Designer	Don Greenwood Jared Scarborough
Artist	Stephen Langmead Kurt Miller
Publisher	Avalon Hill Descartes Editeur
Year Published	1996
# of Players	3 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 5 players Recommended with 4, 5, 6 players (41 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	360 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	14 and up (8 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable (12 voters) [poll]
Honors	1996 Origins Awards Best Pre-20th Century Board Game Winner
Subdomain	Strategy Games (38 voters) [vote]
Category	Civilization Economic Renaissance
Mechanic	Area Movement Auction/Bidding
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Primary Name	Age of Renaissance
Alternate Names	L'age de la Renaissance Zeitalter der Renaissance
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A game which is often described as a semi-sequel to Civilization.

Players attempt to build up their cultures during the Middle Ages and Renaissance period. The game features a card deck that holds events, payout cards and famous leaders of the particular eras. Although all cards will turn up somewhere during the game, the timing and position in which they will be played is crucial and will ensure a different game every time.

The main goal of each city-state is to gain points in the form of technical advances while keeping their cultures misery level as low as possible. The payout structure is similar to those of Civilization and Advanced Civilization in that more resources of the same type yield increasingly higher payouts. This time particular payouts are triggered by card play for every player at once. An ingenious and very smooth working “combat” system is implemented to determine province – and thus resource - control.

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1996 Origins Awards Winner, Best Pre-20th Century Board Game.

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German version

Publisher: Descartes Editeur

Artist: Kurt Miller

Year: 1999

Product Code: AGE

Size: 39.00 x 28.00 x 5.00 inches

4.02 pounds

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Year: 1999

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Publisher: Avalon Hill

Artist: Kurt Miller

Year: 1996

Product Code: 907

Size: 16.75 x 11.50 x 2.12 inches

3.75 pounds

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AoR map with all the eurochanges made.

Original AoR map with very well-done eurochanges. There's some minor Spanish text to explain some terms but it's not very noticiable. Seems to belong to a fan-made translation but I haven't found the rest of it.

General_Norris

2012-04-13

AoR Eurochanges Map

This map has three of the four Eurochanges. It adds the Loire province. It shows Novgorod's spread into Smolensk (making the two provinces into one). It has the London-Chester border change. Enjoy.

iamspamus

2009-12-03

AoR Card List

This is the card list for AoR. It is broken down by Epoch, Type (commodity, leader, event) and commodity money amount.

iamspamus

2009-12-03

DRAFT Player Cards for Aor

These are 7 card per player decks I'm creating to compliment an updated/correct card set for AoR. Am looking for comments - see my post at http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/3662857#3662857

LHIM

2009-07-08

AOR - Combined Log/Rule sheet. German

Combined log sheet and rule sheet on DIN A4. Kominiertes Spiel- und Regelblatt auf DIN A4, um Platz auf dem Tisch zu sparen.

silfire

2009-06-15

AOR Condensed Complete Rules by Liumas

The complete rules on 4 pages.

Liumas

2008-12-09

AOR Cards Reference by Liumas 2008-09

Complete reference for the Event, Leader, and Commodity cards, including rules and statistics. Also includes notes on the problematic map locations on the board.

Liumas

2008-10-07

AOR Player Mat by Liumas

Good game aids makes this game simpler and quicker. Print 1 copy for each player. Nice and subtle changes over the prior version (the older 2008-09 version is not broken; it will still work well and may be preferred by some). This file includes a new 2nd page to mark off cards which have been played; use this with either version of the mat.

Liumas

2008-09-30

AOR Advances by Liumas 2008-09

This PDF includes a complete advance reference, intended for printing on a single double-sided page. Print 1 or 2 copies for the group to share. UPDATE 2010-10: This version is designed to print properly back-to-back with no offset. There are some tiny cosmetic-only changes also, but if you are happy with the copy you have printed then don't bother printing this new version.

Liumas

2008-09-28

Age Of Renaissance Turn Sequence Mats by Liumas

Age Of Renaissance Turn Sequence Mats by Liumas. 2 turn sequence mats per page. (PDF)

Liumas

2008-09-02

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Dutch rules	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/1034.pdf	2011-12-02
Dutch review on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=1034&zoekcr...	2011-12-02
Advance Log	http://www.gamingcorner.nl/images/sheets/ageofrena...	2006-01-26
Rules in French	http://jeuxstrategie.free.fr/Renaissance_complet.p...	2005-04-06
Le site perso de Ludo le gars (français)	http://lgimet.free.fr/AgeRenaissance.htm	2004-06-29
Goblins' Lair review	http://nuke.goblins.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&r...	2004-03-21
Game review at La Tana dei Goblin	http://nuke.goblins.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&r...	2004-01-09
World Boardgaming Championships Age of Renaissance Event Preview/Results	http://www.boardgamers.org/yearbook/AORpge.htm	2003-10-13
Map changes with board overlays (Colour printed required)	http://www.stockholm.bonet.se/ChrisB/ageren/ageren...	2001-11-24
Marty Hoff's Age of Renaissance play aids (score sheets, tiles)	http://www.cws.org/~martang/aor	2001-11-02