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Quote[/b] (Simon Appleton @ Feb. 24 2003,09:26)]Did anyone ever play the board wargame "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"? It was by the Wargames Research Group, the same folks as published those helpful books on ancient and medieval armies.
Yep - many, many years ago - I even saw it mentioned on a warggaming e-mail list in the lst couple of weeks and a lot of ppl remembered it.

Basic strategy for the Romans was to dismantle the "wall of iron" 'cos it was too easy to penetrate, hold all the cities and fortify Ravenna and Constantinople then launch raids as time and money permitted while encouraging the various Barbar's to fight among themselves.