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Great Battles of History Series Poster – Game Design by Richard Berg & Mark Herman – Graphic Design by Rodger B. MacGowan Copyright 2014

SPQR (Deluxe Edition) (2008)

Players
1–4
Best: 2
Playing time
240–240 min
Age
12+
8.03
Average rating
955
Ratings
3.91/5
Weight
#2357
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Alternate names:SPQR: The Art of War in the Roman Republic +1 more
Designer:Richard H. Berg, Mark Herman
Artist:Rodger B. MacGowan, Mark Simonitch, Leland Myrick
Publisher:GMT Games
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Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 7, Interaction 5, Complexity 7.8, Theme 5
Strategy7.0
Luck7.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity7.8
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

SPQR (Deluxe Edition) is a re-working of the classic GMT game of warfare in the age of the Roman Republic, out of print for many years now. The deluxe edition contains the five scenarios, maps and counters from the original SPQR, plus nine additional scenarios (and the requisite maps and counters) taken from various expansion modules. This major revision makes available again a key part of the brilliant Great Battles of History Series.

Contents:

5 full-color countersheets 5 backprinted full color maps Rules Booklet Scenario Booklet Charts and Tables One 10-sided die

Battles: (and the modules they appeared in originally)

Heraclea - 280 BC (Pyrrhic Victory) Ausculum - 279 BC (Pyrrhic Victory) Beneventum - 275 BC (SPQR) Bagradas Plains - 255 BC (SPQR) Trebbia - 218 BC (Consul for Rome) Cannae - 216 BC (SPQR) Baecula - 208 BC (Africanus) The Metaurus - 207 BC (Consul for Rome) Ilipa - 206 BC (Africanus) The Great Plains - 204 BC (C3i No.4) Zama - 202 BC (SPQR) Cynoscephalae - 197 BC (SPQR) Magnesia - 190 BC (War Elephant) The Muthul River - 109 BC (Jugurtha)

Time Scale: 20 minutes per game turn Map Scale: 70 yards per hex Unit Scale: Each Strength Point = 100–150 infantry, 100 cavalry Players: 1–4

Expansions

Simple GBoH
Africanus: SPQR Battle Module V
Jugurtha: Guerrilla Warfare in Numidia
Simple GBoH Battle Manual
Barbarian: Rome vs. The Gauls and Samnites, 315-200 BC – SPQR Battle Module
The Battle of the Tagus River
SPQR: Player's Guide
Pyrrhus in Sicily: Epirus versus Carthage, 278-275 B.C.
The Hammer of God: Judea vs. the Seleucids, 167-160 B.C.
The Battle of Telamon, 225 B.C.
Mago: Youngest of the Lion's Brood
The Truceless War: Hamilcar Barca Puts Down a Mercenary Revolt
Marcus Claudius Marcellus: The Sword of Rome
Caralis: The Battle for Sardinia, 215 B.C
Equus: Cavalry Battles of the Second Punic War, 218-203 B.C.
Sophonisba and the Battle of the Great Plains: Africa – Territory of Carthage: SPQR Battle Module
Alexander the Great in Italy
The Battle of Castulo, 211 B.C.
The Battle of Dertosa 215 B.C.
The Great Battles of Magna Graecia: Part 1
The Battle of Grumentum, the Italian Campaign, 207 BC
The Battle of Utica, 203 BC
Cannae-Lite: The Battles of Herdonia, 212 and 210 BC
Syphax – Lion of the Desert: The Battles of Tispara, 213, Siga & Tingis 212 BC
The Battle of Crotona, 204 BC
SPQR (Deluxe Edition): Battle of the Po River, 203 BC
Lake Trasimene
SPQR: Skirmishers, Velites and Light Troops Variant
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