Assedio alla Rocca (1996)

Easy boardgame about the siege of Civitavecchia (Italy) by Imperial troops, aided by Pisan ships. Piero Latro and the other citizens try to resist assaults along the walls and from sea. Published by Novecentonovanta, a local association promoting boardgames at national level and organizing game events in schools and libraries of the city. Published again in the first issue of the GiocAreA magazine, february 1998. An easy combat system, with cardboard soldiers fighting over a map divided into huge hexes. Players have several kinds of units, with different movement and combat abilities. Archers and boiling oil caudrons attack adjacent hexes, melee happens in the same hex. Leaders enhance the power of units in the same hex.