History Heroes: ROMANS card game

The aim of the game is to try and win the cards by guessing who the characters are from the facts read out from the cards. Players can play the games as a gentle voyage of discovery or a competitive game by choosing easy, hard or quirky facts from each card. Win the cards by guessing correctly who the character is from the facts read out on their cards. The winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game, just the same as card games like Top Trumps.

Or, if you fancy, you can start by reading, enjoying and absorbing the facts in the History Heroes games – it doesn’t have to be a battle of wits from the get-go! Ideal for 2-6 players.

Do you know your ROMANS and their Gods? Discover if you do and learn more about the most significant Roman characters and their (12 most important) Gods on 40 fantastically illustrated cards, packed with facts about them. Learn your Caesar from your Claudius and your Jupiter from your Juno. Discover which emperor made it a capital offence to mention a goat in his presence…and why!

In the game are a great range of ROMAN characters from rulers like Julius Caesar to the first Roman emperor, Augustus, the sickly but cunning Claudius, who conquered Britain, Hadrian and the first Roman emperor from Africa, Septimius Severus, who died in York. Foreign leaders, who challenged the Romans’ rule are in ROMANS too: Cleopatra and Boudica, leading the way! Gladiators, male and female, are in the game too, including the iconic Spartacus: learn more about how he became such a legend in Roman history.

As the Monty Python sketch once said, “What have the Romans ever done for us?” Well… play History Heroes ROMANS and discover how much of our present world, knowledge and history comes directly from those ancient times.