With conquering a province your troubles are only starting. To get this money, you need to get enough tax revenue by annexing enough provinces. To hold these games (and win them), however, you need to spend lots of money. Both games play on special screens and represent the arcade aspect of the game. However, drafting an army makes people unhappy, and so you need to hold gladiator games or chariot races. In order to invade a province, you need an army. As a consequence, military conquest will be your only choice. As a consequence, you'll have serious problems to convince anybody to join you by diplomatic means. Diplomatic events are heavily scripted and unless you played the game several times over, you will not know when to attempt it. The diplomatic option, however, is very flawed. You have basically two choices when expanding: you can either invade a neutral province or try to annex it by diplomatic means. Caesar means emperor after Caesar's death, it became the official title of the ruler of the Roman Empire, so the game is accurate in this aspect.) Caesar, however, is not only the name of a certain emperor. (A historical note: some people were complaining about the lack of historical accuracy, pointing out that some provinces you need to conquer, such as Britannia, were never conquered by Caesar. You can become Caesar only when the whole map is conquered. As you progress, your rank grows as well: from a Centurion, you become a General, Praetor, Consul, and finally Caesar (I skipped a few levels there's eight of them). Your task is to rule the whole world by conquering all the provinces on the map. In Centurion, you assume the role of a Roman legionnaire at a time when the Romans conquered the Italian peninsular. Designed by Kellyn Beck, the mastermind behind Defender of the Crown, the game is built on the same principles, only set into a different time period. Views: 25360 Screenshots Review by NetDanzr ()Ĭenturion: Defender of Rome was one of those overly complex yet simplistic games that had their heyday in late 1980s and early 90s.

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