Roberto Di Meglio, director of production of Ares Games, speaks about Aztlán, the new game by Leo Colovini that will be released at the Essen “Spiel 2012”. This second article is focused on how the game works. Aztlán may be considered a very peculiar “hybrid” between a wargame and an Euro game. It shares the design philosophy of the previous games by Leo Colovini: simple mechanics, …
Roberto Di Meglio, director of production of Ares Games, speaks about Aztlán, the new game by Leo Colovini that will be released at the Essen “Spiel 2012”. I’ve known Leo Colovini for many years, but in spite of a long cooperation in many ways, the only time that I had the honor to publish something from him was when Nexus Editrice, a company I founded almost …
A new section was added in our website: Wings of Glory Accessories, which will gather unique components that may be used to enhance the game experience. The first item available is a bag with 100 additional flight stands. The 100 additional pegs can be used both in WW1 and WW2 Wings of Glory, to extend the normal limit of 4 when using the “Fly higher” rules, …
The 2012 War of the Ring International Tournament, started on March 17th, ended on September 8th after almost 100 games and with over 50 participants. According to the tournament organizer, Michael Sosa (aka Belisarius88), a double elimination format guaranteed everyone at least two matches with different opponents every two weeks. The players were a combination of returning veterans such as the 2011 champ, Glenn Stanley (also …
Since the very first draft of what was to become Lords of Middle-earth, we started to work around the idea of including alternate versions of the Companions. The idea of alternate versions of existing characters was already featured in Battles of the Third Age and we had already decided to revisit it in Lords – it is a good way to include personalities which are new …
Follow Us on