Ludus Latrunculorum c. 100 BC

How to play Ludus Latrunculorum

Ludus Latrunculorum is a game that plays with 2 players. It's an Abstract Strategy, Ancient and Wargame where the core of play revolves around Grid Movement. A Roman two-player strategy game of military positioning in which pieces captured enemy soldiers by trapping them between two pieces (custodial capture). The principal strategy game of the Roman world (first attested c. 116-27 BC, descended from Greek petteia), and a likely ancestor of later custodial-capture games.

This is an overview of what to expect at the table — not the rulebook. We link to official rules and tutorials rather than reproducing them.