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Clash Of The Gladiators box art
2002 Ranked #7,401

Clash Of The Gladiators

A gladiatorial card game has players assemble combat teams and seek points by defeating rivals. Different fighter types alter combat rolls, while wild animals intensify the struggle until one contender remains.

Family Games Ancient Fighting Player Elimination Dice Rolling

Players

2-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

1.54/5

Rating

5.92

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

In Clash of the Gladiators players form teams of Gladiators: Swordsmen, Spearmen, Net-throwers, Shield-Carriers, and Trident-Carriers. Each type of card has different effects on the combat die-rolls.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Player Elimination

Players can be removed from contention before the game ends.
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In Clash of the Gladiators players form teams of Gladiators: Swordsmen, Spearmen, Net-throwers, Shield-Carriers, and Trident-Carriers. Each type of card has different effects on the combat die-rolls. Players gets points for kills. Wild Animals are thrown in to keep things interesting. Keep playing until only one player is left standing.

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Type

1
Family Games

Category

2
Ancient Fighting

Mechanism

2
Dice Rolling Player Elimination

Family

3
Admin: Better Description Needed! Ancient: Rome Theme: Gladiators

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
2–5
Play time
45 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.5/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Reiner Knizia

Artists

1
Mathias Dietze

Publishers

3
999 Games Hans im Glück Rio Grande Games

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