Roman Buildings

 

Front of the house or shop

Rear of the house or shop

Gangs of Rome fighters for scale

Here are two Roman buildings that I've just finished assembling. They're very nice pre-painted mdf kits with plastic pantile roofing by Empires of War. The first one is a Roman house or shop and the second one is a Roman farm house with some Gangs of Rome fighters for scale. They were easy to assemble, the only real issue I had was with the base of the farm house. While it fitted the building, it was missing the front floor of the verandah, as shown in the illustrated assembly instructions. I just added this part with cardboard and glued it to the roof supports and painted it. There is a new version of the Gangs of Rome rules coming out next year so will probably pick that up when it is published.

Front of the farm house 

Rear of the farm house

Gangs of Rome fighters for scale

Gangs of Rome - As to Spartacus

Escaping gladiators at the start of game

Opposite end of the board

Roman mobs provide a random element to the game

Last Sunday afternoon Craig came over to my place and we played a Gangs of Rome game. The scenario, As to Spartacus, involved six gladiators escaping from a Ludus and trying to reach an objective (in our game a temple) while my gang of four fighters tried to prevent this. The gladiators would win if three reached the temple and the fighters if four gladiators were killed.

This was a fun scenario which proved to be close and was only decided on the last turn with the drawing of the activation pebbles. The Roman mobs provided the usual random element to the game and finished off one of my wounded fighters when they became enraged. Craig's gladiators just managed to escape to the temple.

A Roman mob becomes enraged

My fighters try to contain the gladiators

Gladiators escape to the temple