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[...]Alas, the die is truly cast

Alea Jacta Est is an engaging strategic experience. The wealth of options, the depth of gameplay, the amusement and the amount of fun strategy fans will be able to derive from this title is enormous. We especially appreciated the way how war was not always the best answer; after waging direct, brutal warfare on one of our opponents in the one of six scenarios, we found ourselves on the losing side, again and again. By changing the focus from military conflict to all possible forms of undermining the opponents population moral, we managed to lower his “nation moral” so much that our troops had much easier time conquering and holding enemy provinces. Now, that is how you provide options in a strategy games. The time pressure to finish the scenario in a certain number of turns makes players be both creative and, above all, fast!

In the end, this is a very solid game, especially because of the time period and setting, and has no particular flaws or bugs that stand out, apart from some graphic issues when scrolling around the map and the slowness of the engine when calculating the events after each turn. Apart from jerky map movement and slow turn processing time, we couldn’t find anything else to even remotely dislike on this game. For us, the die has been cast, and we’ve won with this title! If you like strategy games of this type and also like the era in question, there is no doubt, don’t miss out on Alea Jacta Est!