Editing Imperium (board game) (section)

{{Short description|1977 Science fiction tabletop wargame}}
{{Other uses|Imperium (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox game
|title=''Imperium''
|subtitle=Empires in Conflict – Worlds in the Balance
|image=Imperium box cover.jpg
|image_size=250px
|other_names=Imperium, 3rd Millennium
|caption=First edition box cover by [[Stephen Fabian]], 1977
|date={{Start date and age|1977}}
|publisher={{Unbulleted list|Conflict Game Company & [[Game Designers' Workshop]]|[[Avalanche Press]]}}
|genre=Science fiction [[board wargame]]
|designer=[[Marc W. Miller]]
}}
'''''Imperium''''' is a science fiction [[board wargame]] designed by [[Marc W. Miller]], and published in [[1977 in games|1977]] by the Conflict Game Company and [[Game Designers' Workshop]] (GDW). It features asymmetrical forces, each of the two sides having its unique set of constraints.<ref name="SG"/> The game came in a cardboard box illustrated with a space battle on the exterior. It included a cardboard-mounted, folding map of a local region of the [[Milky Way]] [[galaxy]], a set of rules and charts, and the 352 [[Counter (board wargames)|counters]] representing the various spacecraft, ground units, and markers, and a six-sided [[dice|die]]. A second edition was published in 1990, a third in 2001, and the first edition republished in 2004.