The roll of the die delivers unto us Alea Jacta Est - Roman Civil Wars. It is your right to lead, but to become the sole ruler of Rome it's going to take you some doing in this recently disclosed AGEOD title.
Features:
The game enjoys most of the features and improvement from previous AGEOD games, plus some brand new specific features:• Ancient Command and Supply System (based on the Wars in America system), allowing for a good representation of historical army command in the Roman era.
• Quick and simple system of Construction of Units, allowing players to choose and purchase their forces as they wish (or can) during the annual and grand campaigns.
• Decision features, playable on the map, like wild card assets.
• Diversified set of historical events, allowing multiple choices events and options, thereby enhancing flexibility and re-playability.
• Different updates and other rules, in particular a combat system adapted to ancient warfare and sieges.
• Map: all of the Roman Empire and neighboring lands, with over 2800 different regions and seas, giving a lot of room for maneuvers.
• Over a thousand of new leaders (main leaders have individual portraits) and hundreds units with accurate pictures.Scenarios
Five scenarios, starting 87 BC till 200 AD, including the well-known "Caesar vs. Pompey" civil war between 50 and 40 BC, or the infamous "Year of the Four Emperors 68 AD"
There are even plans for multiple expansion packs (the first of which to be named "Birth of Rome 312 to 236 BC") and also additional scenario packs such as Longuinqua Britannia, Furor Germanicus, Regnum Dacicum and Bellum Parthicum.
For further details visit the forum announcement here.
The game is currently in Beta and aiming for a release by Q3 2012.
