Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (game)

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, originally titled Decline and Fall: The Game of the Barbarian Invasions, is a board wargame designed by the Canadian game designer Terrence Peter Donnelly and first published by the Wargames Research Group in 1972. It is a four-player game set in the Roman Empire in the year 375 AD, in which one player controls Rome while the other three command the Huns, the Goths and the Vandals across a mounted hex-grid map of the empire. The game runs for fifteen turns, with each full turn representing five years of game time, and play consists of movement, combat and recruitment, with victory determined by accumulating points through territorial control, the looting of cities and the destruction of enemy units and settlements by the game's end. Ariel Productions reissued the game in 1977 under the shortened title used today.