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At the height of its power, the Roman Empire covered a vast amount of territory and brought major advancements in engineering, architecture, science, art, and literature. Corruption and economic crisis has made the empire unstable and paved the way for aggressive barbarian tribes to attack.
aolimpi
One of my favorite iterations of Pandemic. The dice combat is actually of minimal importance.. If your strategy is go around fighting, fighting, fighting, then you will have a difficult time of it. They key is setting up forts and legions to defend (those remove cubes without rolling the dice). This game actually gives you MORE control that vanilla pandemic. If you know you have a problem city, then defend it. You can actually prevent a cube from being placed even if the card is drawn in this game, rather than just having your fingers crossed hoping not to get a bad draw. An ingenious design!
Bluedude303
We played it for the first time last night (Jan 18) and our first game we got absolutely walloped. An unlucky revolt on the very first draw, with an unlucky city filling with 3 cubes next to another, that I promptly drew... yeah not the most friendly first time. However, after losing that first game in short order, we learned enough to try again. Fall of Rome is a very tight game. Getting around the map takes time. Several times we had the cards ready to forge an alliance, but then had to take a turn or two to get to a barbarian of the colour to make the actual alliance. Definitely want to spend more time with it. It's clearly a well designed, tight game on top of the Pandemic system. We'll have to see who comes out on top for this vs Pandemic Iberia.
2d20
Very enjoyable version! I’m might even call this my favourite of the regular series, (sadly haven’t yet played the Legacy versions). We went in with 6 Revolt cards in our 1st play and had a rough start. Combined with a learning game and not the best strategy from the outset, we lost but not by a wide margin. I look forward to trying this one again!