At the start of the game, everyone is now dealt out 4 random leader cards, from which they select one and pass the rest to their right. Then everyone selects another leader from the 3 remaining cards and so on until everyone has 4 cards. Then at the start of each Age, everyone selects a leader card to use.
Each leader gives different attributes, gold, military power, victory points, extra victory points if you collect at least one of each coloured card etc. It gives the game a nice little edge and a bit more of a mix to the already great game play. The artwork is fantastic as usual, on the cards and the the new Rome board. The only exception is the back of the new guild 3rd Age cards, which are a lighter colour purple than our 1st edition 3rd Age cards, something picked up by quite a few other owners. Luckily, the publisher Asmodee are quite open to people writing in and asking for a new set of cards - ours are apparently in the post!
Another great night of board gaming at Andys BattleQuest Games last night - I turned up with Cargo Noir and Citadels, but there was already several games underway. Whitechapel and Merchants & Marauders was underway, but a game of Last Night on Earth with 5 players was just about to start, so I joined in for a 6-er (I think I pinched Andys seat - sorry for that!) and played as one of the two zombie players. The mission was the basic Zombie Hunter - take out 15 zombies. It was a close call half way through as time was running out and the humans had only taken out about 3 or 4 zombies, but then the tide turned and they were dropping like flies! No matter what we tried, nothing could stop the humans. The main turning point was when most of the players gained guns and were shooting zombies from a distance - it turned into a duck shoot lol. Great game.