Glory to Rome!!! (Abridged version)

Bruce and I got together on Sunday afternoon for a couple of hours of Hannibal - Rome vs. Carthage.

Neither of us had played this game before, but Bruce had read the rules and was up for it.

It took almost two hours just to cover off the rules to this Valley Games Classic. The game is absolutely beautiful and the rules are deceptively straight-forward. There are parts that feel a lot like Twilight Struggle, which is both good and bad (I tried to apply the same strategies, but the existence of the armies and generals, really seem to change the premise).

We played the first two years (in about a couple of hours) to get a feel for the rules. I still need to get a grasp on what exactly I should be doing. I read through some strategy guides after the fact and I hope that I do better on Wednesday (We have another game planned for then, where we hope to get through a full game.

It was a pretty short afternoon, but a good one.