Ares Games announces a partnership with Raven Distribution for the Italian market. Raven will be the distributor of Ares Games in Italy and will also publish the Italian edition of some of the titles published by Ares in English language. Starting in April, Raven will offer to Italian customers all the products available in the Wings of Glory (WW1 and WW2) and Galaxy Defenders lines, and …
Ares Games will be present at GAMA Trade Show (March 17-21, in Las Vegas) with previews of its forthcoming titles expected to release this Summer: Battle of Five Armies, a new game in the War of the Ring Line, and Dino Race, a fun game for kids which will expand the Family Games line. The recently released Sails of Glory, Galaxy Defenders and Inkognito will be …
The prestige ships of the British Navy were the three-deckers, carefully and lavishly built by the Royal Dockyards and requiring many years of work. Rarely commissioned in peace-time, and preserved with expensive overhauls and rebuilding, the few First Rates served as flagships, and they were the strongest units of the line of battle, even if they were very difficult to handle. Each 100-gun ship had an …
The Swan class was a class of 14-gun ship-sloops (even if in fact they mounted, after 1779, 16 guns). The class was designed for the Royal Navy by the Surveyor of the Navy, John Williams. Twenty-three more were ordered between 1773 and 1779; they represented the ‘standard’ ship-sloop design of the British Navy during the American Revolutionary War, during which eleven of them were lost. Surviving …
The Hébé class was a class of six 40-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed in 1781 by Jacques-Noël Sané. Captured by the British Navy on 4 September 1782, the ship became the model for the British “Leda class” frigates. These ships were armed with 26 long 18-pounder guns (later increased to 28), 12 long 8-pounder guns and 4 36-pounder obusiers, and had a designated crew …
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