Twilight Imperium Boardgame?!?!?!?

Question

If anyone has one, can they tell me how cool it is? Is it worth buying? Compare it to other strategy board games.

Answer 1

Very cool game, but it's big and not a game you can easily finish.  It's well balanced, and includes a ton of miniatures.  I'd say it's worth buying if you like longer games (or need one for your collection).  

Potential issues (compared to other strategy games):

- Sci-Fi theme

- Very strategic, some downtime while waiting for other players to decide on their moves and make them.

- Very long (easily 3 hours, often up to 6)

- Player elimination can put players out of the game and waiting (definitely a potential issue when the game lasts so long)

- Quite a high degree of randomness