The GameSmiths is a family run company offering two historically focused products.
Six Empires combines elements of traditional strategy games with elements of RPGs, forcing you to compete with your friends in a world that fights back!
World on Fire takes the card-based morale system we built for Six Empires, and applies it to a popular World War II themed strategy game.
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Rule an empire! Cope with rebels, spies, and pesky pirates as you crush your friends.
An expansion that adds morale to the Anniversary and 1942 2nd Editions of a popular WWII game.
We are the Smith family. We love games so much we formed a small company to publish our own!
There are GameSmiths across three generations of our family, though most of us are siblings that grew up playing games together. Because there is almost 10 years between the oldest and youngest, we did a lot of tinkering with house rules to keep our games fun for the younger kids and challenging for the older kids. All that tinkering taught us a lot about what makes a game fun and what doesn’t.
In 2013 we combined our favorite ideas into a single game, which we called Conquest. It had some flaws, but it was also fun enough that we kept coming back to it. We played it over and over again, tinkering as we went until it evolved into a what we now call Six Empires.
Along the way, we let some friends in on our family's game, and they encouraged us to share it with the world. In 2016 we began working with playtest groups who helped us to refine it even further, and by 2019 we were ready to publish. We couldn’t be more thrilled with the results!
Not long after that, we took one of our favorite ideas from Six Empires, morale, and turned it into an unofficial companion to one of our family’s favorite games. The expansion is called World on Fire and if you’re a big enough fan to guess the game it goes with, we’re positive you will love it!
