Machiavelli (1977)

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 nº22 contained seven new scenarios for Machiavelli.

from "The Avalon Hill General Index and Company History, 1952-1980"

Machiavelli (1979)
Avalon Hill revised existing published design (Battleline)
Designed by James B. Wood
Development by Craig Taylor

AH revisions to this DIPLOMACY-type game will be minor clarifications of rules and a new map.

Magazine References:

The GENERAL Index Article List:

• The GENERAL Vol.30,No.4
  • Machiavelli – “We need to talk -A preview of 1995 Machiavelli ” (Discussion) Ben Knight
• The GENERAL Vol.30,No.5
  • Series Replay - Machiavelli Austria: Will Wible, Florence: Jime Yerkey, France: Dan Mathias, The Papacy: Joe Lux, Venice: James Garzillo, COMMENTATOR: Stephen Koehler

Online play

• condottierigame.net, a gaming site for playing Machiavelli online. It's open sourced and supports English and Spanish languages.

The 1995 edition has the following counter mix...

Each of the 8 powers has 12 army, 8 fleet, 4 garrison, 7 assassination counters; Total 8 x 31 = 248

Control counters are divided into two types, home control (hc, "flags") and province control (pc), and differ in number between powers.

Naples has 8 hc and 14 pc counters. Turkey has SIX hc, 8 pc; Venice 8 hc, 14 pc; Papacy 7 hc, 11 pc; Austria 8 hc, 14 pc; Florence FOUR hc, 10 pc; Milan 6 hc, 8 pc; and France 5 hc, 9 pc. Total 140

There are also 8 rebellion, 15 famine, 17 autonomous garrison counters and 80 ducats. Total 120

Total counters is 248 + 140 + 120 + 12 blanks = 520

The 1980 edition has the following counter mix...

All 8 powers have 12 army, 8 fleet, 6 garrison, 7 assassination and 12 (blank colored) control counters
There are also 20 rebellion, 20 famine and 40 autonomous garrison counters;
And finally 40 one ducat counters, 20 five ducat, 10 ten ducat, 7 twenty ducat and 3 fifty

Total counters are (12+8+6+7+12)*8+20+20+40+40+20+10+7+3 = 520

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