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Songs of Steel: Hispania is lightweight strategy in a very snackable way

People called Romanes, they go to the hell

Pushing some steelmen forwards in Songs Of Steel: Hispania.
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I'm sure (and perhaps even hope) someone will pop up to prove me wrong, but I feel like we don't get Celtic peoples in strategy games all that much. And much as I'd enjoy a game indulging in the possibility that Ireland civilised the world twice, this neglect feels doubly true for those who wound up in Iberia instead, a culture about which I know nothing.

Songs of Steel Colon Hispania isn't an in-depth look at that culture, but it's an enjoyable look at the "local tribes decide how to keep the invading Roman jerks at bay" story anyway. If I call it kind of limited, I mean that not as a slight.

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