Alessio Cavatore

Alessio Cavatore
Born (1972-02-14) February 14, 1972
Turin, Italy
Nationality Italian
Occupation Game designer

Alessio Cavatore is a game designer.

Early life and education

Alessio Cavatore was born in Turin, Italy, on Valentine's Day, 1972.[1]

Career

In 1995 Cavatore moved to Nottingham (U.K.) to work for Games Workshop.[1] He wrote several supplements for Warhammer Fantasy Battle before heading up the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.[1] In 2004 Cavatore was made responsible for all rules material published for the company's three main tabletop systems — Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, and The Lord of the Rings — and, in 2006, he wrote the rules for a new edition of Warhammer.[1]

Working closely with Rick Priestley, Cavatore has been a designer for Games Workshop's tabletop hobby wargames.

Mordheim (1999) was designed by Alessio Cavatore, Tuomas Pirinen and Rick Priestley.[2] Kings of War (2009) was designed by Cavatore.[3]

Alessio Cavatore had a cameo appearance in The Return of the King film as Rohirrim at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, alongside Games Workshop designers Alan Perry, Michael Perry and Brian Nelson.[4] They can be seen near the Mumakil Peregrin Took goes searching for Meriadoc Brandybuck among the debris from the battle, and are also on the base of Games Workshop's Mûmak miniature.[5][6]

River Horse Games is run by Alessio, and publishes wargames and provide game design services for wargames companies as well as its own game Terminator Genisys a tabletop board game that can be scaled up to a wargame to be released in 2015 through warlord games with the new Terminator Genisys movie.

Works

Games Workshop

Warlord Games

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Cavatore, Alessio (2007). "Empires in Arms". In Lowder, James. Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 99–102. ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0.
  2. ↑ "Getting started with Mordheim". boardgamegeek.com. BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
  3. ↑ Interview with Alessio Cavatore
  4. ↑ "Perry Miniatures". Website. Perry Miniatures. Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
  5. ↑ "Perry Twins Interview". Article. The Last Alliance. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
  6. ↑ "Painting a Mumak". Article. Games Workshop. Archived from the original on 7 July 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-18.
  7. ↑ "Warmaster". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  8. ↑ "Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2011-03-26.

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