PanzerKaput's Gangs of Rome
Children of Epona, Rome's Most Wanted and Breads & Circuses Characters
The Children of Epona are the second of Rome’s Most Wanted gang sets for Gangs of Rome. Adored by the crowd and feared by their enemies, the Children of Epona are both famous chariot racers and dauntless fighters.
Bread and Circuses is the second big box set for Gangs of Romes and is a great two player box set. The theme for the set is Election day looms, and the young dominus Hostilius is standing as a candidate for the plebeian aediles. Hostilius has gained and cemented great support from the plebeian electorate by forcibly seizing control of bakeries and giving away bread to the masses.
Now Hostilius has his sights on the next bakery. Said to be the best in the Subura, this bakery is run by the famous freedman Eurysaces. Hostilius, therefore, dispatches his lieutenant Vermio to seize the bakery.
Hostilius’ plans, however, have been unearthed by a rival gang. Vermio’s sister, Bruttia, hates her brother with a violent passion, and—caring not for bread or politics—she determines she will ambush Vermio at the bakery and finish him off once and all.
These two gangs converge on the bakery at sunrise, just as a host of the Subura’s hungry citizens gather, enticed by the smell of Eurysaces’ famous bread…
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