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2006 Ranked #5,797

Gloria Mundi

A survival strategy game has Roman statesmen build careers while fleeing a collapsing empire. A destructive invader steadily approaches Rome, forcing players to spend resources or escape farther from the city.

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Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

2.61/5

Rating

6.05

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How does it play?

From the designers: Gloria Mundi is a board game for 2-6 players set during the fall of Rome. You're a Roman statesman struggling to survive in this era of cultural decline and political chaos.

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From the designers: Gloria Mundi is a board game for 2-6 players set during the fall of Rome. You're a Roman statesman struggling to survive in this era of cultural decline and political chaos. While foreign invaders and domestic incompetents devour the last resources of the Empire, you'll try to build your career out of the rubble. You start in Rome, and the Visigoth starts on the outskirts of a spiral board. Each turn, you play and purchase cards that produce resources and give you special effects, as well as allowing you to move further out from the doomed Eternal City. Then the Visigoth moves toward Rome, destroying your cards... unless you spend your precious resources to bribe him. When the Visigoth reaches Rome, or a player reaches the outskirts of the empire, the game is over and the player who has fled the furthest from Rome wins.

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
2–4
Play time
60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.6/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
James Ernest Mike Selinker

Artists

1
Franz Vohwinkel

Publishers

2
ABACUSSPIELE Rio Grande Games

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