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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.
AmandaDesignsGames
I believe FoR became my favorite Pandemic. It gives you a richer, deeper experience, but the same flavor. However, the changes in the migration system and the corruption action open up the game to new levels, and make the puzzle quite different. It's a fresh take for fans of Pandemic who, like me, grew a bit tired of 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.
artwolf
We have really gotten into this game. Played the original version several times, but noticed that there are few Challenges. We have developed two very interesting ones that make it more difficult to win, but add some new ways to think about how to use roles together. We hope to publish them to BGG in the near future, after a bit more tweaking. Update: in the past 3 weeks we have played it well over 40 times. Great replayability!