Ludus Magnatus: Gladiator Manager Simulator

Ein tolles Spiel, wenn man sich darauf einlässt, nicht direkt die Flinte in Korn zu werfen, wenn es einmal nicht so klappt. Man ungemein viel Spaß.

Certainly better than most of the other gladiator sim offerings out there. Needs some work, but has a good skeleton. Fights are mostly physics based, meaning that if your dude's swing would have collided with an enemy model, it hits. The only RNG for fights is dodge/block chance, but that has the defender actually dodge out of the way, or block with their weapons to stop the blow rather than it being a generic MISS Your fighters are pretty straightforward with a basic statline. I know a lot of other of these sim games like having 35 different attributes per fighter to appear complex, but it's just nonsense, really. Your fighter's stats in this game are: END = HP, STR = Damage, AGI = Crit chance, VIT= death saving roll. That's it. Plus the perks/flaws for flavor. There are no random events (yet?). You're scheduled for 1 fight a week, or 2 if you're still in the Cup. These can be 1v1 all the way up to 5v5, though I prefer setting the option to always have 5v5. Cons: Matches are fun to watch for a while, but then nothing really happens during them aside from swinging and hitting. What I mean by that is, units don't suffer any kind of aggravated damage that would cripple a limb or make an arm useless during a match, bleeding out- the type of stuff you see in Half Sword, for example. It's just dudes beating on each other until the match ends. Without these little "things" like bleeding and crippling, it's hard for an underdog in a match to win via a sudden BAH GAWD KING, HE PUT TIGRIS OF GAUL'S EYE OUT! turn of events.