Expeditions: Rome

I wish I had known about this game when it first came out. I finally heard it mentioned when watching a video about good turn-based strategy games, and I'm so glad I did. It has a nice mix of turn-based gameplay and top-level map strategy. And it also adds some nice random events and story lines, letting you decide the story and results. I recommend it for anyone that enjoys strategy games and turn-based.

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Expeditions: Rome is a really enjoyable game, though it needed a few tweaks to be really polished. The story premise is simple: you're the child of a prominent patrician family during the late Roman Republic. Your dad gets whacked for sticking his nose in a whirlwind of corruption, so your mom packs you off to the army for your protection (as the military is a notoriously safe profession). Though you're expected to hold a sinecure position, your patron throws you into the deep end of warfare immediately. Along the way, you inevitably encounter the many larger-than-life figures of the late Republic: Marcus Aurelius Cotta, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, Marcus Porcius Cato, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Ambiorix, Dumnorix, Vercingetorix, Gnaeus Pompeius Maximus, Ptolemy XIII, Cleopatra VII, Mithridates VI, and a young up-and-comer by the name of Gaius Julius Caesar. Gameplay is delightfully varied between 4 principal modes. First, there is the tactical role-playing game mode whose most apt compari...

Cares so much about history that the pronunciation is classical Latin.

Excellent and lovingly made game. Honestly better than I expected.

This game is essentially three things, turn based combat, dialogue/story, and a world map resource management with your legion. The turn based combat with your main characters is great, the story is ok, and the world map and legion stuff is basically an awful unskippable resource management time sink that will take up half the game. And unfortunately, the game does not have mods support or the ability to respec characters. So you can't skip the parts you don't like, and if you make a character build choice you don't like you're you have to restart (and waste hours) or you're stuck with it. So long as you're willing to slog through the garbage, this is actually a good game, and well worth the price. But if you're not patient about such things, you should skip this game.

Awesome story with very different endings, good tactical gameplay, definitely recommended.

enjoyable experience story wise - the gameplay can be quite tedious with waiting and how long actions can take in certain situations. still i highly recommend this game.

Good

Roman Empire X-Com with some RPG and Total War elements sprinkled in. What more could you want?