Career
Alessio Cavatore is a game designer. In 1995 Cavatore moved to Nottingham (United Kingdom) to work for Games hop. He wrote several supplements for Warhammer Fantasy Battle before heading up the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.
In 2004 Cavatore was made responsible for all rules material published for the company"s three main tabletop systems — Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, and The Lord of the Rings — and, in 2006, he wrote the rules for a new edition of Warhammer.
Working closely with Rick Priestley, Cavatore has been a designer for Games hop"s tabletop hobby wargames. Mordheim (1999) was designed by Alessio Cavatore, Tuomas Pirinen and Rick Priestley.
Kings of War (2009) was designed by Cavatore. Alessio Cavatore had a cameo appearance in The Return of the King film as Rohirrim at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, alongside Games hop designers Alan Perry, Michael Perry and Brian Nelson.
They can be seen near the Mumakil Peregrin Took goes searching for Meriadoc Brandybuck among the debris from the battle, and are also on the base of Games hop"s Mûmak miniature.
River Horse Games is run by Alessio, and publishes wargames and provide game design services for wargames companies as well as its own game Terminator Genisys a tabletop board game that can be scaled up to a wargame to be released in 2015 through warlord games with the new Terminator Genisys movie.
