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Eurogames (game Publisher)
Eurogames is a publisher of board games, founded in 1984 as Jeux Rexton (Rexton Games) to publish the man-to-man miniature combat game, '' Cry Havoc'' and its expansions. In 1988 Duccio Vitale expanded the company to begin publishing more board games, starting with six games purchased from the bankrupt Italian gaming company, International Team. At this time the company became Eurogames. Eurogames itself was later purchased by Jeux Descartes, and they remained an imprint of that company until Descartes' bankruptcy. Jeux Descartes's assets were then purchased by French publisher Asmodée Éditions, who appears to be slowly merging some of Eurogames and Descartes games into their own line. In a brief interim period, Eurogames distribution rights were licensed to Cafe Games, who published the ''Mare Nostrum'' Mythology expansion in 2005 under a Eurogames/Cafe Games label. Well-known games published by Eurogames: *''Condottiere'' * '' Evo'' * ''Formula Dé'' * ''Mare Nostrum'' * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Board Game
Board games are tabletop games that typically use . These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well. Many board games feature a competition between two or more players. To show a few examples: in checkers (British English name 'draughts'), a player wins by capturing all opposing pieces, while Eurogames often end with a calculation of final scores. '' Pandemic'' is a cooperative game where players all win or lose as a team, and peg solitaire is a puzzle for one person. There are many varieties of board games. Their representation of real-life situations can range from having no inherent theme, such as checkers, to having a specific theme and narrative, such as ''Cluedo''. Rules can range from the very simple, such as in snakes and ladders; to deeply complex, as in ''Advanced Squad Leader''. Play components now often include custom figures or shaped counters, and distin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cry Havoc (1981 Board Game)
''Cry Havoc'' is a medieval two-player wargame published by Standard Games and Publications in 1981, and later by Jeux Rexton and then ''Eurogames''. Gameplay ''Cry Havoc'' is a wargame with a medieval setting. Several scenarios are included in the game that set up a variety of combatants on each side, including peasants, sergeants, billmen, men-at-arms, knights and various other "character" classes. For example, in the scenario called "Peasant Revolt", 11 peasants, 19 yeoman and six pack mules are arrayed against 13 mounted and heavily armoured knights. The game comes with two colour maps, three rulebooks, and 228 counters printed on thin cardstock. Related publications The ''Cry Havoc'' system was later expanded with the publication of the following games: * ''Samurai Blades'' or ''Samurai'' (warfare in medieval Japan). * ''Siege'' (expansion to ''Cry Havoc'' with siege rules). * ''Outremer'' or ''Croisades'' (the Crusades, ''Croisades'' being the French edition with expa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Team
International Team (IT) was an Italian game company founded in the 1970s and active until the early 1980s. While the company started as a jigsaw puzzle producer, it is mostly remembered as a wargame company, a business that IT approached in 1979 after game designer Marco Donadoni joined in. IT was the first Italian wargame company and its most successful games, such as '' Zargo's Lords'', were instrumental in introducing the wargame culture in Italy.Review of Zargo's Lord at Boardgamegeek IT games were translated in other languages (mostly , and |
Jeux Descartes
Jeux Descartes was a French publisher of roleplaying games and board games. Their most popular lines included: Eurogames, a set of serious board games, previously published by Duccio Vitale's independent company; Blue Games, small card games for larger groups; and Games for Two. Jeux Descartes was founded in 1977 and went out of business in 2005. Their assets are now owned by former rival Asmodée Éditions, and are sold under the ''Descartes Editeur'' imprint. Products Role-playing games * Malefices (1985-1994): An investigative horror roleplaying game set in Belle Époque France. * L'Appel de Cthulhu (1984-2005): A French translation of the Second Edition Call of Cthulhu rules. Boardgames Card games Wargames * ''Amirauté'' (1979): A set of tactical or strategic ship-level World War II naval warfare miniatures rules. The rules simulated ship-to-ship combat, torpedoes, naval bombardment, and naval aviation. *'' Dune'' (1979): A wargame based on the Dune book series. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asmodée Éditions
Asmodee is a French publisher of board games, card games and role-playing games (RPGs). Founded in 1995 to develop their own games and to publish and distribute for other smaller game developers, they have since acquired numerous other board game publishers. A division, Twin Sails Interactive (formerly Asmodee Digital), publishes video game adaptations of Asmodee games. History Asmodee was founded in 1995 by Marc Nunès, with the idea to not only develop their own board games but to reach out to other smaller publishers of board games and offer to publish and distribute for them, primarily in France. One of the company's early successes was ''Jungle Speed'', which they acquired in 1998 and promoted heavily to various toy stores and retail outlets in France, selling over 4 million copies. In 2003, the company obtained the rights to publish the French version of the ''Pokémon Trading Card Game'', which further helped in their sales outreach. Around 2007, Nunès directed Asmodee tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mare Nostrum
''Mare Nostrum'' (; Latin: "Our Sea") was a Ancient Rome, Roman name for the Mediterranean Sea. In Classical Latin, it would have been pronounced , and in Ecclesiastical Latin, it is pronounced . In the decades following the 1861 unification of Italy, Italian nationalism, Italian nationalists and Italian Fascism, Italian fascists who saw Italy as the successor state to the Roman Empire attempted to revive the term.Lowe (2002), p.34 Roman usage The term ''Mare Nostrum'' originally was used by the Ancient Romans to refer to the Tyrrhenian Sea after their conquest of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica during the Punic Wars with Ancient Carthage, Carthage. By 30 BC, Roman dominion had extended from the Iberian Peninsula to Egypt, and ''Mare Nostrum'' began to be used in the context of the whole Mediterranean Sea. Other names were also employed, including ''Mare Internum'' ("Internal Sea"), but they did not include ''Mare Mediterraneum'', which was a Late Latin creation that was attested t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Condottiere (board Game)
''Condottieri'' (; singular ''condottiero'' or ''condottiere'') were Italian captains in command of mercenary companies during the Middle Ages and of multinational armies during the early modern period. They notably served popes and other European monarchs during the Italian Wars of the Renaissance and the European Wars of Religion. Notable ''condottieri'' include Prospero Colonna, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Cesare Borgia, the Marquis of Pescara, Andrea Doria, and the Duke of Parma. The term ''condottiero'' in medieval Italian originally meant "contractor" since the ''condotta'' was the contract by which the condottieri put themselves in the service of a city or of a lord. The term, however, became a synonym of "military leader" during the Renaissance and Reformation era. Some authors have described the legendary Alberto da Giussano as the "first condottiero" and Napoleon Bonaparte (in virtue of his Italian origins) as the "last condottiero". According to this view, the condotti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evo (board Game)
''Evo: The Last Gasp of the Dinosaurs'' is a German-style board game for three to five players, designed by Philippe Keyaerts and published by Eurogames. The game won the ''GAMES Magazine'' award for ''Game of the year 2002''. It was nominated for the Origins Award for ''Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game 2000''. In 2004 it was nominated for the Hra Roku. The game went out of print in 2007, and a second edition was released in 2011. Gameplay The main game board is made of two reversible sections; on each, the two sides contain differently-sized halves of a prehistoric island. The board can therefore be assembled in four ways: *small-small for three players *small-large or large-small for four players *large-large for five players. The island itself is made up of hexes of four different terrain types – desert, plains, hills and mountains. The game also uses a separate board for marking the current climate and round number, another for players scoring and bidding progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formula Dé
Formula D (originally published and still also known as Formula Dé) is a board game that recreates formula racing ( F1, CART, IRL). It was designed by Eric Randall and Laurent Lavaur and was originally published by Ludodélire. The rights to the game passed to EuroGames (owned by Descartes Editeur) with the collapse of Ludodélire, and were in turn acquired by Asmodée Éditions. When Asmodée released their new edition, the game's name was shortened to Formula D and its rules updated to include street and import racing. Object of the Game The game is about automobile racing, formerly with an emphasis on Formula 1. The object of the game is to cross the finish line first and win the race. Races can be anywhere from one to three laps long. Formula D comes with a game board measuring 100 × 70 cm (39 × 28 inches), seven specialized dice, twenty plastic race cars, and ten " dashboard" indicators that track the cars current gear and condition throughout the one, two, or thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mare Nostrum (board Game)
Mare Nostrum is a board game for 3 to 5 players, designed by Serge Laget and published in 2003 by Eurogames. It was also the name of a 1983 board game in the Fronte Mare series. Gameplay Players assume the roles of one of five Mediterranean empires - Rome, Greece, Babylon, Egypt or Carthage. Units are placed on a game board representing the Mediterranean and the surrounding area, divided into provinces which contain one or more resources. Players take turns in rounds of three phases: ;Commerce Phase :Players receive cards for each resource they control. Once the players have taken their resources, the player who controls most caravans and markets (the ''Director of Commerce'') chooses how many cards will be traded, and each player puts down that many resource cards from their hand. The Director of Commerce then chooses a card from an opponent's face-up cards and adds it to their hand. That player picks an opponent's card, and so on until all cards have been taken. ;Polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serenissima (board Game)
aSerenissima ( heMost Serene) may refer to: Certain countries * , a name for the Republic of Venice * , the official Latin name of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Art, entertainment, and media * La Serenissima (musical ensemble), a British early music/period instrument ensemble * ''La Serenissima'' (album), a 1981 album by Rondò Veneziano, also released as ''Venice in Peril'' * "La Serenissima", a single by Rondò Veneziano, later covered by DNA and by Mike Candys * "La Serenissima", an instrumental track from Loreena McKennitt's release, ''The Book of Secrets'' (1997) * "Serenissima", a 1996 board game about 14th century Mediterranean commerce by Eurogames (game publisher) Sport *Scuderia Serenissima, an auto racing team *Serenissima, a nickname for the San Marino national football team Other uses * La Serenísima, an Argentine dairy products maker * Autostrada A4 (Italy), nicknamed Serenissima after its destination, Venice See also * Most Serene Republic Most Sere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
