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About the game

Roman Roads is an unhurried economic strategy where everything depends on roads. Every building stands at its own flag, flags are joined by roads, and each stretch of road has its own carrier who passes goods on to the next one. The better your road network, the faster your settlement grows.

If you played The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici, you will recognise it all: markers for small, medium and large buildings, donkeys on busy roads, a geologist planting signs on the mountain, miners who eat fish, meat or bread, and a border that grows only from military buildings. Numbers and rules were checked against the open remake of the classic.

The graphics are our own, in a look that recalls the original. Choose one of four peoples: Romans, Vikings, Nubians or Japanese. For now you play against the computer; online play is planned.

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How to play

1. Press Play and choose a people.
2. Markers on the ground show what fits where: a flag, a small, medium or large building. Space turns the markers on and off.
3. Click a spot, pick a building, then draw a road from its flag to another flag or road.
4. Put flags often on long roads: each stretch gets its own carrier and goods move faster.
5. To find ore, put a flag near a mountain, connect it with a road and call a geologist.
6. The border grows only from military buildings: barracks, guardhouse, watchtower, fortress.

Mechanics and rules

Roads and carriers

• Goods are passed from flag to flag; each stretch of road has its own carrier.
• Donkeys appear on busy roads if you have a donkey breeder.
• Buildings are small, medium or large; where they fit depends on the terrain.

Production

• Woodcutter, forester, quarry and sawmill give wood, boards and stone.
• Food: fisher, hunter, farm, mill, bakery, pig farm and slaughterhouse, well and brewery.
• Metal: mines in the mountains, smelter, metalworks makes tools, armoury makes weapons, mint makes coins.
• The geologist walks 15 spots around the flag and puts up signs: coal, iron, gold, granite or nothing.

Army

• Soldiers come from the storehouse to military buildings and push the border out.
• Coins raise soldiers' ranks; higher ranks have more hit points.
• Attack your neighbour's military buildings and take their land.

Questions and answers

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