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Year
2005
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Description
This game is a remake of the 1984 classic that was part of Milton Bradley's Gamemaster Series. In this game you are one of many Roman generals vying for power in Imperial Rome, employing legions, cavalry, and catapults to reach your objectives.
This version of the game has two sets of rules, one set similar to the original version (except that it has fixed the broken catapult rules) and a new set of rules based on Martin Wallace's Struggle of Empires.
Re-implements:
Milton Bradley's Conquest of the Empire (1984)
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The Dice Tower Top 100 List at 2:34 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Engaging strategic scope and historical flavor
Cons
- Cumbersome for modern play; less accessible
Thematic elements
- strategic empire manipulation and military conflict
- Empire-building in a historical/macro map context
- grand strategy with map-based diplomacy
Comparison games
- Struggle of Empires
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players vie for control of territories on a macro map.
- area/empire control — Players vie for control of territories on a macro map.
- economic/resource management — Resource flow supports expansion and military actions.
- Resource Management — Resource flow supports expansion and military actions.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this was the game that put cooperative games on the map because I played this I played Lord of the Rings from Knizia, but this was the game that did it and also added that traitor aspect which was so interesting.
- I really enjoyed playing it.
- the cleanest version of Carcassonne I think
- Mystery of the Abbey is fantastic.
- It's a game of pure logic until it's not.
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Top List at 2:08
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Thematic elements
- build an army, write laws, and conquer
- Mediterranean
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Quotes (from this video)
- so we have a list of every single game that was released in 2005 and we're going to go through all of them in a three-hour episode absolutely not
- we have a potential pool of 25 board games but only 10 can be inducted into our newly minted Hall of Fame that's the rules that's the rules only 10 we made them up that's the rules
- you could argue with us in the comments and tell us why we're wrong you could do that always an option
- I'm going to be real honest with everyone that this list of games from 2005 there are a bunch on here I don't know
- that is like the oldest of old school hidden Trader Trad
- it spawned so many other games right we have a ton of games in this Arkham Horror World which is obviously the world of HP Lovecraft
- I think wits and wagers is a is a classic
- it is on my list it's one of the very early like kind of worker placement kind of mean Euro dry Euro kind of game that I played
- this is like a grill game for people
- wow we didn't even rehearse that
- it sounds like if your jam is hidden rolls or social deduction style games and you haven't played Shadow hunters and you see it out in the wild maybe pick KCK it maybe give it a whirl you might like it
- if this isn't a classic game I don't know what it is
- it is ubiquitous when it comes to board games not just the theme but sooner or later if you're talking about board games eventually Arkham Horror is going to hit the table
- many aboard gamer covet this
- people still talk about I mean any game that you're still it's 20 years old and you're like I should play that sometimes
- I may have my Nostalgia goggles on and uh you know be looking at it through those rosecolor glasses
- it's a game 100% you can play with your kids
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