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Alea Iacta Est

By: Rio Grande Games

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: Board Games - Ancient (Rio Grande Games)

MSRP old price: $34.95

Price Reduced

Product Info

Title
Alea Iacta Est
Publisher
Category
Author
Jeffrey Allers, Bernd Eisenstein
Publish Year
2009
Dimensions
6x9x2"
NKG Part #
2147420378
MFG. Part #
RGG395
Type
Boxed Game
Age Range
9 Years and Up
# Players
2 - 5 Players
Game Length
60 Minutes

Description

Each player tries to be Caesar and then works to prove he is indeed Caesar by collecting fame points. The challenge is to intelligently allocate your eight rolled dice among the five buildings to acquire the fame you need to win the game. Clever Caesar would use these resources to conquer new provinces and assign suitable patricians to them, adding to his already enormous fame. Can you do the same? You will also need to show diplomacy in the senate and maybe visit the temple for some luck from Fortuna to win.

Although dice-rolling is luck-based, the options offered here go well beyond luck. You cannot control (well, sometimes you can, actually) the dice you get, but clever allocation of "bad" dice rolls can yield good results. When the dice allocation is done, the buildings are scored and another set begins.