The desert region of the Sertão, in the Northeast Region of Brazil, was the background for the deeds of the “cangaceiros,” men who embraced the way of the cangaço – from canga, which means yoke. As the bull carries the yoke, so the cangaceiro carried weapons and the deadly burden of that choice, leaving behind their loved ones, and living in the scorching hinterland sprinkled with …
Three special days of gaming: Ares Games is back from our third UK Games Expo with great memories of meeting British players. The event has grown, with 32,000 unique visitors this year, and a total attendance of 52,000, and our stand got a record number of gamers coming to play a demo, to fight at the second Wings of Glory Battle of Birmigham or just stopping …
Against the Shadow expansion: worldwide preview at UKGE 2023. Ares Games will be at UK Games Expo 2023 (June 2nd-4th, 2023, Birmingham-UK, stand #1-514) with the epic War of the Ring – The Card Game in the spotlight. Fans of “The Lord of the Rings” will have the chance to play and purchase the game and to try a prototype preview of Against the Shadow, the …
Some of the art by Emiliano Mammucari for the game in exhibition at the Brazilian Embassy. The Cangaceiros, legendary bandits of 19th-20th century in the Brazilian northeast, have entered the collective imagination through movies, books, and comics, and are now the protagonists in a board game produced by the Italian game publisher Ergo Ludo Editions, published in English by Ares Games. Cangaceiros, developed to be faithful …
This PDF file includes the rulebook of Cangaceiros, an Euro-style thematic game set in Brazil, in the Sertão desert, at the end of the 1800s – players run a band of Cangaceiros, bandits who who violently opposed the status quo.
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