Punica: Rome vs Carthage Game Review

The cover for Punica: Rome vs Carthage is one of the best I’ve ever seen. You can feel the sting of the wind, hear the steady tread of the elephant and the grumbling of soldiers echo around the mountain pass. You might find yourself reaching to hold your cloak tight to your body. This is how you set a stage and suggest a story.

Punica concerns the Punic Wars, the eighty-year stretch when nobody not nobody could stop those crazy kids Rome and Carthage from fighting. One player suits up as Hannibal astride his armored elephant, while the other plays as Rome, I guess. Look. Rome doesn’t have an elephant. Further specifics feel irrelevant. The goal of the game is either to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to claim control of Areas of Influence marked on the board. Three anywhere or the Capital in and of itself will get the job done.

On your turn, you take an action. You either move units you have on the board or play an action card from your hand. The actions are movement on steroids, so the temptation to use them is constant, but timing here is…

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