New Games in Old Rome
Game Materials
The cards are normal playing card size, there are pictures of
various Romans on the cards ranging from a slave to Caesar
and a banner on the banner cards,
the chips are about an inch and a half square, the counters are
about a three quarters of an inch square, the boards are fairly
small - a bit wider and shorter than an A4 sheet.
Game Boards
8 game boards on four, double-sided, unique cards. Each game board is used for a specific game and is labelled with the corresponding title.
Cards
65 cards. The cards have the values 1 through 10 and the value 12 in five colours: red, blue, yellow, green and lilac. Furthermore, in each colour there are two identical banner cards that don't have any specific number value. The deck is used in all of the games.
Figures
11 wooden figures or pawns. There are three red and three blue figures and one figure in each of the colours yellow, green, lilac, black and white.
Stones
32 wooden stones. The 32 stones are divided into seven red, ten blue, and five each of yellow, green and lilac stones.
Different numbers of figures and stones are used in the various games.
Chips
70 cardboard chips. There are 14 chips in each of five different values: lilac ones, blue twos, green fives, yellow tens and red twenties.
Markers
The chips have coloured, blank backs and are also used as coloured markers in some games.
Batteries Not Included
Some games require additional memorandum markers and pencils. Every home has these sorts of things so they have not been included in this copious collection of bits.