Caesar! Seize Rome in 20 Minutes
Caesar (red) demolishing Autocratus in the solo mode:
After a few games today, I feel the solo opponent is successful mainly at making me very eager to play this with proper (human) opponents. This is right up my street, and I wish that I’d played it with people on the weekend.
Edit: Ha, just found I’d glossed over a very important rule. Let’s see if I’m still doing as well tomorrow…
Edit 2: I also just looked on BGG to confirm what was meant by “landlocked”* region in the solo rules, because there isn’t a single landlocked region on the map! It turns out that the writer was very confused, and the intended meaning is the very least-landlocked regions in the game – the islands, and Italy. Unsurprisingly I was playing that bit “wrong” as well. (* Apparently some editions have this text reworded.)
I’ve also now seen it suggested that with the Poison and Centurion expansions in play, the solo opponent feels much better, so I’ll have to add these into the mix.