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Description provided by Tantrum House on YouTube:
In Rise of Augustus players race to complete "objective" cards in order to gain special powers and ultimately to claim victory points. In similar fashion to Bingo, tokens are randomly drawn from a bag and players place their meeple "legionnaires" on corresponding symbols. When all of their symbols are covered they declare "Ave Caesar." Choosing which objective cards to complete and building your set add a nice layer of strategy to this simple and enjoyable game.
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Mostly reviews. Rise of Augustus is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 32 reviews, 13 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, and 1 other video.
2 - 6 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Rise of Augustus, from BoardGameGeek:
In Augustus, you vie with your fellow players to complete "objective" cards for special powers and ultimately for victory points. Each card has 2-6 symbols which you must populate with legionnaire meeples in order to complete the card. These symbols are drawn one at a time from a bag, with all players gaining the benefit equally, but interestingly, the bag contains more of some symbols than others.
So the pivotal skill you'll deploy is in making your choice of which three objectives you'll start the game with (you're dealt six) - balancing potential difficulty of completion against value of the reward - and then which of five available objectives you'll add to your plate each time you complete one of your three. The game ends when someone completes seven objectives.