Would you like to play Cangaceiros, but you don’t have the time to read the rulebook – or you find it difficult? Now you can get the game explained by Lance Hinkel, from Learn to Play. He teaches the game in a 45 minutes video, starting with the components and setup, explaining the player turns, end game conditions, and scoring. Watch the video on the Learn …
Set in Brazil in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Cangaceiros brings to the tabletop an historical period never told before, in a deep and extremely re-playable game. In this article, originally published by Meeple Monthly Magazine, issue 108 (March 2023), the author Roberto Pestrin shares his notes about the creation and development of the game. Pestrin is an Italian game designer, attending IdeaG, a circuit …
Three new games start to hit the US stores from July 28th – and in other countries in the coming weeks: the euro-thematic game Cangaceiros, the family and party game Ensemble, and the economic game The Rich and The Good. Cangaceiros: run a band of Cangaceiros,legendary bandits in Brazilian northeast. Cangaceiros is a strategic competitive game set in Brazil in the late 1800s and early 1900s. …
The desert region of the Sertão, in the Northeast Region of Brazil, was the background for the deeds of the “cangaceiros,” men who embraced the way of the cangaço – from canga, which means yoke. As the bull carries the yoke, so the cangaceiro carried weapons and the deadly burden of that choice, leaving behind their loved ones, and living in the scorching hinterland sprinkled with …
Some of the art by Emiliano Mammucari for the game in exhibition at the Brazilian Embassy. The Cangaceiros, legendary bandits of 19th-20th century in the Brazilian northeast, have entered the collective imagination through movies, books, and comics, and are now the protagonists in a board game produced by the Italian game publisher Ergo Ludo Editions, published in English by Ares Games. Cangaceiros, developed to be faithful …
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