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Year
1992
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Description
This game contains counters and maps that allow the reproduction of five battles of warfare in the Roman Republic. The mechanics allow leaders to activate units within their command range in order to rout or destroy the other player's army.
Volume II in GMT Games' Great Battles of History Series.
Contains:
5 Battles
2 doublesided maps
3.5 counter sheets
Rules for SPQR
Battles:
• Beneventum
• Bagradas
• Cannae
• Zama
• Cynocephalae
SPQR Family
(2 games)
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Getting Games Discussion at 51:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- there's big explosive turns of combo tastic scoring going on in between two castles of Mad King Ludwig
- Tetris II polyomino type things are fun
- I quite enjoyed Vindication
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BoardGameBollocks Top List at 10:00 sentiment: positive
video_pk 86648 · mention_pk 224965
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative (reprint), positive (original)
Pros
- Original had so much theme and atmosphere
- Fantastic backstabbing action game
Cons
- Reprint is cheap and nasty looking
- Reprint took out what made it great
- Hate when games companies destroy games in the name of efficiency
Thematic elements
- Intrigue, gladiatorial combat
- Ancient Rome
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Gladiator Combat — Players try to get their gladiator into the ring for a scrap at the end of each round.
- Intrigue Card Play — Players play intrigue cards to stitch out opponents.
- Set Collection — Players hire different slaves and gladiators.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- remember if your top 100 Bard games aren't on this list so far that's because they might be on this list during or after this episode or we might just have not played them or we might think they I'll complete an utter [__] dog [__]
- so remember if you're new here then please consider subscribing to this Channel with the like button and all that YouTube [__] see you after
- it's one of the best tollan games ever made yeah it's one of the best ball games ever made and it's one of the best Gateway games
- it's one of the best thematic two player games you can get
- it's just something about the way it looks that is really compelling
- they wowed the [__] pants off of me with fund Ro Vendetta
- it's just a mental mad maxian romp through some sort of post-apocalyptic game show [__] nonsense [__] wank
- you're never really sort of at the mercy of a random die roll
- it feels very robotic very Android like in its implementation
- it's just something about the ease and simplicity of the gameplay that makes this one of the best war games we've ever played
- if El Grande was released today if it had never been released back in 1999 if it was released today you wouldn't know that it was 25 years old yeah it's that good
- bring back the original Spar CU it had so much theme so much atmosphere yeah and it's just a fantastic backstabbing action game that I love to bits
- Ready Set bet is so exciting yes you know what I mean when you get to the end of the race you're literally screaming out for your horse to come in first
- don't turn back now don't do a lot to wife and turn into a [__] pillar of salt we that would be a tragedy
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The Dice Tower Top List at 5:23 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Very strange character
- Can do a lot of weird things
- Can ramp up
- Really engaging and interesting when it gets going
- Feels different from most other heroes
Cons
- Hard deck to play well
- Takes time to understand
Thematic elements
- Pilot a mech suit
- Penny Parker's universe
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Attached Effects — Tokens and effects on Penny Parker move to the suit when attached.
- Dual Card System — Penny Parker and the SPDR suit are represented on two separate cards that interact.
- Independent Exhaustion — The Penny Parker card (interface) and the SPDR suit card can be exhausted and readied independently.
- Resource Generation — Interface cards generate resources.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's a game I very much adore.
- It's my top 10 characters I enjoy playing. I feel good while I'm playing them. It has nothing to do with how powerful they are, how weak they are.
- They feel good to me. They feel like they're characters in many ways, the the the the comic characters they're attempting to represent.
- It feels broken a little bit.
- This is my top 10 heroes in Marvel Champions.
- It is just These are characters I very much enjoy bringing to the table, shuffling up and playing. They feel good to me.
- I love the idea of progression in Marvel Champions. That That feeling of your character getting better and better at whatever it is that they do.
- Ironheart, my number two, literally does this by upgrading her card, the card that represents you in the game, by taking her card here from version one of the Ironheart suit to version two, to eventually version three, which is tremendously overpowered basically.
- You're you're racing the villain to see who can outpace the other.
- The characters that play risky tend not to be my favorites. The characters that really tow the line where you're living dangerously for lack of a better term.
- My number one is the character that I guess the exception that proves the rule, let's call it, and it is also happens to be one of my favorite, thematically one of my favorite characters in the game, and that is Wolverine.
- Wolverine has an ability here where at the beginning of your round you get to heal two damage, which is tremendous, but the reason for that is because you're going to be taking a whole bunch of damage with your claws.
- this whole paying for cards things, that's for the birds. I'm going to live dangerously by spending my life total to be able to drop this card that costs four for free, and I still have all my cards left.
- It's insane, it feels tremendous.
- My favorite character in the game. That is Logan i.e. Wolverine.
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