Machiavelli

1977 · BGG

Avg rating

7.10

Bayes rating

6.00

Weight

3.20 (Medium Heavy)

Players

4-8

Playtime

8 hr

Ratings count

1,125

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Description

Machiavelli recreates the historical situation of the fast developing and ever shifting balance of power struggle in Renaissance Italy. There are five major powers: The Republics of Florence and Venice, the Duchy of Milan, the Kingdom of Naples and the Papacy (which was a secular power in this era) along with 3 major foreign powers: Valois France, Hapsburg Austria and the Ottoman Turks. All of these states singly or in combination compete for control of the peninsula. Expanded by: Alea Magazine nÂº22 contained seven new scenarios for Machiavelli.

Play mode

Competitive

How it plays

Action selection / worker placement Area control & tactical conflict Deduction & hidden information

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Dice rolling Resource & economic management

Game type

Wargame Board game

What it’s about

History, politics & real-world conflict

Publishers

Battleline The Avalon Hill Game Co

Designers

James B. Wood S. Craig Taylor