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My custom map for Borderlands. Fullsize this pic is 33"x25"

My Art Deco version of the Borderlands board.

Borderlands (1982)

Players

2–4

Best: 4

Playing time

120–120 min

Age

12+

6.70

Average rating

289

Ratings

2.79/5

Weight

#8971

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Alternate names:Ascalion +1 more

Designer:Bill Eberle, Jack Kittredge, Peter Olotka

Artist:Dean Morrissey, Frank Frazetta

Publisher:Eon Products, Inc. (Eon) +3 more

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy5.0

Luck7.0

Interaction10.0

Complexity5.6

Theme6.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

PoliticalFantasyCivilizationBluffingNegotiationTradingArea MovementSimulationRandom Production

Overview

Trying to squeeze Diplomacy into a reasonable amount of time, Eon Products, Inc. (Eon) designed Borderlands to be a game where political wrangling is a must, and a free market society fuels the ambition for conquest. Borderlands blends the conflict and deal-making elements from Diplomacy with resource management similar to that of Settlers of Catan.

The German edition of the game, Ascalion, contains elements from the two Borderlands expansions.

Reimplemented by

Gearworld: The Borderlands