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The Dancing Congress

by Brian Cameron

22 Mar 2025

Anerley Town Hall

Game fee is £35.00

This is a game of the Congress of Vienna which met in 1814 and 1815 to map out Europe following the defeat of Napoleon.

The Last Emperor of Mexico

by Johan Soh Olofsson

24 May 2025

Anerley Town Hall

Game fee is £35.00

1861. Mexico is falling into civil war between a progressive President, reactionary land owners, and bandit-generals. The French have taken the opportunity to appoint their own Emperor of Mexico, Maximilian von Habsburg, and impose him on all parties. What could possibly go wrong?

Designer's Comments

Politics and diplomacy in the 18th Century

After the success of Dreams of Empire, there seemed an opportunity to do a similar game in the mid 18th century. I didn’t want to do the Seven Years War as it’s mainly Frederick the Great versus pretty well everyone else so I chose an earlier setting when they were several succession crisis to provide an opening setting and reasons why a state might or might not get involved. So, as became standard for me, there’s a strong political setting from which conflict could, and often obligingly does, arise. A game and setting I’ve thought about returning to.

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