Make and Play Ludus latrunculi .

Ludus latrunculi or simply ("the game of soldiers") is a two-player strategy board game played throughout the Roman Empire. It is said to resemble chess or draughts, as it is generally accepted to be a game of military tactics. Because of the scarcity of sources, reconstruction of the game's rules and basic structure is difficult, and therefore there are multiple interpretations of how to play the game.

W. J. Kowalski refers to the "Stanway Game", an archaeological find of 1996 in Stanway, neat Colchester Essex, and believes the game was played on a board with up to 8×12 squares. Although the rules may have varied across the whole of the Roman Empire, we will use a version of Ulrich Schädler's rules which the Romans stationed at the settlement in Ribchester may have played.

Assembly and Game Instructions

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