Borderlands

Borderlands is a board game for 2–4 players published by Eon Products in 1982. Gameplay In designing Borderlands, the Future Pastimes team at Eon Productions wanted to create a simpler and shorter version of Diplomacy, without the need for written orders or the need to leave the table for negotiations. The game is set on an abstract continent, and players represent barbaric tribes who conquer territories, trade gathered resources, and construct cities, boats and weapons. The first player (or alliance of players) to conquer or build three cities is the winner. The game components are: a 20" x 24" map divided into 36 irregular-shaped territories 16 counters representing available resources (coal, gold, horse breeding grounds and forests). Each resource token can be "broken" into a number of smaller tokens to be used for trading. 80 army counters (20 per player) Other counters representing horses, river boats, cities, and weapons. The first step is to distribute the 16 resource tokens randomly across the map (no more than one per territory). Players then place their army counters on the map with regard to capturing resources, offensive and defensive operations.