Focused on Feld: Roma and Arena: Roma II Game Review

Hello and welcome to ‘Focused on Feld’. In this series of reviews, I am working my way through Stefan Feld’s entire catalogue. Over the years, I have hunted down and collected every title he has ever put out. Needless to say, I’m a fan of his work. I’m such a fan, in fact, that when I noticed there were no active Stefan Feld fan groups on Facebook, I created one of my own.

Today we’re going to talk about 2005’s Roma and 2009’s Arena: Roma II, his 1st and 6th games, respectively. Arena: Roma II (Arena) stands out as the first (and, so far, only) time that Feld has released a standalone expansion to a previously published game. Folks that only own one or the other of the two titles can enjoy them separately. Or, if they own both, they can be mixed together in one of several ways for a different experience. These two games also stand out as Feld’s first and second partnerships with Queen Games, a partnership which still flourishes to this day.

Normally, for two different games, I would reserve two different reviews. But, in this case, minus a few differences in components and a few minor differences in the initial setup, the two are so similar as to be the same game. As…

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