The basic principle of the game is very simple, but always tricky:
is on a roundabout which bowls one moves all his pieces a dish on each following dishes (one token on each following a shell), with the last dish, the one occupied always indicates the action that you must perform. So it happens like that while you want to perform an action like with his last token but does not land on the desired action and thus simply have to live with. The exciting thing is the number of stones in the output tray indicates how much time the stone moves forward and works against so getting closer to the round or quarter-end. This principle is as simple as clever solved and the heart of the game. It stands next to the now existing in heaps worker-placement games by new momentum in the mechanism.
The actual actions are understood quickly (use of the port = playing cards; Senate action; Trajan Arch Action for extra plates on the roundabout; legionary action and action of the city to be inserted into the area of Rome). A particular strategy does not exist here, you can win the game in different ways and this makes also the enormous replayability charm.
A strong buy recommendation, who in addition to the always identical-looking worker insertion games finally something new wants. Quick explained and exciting play ... what more could you want!