“One of the nice things is that people are so interactive in the game, so that you almost always have a favourite in each battle,” he says. In fact, in the melee of ancient warfare, he reckons that these longer skirmishes can be some of the tensest of the game. Hall says the idea was to give players as much choice as possibleĪlthough intended to add more depth to the game and, almost by necessity, extend the total playtime of each battle, Hall says the BattlePlay system shouldn’t actually slow the game down. When you actually start fighting the battles, you will really feel quite Roman and quite Gallic, even with the simpler system that’s in there.” “I think a load of people will be very happy with it exactly as it is,” he says, “because it’s fast moving and it’s already got a good historical feel to it. Hall says the idea was to give players as much choice as possible in terms of how they approach the game, while ensuring each battle captured presented a streamlined wargame, whether you used the BattlePlay system or not. You might choose to play most of the game’s battles with the quick-fire combat system, before busting out the BattlePlay version for the bigger, beefier, and climactic conflicts. “So in you get two things: you get this battle game in two phases with a battleboard, and you get this alternative, more sophisticated set of cards to go with it.”Īs with the videogames, you won’t be stuck with one scale of conflict at the expense of the other. “It lets me introduce the real subtleties of certain things that were particularly good or bad against certain types of opponents,” Hall says. Roman expansion: These are the best strategy board games But in the BattlePlay system, these unit specialities are broken down into more specific categories, with each one sporting a specific attack against close-order infantry, skirmish units, elephants, and all the other unit types of the game. The Greeks’ companion cavalry are superb at riding down infantry, for instance, and can automatically destroy any infantry unit that isn’t armed with pikes. In the base game, this comes at a rather surface level. Streamlined and simplified for this board game, the basic dice-rolling structure is the same, and Hall says he’s retained the same focus on historical detail that others will be familiar with from his past work. While Total War: ROME: The Board Game operates through a classic rock-paper-scissors mechanic system that’s found in many strategy games, its core combat system is based on another of Hall’s designs: Mortem Et Gloriam, a fully-fledged tabletop wargame ruleset. But you get a mini tabletop wargame just using cards”. “That takes somewhere between ten and 15 minutes,” Hall says, “probably 20 if you’re really enjoying yourself and want to branch out.
When you start fighting the battles, you will feel quite Romanĭesigner, Total War: ROME: The Board Gameįollowing a similar card-driven system to the base game’s quick-fire version, you’ll take turns performing specified attacks with your units, and rolling dice to determine their outcome.The whole battle is played in two phases: an initial combat phase in which volleys are exchanged, followed by a counter phase that lets you perform a final string of alternative actions to finish off your opponent.
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