>>95940679
Buy a used copy, print your own (it's just a bunch of cards and tokens. The board is just tables), or wait, they're making a 3rd edition which should release this year probably.
Great game. The mechanics are pretty simple, and just there's to give you something to do politics about. The politics are mostly about trying to do things in a way that's good enough that Rome doesn't fall to the barbarians, but that also gets YOU ahead. Plenty of lying, cheating, backroom deals, empty promises, betrayal, temporal alliances, corruption, bullshitting... You really feel like a politician. If you don't feel kinda dirty at the end of the day, you played wrong.
Truly an excellent game but it requires a certain kind of people who can be cunning, cutthroat, good manipulators, and also chill enough to not get pissed when everyone throws them under a bus for short term personal gain.
>guy in charge of the army can profit when arming legions
>profits a bunch, gives other players a cut
>Rome struggling, others try to sue him for corruption
>the ones getting a cute vote him innocent
>now we spent too much money and can't afford maintenance
>gotta disband them again
>now we're poor AND weak, and war breaks out in the provinces
>we'll need to send our best to lead the legions. My man Lucianus is obviously the best commander alive
>no fuck that, you already had a major leader
>we'll die if we don't
>NOT VOTING YOU
>who else can?
>you can't, all your senators were already consul
>not you, you didn't give me money
>not you, you have too many legions loyal to you
>yeah we're sending Claudius
>Claudius has 0 military skill
>army gets wrecked
>time for the yearly talk to the populace
>Claudius was the only decent orator
>second best option is still useless
>hard fumble
>bunch of senators get lynched by an angry mob
>HOLY SHIT THE EGYPTIAN FARMS NEED A NEW GOVERNOR
>prime pocket lining potential
>busy fighting over who gets that
>barbarians fall everyone dies
10/10