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Caesar: Rome vs. Gaul is a fast-playing, easy-to-learn, two-player card-driven game on Caesar’s conquest of Gaul. One player plays Caesar as he attempts to gain wealth and fame in Gallia at the expense of the Gauls. The other player controls all the independent tribes of Gaul as they slowly awake to the peril of Roman conquest.
Caesar: Rome vs. Gaul uses many of the core rules and systems used in Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage. Players are dealt 8 cards at the start of each turn and use their cards to move their armies and place control markers. Players familiar with Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage will quickly learn this game.
The game covers the height of the Gallic Wars, the period between 57 BC and 52 BC when Caesar campaigned back and forth across Gaul putting down one rebellion after another and invading Germania and Britannia. Units are individual Roman Legions or Gallic Tribes. Each turn represents one year.
—description from the publisher
- Fast playing
- Easy to learn
- Similar to Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage
- Roman conquest
- Caesar's conquest of Gaul
- Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Implied by the conquest theme.
- Card Driven Game (CDG) — It's a two-player CDG.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Oh my God this sounds fantastic
- don't get killed oh my God I am all in
- Jeremy's coming up with some wicked cool ideas ain't he
- this is a wicked way that the coin system is being stretched
- this is really really pretty clever
- Man I love the themes that we're going with
- this is the game that's putting NB on the map
- super super into that game
- this is not really my jam
- dude has an encyclopedic amount of knowledge when it comes to designing War Games marks one of the Titans