Alessio Cavatore is a game designer.

Early life and education

Alessio Cavatore was born in

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, on Valentine's Day, 1972.

Career

In 1995 Cavatore moved to Nottingham (U.K.) to work for

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. He wrote several supplements for ''

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'' before heading up the '' Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game''. In 2004 Cavatore was made responsible for all rules material published for the company's three main tabletop systems — ''Warhammer'', ''

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'', and ''The Lord of the Rings'' — and, in 2006, he wrote the rules for a new edition of ''Warhammer''. Working closely with

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, Cavatore has been a designer for Games Workshop's tabletop hobby wargames. '' Mordheim'' (1999) was designed by Alessio Cavatore,

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and Rick Priestley. '' Kings of War'' (2009) was designed by Cavatore. Alessio Cavatore had a

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in ''

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'' film as

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at the

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, alongside Games Workshop designers Alan Perry, Michael Perry and Brian Nelson. They can be seen near the Mumakil

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goes searching for

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among the debris from the battle, and are also on the base of Games Workshop's Mûmak miniature. In 2010, he founded River Horse to publish his own games and to collaborate as a consultant with many other well-known publishers in the gaming industry. With River Horse Origins awards winner Alessio Cavatore has designed or co-designed many miniatures wargames and board games – titles like Deus Vult, Shuuro, Loka, Waterloo - Quelle Affaire!, Terminator Genisys, etc.; not to mention a plethora of expansions and other type of supplements and support material for these systems. He is the lead game designer for Para Bellum Games' Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings and Conquest: First Blood.

Works

Games Workshop

*'' Warmaster'' (with Rick Priestley and Stephan Hess) *'' The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game'' (with

)

Warlord Games

* Bolt Action (With Rick Priestley)

River Horse

*Shuuro *Loka *The Tarot of Loka *Waterloo - Quelle Affaire *Terminator Genisys: The Miniatures Game *Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Board Game *My Little Pony Tails of Equestria: The Storytelling Game

References

External links

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