The Fall of Rome (wargame)

The 17" x 22" hex grid map covers all of Europe, while 200 die-cut counters represent Roman legions and barbarian hordes.

[1] The Fall of Rome was designed by John Young, and was published as a pullout game in Strategy & Tactics #39.

It was also sold as an individual game, packaged in SPI's "flatpack" box.

He concluded by giving the rules a rating of "Abysmal" (the only game rules in Freeman's book to receive that grade), and rated the game itself "Very Poor", calling it "An unmitigated disaster.

"[1] In the January 1976 edition of Jagdpanther, Scott Rusch called Fall of Rome "one of the best ancient [era] wargames around" but agreed that the rules needed a lot of work, and provided six corrections and improvements, as well as suggestions for improvements in general game play.