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You also have to be mindful of not letting provinces be cut off and surrounded, as you’ll lose the ability to reinforce and command them until you reestablish a path between it and the starting village. Keeping your frontlines narrow means you have to spread your forces less thin, in turn making it easier to hold off Roman counterattacks. They’ll almost always win an even battle, which makes it very challenging to claim and maintain a foothold.ĭespite being a game for kids, it also has some notable depth to make strategy worthwhile. Caesar’s legions are also effective not only do they outnumber you, but in battle they can reliably take you on 2:1. You are immediately surrounded and within attacking range, with no buffer states or anything else to keep off the Roman warmachine. I admire that a strategy game for kids is willing to present such dire circumstances. Each turn is cut up into 3 phases: first you get a new batch of troops to deploy to any of your provinces, next is the attack phase, and finally a reinforcement phase where you can move troops between territories you own. Asterix and Obelix are thus tasked with going out into Gaul and retrieving the necessary ingredients, which means having to wage war on the occupying Romans.įrom there you are kicked to a map of Gaul on which you only hold the one remaining village that defies Roman rule. The druid Getafix is looking to brew a new potion, but finds his stockpile of ingredients has run out. The game kicks off with an animated segment that looks like it could’ve come straight from the cartoon.

When I found a copy of the PC version of the game in a retro store, I decided to revisit this childhood gem. Many felt it was stupid that you just messed around on a map, but for me it awakened an early interest in strategy games.

However, The Gallic War was the only game available on it and I don’t think I’ve ever seen any kid make it further than 3 rounds. Back in the early 2000s there was a clothing store we frequented that had a Playstation set up in a corner behind the stairs, which always drew a crowd of kids eager to get away from their shopping parents. Asterix: The Gallic War is a strategy game directed at children.