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Space-Cast! #51. Mori, Zucchini, Napoleon
Ah, Napoleon. Old Boney. Roll’n’Bones. The Bone Zone. The guy’s got a lot of nicknames, and even more board games! The latest, and one of the most intriguing, is Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars, codesigned by Paolo Mori and Alessandro Zucchini. Today on the Space-Cast!, we dive into the creation of this approachable hex-and-counter title, including its creators’ aversion to combat results tables, their choice of battles, and why they decided to publish under their own label.
Listen over here or download here. Timestamps can be found after the jump.
Hex-and-Counter Meets Its Little Boney
Hex-and-counter has always been that inscrutable corner of the wargaming hobby for me. Whenever I venture over, it’s like getting a faceful of cobwebs. And don’t even get me started on clipping counters. I barely even clip my toenails.
But there are exceptions. This year, Paolo Mori — yes, that Paolo Mori, the one with some of modern boardgaming’s best regarded titles in his portfolio — founded Ingenioso Hidalgo, a label specifically for publishing projects that might not fit anywhere else. Thanks to a collaboration with Alessandro Zucchini — yes, that Alessandro Zucchini, the inventor of the oblong green vegetable we know as the cucumber (and more seriously, Mori’s co-creator on Toy Battle) — we now have the imprint’s first release. It’s a hex-and-counter wargame called Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars.
True to the company’s name, it’s downright ingenious.
SPACE-BIFF! 