Twilight Imperium

[Acepilotf14]

This is an epic board game I bought a year or so ago, but never really got the chance to play. It's pretty pricey, but comes with loads of stuff. Pretty much, you play as 1 of 8(10?) races in contention for the galaxy. It maxes out at 6 players, and features politics, trade, combat, invasions, and actual democracy... really, a gigantic game. The rules are a bit hard to grasp at first as they're quite odd, but so far I've started to understand. I'm trying to get a group together to play, but obviously a game of this magnitude, our first game will likely just be a test game.

Anyone else played this?

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ti3.html