All roads must lead to Rome, and that’s our job here – we’re laying tarmac across Europe in the hope of appeasing Caeser’s desire to put be able to walk besandaled anywhere in his empire. Or something. This is a classic network builder where we take turns claiming new cities for their hidden point allocation, their treasure, and scoring the route back to Rome.
It’s a light and quick game, even at three players it only just clocks in at 20 minutes for a learning game – which is to say that there’s not much to do on the surface. Connect a new city and count back the number of roads (amusing looking marching romans straight out of Asterix and Obelix), and give points to everyone who contributed part of the way back.
The treasure tokens go on to a personal map, where they are scored for the number of the same type, and also the number of individual sets.