pierrot

2006-06-26

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All non-leader counters, reworked, including Elven Archers

pierrot

2006-06-26

barbkingstezrules_v01.doc

Rules summary, Tables, Complex and Simple Turn Sheets

pierrot

2006-06-26

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