Black Rose Wars is a tactical fighting game for two to four players set in the alternative Italian Renaissance world of Nova Aetas. Players take the role of mages seeking to become the New Grand Master. The game is designed by Marco Montanaro and developed by Ludus Magnus Studio, with its English edition published and distributed by Ares Games. It’s due to release in September 2020, …
Victoria Hero Pack expansion for S&S. Five reprints have just arrived in Ares’ warehouse in US and are now shipping to distributors: in the War of the Ring Line, the core game War of the Ring Second Edition and its first expansion Lords of Middle-earth; in the Sword & Sorcery Line, the Hero Packs Onamor, Victoria and Skeld. If you were waiting the return of these …
Expansions for two games recently release are going to hit the US stores starting from July 31st: the Solo Mode Expansion for Freedom! and the Deep and Avatar Expansions for the sci-fi survival horror dungeon crawler Alone. Freedom Solo Mode: play as the Empire, against the besieged played by A.I.. The Freedom Solo Mode expansion allows you to play as the Ottoman forces, while the Messolonghi …
The story behind the siege game Freedom!, by the game designer Vangelis Bagiartakis, continues. Following the first part detailing the inspiration, the definition of the kind of game, and the history to be included in it, here he talks about the second step: to put things down and start designing how the game would play. Military map showing the Messolonghi area at the time of the …
Europe Divided, the strategic, modern history board game of politics, influence, and tactical conflict published by PHALANX Games and designed by David Thompson and Chris Marling is now reaching stores. The game was successfully funded in mid-2019 on Kickstarter, and at that time Thompson shared its story on BoardGameGeek in a Designer’s Diary, with occasional inputs from his design partner Marling. Now we repost it as …
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