I am a huge Asterix fan. You can only imagine that I was very proud when the Ravensburger company published one of my games 10 years ago with the title "Asterix and the Romans". And of course, the objective of the game was to beat up as many Roman soldiers as possible - have you expected anything else? Well, Asterix comics offer much more than simply beating up Roman soldiers.

I am especially fascinated by the story of the comic "Obelix & Co.", where Obelix is tricked by the Romans in a megalomaniac pre-capitalist fashion. To be more precise, the Romans offered gold for his menhirs.Pretty soon, almost every Gaulle produced menhirs, because everybody in the village strived to be the richest and most important man.

"Asterix und die Römer"
published 1990 by Ravensburger

The Romans almost succeeded with their plan. Instead of chasing boars and Roman soldiers, all Gaulles were busy with producing menhirs. But the Romans did not factor in the impact of Asterix and Miraculix ...