Forum Romanum (1988)

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Designer	Wolfgang Kramer
Artist	Franz Vohwinkel Matthias Wittig
Publisher	Kosmos
Year Published	1988
# of Players	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4, 5 players Recommended with 3, 4, 5, 6 players (2 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	(no votes yet) (0 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (3 voters) [poll]
Honors	1988 Spiel des Jahres Recommended
Subdomain	Abstract Games (5 voters) [vote]
Category	Abstract Strategy Ancient
Mechanic	Area Control / Area Influence
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Family	Edition Perlhuhn series at Franckh-Kosmos The Roman Empire
Primary Name	Forum Romanum
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Long out of print, this is a popular placement game by Wolfgang Kramer, published in the Franckh Kosmos long box series. Actually very simple, players take turns to put their colored pieces in different rooms. Whenever a row, column, diagonal or room is full, it is scored, with the majority holder getting the value of the length, and any minority holders losing points. All lines or rooms are marked off when scored and when you run out of pieces to place, you must move a piece, which means you can suddenly lose a potential score you were building.

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Forum Romanum

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Franckh Spiele-Galerie editon

Publisher: Kosmos

Artist: Franz Vohwinkel

Year: 1994

Product Code: 684518

Size: 17.12 x 9.25 x 2.00 inches

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Franckh Edition Perlhuhn edition, second printing

Publisher: Kosmos

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Year: 1988

Product Code: 682910

Size: 16.93 x 9.06 x 2.76 inches

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Franckh Edition Perlhuhn edition, first printing

Publisher: Kosmos

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Year: 1988

Product Code: 682910

Size: 16.93 x 9.06 x 2.00 inches

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Forum Romanum English Rules

An English translation of the rules from the last edition of the game (from 1994, in a grey box).

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Forum Romanum ITA.txt

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Dutch rules	http://www.forumfederatie.be/vertalingen/forumroma...	2012-04-07
Dutch review on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=266&zoekcri...	2011-12-04
English review - Westpark Gamers	http://www.westpark-gamers.de/index.html?/Reviews/...	2011-08-12
German review - Spielphase	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/keirat/tx...	2011-08-12
German review - Reich der Spiele	http://www.reich-der-spiele.com/kritiken/ForumRoma...	2011-08-12
German review - FAIRspielt	http://www.fairspielt.de/Spiele/forumromanum.php	2011-08-12
German review - bpk	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/luding/re...	2011-08-12
Review on www.GoodGameGuide.de (in German)	http://www.superfred.de/forumromanum.html	2005-06-03
Luding's Two-player Game List	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/luding/re...	2001-11-02