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Small Samurai Empires

#284616BGG ↗

2020 · 2-4 players · 90min · weight 2.75 · 949 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
284616
Name
Small Samurai Empires
Year
2020
Rank
2800
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
90
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
90
Avg weight
2.7451
Num weights
51
Bayes avg
6.07006
Average
7.54789
Users rated
949
Num owned
2250
Wanting
95
Wishing
494
Num comments
210
Fetched at
Sat May 02 2026 15:54:52 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (5)
Action QueueArea Majority / InfluenceArea MovementEnd Game BonusesOrder Counters
Categories (2)
Abstract StrategyMedieval
Description (1014 chars)

Small Samurai Empires is an action-programming area-control game for 2-4 players, where players are fighting for control of Japan with their armies of Samurai! A game of Small Samurai Empires is played in 3 Eras, each consisting of 2 rounds. Each round, players will take turns placing order tokens facedown on one of the slots available in the 4 regions of Japan. When all players have placed their tokens and filled all the token slots, they will be revealed and resolved one by one by the owner of the token. These order tokens will enable the players to recruit mighty Samurai armies, move their armies to conquer provinces, build castles to defend and maintain control of their provinces and do other meaningful actions. At the end of each of the three Eras, players will score points depending on the regions they control and their value, which can change during as the game progresses. Finally, the player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner! —description from the publisher

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.