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Pharsalus: Caesar victorious at the end of turn 3
The Battle of Pharsalus being played at GameOn in Seattle.

CAESAR: The Great Battles of Julius Caesar – The Civil Wars 48-45 B.C. (1994)

Players
1–4
Best: 2
Playing time
360–360 min
Age
12+
7.23
Average rating
325
Ratings
3.44/5
Weight
#6629
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Designer:Richard H. Berg, Mark Herman
Artist:Rodger B. MacGowan, Mark Simonitch
Publisher:GMT Games
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 7, Interaction 5, Complexity 6.9, Theme 5
Strategy7.0
Luck7.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity6.9
Theme5.0

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

WargameAncientCivil WarHexagon GridSimulationDice RollingGrid MovementScenario / Mission / Campaign GameMovement PointsLine of Sight

Overview

Alea iacta est... 49 B.C. Rome is in turmoil. Armed mobs rule the streets. The First Triumvirate - overseers of the last days of the Roman Republic - has disintegrated. The Senate and the People have two options: on the one hand is the overweening ego, ambition, but limited military vision of Gnaeus Pompeius Magno - Pompey the Great. On the other hand is one of history's greatest - and most schemingly ambitious - political/military figures, the conqueror of Gaul, Caius Julius Caesar. In Italy, at the edge of the Rubicon River, word of the stalemate has reached Caesar and his XIII Legion. He intones, for posterity: Ialea acta est... the die is cast.

CAESAR: The Great Battles of Julius Caesar - The Civil Wars 48-45 B.C. recreates 5 battles, using the GMT Great Battles of History (GBoH) basic system:

Pharsalus (Tessaly), 48 B.C. Dyrrhachium-Lesnika (Illyria), 48 B.C. Thapsus (Africa), 46 B.C. Ruspina (Africa), 46 B.C. Munda (Spain), 45 B.C.

Expansions

Simple GBoH
The Great Battles of Julius Caesar: The Civil Wars 48-45 B.C. – Dictator
The Great Battles of Julius Caesar: The Civil Wars 48-45 B.C. – Veni Vidi Vici: The Battles of Nicopolis 48 B.C. Zela 47 B.C.
Jugurtha: Guerrilla Warfare in Numidia
Simple GBoH Battle Manual
The Sertorian War, 80-72 B.C.
The Army without a General
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