Preordered ACME from GMT and knowing how similarly they play this video made me so excited to get my copy of the ACIS sequel! Thanks for your video, it looks so awesome!
Played this last night as a 5-player game, fresh out of the box. We may have messed up some rules, but it was a chaotic fun mess of a game. Egypt suffered the 7 plagues, Rome had the Black Death and multiple Barbarian invasions, Mauritania had to pay for Bread and Circuses in 9 cities, and Tory was surprised by a Roman Trojan Horse. The winner? Gaul who by the end had only 2 territories in 2 corners of the map and just quietly collected points with built wonders, peaceful cities, and buying VPs with the talents he got each turn. A lot of fun! But definitely not for people who get easily upset at take-that moves, or who dislike all the randomness that can happen through the events.
Have already been sold on this and struggling to see why people think it'll be boring - as well as the variety of scenarios and solo opportunities, the game is designed to be neat and tidy. Yes, I do think it's a simplified Civ, and yes it could be subject to a lot of randomness in the way the cards might fall, but then the two aspects of Civ I didn't really like was the trading and set collection, so I'm happy with what I'm seeing in ACIS...
I wanted Mare Nostrum to be a epic deep game but it ended up playing too fast and some player you can't really interact with wins it by playing solitaire most the time.
Preordered ACME from GMT and knowing how similarly they play this video made me so excited to get my copy of the ACIS sequel! Thanks for your video, it looks so awesome!
Played this last night as a 5-player game, fresh out of the box. We may have messed up some rules, but it was a chaotic fun mess of a game. Egypt suffered the 7 plagues, Rome had the Black Death and multiple Barbarian invasions, Mauritania had to pay for Bread and Circuses in 9 cities, and Tory was surprised by a Roman Trojan Horse. The winner? Gaul who by the end had only 2 territories in 2 corners of the map and just quietly collected points with built wonders, peaceful cities, and buying VPs with the talents he got each turn. A lot of fun! But definitely not for people who get easily upset at take-that moves, or who dislike all the randomness that can happen through the events.
Thanks for the video. I backed on P500 and look forward to playing it.
Will the game become out of balance if each epoch ends early? I think up to 16 rounds with many players will take a long time.
At 22:09 I was rolling. It shouldn't be so funny.... LOL
Just got it this week. Looks great, Look forward to giving the bots a run.
Looking forward to this one - thanks, Mark!
Have already been sold on this and struggling to see why people think it'll be boring - as well as the variety of scenarios and solo opportunities, the game is designed to be neat and tidy. Yes, I do think it's a simplified Civ, and yes it could be subject to a lot of randomness in the way the cards might fall, but then the two aspects of Civ I didn't really like was the trading and set collection, so I'm happy with what I'm seeing in ACIS...
Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks brah.
How to play Crown of Roses?
Looks good as an alternative to mare nostrum where you have to have full players for it to shine.
I hope it doesn't have the anti-climatic game ending situations of Mare Nostrum, a beautiful looking game I quickly got rid of.
I wanted Mare Nostrum to be a epic deep game but it ended up playing too fast and some player you can't really interact with wins it by playing solitaire most the time.
Is there any Releasedate known?
I'm getting this for solo play. Looks good.
Sounds nice. I will give it a try.
Please tell me the rulebook is better than hitler’s Reich.
A million times better. Look out for the revised GMT rulebook for HR too!
Did you really say "you can play nice, like a girl game"?
He said like a Euro game.
After playing your design of Hitler’s Reich, this is a no brainer to buy.
meh.
Sorry, but this looks incredibly boring.