From: Roberto Chiavini Subject: Eight reviews AD 1706 - the Siege of Turin This is not exactly a review of this new Italian game (as I don't have played it). It's more an out of the wrapper to give the readers of this board a notice about a really unknown game (it seems that it doesn't have a real publisher, but it should the product of the regional government of Piemonte, one of the Italian regions, to celebrate one of the most famous heroes, at least here in Italy, of Turin, Pietro Micca). There are two different games inside the box: one on the field battle fought before the city and the other for the siege itself. The quality of the maps is not very high (they are drab, they look like twenty years old maps, with a glamourish choice of colours, which disturb the eyes, at least mine), while the counters (more than 500) are a work of art, with splendid reproduction of the period uniforms, similar to the units that you have in the Azure Wish games (like Europa Universalis). The rules seems of medium complexity and of the usual kind for the field battle, while they seems very peculiar for the siege battle itself (I'm not familiar with another siege game from the same historical period, SPI's Lille from the Art of Siege quadrigame, so I cannot say if there are similarities between the two systems. All in all, the game may be worth a try for the peculiarity of the subject and for the beauty of the counters, if not for the rules themselves (which are only in Italian for the moment).