Vendor: Starling Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
8.95
Conspirator Pack #2 includes 4 new conspirators for Black Orchestra.
Includes:
Hans von Dohnanyi - Abwehr - Lawyer and Abwehr agent
Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff - Wehrmacht - Intelligence Liaison
Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven - Wehrmacht - Colonel High Command
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff - Civilian - Chief of Police
Vendor: Starling Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
8.95
Conspirator Pack #1 includes all 3 conspirators from the 1st Edition's Classified Pack, but have been updated for the new edition. There is also a new 4th conspirator.
Includes:
Fabian Von Schlabrendorff - Wehrmacht - Adjutant to Colonel Tresckow
Hjalmar Schacht - Civilian - President Reichsbank
Hans Gisevius - Abwehr - Diplomat and Abwehr agent
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Sophie Scholl - Civilian - Student activist
Vendor: Chip Theory Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
125.95
Vendor: Rock Manor Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
39.95
Number of Players: 1-4
Playing Time: 20-60 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 10+
The Kingdom is in grave danger. Powerful enemies are conspiring to resurrect the vile and powerful UnHallowed that your party has just slain. Now you, the mighty adventurers of the land, must visit these summoning locations and defeat the hordes of creatures behind this evil plot. It falls to four mighty adventurers, each of whom has a unique set of skills, to ban together once more to vanquish this evil before the Unhallowed consume the world in darkness. In Set a Watch, a cooperative game for 1-4 players, you must clear out nine locations to stop the acolytes from breaking the seals holding back the evil UnHallowed. Every round you will visit a new location and pick an adventurer to rest and take camp actions. The rest of the party will take watch and battle a line of monsters trying to make their way into camp using your dice and unique character abilities. Manipulating the creature line is essential to solving each round’s combat puzzle. It is a battle to stay alive and keep the campfire burning! Use your wits and skill to fight for the light…or all will perish in the darkness.
Vendor: Game Salute
Type: Board Games
Price:
74.95
Ages: 14+
Players: 2-4
Play Time: 60-90 Minutes
Alien Frontiers is the award-winning game of resource management, dice placement, and area control set on the retro sci-fi world of Planet Maxwell.
Deploy your fleet of dice and colonize the untamed planet by utilizing orbital facilities, discovering alien technology, and constructing colonies in strategic locations to stake your claim to this far-flung frontier.
Do you have what it takes to colonize a new world?
Vendor: inPatience
Type: Board Games
Price:
27.95
You are an air-shipwright, inventor of the flying ships used by the dreams to traverse the skies of the Oniverse, and now you must build the most beautiful fleet that ever soared. Gather the best blueprints and the most expensive materials -and of course the most competent crews. But all those resources are limited and, to get the ones you need most, you may be forced to sacrifice some precious ones.
Vendor: Pegasus Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price:
41.95
2023 Spiel Des Jahres Winner!
In Dorfromantik: The Board Game, up to six players work together to lay hexagonal tiles to create a beautiful landscape and try to fulfill the orders of the population, while at the same time laying as long a track and as long a river as possible, but also taking into account the flags that provide points in enclosed areas.
The better the players manage to do this, the more points they can score at the end. In the course of the replayable campaign, the points earned can be used to unlock new tiles that are hidden in initially locked boxes. These pose new, additional tasks for the players and make it possible to raise the high score higher and higher in this cooperative game.
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Vendor: PSC Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
30.95
The Roman Republic is coming to an end, but not before a power struggle between Caesar and Pompey. Players will command their legions, strategically deploying them to key battlegrounds to try and seize control of the provinces and become ruler of the republic.
Players draw tokens from a bag to determine their starting forces and to replenish their losses. Players allocate their resources to each province, gaining tactical advantages and vying for control of the republic.
Three modules to expand the game are included: poison your opponent, deploy powerful Centurions and use underhanded tactics to gain advantages in the Expansions of Rome.
Vendor: Not specified
Type: Board Games
Price:
19.95
Vendor: Inside Up Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
54.95
Number of Players: 1-5
Playing Time: 45-90 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 13+
Over millions of years of evolution and adaptation, the flora and fauna of this unique planet have grown and developed into amazing life-forms, creating beautiful symbiotic ecosystems and diverse habitats. It's time to create your island: a 4x4 tableau of self-supporting growth, expansion and supply where even the cards you don't need become compost for future gain. Earth is an open-world engine builder for 1 to 5 players with simple rules but many strategic possibilities.
Vendor: Starling Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
52.95
Vendor: Rio Grande Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
64.95
In Woodcraft, you play as forest people running competing workshops in the woods, with you gathering wood and crafting goods for your customers. Along the way, you hire helpers, improve your workshop, and buy different types of wood and other tools to create the best workshop you can.
During the game, players complete their projects with wood (dice) that can be cut down to size, glued back together, and adjusted using dice manipulation to be as efficient as possible with their resources.
Whoever builds the best, most successful workshop wins.
Vendor: Pegasus Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price:
34.95
Beer & Bread is a multi-use card game for two players. Its clever structure of alternating rounds puts a fascinating twist on player interaction, card drafting, and resource management.
Founded on the fruitful lands of an erstwhile monastery, two villages have held up the dual tradition of brewing beer and baking bread. While sharing fields and resources, they still find pride in their friendly rivalry of besting each other’s produce.
Each of you represents one of these villages. Over the course of six years - which alternate between fruitful and dry - you must harmonize your duties of harvesting and storing resources, producing beer and bread, selling them for coins and upgrading your facilities.
However, in order to win, you must maintain the balance between your baked and liquid goods. Because, after the sixth year, you only score the coins collected from the type of good - beer or bread - for which you earned less. The village with the higher score wins.
Vendor: Pandasaurus Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
48.95
The Wolves is a pack-building strategy game for 2-5 players. It’s survival of the fittest as you compete to build the largest, most dominant pack by claiming territory, recruiting lone wolves, and hunting prey. But be careful not to expand too recklessly into terrain where your rivals thrive – they may lure members of your pack away.
A clever action-selection mechanism drives your choices. Each action requires you to flip terrain tiles matching the terrain where you wish to take your action. These double-sided tiles mean the actions you take this round will set up which terrain types you can act on in the next round. As you take actions to expand your pack’s control of each region, you will also upgrade your pack’s attributes, allowing you to take more aggressive actions as the game goes on.
There are 3 mid-game scoring phases where power is calculated in each region. At the end of the game players will tally up points based on VP tokens earned in these scoring phases and the highest VP number revealed in each of the 6 tracks on your player board. The player with the most VP wins!
Number of Players: 2-5
Playing Time: 75 Minutes
Recommended Age: 14+
Designers: Ashwin Kamath, Clarence Simpson
Artist: Paulina Linjama
Vendor: Z-Man Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
45.95
Ages: 8+
Players: 1-8
Play Time: 45 Minutes
Gather the best team to win a series of duels in this fast-paced game set during the world’s biggest Capture the Flag competition. Challengers stars over 70 kooky characters from diverse locales like Hollywood, outer space, and the monstrous deep sea… or your bathtub. Players draft character cards with unique abilities and must make tough deck building choices between rounds, as each character combination opens up new ways to win. Across up to 4 simultaneous battles, players win trophies and fans by defeating other players in duels. After seven rounds, the two players with the most trophies and fans face off to become the ultimate champion.
Draft from over 70 diverse characters with unique abilities to build your dream team. Players update their decks after each round, allowing them to adjust their strategy based on their last duel.
Fight to become the Champion of Challengers again and again, with different deck lineups affecting your winning strategy
Duel ‘til you drop, with everyone playing at the same time in up to four simultaneous duels. Face a new opponent each round in an intense tournament!
Challenge yourself in Solo mode, where you face the Robot in a one-on-one battle for victory
Stage your duels in style with four high-quality playmats, making the game easy to set up and play
Vendor: Greater Than Games LLC
Type: Board Games
Price:
33.95
Number of Players: 1-3
Playing Time: 90-120 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 14+
Horizons of Spirit Island is a cooperative strategy game of settler-destruction for 1-3 players, designed by R. Eric Reuss. Players are called to defend their home as Spirits of nature, fighting to defeat the colonizing Invaders that threaten to destroy their natural existence! The Invaders expand every turn, colonizing more and more of the land as they advance, their towns and cities spreading Blight wherever they’re left unchecked. All hope is not lost, though!
Start your Spirit Island journey with this game, or grow your existing collection with five new spirits and a new set of game components. Work together to save your home and stand strong with your fellow Spirits against the wave of white-sailed ships on the Horizons of Spirit Island!
Vendor: Ravensburger
Type: Board Games
Price:
21.95
Vendor: AEG - Alderac Entertainment Group
Type: Board Games
Price:
42.95
Number of Players: 2-4
Playing Time: 30-60 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 8+
After 10 years, Smash Up is still going strong!
This special 10th Anniversary celebration set comes full of new fun for your base-smashing outings. New factions, brand new Titans, a 10 year retrospective art book, an alternate format Big Base, and more!
The Smash Up 10th Anniversary Set includes the new factions: Mermaids, Skeletons, and the World Champs, as well as brand-new Titans, and a reprint of the Sheep faction for those who may have missed out the first time. It also includes several great components for upgrading your game of Smash Up, such as base mats and a new Goblin token, and the all-new Big Base, an entirely new way of playing Smash Up!
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Vendor: Stonemaier Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
44.95
In this third expansion to Wingspan, we welcome new species to our habitats by exploring the vibrant, intriguing, and magnificent birds of Asia. These birds were chosen from the over 2,800 species that live in Asia.
This is both a stand-alone game for 1 player or 2 players (Duet mode that can be used with any bird/bonus cards), an expansion to the original Wingspan (any bird/bonus cards across any Wingspan game or expansion can be combined), and a 6-7 player expansion via the new Flock mode (for which the player components from the core game are necessary).
Vendor: Hobby Japan
Type: Board Games
Price:
28.95
Number of Players: 2-5
Playing Time: 30 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 14+
Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition is the quintessential quantum trick-taking card game for 2 - 5 cool cats, where your card's color isn’t defined until you play it! Hypothesize how many tricks you will win, and record your bid. Place tokens on the community research board as you play your hand, and connect large groups of tokens to score even more points. Plan your tricks carefully as you cannot claim the color of a card with the same number that has already been declared. Doing so would be pawsitively catastrophic as you have just created a paradox! (Notice this does not say pair o' dogs. Gross.)
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Vendor: Scorpion Masque
Type: Board Games
Price:
44.95
"Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game."
- Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.
Turing Machine is a unique deduction game that uses a proto-computer that runs without electronics or electricity. Your goal: Find the only code that will pass the test of all the "Verifiers", AIs that answer your proposals using a never-before-seen punch card system! The game offers more than seven million problems from simple to mind-staggeringly complex.
Are you ready for an intense cerebral gaming experience?
Vendor: Space Cowboys
Type: Board Games
Price:
29.95
Confront your rival guild in a race for victory. Take Gem and Pearl tokens from the common board, then purchase cards, gather bonuses, royal favours, and prestige.
Discover new twists and strategic opportunities derived from Splendor, the original best-selling game. Acquire cards with impressive powers, take advantage of special Privileges, and fight over scarce access to Pearls.
Splendor Duel is a two-player only standalone game based on Splendor that retains some of the main gameplay mechanisms of that design, while being a bit more complex, dynamic, interactive, rich, tense, and mean.
The game features a main board shared by both opponents, card powers, and three victory conditions.
This multilingual edition includes: English & French
This is a standalone product, no other Splendor product is required to play.
Vendor: UTSUROI
Type: Board Games
Price:
64.95
Edo — what we now know today as Tokyo, Japan — was a thriving city with an estimated population of one million, half townspeople and half samurai. With a huge shopping culture, Edo's main district, Nihonbashi, was lined with shops, selling kimonos, rice, and so much more.
Nihonbashi is the focus of IKI: A Game of EDO Artisans, which brings you on a journey through the famed street of old Tokyo. Hear the voices of Nihonbashi Bridge's great fish market. Meet the professionals, who carry out 700-800 different jobs. Enter the interactivity of the shoppers and vendors. Become one with the townspeople.
One of the main professions in the world of Edo is the artisan. Each of the Edo artisans uses their own skill of trade to support the townspeople's lives. In this game, not only are there artisans, but street vendors, sellers at the shops, and professions unique to this time and age. Meet the puppet masters, putting on a show. Meet the ear cleaners that people would line up for.
The goal of this game is to become the annual Edoite, best personifying what is known as "IKI", an ancient philosophy believed to be the ideal way of living among people in Edo. Knowing the subtleties of human nature, being refined and attractive — these are all elements of a true IKI master.
Vendor: Cool Mini or Not
Type: Board Games
Price:
17.95
Vendor: Fantasy Flight Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
64.95
The Lazax Empire has burned to ash, rejected by its subjects. The aftermath was tragedy and petty conflict in equal measure, a time of loss and exhaustion. In the ensuing Dark Years, the factions of the galaxy retreated and recovered their strength. Now, they look upon the stars and see an opportunity—a chance to reclaim what was lost. A chance to redefine galactic civilization. A chance to leave their mark upon the stars.
This epic roll-and-write game for one to eight players offers an experience unlike anything FFG has done before. With a limited pool of resources at your disposal, you’ll need to carefully manage Navigation, Expansion, Industry, and Warfare as you amass victory points and earn your right to the throne on Mecatol Rex. Will your faction become the new rulers of the galaxy? Or will your fledgling empire fade into obscurity? Anything can happen in this strategic, infinitely-replayable game!
Much like how Twilight Imperium is a massive board game, Twilight Inscription is a massive roll-and-write. Where most roll-and-writes have each player filling out a single board (referred to as a “player sheet”) as they play, Twilight Inscription has you filling out four!
During setup, each player starts off by choosing a faction, such as the Arborec , the Emirates of Hacan , the Nomad , or the Titans of Ul . All 24 of Twilight Imperium’s factions are here, and each has its own unique abilities. Once you have your faction, you take one of each of the aforementioned four player sheets: Navigation, Expansion, Industry, and Warfare. These are what you’ll be writing on as you play the game. These sheets are reusable, and you’ll write on them with dry-erase chalk markers, which are included with the box. And the coolest part? There are eight different versions of each sheet! This means you can start with a vastly different setup than your opponents. (Don’t worry—for those of you who prefer that everyone starts with the exact same setup, that option is also included.)
Here are a few of the different Expansion sheets. As you can see, each of them has a different collection of planets to explore.
Between all the factions you can play as and the different player sheets you can use, no two games of Twilight Inscription will feel quite the same. Now, let’s take a look at the things you’ll be doing during a game.
Each round kicks off with an event card. Most of these are “strategy events,” such as Fledgling Empire and Echoes of the Past . These grant you resources, which, along with the resources rolled on the dice, you then spend on one of your player sheets in a multitude of ways. You do this by using your marker to cross off the resource costs for whatever it is you’re trying to do (hence the “write” part of roll-and-write). Just keep in mind that you can only spend resources on one sheet per round!
There are a lot of things to spend resources on across all four sheets, and figuring out the best place to do so is part of the core strategy in Twilight Inscription. Maybe you want to discover new systems or race to Mecatol Rex on Navigation; perhaps you’d rather develop some planets on Expansion; you could always generate commodities to amass your wealth on Industry; or maybe you just want to build up your fleet on Warfare. You’ll gradually gain victory points no matter which sheet you invest in, but take care not to neglect any of them; otherwise, unexpected events could throw you off your game!
For example, some event cards, such as Border Conflict , will trigger a war, which involves you comparing the strength of your fleet (located on your Warfare sheet) to those of your neighbors. You earn victory points if your fleet is stronger than a neighbor’s, but you can also lose points if your fleet is weaker than theirs.
In a similar vein, if a council event occurs, such as Convene the Council , you’ll need votes, which you can build up on your Industry sheet. The effects of agendas like Technology Embargo and Corporate Tax Breaks can have serious effects on the game, but if you’ve been neglecting your Industry sheet, you won’t have enough votes to ensure the outcome is the one you want.
All in all, striking the balance between Navigation, Expansion, Industry, and Warfare is the key to achieving victory. There are endless possible strategies that you could use to pull ahead of your opponents—the question is, which approach is the best for you? The game goes until the war event A Throne for the Taking is resolved, at which point everybody’s victory points are tallied. Whoever has the most is the winner!
You may have caught it earlier when we mentioned the player count, but you can play this game solo as well!
If you play the game by yourself or with only one other player, than you will square off against an AI opponent. The AI opponent follows its own set of rules, and its objective is simple: make as much progress along its goal tracks as possible. The AI doesn’t earn any victory points for itself, but it does disrupt you (and your human opponent, if there is one) in your quest to earn points of your own. For example, the AI will actively oppose you in warfare and council events, so you will still want to make sure you build up your fleet and votes as much as you can. If you haven’t earned a certain number of victory points by the time the game ends, then the AI has beaten you, so bring your A-game!
Twilight Inscription is an all-new way to experience the Twilight Imperium universe. This roll-and-write is FFG’s first foray into the genre, and the game is as epic and massive as anything in the TI universe should be. Make your mark on the galaxy and claim the throne when Twilight Inscription launches this fall!
