About This Game “ALEA JACTA EST” (The Die is Cast) is what Caesar said as he crossed the Rubicon River when he learned that the Senate had removed him from his command. Crossing that small Italian river was equivalent to disobeying Rome’s orders and entering into open rebellion.The great confrontation with Pompey was about to begin… One of them would become the Master of Rome, and the other would die…Alea Jacta Est is the first historical strategy game on the PC to cover the main Roman civil wars, created by a dedicated team of experts to bring the epic battles that pitted Romans against Romans in conflicts such as those between Rome, Sertorius, and Mithridates.With an incredible level of rich historical detail and historical accuracy, it is one of the few strategy games where the player must face the real dilemmas and challenges of the Romans during the time. Not only must you build and train armies, maneuver them and engage the enemy, but you must also maintain an economic and diplomatic balance with your neighbors.Using the successful and famous AGE engine, Alea Jacta Est covers the whole of Europe, Northern Africa, and part of Eastern Europe, part of more than 2,800 regions, complete with cities, roads, fortifications, weather types, tribes and kingdoms of the time of the scenario. Featuring 5 campaigns from 87 BC to 197 AD, hundreds of historical leaders, units and events, Alea Jacta Est is a must-have for any grand strategy fan.FeaturesAncient Command System (based on the Wars in America system), allowing for a good representation of historical army command in the Roman era.Quick and simple system of Construction of Units, allowing players to choose and purchase their forces as they wish (or can).Decisions features, playable on the map, like wild cards assetsDiversified set of historical events, allowing multiple choices events and options, hereby enhancing flexibility and re-playability.Different updates and other rules, in particular combat system adapted to the Ancient warfare.Map: all of the Roman Empire and neighboring lands, with over 2800 different regions and seas, a lot of room for maneuvers.Over a thousand of leaders and units with specific pictures. 1075eedd30 Title: Alea Jacta EstGenre: Simulation, StrategyDeveloper:AgeodPublisher:Slitherine Ltd.Release Date: 27 Sep, 2012 Alea Jacta Est Key Serial alea jacta est frases. alea jacta est bullets are loud. alea jacta est julio cesar. alea jacta est from silence i rise mp3 download. alea jacta est dies irae. alea jacta est respuesta. alea jacta est hc. alea iacta est wiki english. alea iacta est adalah. alea iacta est meaning. alea jacta est bandcamp. alea jacta est que idioma es. alea jacta est game review. alea jacta est prononciation. alea jacta est po polsku. vertaling alea iacta est. alea y iacta est. alea jacta est que veut dire. alea jacta est wikipedia english. alea jacta est forum. alea jacta est vae victis download. alea jacta est dies irae download. alea iacta est meaning. alea iacta est pc. alea jacta est lyrics. alea jacta est english translation. alea jacta est libro. alea jacta est iacta A perfect intellectual game! Depicts the epoch very good, Absolutely necessary to read the manual, though.. Alea Jacta Est (hence AJE) simulates Roman-era warfare at a strategic level, and it is probably the best one on Steam.As any good strategy game, AJE is a game of informations, and its brilliance shines the most in how these informations are acquired: unlike other "arcade" games (e.g. Rome Total War 1\/2) the map does not show true data, but just a patchwork of rumors, whose reliabililty depends on factors under the player's control (e.g. own army composition, scouting), factors out of control (e.g. subordinates' skill, or lack of it), and enemy's actions.The game reward thinking and planning: re-routing a marching army is not a trivial task (and rightly so), and plainly wrong assumptions about enemy's intentions could lead to catastrophic consequences (again, just think to Scipius and Hannibal at the Rhone's crossing).Under this regard, the 30days long turns are indeed helpful to make the game more credible, and to add a bit of thrill.Another very nice touch is that pitched battles are not always a necessity (Sun Tzu could not agree more...) and their effective impact on the course of the campaign is for the most a consequence of the campaign strategic plan: again, it is a game of strategy, not of tactics, and subordinates' defeats are just one among factors which must be taken into account when planning the moves (a note about battles: these may happens if armies\/fleets enter the same region, but this fact alone does not guarantee that a pitched battle will happen. Armies' rules of engage, army composition and evasion values, commanders' skills define the chance for a bloody encounter. Since the turn covers 30 days, there may be more encounters, until one side lose its ability to fight or the field commander call the retreat).It goes without saying that supply chains, fatigue, units' cohesion, experience, weather, terrain, etc...are simulated and have a major impact on the campaign's outcome: an army or fleet can literally "melt" even before meeting the enemy, and even the best veterans need to rest and winter in suitable quarters.Compared to military aspects, diplomacy, country management and home politics are quite stylized (also because the game is not a sand-box, and developers evidently chose to "force" up to a certain extent the historical accuracy) but blend well.The choice to follow quite closely history on the one hand opens interesting "what if" options, but on the other gives a good advantage to those knowing the events (which I suppose are the vast majority of such games' purchasers): this is true especially when playing as Rome's enemies.In-game tutorial covers just the basics, but there is also a well-detailed manual, so I would not complain here: if there is a manual, it is supposed to be read.As for the technical aspects, the game features nice graphics (nothing too fancy, but makes the map very easy to read, and this is by far more important than seeing a lot of tiny legionaries and hoplites swinging swords and spears...) and decent score (nothing to be thrilled of, and a bit repetitive on long scenarios); turn processing is a bit slow on low-end computers, even if I play AJE even on a rudimental Celeron N2840 powered, 2GHz RAM netbook.On the bright side, the game is remarkably stable on Win10Overall AJE (and its expansions) is a great game, which could make the player lose track of time (even if there is a clock in the interface, just in case :) ) and capable of huge satisfactions. The only fault of the game is geography, the region/city names in Gallia Cisalpina are all shifted to east, between wrong rivers... but the other issues are very beautiful and you forget these weird geographical errors.... Verdict: This is one of the best strategy games in which you're commanding armies of antiquity. Pros:1. Units are quite detailed and seem to be about as effective as their historical counterparts.2. There is some logistics which prevents you from ahistorical winter fighting - it is really hard to get supplies most of the time, although is possible and might catch your opponent with his pants down.3. Quite a few nations and different time settings which means a lot of diversity.4. Many historical characters to command your armies or to fight against.5. Different events to explore what-ifs, forge alliances or declare wars. 6. Map is actually quite nice and cities are different for each period. Cons:1. You're not able to command you men in the field.2. Graphics are somewhat dated, as is the game's engine in my opinion. Overall - I do recommend it if you're a history buff, who enjoys a good strategy game.. A good game. But if you arent a real wargamer, and have no experience, you are going to shy away from it. Dont be intimidated. It is worth learning to play. All in all, a solid release from Ageod, from whom one expects greatness.. One of the best war strategy games that has a great deal of focus on realism over the otehr arcadey stuff. Tough to get into. I myself played it and abandoned it lots of times (been playing a non steam version for the past 3 years). Howver, the developers dont really support the old games when the new AGEOD titles come out. Thus, dont expect paradox\/taleworlds kind of mod support or dev support. This is the only dissapointement. THe developers actually make no attempts to make it more enjoyable for th community. They probably believe that people who're hooked into strategy wargaming to this level of realism (I havent found anything more "real" till date) have no option but to eat out of their hands.. Total War: Rome II is fine for the plebeian masses, but for the true Romanophile there is Alea Jacta Est. Not only does it include some of the more popular conflicts such as Caesar's civil war and the slave revolt of Spartacus (DLC), but also has some of lesser known internal struggles like Marius vs. Sulla, and the year of the four emperors (my personal fav). For those who have never played an AGEOD game before the learning curve may be a little steep, though not nearly as bad as some of the more complicated grand strategy games out there (I'm looking at you HoI3!)So, if you're a fan of Roman history like I am, and are looking for something with a little more depth than, 'march army here, capture city,' this is the game for you!. Very good game.
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