Colosseum Fan Site

In Colosseum you act as a Roman impresario - producing great spectacles in your arena in the hope of attracting the most spectators to your events. You'll earn wealth and glory for each event you run, using it to build ever more ambitious events.

Attract the most spectators to one of your events and you'll be granted the title of Grand Impresario, with tales of your extraordinary spectacles acclaimed throughout the empire.

Components

• 1 Rules Booklet
• 1 Game Board
• 10 Arena pieces & Expansions
• 5 Emperor's Loges
• 10 Season Tickets
• 1 Emperor, 2 Consul and 3 Senator miniatures
• 80 Roman Coins
• 4 Podiums
• 152 Event Asset Tokens and Storage Bag
• 7 Star Performer Awards
• 30 Event Programs
• 18 Emperor Medals
• 6 Help Sheets

Setup

Place the game board in the center of the table. Prior to playing for the first time, punch out all the Roman coins and place them alongside the board. These make up the public bank that will be used throughout the game. …

Previous Events

During the game a player will produce many different events starting with simple ones and moving to more ambitious events. Each time a new event is presented, the Event Program of any previously produced events is turned over and counts for 5 additional spectators until the game ends.

A player may choose to repeat events that they have produced in previous turns. In this case, the player turns the older Event Program face up to show she is producing that event. Any other previously produced events still count as 5 additional spectators. …

Intense Auctions

This variant changes Phase 2 of the game turn: Acquiring Event Asset Tokens.

In the variant, each player, in turn order, will have a chance to initiate a bidding round. Additionally, players who have already won one or more auctions during the phase may still participate in and bid, once the player initiating the auction changes.

This variant changes the auctions as follows:

• The opening bid must be 8 coins or higher.
• Moving clockwise each player can make a higher bid.
• If a player steps out of the bidding round, she cannot rejoin the bidding for that market.
• If the initiating player does not win the bidding round, and decides to restart another auction on a different market, the previous winner can no longer participate.
• The market is not refilled until the initiating player wins a bidding round or decides to pass her turn.
• If the winner of the bid is the initiating player, new Asset Tokens are placed on the empty market(s) and the next player becomes the initiating player. All players can now bid again following the same rules.
• The phase ends when every player has had a chance to initiate a bidding round for that turn. Players may decide to pass on their chance to initiate biddings.

Here is an example with 3 players A, B and C. …