They are small, which is good because you have to roll eight at once. The player with the most points wins.ĬOMPONENTS: The dice in the game (called cubic luck bringers on the box for some reason) are plastic, and measure about half an inch wide. After the fifth round, Patricians are allocated to provinces and bonuses are scored. The start player marker passes to the left and a new round begins. However, every die in the Latrina gets you a reroll token which can be spent to reroll any dice you just rolled that you choose, or can be saved until the end of the game for points.Īfter rolling, the buildings are resolved in the order I just gave.
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The only rule is that you can’t add a sequence that is already there.
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Also, the Forum consists of up to five puzzle pieces. You’ll always use the Senatus, Castrum, Forum, and Latrina, but you only use the Templum in 4-5 player games. The game is set up differently with different numbers of players. You also get five cardboard buildings (Templum, Senatus, Castrum, Forum, and Latrina), 19 Senate tiles, 25 Province tiles, 36 Patrician tiles, 30 Fortune tokens, 30 reroll chips, and a start player marker.
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The game comes with 40 colored dice, eight for each player. Players are all trying to be Caesar and trying to gain the most fame. The phrase “Alea Iacta Est” is Latin for “The die is cast”, and it makes sense because this is a dice game set in ancient Rome. Allers and Bernd Eisenstein, is for 2-5 players, and takes around an hour to play. alea is the publisher, with Rio Grande publishing in the US. With Spiel 2014 going on right now, let’s look at a Eurogame from five years ago: imaqge by BGG user binraixĪlea Iacta Est was first published in 2009 as #5 in alea’s Medium Box line.