Before this game, I was a bit skeptical about single page roll-and-write games in general. But this game packs a lot of action, strategy, story-telling, and narrative suprises (both good and bad) into a small format. The rules are well written and make sense. Having to slog across Europe (much of it in hostile territory) myself to get to southern Italy and arrrive at Cannae has given me a new respect for what Hannibal accomplished.