Never Second in Rome

Great Continuation from the last game with a much grander scope.

Highly Recommended Sequel! As a fan of "A Legionary's Life", I was waiting for this game for a long time. It did not disappoint. As an enjoyer of roman history and complex number games, this game scratches an itch like no other. This is the kind of game I always dreamed of making myself as a kid and I hope to play more from Alessandro.

What a brilliant game! After spending hours playing A Legionary's Tale, I've always wondered what it would be like to start the game as an officer fighting low-level troops. This game has lots of depth and the story is amazingly well written, highly recommended!

This game is infuriating beyond words

Excellent history. Solid Gameplay.

I cannot in good faith recommend this game right now. I'm only retaining it because I think it could be good in the future if the developer works towards repairing a lot of the underlying systems. Unit Combat: Very flat, very few decision. You move a slider back and forth depending on how aggressive you want your forces to be. There is absolutely no reason to choose anything below Steadfast, going below it just leads to your troops getting slaughtered. There's no tactics or strategy, its just "move slider up for attack, move slider down for defense(kind of)". If you station your character at the front of the formation they tick up fatigue, and there is no way to reduce fatigue in group or individual combat. So, by the end of each battle phase you have to recall your character to the rear, but then they get debuffs for being cowardly(even when they are literally collapsing from exhaustion. And the cowardice bar isn't even linear, its one level for being at the front, and two for being at the rear. Individual Combat: Honestly the facet of the game that I got sick of within one hour. In theory you're supposed to balance your character's attributes with the enemies weakness, and their strengths with your weaknesses, and fight a back and forth duel. In reality, you slaughter your first opponent, get winded by your second or third, and can't do anything but spam defense. And even then, the AI doesn't attack you unless you are completely overmatched, otherwise they just spam recovery and defense. As soon as you're winded, you're done. If your fatigue hits 200, you cannot fight in duels, but there is no option to disengage or at least catch your breath. You just have to click through it until it finally, mercifully ends. I want this game to be good but serious changes need to be made.

I have to say that this is a very well done personal/legion rpg management game. The writing is very well done in following your personal journey as well as the historical context of every deployment. Though not perfect the game really does feel rewarding when you start figuring out its unique systems without being to punishing when you're just starting out thanks to the many updates to the game since release by the active developer (whose previous game was my favorite text based game I've ever played) to balance the game. If you like Roman history and old rpg stat training and checks with a robust turn based legion and 1v1 combat system please give this game a try, I think it would be worth your time.