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What's the best Gladiator game?
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But if I am looking purely at the combat, perhaps Gorechosen would be preferable.
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Spartacus is also great, but the combat is a secondary feature.
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MacDirk Diggler wrote: I haven’t played them all. But since Spartacus is like the best game evarrrrrrrrr, I would just go with that. If anyone says anything different I would question their credibility.
Spartacus. Period. There is no reason to continue this discussion.
If you want a larger scale, Circus Imperium is your huckleberry. If you want a Gladieuro, Colloseum is.
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My favorite pure gladiator game was Man-to-Man, by Steve Jackson. It was later expanded to become GURPS.
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One might argue, as Shellhead and those supporting Gorechosen do, that combat is only part of it and Spartacus's combat is not that great (or detailed). But the thing that always strikes me as I play is that by including the gambling aspects it gives it more verisimilitude. I sometimes forget that the core reason that ancients watched gladiatorial combat besides the spectacle *was* to gamble and drink. So adding that to a game about gladiators actually works for me really well.
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boardgamegeek.com/thread/1974336/2nd-edition-spartacus
Apparently, tho, this would be a de-licensed version, which, dunno. The teevee tie-in was part of the charm, but it'd certainly be easy enough to create generic ludi (and Romans), and it's hard to imagine any but a few caring or even knowing about the tie-in in another couple of years.
I'll echo others in saying that the combat is only a part of the game and maybe the least satisfying. I've only played with the blue-die initiative variant, which I would highly recommend.
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It's true that the actual combat is just a part of the game. But it is the FULL GLADIATORIAL EXPERIENCE from the top-level powerbrokers and political machinations to plebian betting all the way down to the blood on the sand.
I'd definitely welcome a 2nd edition, my friends love the game but we sort of wore it out...it'd be a good excuse to fire it up again. Don't really care about the TV license going away.
Now, if we are talking strictly combat...yes, it's Gorechosen.
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hotseatgames wrote: Due to its impeccable application of the license, I feel like the game will lose something without the television series connection. How can you not picture one of those characters saying "Jupiter's Cock!"
They will probably tone the card names for the unlicensed second edition. "By Jove!"
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