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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.
BBchains
I personally love this game, it is so much jam packed fun for a quick game. It has revitalised my love for pandemic and is an even better version than the original.
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.
bnordeng
Yet another high quality implementation of a well-themed game using the basic Pandemic mechanics. Like the others, I'd say if you like Pandemic and like a re-theming with some new mechanics to fit with the theme then you might like this. I didn't feel like I was interested in that sort of thing until I tried Iberia. Now, I own Iberia, Rising Tide and Fall of Rome and I really like how each game brings out its theme while keeping to the core of Pandemic. Original Pandemic is one of my favorite games. Fall of Rome does create the feeling that Rome (or other cities) are under great pressure that mounts throughout the course of the game. The alliance and then recruiting barbarians into your own legions is a very neat mechanic. I look forward to a lot more of this game.