Re: Republic of Rome questions.

From: Aaron Boyden <6500adb@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu>

Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 18:40:30 +0000

> 	Is the game any good?  Do you like it or hate it?

My quick review of it is that it's kind of fun and certainly has an
unusually good historical feel.  For example, at least in the games that
I played, the tension the designers intended to create between the goals
of advancing one's faction so one could take over Rome and cooperating
with the other factions to make sure Rome wouldn't collapse entirely and
leave nothing to take over was definitely present.

In some respects, though, it was lacking as a strategic game.  Faction
power is mostly determined by who the faction's members are, and faction
members die frequently and often unpredictably, so your position at a
later point in the game has little relation to what resources you had or
how you used them earlier in the game.  This is particularly true for the
longest version of the game.  I also didn't like several aspects of the
way money worked in stealing senators or preventing them from being
stolen, though I'm hard-pressed to suggest what would have been a better
method.

References

Republic of Rome questions.
lafolle@boing.resort.com (Cynthia Ann Dutra)
Wed, 08 Feb 1995 08:32:57 +0000