From: Roberto Chiavini <mumaye@libero.it>
Subject: One review

March on Rome (Schutze Games)

This design by Lloyd Krassner (a great guy full of interesting idea, the owner of Warspawn Games, 
one of the greatest game site over the net), developed by Australian DTP
producer Peter Schutze, is a short and fun, if not very historical, 4
players variation over the fall of the Roman Empire. 

Components are top quality for a DTP game, with die-cut counters and an
area map of the Roman World, up to the standards of, say, any Strategy &
Tactics game over the past few years. 

The map is divided in 12 different provinces, two of them controlled by
each player at the start of the game. Each province is rated only for
taxation. Each province has two legions at start. During play, each
player try to get more fame points than his opponents, gained through
conquest of other provinces or becoming emperor, lost through the loss
of the title or provinces. Barbarian actions are controlled through a
few tables for random events, rebellion and combat (nothing complicated,
but very smooth indeed). 

Through taxation each player may buy more legions, move them into
adjacent areas to gain control of them if they were invaded by
barbarians, or he may buy diplomatically a province. There is even a
thick deck of cards, adding to the fun of this game, that, I repeat, is
a fast and furious boardgames 

for a group of wargamers that need a rest from an otherwise to
complicated game once in a while. Not a great addition to the historical
aspect of our hobby, but a fun, single sitting game worth having. 

I rate the game 6 ½ in a 1-10 scale