industry board games fate acquired successor ironwind inc. defunct 1997 headquarters chicago illinois us key people darwin bromley products role aids dc heroes board games website www.mayfairgames.com mayfair games is a publisher of board card and roleplaying games . they also license german style board games and publish them in english throughout the world . they license the worldwide english language rights to publish the settlers of catan series from catan gmbh . ironwind inc. trading name mayfair games type private industry board games fate reorganized moved 2001 successor mayfair games inc. founded 1997 founder iron crown enterprises headquarters skokie illinois us products train games card games dice games services foreign and domestic game distribution website mayfairgames.com contents 1 history 2 games 2.1 board games 2.2 card games 2.3 roleplaying games 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit mayfair games was originally founded by 1981 1 by darwin bromley in chicago illinois united states . robert t. carty jr. its current executive vp came on board in 1998 . its current president larry roznai took over in 1999 and oversees operations . chairman since 1997 pete fenlon became ceo in 2007 . coleman charlton became director of products that same year the latter half of which marked a major reorganization with a refocusing on catan and other core brands . in 1982 mayfair released its war in the falklands game just as the war ended leading the english press to accuse mayfair of ghoulish exploitation . 2 gary gygax had advocated arranging a licensing agreement between tsr inc. and mayfair games for their role aids line of game supplements but was outvoted in the board meeting considering the question . 3 in 1993 mayfair was sued by tsr who argued that role aids advertised as compatible with advanced dungeons & dragons violated their 1984 trademark agreement . while the court found that some of the line violated their trademark the line as a whole did not violate the agreement 4 and mayfair continued publishing the line until the rights were bought by tsr . in 1997 mayfair shut down for financial reasons and was subsequently bailed out by iron crown enterprises ice who purchased most of the company s assets and restarted operations as ironwind inc. this new company operates publicly under the mayfair games trademark and was owned 30 % by ice and 70 % by the principals who had arranged the bailout . 5 during the bailout by ice a warehouse was purchased by a dice company and the megs role playing game ended up in the hands of janet bromley . in 2003 mayfair started publishing games by da vinci games beginning with the card game bang . in 2005 mayfair also began distributing all of the games published by phalanx games . mayfair has worldwide english language publication and distribution rights for the the settlers of catan family of games . in 2011 mayfair released the card games struggle for catan and rivals for catan to highlight the brand s 15th anniversary . in 2012 mayfair released star trek catan the first catan game with a licensed theme in this case star trek . mayfair games inc. type private industry board games founded 2001 headquarters skokie illinois us products train games card games dice games services foreign and domestic game distribution website mayfairgames.com games edit this list includes both games originally published by mayfair and games licensed by mayfair from other publishers . board games edit 18xx games 1830 the game of railroads and robber barons 1856 1870 1853 alchemist amazonas anasazi anno 1503 the company war 1983 based on the c. j. cherryh novel downbelow station the castle 1981 cosmic encounter more cosmic encounter simply cosmic empire builder australian rails british rails eurorails india rails iron dragon lunar rails nippon rails north american rails russian rails china rails agent of change uncle happy s train game dragonriders of pern based on the anne mccaffrey book of the same name entdecker the forever war based on the joe haldeman book of the same name hammer s slammers based on the david drake book of the same name hue isle of skye from chieftain to king jerusalem the keep 1983 the market of alturian morgan s rifles myth fortunes nautilus adventure in the deep naval battles oceania quo vadis the pillars of the earth red star falling road to the white house shear panic silverton settlers of catan games the settlers of catan seafarers of catan cities & knights traders & barbarians starfarers of catan starship catan struggle for rome settlers of the stone age settlers of america test of fire tigris and euphrates toledo wake island war in the falklands weinhandler xanth card games edit abracadabra 2004 6 alibi bang elixir encounters 1982 express family business fantasy adventures 1995 modern art simcity station master roleplaying games edit chill dc heroes role aids underground see also edit going cardboard a documentary references edit better business bureau skokie illinois . founding date mayfair games . better business bureau . better business bureau . retrieved 4 june 2011 . hind jim november december 1982 . war in the falklands . the wargamer . 1 22 . sacco ciro alessandro . the ultimate interview with gary gygax . thekyngdoms.com . retrieved october 24 2008 . tsr inc. v. mayfair games inc. 1993 wl 79272 n.d. ill . a brief history of game 9 ice part two 1993 present vasel tom 2005 . abracadabra . the dice tower . retrieved february 20 2006 . external links edit official website mayfair games listing at boardgamegeek retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mayfair games & oldid 737936826 categories board game publishing companiesrole playing game publishing companiescompanies based in skokie illinois navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent 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