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Carthage

Carthage 2018

7.3 /10
BGG rating
#8844
BGG rank
2.1
Weight
1–5
Players
4
Best at
30–75
Minutes
13
Age

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About the Game

Enter the theater of Carthage where only one Gladiator will survive. Take heed for every move could be your last!

Carthage is a deck-building board game in which players move around a hex-based arena and face off in gladiatorial warfare to earn crowd favor, gain armor, and battle to the death. This game uses blended mechanisms of deck-building, hand management, and a whole lot of ruthless "take-that" combat. A round begins with the combat phase where players play action cards, after which they spend crowd favor points to build better combat options, lobby the crowd for advantages, or assemble their starting deck into a more lethal combination of tactics.

​Carthage utilizes deck-building and miniatures to give players a progressive game experience...ending in a vicious crescendo of blood and glory! Gladiators start in the theater as weak combatants, but as their actions gain crowd favor, they can develop their tactics (deck) into a lethal combination of damage, armor, and movement on the hex-based arena.

Featuring a unique modular ruleset which allows players to alter the game complexity, play time, and strategic depth!

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BGG ratings
242 · geek rating 5.61
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refreshed Sep 7, 2026