Cover art for SPQR (Deluxe Edition)

SPQR (Deluxe Edition)

2008 · BGG
Avg rating
8.02
Bayes rating
6.21
Weight
3.92 (Heavy)
Players
1-4
Playtime
4 hr
Ratings count
910

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Description

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



Mechanics

Dice Rolling Grid Movement Hexagon Grid Simulation

Themes

Ancient

Publishers

GMT Games

Designers

Mark Herman Richard H. Berg