Total War: ROME – The Board Game(2024)
Games like Total War: ROME – The Board Game
Looking for games like Total War: ROME – The Board Game? It's a grind of position and pressure, where territory and timing decide it — built on pushing your luck against the roll. This page rounds up 12 of the closest alternatives, scored on mechanical overlap with the original (45%), complexity match (35%), and player-count fit (20%), then weighted by BoardGameGeek community ratings so every pick is one players genuinely rate. The strongest matches come first; the further down you go, the more a game trades exact overlap for a fresh take on the same core appeal.
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Conquest & Consequence(2021)
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Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage(1996)
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Hannibal & Hamilcar(2018)
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Successors: The Battles for Alexander's Empire(2008)
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Caesar: Rome vs. Gaul(2020)
Shares Campaign / Battle Card Driven + 1 more
Hellenes: Campaigns of the Peloponnesian War(2009)
Shares Campaign / Battle Card Driven + 1 more
Paths of Glory(1999)
Shares Campaign / Battle Card Driven + 1 more
Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy(2020)
Shares Alliances + 3 more
Successors: The Battles for Alexander's Empire (First/Second Edition)(1997)
Shares Campaign / Battle Card Driven + 1 more
Time of Crisis: The Roman Empire in Turmoil, 235-284 AD(2017)
Shares Campaign / Battle Card Driven + 1 more
Genesis: Empires and Kingdoms of the Ancient Middle East(2015)
Shares Campaign / Battle Card Driven + 1 more
Sword of Rome: Conquest of Italy, 362-272 BC(2004)
Shares Campaign / Battle Card Driven + 1 more
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Conquest & Consequence
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Caesar: Rome vs. Gaul
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Paths of Glory
Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy
Successors: The Battles for Alexander's Empire (First/Second Edition)
Time of Crisis: The Roman Empire in Turmoil, 235-284 AD
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Sword of Rome: Conquest of Italy, 362-272 BC
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