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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.
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.
Ange_Berlin
Outside the Legacy versions, Fall of Rome is my favourite Pandemic game. I love the theme and the tweaked rules and I'll play it any time over the original
akaisamurai001
A great game that merges strategy with theme. It is a step up for pandemic strategy-wise with new things such as how the barbarians travel but also adds the excitement of battling with dice rolls. The downside is the dice makes the game luckier but I don't mind that as it adds to the theme and it does not make the game overly lucky in my opinion. But like Pandemic, the alpha gamer issue is still there. For me, this replaces base Pandemic and I can't recommend it more as a co-op game.