24 April, 2010.
The 5th Friedrich World Championship will be hold
from 1 to 3 October, 2010, in Berlin. => More Info

The MARIA rules have been translated into Italian and Japanese!

Furthermore, MARIA can now be played online with a Vassal-Module.

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6 November, 2009.
Björn Apelqvist is Friedrich World Champion 2009 !!
He won the final game on 1 November with Russia !!
Read the FWC report !

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22 August, 2009.
MARIA can now be preordered !!
Until 25 Sept 2009, you will get a special preorder discount.
The game will cost only 36 EUR instead of 41,90 EUR.
You can choose to pick up the game in Essen.
You can also choose for the game being sent to you by post.
Preorder here !!

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19 August, 2009.
MARIA is at the printers !!
The new game by Richard Sivél
is scheduled for publishment in October, 2009, for the gamefair in Essen.
More Info.

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8 March, 2009.
The 4th Friedrich-World-Championship will be hold in Berlin,
from 30 Oct to 1 Nov, 2009.
=> Register here !!

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9 September, 2008.
Bernd Preiß is Friedrich-Worldchampion 2008 !!
The FWC-report.

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28 Feb, 2008.
The 3rd Friedrich-World-Championship will be held from
5 to 7 September, 2008, in Berlin.
For more info, click here.

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13 Oct, 2007.
King of Siam and Napoleon's Triumph
are now available.
There is a special 10% discount on all games until 31 October,
if you order via our webshop.

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12 Oct, 2007.
Anton Telle is 2nd Friedrich World Champion.
He won the dramatic final game in Berlin on 2 September
against Josef Gundel, Nico Maly and Steffen Schröder.
Read the detailed FWC-report.

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17 Jun, 2007.
King of Siam, the new boardgame from Histogame,
is expected to be released in October 2007
(during the game fair in Essen).
Napoleon's Triumph from Simmons Games will be available soon.
For FRIEDRICH, a cyberboard-version can be downloaded
(for playing the game by e-mail).
Histogame gratefully thanks Laszlo Koller for the development !!

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Januar 28, 2007.
The 2nd Friedrich World Championship
will be held from August 31 to September 2, 2007, in Berlin.
=> More info

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December 15, 2006.
A minor correction of the Friedrich-rules was necessary. Section 13 is modified with:
==> During an Offensive Option, the game ends IMMEDIATELY if Prussia holds all her objectives. <==
You can download the updated rules here.
(Rules are updated only for the english and german version.)

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November 21, 2006.
The 2nd Friedrich-World-Championship:
You can vote for the weekend when the tournament is to be held.
Go here.

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October 11, 2006.
This year histogame has no booth at the Essen game fair.
Nevertheless you will find "Friedrich" at:
Pro Ludo (booth 11-10)
Play Me (booth 10-04)
Bambus Spieleverlag (booth 12-76)

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October 7, 2006.
The Friedrich-rules are now available in Spanish !!
Histogame is grateful to Mario Aguila for the translation !!

Now the Friedrich rules exist in 7 languages !!
(and this almost right on the 250th anniversary of the 7-years-war's breakout)

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October 7, 2006.
The turn-by-turn report of the Friedrich-Final
has grown up to turn 12 !!

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September 9, 2006.
A turn-by-turn-report of the final
of the 1st Friedrich World Championship is to be found here.
Teh game report contains detailed comments.
It is a work-in-progress and therefore not complete yet.
We plan to add more files every 2 weeks.

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July 20, 2006.
The first Friedrich-World-Champion is JOSEF GUNDEL !!

A detailed report on the tournament will be found soon here.

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July 1, 2006.
The registration for the Friedrich-World-Championship has closed!

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June 8, 2006.
The trophy for the Friedrich-World-Championship is finished!


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April 20, 2006.
Owners of the Friedrich first edition can order an upgrade kit here.

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March 21, 2006.
The second edition of FRIEDRICH is now available !!
There was a component upgrade and the correctin of minor graphical mistakes.
The most important changes:
* A die cut sheet replaces the postcard for self glueing.
* The rules are new translated
(thanks to Bowen Simmons from Simmonsgames)
* The wording of the rules was changed to incorporate the FAQ of the last year.
* The Cards of Fate are now complete in English AND German.

For further information click here.

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February 15, 2006.
FRIEDRICH rules now in Polish.
Histogame is grateful to
Waldemar Gumienny and Jaroslaw R. Andruszkiewicz
from Diablos Polacos for the translation.

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Octbober 30, 2005.
The 2 player scenarios have been slightly modified! Click here for downloading.

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October 26, 2005.
Friedrich has been awarded
BEST HISTORICAL SIMULATION 2006 !!
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Once in a year, the US GAMES MAGAZINE elects the best games in eleven disciplines.
FRIEDRICH was chosen the winner as "Best Historical Simulation".
Histogame is very happy about this award !!
We feel even more lucky, because some kind of double award was won:
BONAPARTE AT MARENGO, from our US-partner Simmons Games,
has been nominated as Best Historical Simulation.


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October 3, 2005.
On the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Seven Years War,
the 1st Friedrich World Championship
will be held in Berlin, Germany, from July 14 to 16, 2006.
(The weekend right after the FIFA 2006 World Cup Final.)
All Friedrich players who want to spend the weekend
competing for the world championship crown may participate.
For further information, click here.

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August 5, 2005.
Histogame is exhibitor at the game fair SPIEL-05 in Essen !!
This year the SPIEL-05 takes place from October 13 to 16.
Our booth is number 4-15 in hall 4. We'd be happy to meet you there.
Together with our US-partner Simmons Games
we are delighted to present
Bonaparte at Marengo
for the first time on a European game fair.

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August 4, 2005.
The rules of FRIEDRICH are now available in French (revised version) and Italian !!
Histogame is grateful fo Michele Lepetit, coronetdragon,
Maurizio Bignoli and Maurizio Bragaglia for the translation.

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May 18, 2005.
FRIEDRICH-Scenarios for 2 players in the download-section !

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May 15, 2005.
Histogame and Simmons Games (USA) have started to cooperate !!
that means:
a) Distribution of von Simmons Games by the histogame-website and vice versa.
b) Presentation of Simmons Games on game fairs in Germany.
c) Presentation of histogame on game fairs in USA.
d) Shipping to US-customers from the USA; shipping to German Customers from Germany.

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Conquest markers for FRIEDRICH
are now ready for download !

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Friedrich rules now in French !!
Many thanks to the enthusiasts of coronetdragon
for the costfree translation !!

The combat system is so clever it hurts !
There are marvellous reviews to be found in the web.
Some are collected here

Do you know the wonderful database of boardgamegeek ?
Take a look !

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The voting on the Spielbar-Site has closed now.
FRIEDRICH was evaluated as best game out of the Essen-2004-publications ! !
We'd like to thank all voters !

January 2005: There are new FAQs !

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The price for FRIEDRICH  is 39,90 EUR.

You can order the game via e-mail: Order 




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FRIEDRICH was presented on the international
gaming days of the game fair at Essen
between 21 and 24 of October.

The first reactions were pretty wonderful!
A lot of German newspapers reported about the game
and its theme, the famous Prussian King!

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And the first customers state:

"A perfect and fully developed game
with wonderful attracting mechanics."
(Torben)

"The cards are of high quality and
their classical design is very appealing."
(M. Trapp)