Spartacus 3-player session

We managed to book a game soon after the experimental 2-player session, ended up with 3 players. The game is a blast and has the right amount of complexity in each step. We even managed to call for support to play out intrigue cards despite only being 3 players and being the cautious types. Bribes were paid for playing cards, the arena phase was twice rigged so that a gladiator was changed and most of the bets ended up being wasted. Not a great deal of backstabbing in this session, although support was called on a few occasions to direct intrigue cards against the stronger player.

I really like this game, and the two other guys also seemed to have a great time and there was not a single complaint about the mechanics or anything like that.


Batiatus ended up winning our game, as Tullius I had the largest hoard of gold but had been punished severely with influence drops during our session. We started on 4 influence which is the "regular" setting and the game took us a bit over 2 hours to finish not counting the introduction of the rules to our third player who was a complete newcomer to the game but who grasped it fairly quickly.