1565, St. Elmo's Pay
A vendetta spanning decades reaches its terrible and bloody crescendo!
Suleiman the Magnificent's 30,000 strong armada descends on the 500 beleaguered Knights of St John and the defending people of... (read more)
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Noble Knight GamesReviews
mostly positive, 71% of all reviews are favorable
Playtime
30 minutes
Published
2020
Age
10+
Publisher
Hall or Nothing
Players
1 to 2 players
Designers
Tristan Hall and Paul Ibbs
Playstyle
Involved
Game's Categories
Strategy Game, Card Game, Hand Management, Renaissance, War Game, Ottoman Empire, and Siege
Description
A vendetta spanning decades reaches its terrible and bloody crescendo!
Suleiman the Magnificent's 30,000 strong armada descends on the 500 beleaguered Knights of St John and the defending people of Malta, with the express purpose of wiping them from existence, and changing the course of European history forever.
1565: St. Elmo's Pay is an asymmetric, competitive, tactical card game, and successor to the award-nominated 1066, Tears to Many Mothers, with which it is fully compatible. Each player, as either Ottoman Turks or Knights of St John, musters troops and resources to overcome the various obstacles in their path before the two armies clash in an epic siege over three fronts on the tiny island of Malta: Birgu, Senglea, and the doomed fortress of Saint Elmo.
Every beautiful card in the game is inspired by a real person or event from the time. With a focus on quick, tactical play and a thematic re-imagining of the events of the time, the game is non-collectable, and there is no deck building required. Each player simply grabs their deck and shuffles, then play begins.
Note on title: When, after a relentless show of strength, the small fortress of St. Elmo's finally fell to the Turks they butchered the bodies of the Knights and floated the corpses across the bay to the remaining two forts to deter them from resisting further, lest they suffer the same fate. Instead, the Maltese forces chose to fight with "the spirit of St. Elmo's". When they eventually turned the tides against the Turks and chased them away the people of Malta chanted "St. Elmo's Pay" - an expression they still use today to mean "no mercy."
Mechanisms:• Card Play Conflict Resolution• Hand Management• Solo / Solitaire Game
Contents
- 166 Cards
- 169 Cards
- 40 Red Wooden Teardrop Tokens
- 40 Blue Wooden Teardrop Tokens
- 22 Cardboard Attribute Modifier Tokens
- 1 First Player Token
- 2 Rulebooks
- 1 Solo Play Resource Dial
- 3 Promo Cards for
This game can be played on its own or combined with 1066, Tears to Many Mothers and 1815, Scum of the Earth for enhanced play.
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Game's Categories
Designers
- Tristan Hall
- Paul Ibbs
Artists
- Gianpiero Mangialardi
- Tristan Hall
