Castelnuovo 1539 (English)

Come whenever you want! ¡ Venid when you make the request!

On August 7, 1539, the last resistance of the Spanish garrison in the Albanian village of Castelnuovo (Novi for the Turks) ceased. After 22 days of open trenches and more than a month of fighting, skirmishes, assaults and bombardments, the last Spanish defenders fulfilled the destiny they had promised themselves when they rejected the offers of surrender which, according to the rules of war, Jareidin Barbarossa, admiral of the Ottoman fleet and general in chief of the operation, had made to them.
The city and its fortifications, rather meager and obsolete, had been taken by the forces of the Holy League in October 1538, so as not to end the campaign with the bad taste of the naval defeat of Préveza. Fourteen companies of Spanish infantry under the command of D. Francisco Sarmiento de Mendoza and Manuel, some 3,500 soldiers, were garrisoned there for the winter.
The following summer brought a tide of 54,000 Turks and a fleet of 200 sail before its walls. After Venice's defection from the League, there was no possibility of naval relief and the Spanish command authorized the capitulation, however Sarmiento and his men decided to respond to Barbarossa's offer with the phrase "Come whenever you want", which sealed their fate.
In this game, two sides face off in a desperate battle: the city and its fortifications will eventually yield to Turkish power, but the question is, at what cost?

In Castelnuovo, we will manage our army with piece wooden verticals with sticker, where we will not be able to see the type of unit of the opponent. The board is divided into zones and we will have other types of units such as cannon batteries, walls, bastions, trenches, etc. The confrontations will be carried out by rolling 6-sided dice and a deck of cards for each side, which allows us to play them to give orders, improve combat, dig trenches and special events.