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{{quote| ''Beware the Ides of March''}}
 
''Centurion: Defender of Rome'' is a [[Turn -Based Strategy]] video game with [[Real Time Strategy|real-time battle sequences]], designed by Kellyn Beck and Bits of Magic and published by [[Electronic Arts]]. Originally released on the DOS platform for the PC in 1990, the game was later ported to the [[Amiga]] and the [[Sega Genesis]] in 1991. Centurion shares much of the concept and feel with Beck's earlier game [[Defender of the Crown]] (1987) and might be regarded as its [[Spiritual Successor]]. In turn, the [[Total War]] Series borrows a lot of concepts from both games.
 
The game begins in [[Ancient Rome]] in the year 275 BC, placing the player in the sandals of a centurion in the Roman army, at first leading a single legion. The player's ultimate goal is to become a Caesar through a mix of successful military conquests and internal politics of [[Bread and Circuses]]
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* [[Break Meter]]: Courage: Fierce, Good, Weak, and Panicked. Some enemies are easier since their maximum morale is lower.
* [[Chariot Race]]: one of the mini-games
* [[Combat Byby Champion]]: The fleet battles are represented by the two flagships fighting. The trope is subverted, since winning the flagship battle can still cause the rest of your ships to be destroyed.
* [[A Commander Is You]]: And a leader of several historical field commanders, one per legion.
* [[Conscription]]: Legions are levied and reinforced locally, raising or strengthening one lowers the manpower of their current region and their initial courage depends on that of the habitants of the province where they are raised, it reaches the maximum eventually, thanks likely to some offscreen [[Boot Camp Episode|BootCampEpisodes]] going on.
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* [[Easy Communication]]: Averted, during battles you can only change the orders of the units who are within the leader's range of voice (and each leader has a different one.)
* [[Empty Promise]]: You can promise a certain tax setting during a negotiation and then set it at different level, with no real consequences.
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: Check, you start as a ''Centurion'' and your task is to be a ''defender of Rome''. The Romans however had [[From a Certain Point of View|a particular view on the subject of defense]]; what a better way to defend a territory than to conquer all the ones around it, crushing any potential enemies... so they spiralled into known-world domination fairly quickly (The Mediterranean Sea was called ''Mare Nostrum'', [[Badass Boast|"this sea of ours"]]).
* [[Game Over]]: ''[[The Glory That Was Rome|Sic transit gloria mundi, the Roman Empire has fallen]].''
* [[Gladiator Games]]: One ot the mini-games. The citizens of Rome get restless if they don't get one from time to time
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* [[Risk Style Map]]
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Panicked units make a 180 degree turn and leave the battlefield. A lot of units panick when their leader is killed so massive routs are common.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The chariot races to [[Ben -Hur]] and there are some to [[Cleopatra]] (she looks exactly like [[Elizabeth Taylor]]) and to [[Spartacus]], among many others concerning classical antiquity.
** [[Shout-Out/To Shakespeare|To Shakespeare]]: The game parting words : [[Julius Caesar (Theatretheatre)|Beware the Ides of March]]
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To [[Defender of the Crown]]. And the [[Total War]] series could be considered this to Centurion, since they share a lot of concepts and gameplay.
* [[Take Over the World]]: The goal of the game.
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