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Just out of curiosity, I started browsing the games having "Conquest" themes and "Conquest" mechanisms on BGA, and Kingdom Builder happens to be tagged for both:



From my personal experience with KB, it can certainly get very aggressive in terms of blocking each other's settlements and racing for location tiles, but I'm not sure if that's enough for KB to qualify for either Conquest tag.

I can't find the qualifications or constraints for theme tags and mechanism tags on BGA games anywhere either, so I'm wondering how these tags got applied in the first place.

Kingdom Builder involves grabbing territory and adding settlements. A game doesn't need to have actual wars, like, say Tigris & Euphrates or Pax Renaissance, to be tagged as conquest. Although now I see that neither T&E nor Pax Ren are in the conquest category. Hmm.

I don't know if these (like the 5-point ratings) are done by the developers. There are other examples of rather loose categorization, e.g., Stonks is listed as a Food game.