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Legions of Caesar: Gallic Wars

Legions of Caesar: Gallic Wars is a turn-based tactics game of Caesar's campaigns in Gaul, 58-57 BC. Command cohorts tile by tile, guard your flanks, rotate tired lines and keep your army's morale from breaking. Six battles drawn straight from Caesar's own Commentaries, from the wall at Genava to the desperate fight on the Sabis.

Fact sheet

At a glance

Title
Legions of Caesar: Gallic Wars
Developer
Windlantern
Publisher
Windlantern
Genre
Turn-based tactics / SRPG, historical
Setting
Caesar's Gallic Wars, 58-57 BC
Platform
Windows PC (Steam)
Release
Steam Early Access, March 2, 2027
Demo
Steam Next Fest, February 22 - March 1, 2027 (Battle of Bibracte)
Languages
English, Simplified Chinese
Price
TBA
Steam
STEAM_URL
Website
windlantern.com/en/legions-of-caesar/
Press contact
[email protected]

Description

Short description

Legions of Caesar: Gallic Wars is a turn-based tactics game of Caesar's campaigns in Gaul, 58-57 BC. Command cohorts tile by tile, guard your flanks, rotate tired lines and keep your army's morale from breaking. Six battles drawn straight from Caesar's own Commentaries, from the wall at Genava to the desperate fight on the Sabis.

Long description

In 58 BC the Helvetii left their homes and set out across Gaul. Caesar, the new governor of the province, moved to stop them, and the campaigns that followed would carry Roman legions deep into Gaul. Legions of Caesar: Gallic Wars lets you fight those battles turn by turn.

Every tile holds one cohort, and every cohort is counted in men, not hit points. Each unit has two action points to move, attack, brace or turn. Facing matters: strike an enemy in the flank or the rear and its morale can collapse. Six morale bands and a stamina bar decide when men stand firm, waver, break or run, and when the whole army routs.

Fight as a Roman commander did. Keep cohorts in first, second and third lines and rotate fresh men forward. Keep units inside the reach of Caesar's guard and his legates to rally them before they flee. Use the ground and the fog of war to see the enemy before the enemy sees you.

Early Access brings six battles from Caesar's Commentaries: the Genava wall, the Arar, Bibracte, Ariovistus, the Axona and the Sabis. Scenario and story text is written from the ancient sources, in English and Simplified Chinese.

Features

Game features

One tile, one cohort

Units are counted in men, and every loss shows on the field.

Two action points

Facing, flank and rear attacks can break a line.

Morale and stamina

Men waver, break and run, and whole armies rout.

Roman line rotation

Hold cohorts in first, second and third line and send fresh men forward.

Command presence

Caesar's guard and his legates steady nearby units and rally the routed.

Six historical battles

Built from Caesar's Commentaries, with terrain and fog of war.

Battles

The six battles

The Genava wall

58 BC BG 1.7-8

The Arar

58 BC BG 1.12

Bibracte

58 BC BG 1.23-26

Ariovistus

58 BC BG 1.48-53

The Axona

57 BC BG 2.8-10

The Sabis against the Nervii

57 BC BG 2.18-27

Logos and art

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