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Epic Battle of Alesia

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2025
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Description

The Epic Battle of Alesia 52 BC allows players to refight Caesar's epic battle against the Gaul in 52 B.C., on a massive 34" x 44" hard mounted board. 10 Roman Legions against dozens of Gallic Tribes equals nearly 400 counters, each 3/4" big with rounded corners!

The game is Grant Wylie's reimagining of the Avalon Hill classic, Caesar: Epic Battle of Alesia originally published in 1976.

—description from the designer

Description

The Epic Battle of Alesia 52 BC allows players to refight Caesar's epic battle against the Gaul in 52 B.C., on a massive 34" x 44" hard mounted board. 10 Roman Legions against dozens of Gallic Tribes equals nearly 400 counters, each 3/4" big with rounded corners!

The game is Grant Wylie's reimagining of the Avalon Hill classic, Caesar: Epic Battle of Alesia originally published in 1976.

—description from the designer

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Video LRj5bbScSgE Zilla Blitz Analysis at 7:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Looks really cool.
  • Robust counter set.
  • Updated graphics and reimagined format.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Ancient Battle
Comparison games
  • Caesar
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Battle Rage — Mechanics include battle rage.
  • Hex and counter — A hex encounters game at a rather grand scale.
  • Melee — Mechanics include melee.
  • Shock Phase — Mechanics include a shock phase.
  • Stacking — Mechanics include stacking.
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  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge is fantastic it's just a little bit over half price
  • this is a really fun accessible hex and counters game that it's one of the I recommend to people if you're looking to get into hex and counters games this is a really good one
  • Soviet Dawn i' I I don't know anything about this game other than I've seen a bunch of people playing and I've heard good things about it
  • although we have one month left to go what has been your game your historical game your historical war game of 2024 so far
  • now if you don't play historical games or war games that's fine put your game of the year that's good as well but I'll leave you to define the criteria for 2024 is it your best game that was released in 2024 that's okay or the best game that you played for the first time in 2024 that's okay too totally up to you post Down Below in the comments entries is limited to one per person
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Video oIOmRSlMOfs Zilla Blitz Other at 21:35 sentiment: positive
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Positive
Pros
  • High production quality.
  • Modest ruleset for a large recreation of a battle.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Ancient Combat
  • Gaul
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Hex encounters — Hex encounters, ancient combat.
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  • Got it. Off the line. Another man-to-man combat game. Each counter is a single man, just like in combat 3, but uh combat is a solo game. This is uh it's got solo guidance for it, but it's designed as a two-player game, although it's I think it's going to be very solo friendly.
  • I feel like that sort of it's easy for me to sit down when I've got 20 minutes and just cruise through my phone and look at social media, but instead I can play a whole game. And so I think these games offer me an opportunity to do something more interesting than Doomcroll
  • when talk about companies that have high production values with their stuff, I mean, of course, we've got the big ones, you know, GMT, Compass Games, and things. Worthington Publishing is right up there with Bua Sims in terms of the quality of their content. The boxes are good, the counters are good, materials are good, the cards are all vinyl. I mean, just really they don't they they make good stuff, too, which is always really nice to see some durability.
  • It's going to be something different, right? I mean, it's always good to throw different things in the channel. Something a little bit different, but I think there's enough overlap with it with Wargaming that and and I know there's a lot of football fans on the channel as well.
  • 49% no, 51% yes. So roughly 50% half of the people watching this video play miniatures wargaming as well as tabletop board gaming or or play and don't play anything else which was I thought it's more than I thought.
  • Miniatures games for me represent the extension of a childhood hobby of mine, which was building and painting model airplane kits. Totally can see that. So you're building the miniatures, painting the miniatures, playing the games. These can all go together into one big hobby.
  • The other thing would be PC Hex Encounters kind of like we did with the Panzer Core 2. The nice thing about that is that it's very easy to play in a live stream format because the rules are all managed for you in the background.
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