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Gladiator:
Quest for the Rudis
$59.99
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Gladiator:
Quest for the Rudis is a tactical level combat card game based on the blood
sport that reached its peak of popularity between 75 BC and 63 BC. Gladiators
were mostly condemned slaves sentenced to train, and eventually die, in the
arena for the entertainment of the Romans. However, Roman citizens and even
Roman emperors opted to fight as ‘gladiators,’ be it for gold or glory. But it
was only those slaves whose fates were to live life as gladiators who quested
for the rudis. The rudis was nothing more than a symbolic wooden sword, and yet
it represented the ultimate prize to a slave-gladiator; it meant fame and
possibly fortune but most of all it meant...freedom.
Gladiator:
Quest for the Rudis places you on the sandy floor of the arena, in the role of
a slave gladiator with deadly attacks and deft defenses at your disposal. Play
as a light gladiator, protected only by cloth padding and a piece of leather,
but with maneuverability to strike at an unprotected flank or back; or don the
manica, ocrea and helmet of the heavy gladiator, wearing metal armor and
carrying a large rectangular shield, a 22-pound scutum, making you a stalking,
nearly impregnable, death dealer. Grimace as the curved blade of your
opponent’s sica slashes the chest of your mighty murmillo after the defense
that you selected fails to avoid the attack selected by your opponent! You
choose the attacks, select your defense and counters as you control one of the
sixteen individually rated gladiators in the game. Will you claim the rudis and
your freedom or be doomed to die before the crowds of Rome?
2-6
players
Ages
12+
Components:
16
Gladiators (4 murmillo, 4 secutor, 4 retiarius, 4 thraex)
130
Unique Attack and Defense cards
100
Arena Action cards
30
Fate cards
10
Summa Rudis (Chief Referee) cards
20”
x 20” Arena game board
64
One-Inch high quality counters
32-page Full Color rule book
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