In many ways 7 Wonders Duel resembles its parent game 7 Wonders as over three ages players acquire cards that provide resources or advance their military or scientific development in order to develop a civilization and complete wonders.

What's different about 7 Wonders Duel is that, as the title suggests, the game is solely for two players, with the players not drafting cards simultaneously from hands of cards, but from a display of face-down and face-up cards arranged at the start of a round. A player can take a card only if it's not covered by any others, so timing comes into play as well as bonus moves that allow you to take a second card immediately. As in the original game, each card that you acquire can be built, discarded for coins, or used to construct a wonder.

Each player starts with four wonder cards, and the construction of a wonder provides its owner with a special ability. Only seven wonders can be built, though, so one player will end up short.

Players can purchase resources at any time from the bank, or they can gain cards during the game that provide them with resources for future building; as you acquire resources, the cost for those particular resources increases for your opponent, representing your dominance in this area.

A player can win 7 Wonders Duel in one of three ways: each time you acquire a military card, you advance the military marker toward your opponent's capital, giving you a bonus at certain positions; if you reach the opponent's capital, you win the game immediately; similarly, if you acquire any six of seven different scientific symbols, you achieve scientific dominance and win immediately; if none of these situations occurs, then the player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

878 Vikings on aluehallintapeli 2-4 pelaajalle. Tarkoituksena on rohmuta rikkauksia ja kasvattaa mainetta ja perustaa uusi koti Englantiin. Vaihtoehtoisesti voit puolustaa omaa kristittyä valtakuntaasi noita pakanallisia viikinkivalloittajia vastaan. Viikinkipelaajat kontrolloivat vapaita norjalaisviikinkejä ja pelottomia hyökkäysjoukkoja, berserkkejä.

Useammalla pelaajalla, samalla puolella olevat pelaajat voivat tehdä yhteistyötä ja koordinoita strategioitaan. Englantilaiset aloittavan pelin hallitsemalla koko Englantia, mutta viikinkipelaajat hyökkäävät mereltä ja iskevät syvälle sisämaahan. Pelaajat päättävät koska peli päättyy Wedmoren rauhanneuvotteluihin. Se osapuoli, joka hallitsee useampia kaupunkeja rauhanneuvotteluvuoron lopussa, on voittaja.

Isot pisteet pelin historiallisesti tarkalle kansikuvalle, jossa viikingillä ei ole sarvia kypärässään.

Käyttämällä pelilaudan toimintoruutuja pelaajien on metsästettävä, kerättävä perusmateriaaleja, jalostettava näitä materiaaleja, kehitettävä tuotanto-rakennuksiaan, rakennettava ja ostettava laivoja ja ryöstettävä siirtokuntia. Saadut tulot ("tetrislaattoja") sijoitetaan pelaajien henkilökohtaisille pelilaudoille parhaalla mahdollisella tavalla tuottamaan tuloja ja (myöhemmin) voittopisteitä.

The Norwegians on ensimmäinen suuri laajennus A Feast for Odiniin. Lisäosaan kuuluu neljä uutta saarilautaa (Mansaari, Skye, Islay, Ulko-Hebridit). Näiden takapuolella sijaitsevat Irlannin rannikon viikinkisiirtokunnat (Waterford, Wexford, Cork, Limerick), joissa  norjalaiset viettivät talvea, kävivät kauppaa ja asuivat.
Nämä tarjoavat uusia strategioita ja uusia tetrislaattoja, kuten hevonen (6 VP,  2x5 koko) / raskaana oleva hevonen / nahka (vihreä) / vadmal (sininen) ja siat (1 VP, lisääntyvät joka kierros; 2x3 - 1 = 5 ruudun kokoinen) / yrtit ( oranssi) / sarvet (vihreä) / työkalut (sininen). Pelissä on kolmas laatikko laattoja varten ja se tarjoaa myös neljä vanhaa saarta (uudistetut  VP: t ja uudet versiot minilaajennussaarista Lofootit / Orkney / Tierra del Fuego).

Laajennukseen sisältyy toinen vuorijono (viimeinen kierros), lisää kahden hopean kolikoita, liha/papu ja riimut/öljy  -merkkejä, sekä  "pieni muuttopala", joka peittää yhden ruokaruudun kahden sijasta.

Uudistuneessa toimintolaudassa on kolme osaa, jotka voidaan kääntää ympäri eri pelaajamäärille (versio 1-2, 3 ja 4 pelaajalle). Tämä lisää pelaajien välistä interaktiota. Lauta sisältää uusia toimintamahdollisuuksia, kuten lihakauppa, hirvenmetsästys, kalastus ja varkaudet, sekä muutoksia joihinkin vanhoihin toimiin. Nyt on helpompaa esimerkiksi pelata eläinstrategiaa myös siksi, että voit nyt saada kaksi samaa eläintä yhdellä toiminnolla. Laudalla on myös uusi viides sarake, jolla voit tehdä viimeisellä viikingilläsi paremman toiminnon! Voit esimerkiksi takoa malmilla ja yhdellä toiminnolla nyt harmaan laatan, jossa on jopa kahdeksan miekkaa. Tätä varten on olemassa viisi uutta harmaata laattaa, kuten pannu, hauberkki tai alasin.

Aivan uutta on myös idea satunnaisesta aloitusrakentamisesta. Kaikki saavat yhden kuudesta käsityöläisen paja -laudasta ja voivat rakentaa etu- tai takapuolen yhdellä puulla ja yhdellä toiminnolla. Nämä rakennukset tarjoavat tavaroita (palasia, aseita, hyödykkeitä), voittopisteitä ja hopeaa. Näin jokaisella on erilainen aloitusmahdollisuus. Tässä laajennuksessa valitset mieluisemman ammattikortista, joista aloitat. Toinen uusi vaihtoehto on, että ammattikortin asettamisen sijaan voit heittää sen pois voittopisteitä vastaan.

Laajennus ei sisällä viikinkihistoriaa esittelevää "almanakkaa", mutta sellaisen kirjoitti historiallisiin aiheisiin perehtynyt journalisti Gernot Köpke. Almanakan pääkohdat julkaistaan BGG: ssä osoitteessa https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/2023534/almanac-almanach

Lisäosa sisältää myös ylimääräisiä laivalaattoja ja pieniä muuttolaattoja.

A War of Whispers is a competitive board game for 2 to 4 players. Five mighty empires are at war for the world, but you are no mighty ruler. Instead, you play a secret society that is betting on the results of this war while pulling strings to rig the results and ensure their bets pay off. A War of Whispers is a game of deep strategy, hidden agendas, and shifting loyalties.

You start the game with five loyalty tokens, each corresponding to one of the five different empires, bet randomly on a loyalty value. Your primary goal is to ensure that when the game ends, the empires you are most loyal to control the most cities across the globe. Gameplay consists of turns broken down into four phases:

    Deploy agents phase: In player order (starting with the first player and proceeding clockwise), each player removes, then deploys agents to empire councils, the positions on the board marked Sheriff, Steward, Marshall, and Chancellor.
    Empire turns phase: Each council position on each empire council will take an action. If a player has acquired cards, they may play them during this phase.
    Cleanup phase: Add the turn marker to the next space on the turn tracker, then each player discards down to the hand limit of five cards.
    Swap phase: In player order, each player may swap two of their unrevealed loyalty tokens. If you choose to do so, you must reveal both of the swapped loyalty tokens. They remain revealed for the rest of the game.

Gameplay repeats itself in this order four times. When the last space on the turn track is filled, the game ends immediately and scoring commences. The player with the most points based off their empire loyalties and the cities they control wins.

It's been twenty years since Victor Frankenstein died on a ship in the arctic, but his vengeful creature lives on, as does Robert Walton, the sea captain who vowed to kill the fiend before mercy stayed his hand. It's now 1819, and a sinister darkness descends upon the city of Paris. A mysterious benefactor of gigantic stature has emerged in the scientific community, never showing his face, claiming to possess the late Frankenstein's research. He sponsors a grand competition, offering an even grander prize: unlocking the mystery of mortality!

Renowned scientists from around the world come to take part: some drawn to solve this eternal riddle, others coerced against their will. But a certain captain comes as well, one deeply suspicious of the secretive patron, hoping to finally fulfill his vow.

Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein is a competitive game of strategic monster building for 2-4 players, inspired by Mary Shelley's classic novel of gothic horror. In the game, the creature demands your help to accomplish what his own creator would not: to bring to life an abomination like itself, a companion to end its miserable solitude. Through worker placement and careful management of decomposing resources, you'll gather materials from the cemeteries and morgues around the city, conduct valuable research at the Academy of Science, hire less-than-reputable associates, and toil away in your lab — all in an effort to assemble a new form of life and infuse it with a "spark of being". Do well, and the creature may reward you during one of its surprise visits; do poorly, and you may come to regret not putting forth more effort. Narrative elements come into play throughout the game, guided by your decisions, leading to potentially unsavory outcomes.

The game ends when you succeed in bringing your creation to life or when the Captain kills the creature, whichever happens first. Then the player with the most points fulfills Frankenstein's dark legacy, becoming his heir, for good or ill...

The Abyss power is once again vacant, so the time has come to get your hands on the throne and its privileges. Use all of your cunning to win or buy votes in the Council. Recruit the most influential Lords and abuse their powers to take control of the most strategic territories. Finally, impose yourself as the only one able to rule the Abyssal people!

Abyss is a game of development, combination and collection in which players try to take control of strategic locations in an underwater city. To achieve this, players must develop on three levels: first by collecting allies, then using them to recruit Lords of the Abyss, who will then grant access to different parts of the city. Players acquire cards through a draft of sorts, and the Lords of the Abyss acquired on those cards grant special powers to the cardholder — but once you use the cards to acquire a location, that power is shut off, so players need to time their land grabs well in order to put themselves in the best position for when the game ends.

The survivors of a long-ago invasion have taken refuge in the forgotten underground city of Gravehold. There, the desperate remnants of society have learned that the energy of the very breaches the beings use to attack them can be repurposed through various gems, transforming the malign energies within into beneficial spells and weapons to aid their last line of defense: the breach mages.

Aeon's End is a cooperative game that explores the deckbuilding genre with a number of innovative mechanisms, including a variable turn order system that simulates the chaos of an attack, and deck management rules that require careful planning with every discarded card. Players will struggle to defend Gravehold from The Nameless and their hordes using unique abilities, powerful spells, and, most importantly of all, their collective wits.

“Ette ole vielä murtomaageja”, Brama luennoi kulkiessaan oppilaiden riviä eteenpäin. Hänen heiveröinen ulkomuotonsa peitti uskomattoman voiman.”Murtomaagit ovat suojelleet meitä aikojen alusta — siitä asti kuin maailma paloi ja teimme pyhiinvaelluksen pimeyteen. Murtomaagit perustivat Graveholdin, viimeisen linnakkeemme, ja haluatte seistä näiden elävien legendojen rinnalla, teidän tulee kuunnella ja oppia. Nimettömät tulevat uudestaan, kuten ovat aina tehneet, ja teidän pitää olla valmiita. Te olette tulevaisuuden toivomme.”

Nuorena oppilaana kasvoit kuullen tarinoita murtomaageista. Brama, opettaja ja maageista viisain. Dezmodia, ennusmerkki ja suuren magian mestari. Mist, kylmäpäinen johtaja ja taktinen nero. Malastar, taikuuden takoja. Kapinallinen ja holtiton Xaxos. Nämä maagit ovat sankareitasi ja tulikokeesi jälkeen liityt heidän seuraansa.

“Kunkin teistä on selvittävä omasta koettelumuksestaan oppiaksenne itsekuria ja keskittymiskykyä. Niitä ominaisuuksia tarvitaan Graveholdin puolustuksessa. Me emme ole mitään ilman Graveholdia. Murtomaagin kohtalona on uhrata henkensä Graveholdille. Kun kuolet, teet sen puolustaaksesi kaupunkia. Kun ymmärrät tämän totuuden… vasta silloin olet valmis tulemaan murtomaagiksi.”

Välttämätön on tapahtunut: ihmiskuntaan on tarttunut zombievirus, joka on tappanut 90 % populaatiosta. Suurin osa henkiin jääneistä on muuttunut zombieiksi, ja homo sapiensin rippeet piileskelevät heikkoina ja puolustuskyvyttöminä. Tehtävänäsi on pelastaa mahdollisimman paljon porukkaa ja varustautua tappelemaan koko ajan lisääntyvää zombiearmeijaa vastaan.

After the Virus on Terraform Marsilla maailmanmaineeseen nousseiden Fryxeliuksen veljesten tekemä pakanrakennuspeli. Nämä sällit ovat melkein renessanssineroja, jotka tekevät kaiken itse. Tuon Danielin taiteilijankyvyt nyt ei kyllä kerää gallerioihin väkeä jonoksi asti, onhan tämä nyt rehellisesti sanoen ruma kuin mikä. Onneksi pelisuunnittelussa Jacob on tilanteen tasalla ja tässä on nyt tarjolla aika rautainen yhteistyöpeli, jossa pyritään suorittamaan tehtävä pakan täyttyessä zombieista.

Prätätätätä! Kuole, sinä inha epäkuollut!

Steam-belching iron horses roar across the wild plains! Age of Steam relives the era when pioneering U.S. railroads built the tracks that transformed America's economy. Each self-contained phase in the game keeps players constantly involved in making vital decisions and interacting with other players. You are challenged to:

Finance both the most extensive track network and the most powerful locomotives

Determine which routes will give the best returns on their costs

Beat the opposition to the most lucrative shipments

Make enough money to pay your aggressive creditors

Age of Steam has been the top-rated train game on BGG for most of the years since it first appeared in 2002. But change is inevitable, and now, nearly 20 years later….

Eagle-Gryphon Games is proud to present Age of Steam: Deluxe Edition!

Whats New?

Six maps are included on 3 double-sided game boards

Mini-sized (22mm) poker chips have replaced paper money

Classic wooden Track Ownership disks in 6 new player colors replace plastic trains, but cool, small (18mm) wooden trains are available as an inexpensive upgrade

A PVC insert with a clear plastic cover has been added for convenient and clear storage of all components

A huge, heavy-duty box is supplied to carry the weight of potentially 10 maps, 3 new supply boards, 90 poker chips, 144 tiles, and the other new components (see below). This box is a bit bigger and heavier than those we use for the Vital Lacerda games of Lisboa, Gallerist and Vinhos!


Components:

3 Double-Sided Game Boards (Rust Belt, Western U.S., Southern U.S., Germany, Barbados, and St. Lucia) -- all mounted on 2mm thick and durable game board stock

3 Display Boards - mounted on thick, game board stock

136 Track Tiles

180 Track Ownership disks (6 sets of 20 Track Ownership disks, 5 Player disks, and 5 extra disks for use with expansions, in 6 player colors; blue, green, yellow, pink, gray, and orange)

96 Goods cubes (20 red, 20 blue, 20 purple, 20 yellow, 16 black, 14 white)

8 New City tiles (1 red, 1 blue, 1 purple, 1 yellow, 4 black)

90 Money chips (40x $1, 40x $5, 10x $25) -- 22mm, composition material, 1.7g, stack easily

1 Turn Track marker -- wooden cylinder

8 Town disks

6 Dice

1 Cloth Bag -- grey with a gold-stenciled logo

Rulebook

Alien Artifax on 4X-tyyppinen korttipeli 2-5 pelaajalla. Kullakin pelaajalla lähettää oman ryhmittymänsä tutkimusaluksia kartoittamattomaan avaruuteen laajentamaan tietämystään ja voimaansa. Rakennatte aluksia, kehitätte teknologiaa ja tutkitte galaksia löytääkseenne jotain tai jonkun, josta hyödytte.

Pelaajalla on joka vuoro käytössään kolme resurssikorttia ja keskeistä on päättää miten ne käyttää mahdollisimman tehokkaasti. Jokaisessa resussikortissa on kahta resurssityyppiä, voit käyttää vain toista. Resurssien avulla rakennnat aluksia, kehität teknologiaa, löydät planeettoja tai käyt kauppaa.

Alien Artifacts tiivistää 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate) -pelien hengen alle tunnin korttipeliksi.

Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps! is a co‑operative survival board game in which you and your team of specialist Colonial Marines will gear up with serious firepower and head into Hadley's Hope to find survivors and answers. But you're not alone. To survive, you'll need to work together, keep your cool, and stay frosty to fight off relentless Xenomorph ambushes and get out of there alive.

Players can play up to six different missions, taking them into different areas from the Hadley’s Hope terraforming facility to the deep, dark recesses of an xenomorph nest. Aliens also offers an exciting campaign mode to play four of the missions linked together, so players will need to fight relentless xenomorph attacks and keep each other alive all the way to the end of the campaign. The remaining two missions are purely about survival, it’s kill or be killed. The players are dropped into the game with nothing more than a pistol. They will need to scavenge weapons and gear while hordes of Xenomorph aliens are trying to get at them. How long can you survive against the odds?

Alma Mater has players serving as a headmaster of one of the independent universities in the 15th century. Players seek to strengthen their school's reputation and standing. To achieve these goals, players need to recruit the best staff and students, exchange knowledge with other schools, and become experts in the school's four disciplines!

Altiplano on ns. “pussinrakentamispeli” Orléansin tyyliin. Sen tapahtumat sijoittuvat Etelä-Amerikan Andien ylängöille - Altiplanolle. Altiplano ei ole yksinkertainen peli, vaan se antaa pelaajille yhä uudelleen tuoreita haasteita. Tavoitteeseen pääsemiseksi on monia tapoja, joten peli houkuttelee kokeilemaan aina uusia vaihtoehtoja ja strategioita. Menestys tai epäonnistuminen riippuu myös siitä, antaako vastustajasi sinun tehdä niin kuin haluat vai rikkooko hän strategiasi. Kilpailu yksittäisistä tuotteista on huomattavaa, mutta myös hauskaa, kun sieppaat himoitun laajennuskortin toisen pelaajan nenän alta!

Kukin pelaaja aloittaa ainutlaatuisella roolilaatalla, joka antaa heille pääsyn erilaisiin tuotteisiin ja tuotantomenetelmiin. Tuotteiden  saatavuus on alussa rajoitettua, mutta pelaajat voivat hankkia koko pelin ajan uusia tuotantovaihtoehtoja tarjoavia laitoksia. Lukuisilla tavaroilla - kuten kaloilla, alpakoilla, kaakaolla, hopealla tai maissilla - on kaikilla omat ominaisuutensa sekä paikat, joissa niitä voidaan käyttää. Pelaaja voi myydä hopeaa kalliilla hinnoilla markkinoilla, kun taas kaloilla varustettu pelaaja voi vaihtaa ne muihin tavaroihin satamassa. Alpakkoja hankkinut pelaaja voi tuottaa villaa, joka voidaan sitten tehdä muuttaa maatilalla kankaaksi.

Tehokkaan tuotannon rakentamisen lisäksi pelaajien on toimitettava oikeat tavarat oikeaan aikaan, kehitettävä tietä  ja varastoitava tavaransa taitavasti täyttääkseen varastonsa tehokkaimmin. Usein hyvä varastomies on lopulta tärkeämpi kuin paraskaan tuottaja.

A traveler wanders through the South American highlands and brings the inhabitants new ideas from his travels. Anyone who meets him can take advantage of these assets. A public trading point makes it possible to obtain rare goods in exchange for opals. And a variety of fortunes adds even more diversity to life among the mountain ranges in Bolivia and Peru.

With Altiplano: The Traveler, the planning of moves in Altiplano becomes more important and accessibility to resources becomes more interactive. Above all, the assets that may be purchased from the traveller open up completely new ways to increase one's own wealth. But unforeseen fortunes sometimes demand spontaneous decisions which influence planning.

Thus, the drive for success in this inhospitable region turns into a completely new challenge! Who's prepared for this?

Includes the Doomsday, the Pioneers of New Earth and the Guardians of the Council modules, along with the 6 Guardian Exosuit miniatures.

It is the late 26th century. Earth is recovering from a catastrophic explosion that exterminated the majority of the population centuries ago and made most of the surface uninhabitable due to unearthly weather conditions. The surviving humans organized along four radically different ideologies, called Paths, to rebuild the world as they see fit: Harmony, Dominance, Progress, and Salvation. Followers of the four Paths live in a fragile peace, but in almost complete isolation next to each other. Their only meeting point is the last major city on Earth, now just known as the Capital.

By powering up the mysterious Time Rifts that opened in the wake of the cataclysm, each Path is able to reach back to specific moments in their past. Doing so can greatly speed up their progress, but too much meddling may endanger the time-space continuum. But progress is more important than ever before: if the mysterious message arriving through the Time Rift is to be believed, an even more terrible cataclysm is looming on the horizon: an asteroid bearing the mysterious substance called Neutronium is heading towards Earth. Even stranger, the scientists show that the energy signature of the asteroid matches the explosion centuries ago...

Anachrony features a unique two-tiered worker placement system. To travel to the Capital or venture out to the devastated areas for resources, players need not only various Specialists (Engineers, Scientists, Administrators, and Geniuses) but also Exosuits to protect and enhance them — and both are in short supply.

The game is played in 4-7 turns, depending on the time when the looming cataclysm occurs (unless, of course, it is averted!). The elapsed turns are measured on a dynamic Timeline. By powering up the Time Rifts, players can reach back to earlier turns to supply their past "self" with resources. Each Path has a vastly different objective that rewards it with a massive amount of Victory Points when achieved. The Paths' settlements will survive the impact, but the Capital will not. Whichever Path manages to collect most points will be the new seat for the Capital, thus the most important force left on the planet...

The Exosuit Miniatures Set adds 24 super-sized (55 mm tall) Exosuit miniatures to Anachrony, replacing the cardboard Exosuit hex tiles.

This product does not include any gameplay related content, only the miniatures.

Future Imperfect is a modular expansion for Anachrony, with four new modules expanding the possibilities beyond new horizons. These modules are playable on their own, but they are also compatible with each other and most past and future Anachrony modules and expansions.

Neutronide Buildings offers a set of 4 new buildings that become increasingly effective the more Power Plants you have.

The Hypersync module allows you to perform a Capital action without actually placing an Exosuit, then in the future use the new Hypersync Action to make your placement affect the past. This puts serious strain on the space-time continuum, increasing the risk of Paradoxes, but often the risk is worth the reward and the flexibility. This module is supported for 1-4 players (Fractures of Time expansion required for solo play.)

With the Quantum Loops module, you are no longer limited to warping from your own timeline: the module opens up parallel universes where resources are more plentiful, the locals are eager to join your cause, or their technology allows you to shortcut your own travels through time... The possibilities multiply through a new Warp tile that grants access to the powerful Quantum Effect cards, but beware - to close a loop to a parallel universe, you will need a real Breakthrough... This module is supported for 1-4 players (Fractures of Time expansion required for solo play.)

The Intrigues of the Council module simulates the World Council's political machinations, bringing two new aspects to the game: another layer of player interaction and customizable endgame scoring objectives, influenced by the players. By sending Exosuits to the right place at the right time, players can receive bonus resources and compete to build a tableau of Agenda tiles, which replaces the base game's Endgame Condition scoring. This module is recommended for 3 or 4 players.

In Anno 1800, a board game based on the popular PC game from Ubisoft, you continuously build up your own industry to develop your home island.

Ship fleets allow for lively trade and the development of new islands in the Old and New World. You have to fulfill the wishes of your own population. While the inhabitants are initially satisfied with bread and clothing, they soon demand valuable luxury goods. You must plan production chains sensibly and keep an eye on the specialization of your population. The goal: A wise distribution of farmers, workers, craftsmen, engineers, and investors — but the competition never sleeps and can snatch the new achievements from under your nose at any time! Who can create the most prosperous island?

Architects of the West Kingdom sijoittuu Karolingien valtakunnan loppuvaiheisiin, vuoden 850 tienoille. Pelaajat ovat kuninkaan arkkitehtejä, jotka pyrkivät tekemään kuninkaaseen vaikutuksen rakennuttamalla erilaisia maamerkkejä. Urakkaan tarvitaan raaka-aineita, oppipoikia ja hyvin valvottua työvoimaa. Ajat ovat petolliset, eivätkä kilpailevat arkkitehdit anna minkään pysäyttää itseään heidän yrittäessään hidastaa sinua. Pystytkö säilyttämään kunniallisuutesi, voi liitytkö varkaiden ja mustan pörssin kauppiaiden riveihin?

Tavoitteenasi Architects of the West Kingdomissa on voittaa hankkimalla eniten voittopisteitä. Voittopisteitä saa valmistuneista rakennuksista ja osallistumisesta arkkipiispan katedraalin rakentamiseen. Pelin aikana pelaajien on tehtävä useita moraalisia valintoja. Vasta pelin lopussa katsotaan ja tuomitaan hyveellisyydestä tai sen puutteesta. Muutama hämärä diili ei ehkä tunnu missään, mutta jos ajaudut liian syvälle laittomuuksiin, siitä seuraa rangaistus.

Peli on henkistä jatkoa Shem Phillipsin mainiolle North Sea -sarjalle. Architects of the West Kingdom on uuden pelisarjan ensimmäinen osa. Pelin uudenlainen työläistenasettelumekaniikka on saanut paljon kiitosta ja vaikuttaa todella mielenkiintoiselta.

In Architects of the West Kingdom: Age of Artisans, journeymen have returned to the city as master craftsmen, equipped with knowledge of new crafts and tools. The Guildhall has never been so busy! While some apprentices spend time learning new skills, others adorn the city’s buildings with everything from golden tapestries, to stained glass windows. But don’t let the shimmer of lights and fancy wares deceive you. For not all that glitters is gold.

In addition to including components for an extra player, Age of Artisans adds the new Craft Cards, a dual-layered Guildhall Board, two new Player Boards and a variety of new Apprentices and Buildings.

It's Spring 1942, and the world is at war. Five major powers struggle for supremacy: Germany and Japan are aligned against the great alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States.

Designed for 2–5 players, Axis & Allies: 1942 takes place at the historical high-water mark of Axis expansion. Controlling one of the Axis or Allied powers, players command both their country's military forces and its war-time economy, with the chance to plan attacks, marshal forces into embattled territories, and resolve conflicts. Victory will go to the side that conquers its opponents on the field of battle and liberates or occupies the greatest cities of the world. Change the course of history in a few short hours!

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The second edition of Axis & Allies: 1942 features an expanded game board (40"x26"), a change to the unit set-up, five new sculpts (UK artillery, submarine & destroyer units; German artillery; a Russian submarine; and antiaircraft artillery), and a few rules changes, e.g., AA-Guns have been replaced by AAA Guns, ICs have integrated air defense against strategic bombing raids, and Honolulu is now a victory city.

Axis & Allies Europe 1940, a deluxe edition of Axis & Allies: Europe, includes neutral countries which can be invaded. There are true neutrals as well as pro-axis and pro-allied neutrals. Mechanized infantry and tactical bombers are included. Mechanized infantry is represented by half-tracks. France (blue) and Italy (brown) have national tokens and dedicated units of their own. The board measures 35 inches wide by 32 inches high (89 x 81 cm).

This game is designed to be joined with Axis & Allies Pacific 1940 to create a six-player game on a map measuring 70 inches wide by 32 inches high (178 x 81 cm). This variant of the game is described in the Europe 1940 manual as Axis & Allies Global 1940.

Integrates with:

    Axis & Allies Pacific 1940

Axis & Allies celebrates 25 years of strategy war gaming with a deluxe edition of its original theater-level game. Axis & Allies Pacific 1940, designed and developed by Larry Harris, utilizes the updated rules established in A&A Anniversary Edition. Two new combat units debut in this game, Tactical Bombers and Mechanized Infantry. Australia and New Zealand, joined together as the ANZAC forces, represent a new playable ally. China fields more forces than ever before, but will need help from their allies -- the United States and England -- to withstand the might of expansionist Imperial Japan.

Axis & Allies Pacific 1940 features an oversized board that measures 35 inches wide by 32 inches high (89 x 81 cm). With over 450 pieces, deluxe game components and local storage boxes, this game raises the standard established by A&A Anniversary Edition. All new rules for neutral nations, naval & air bases, kamikaze attacks and convoy disruption add even more depth and historical accuracy to this giant game.

Finally, this deluxe theater-level game is designed to join together with Axis & Allies Europe 1940 to create the greatest Axis & Allies experience to date! When joined, these boards will measure 5 feet wide by 32 inches high (178 x 81 cm). Both games have been designed to play alone or together to offer a 2-6 player global 1940 scenario, complete with separate set up and national objectives.

Integrates with:

    Axis & Allies Europe 1940

Azul (lausutaan espanjalaisittain “athul”, mutta ei se atsuliksi sanominen tee ketään huonoksi peliharrastajaksi, rennosti vaan) on maailmankuuluun Michael Kieslingin suunnittelema peli. Azul tuo maurilaistaiteen estetiikkaa lautapeliin. Pelaajat kisaavat keskenään Evoran kuninkaallisen palatsin koristelussa. Koristekaakeloinnissa on pidettävä kieli keskellä suuta, jotta lopputulos on upein mahdollinen. Kaakeleita ei kannata myöskään yhtään antaa mennä hukkaan.
Maurit toivat muassaan “azulejosit”, alunperin sinivalkeat keramiikkakaakelit, jotka portugalilaiset sitten ottivat innolla käyttöön rakentaessaan Alhambra-palatsia kuninkaalleen Manuel I:lle. Kuningas hämmästeli tätä Etelä-Espanjassa olevan linnansa sisätilojen kauneutta ja tilasi heti samanlaiset palatsiinsa Portugalissa.

Azul-pelissä pelaajat värväävät vuorotellen värillisiä kaakelilaattoja pöydän keskeltä. Vuoron lopussa saa pisteitä siitä, miten hyvin laatat on asetettu omalle pelaajalaudalleen. Tietyistä kuvioista ja seteistä saa lisäpisteitä ja hukkapalat tuo miinuksia. Eniten pisteitä kerännyt tietysti voittaa.

Azul voitti vuonna 2018 mm. lautapelimaailman Oscarin, Spiel des Jahresin. Tässä on kaunis, abstrakti peli moneen lähtöön. Huomatkaa, että meillä on myynnissä kansainvälinen versio englanninkielisillä säännöillä.

In the dystopic 1930s, the industrial revolution pushed to the limit the exploitation of fossil-based resources, and now only powerful and unlimited hydroelectric energy is available to fulfill the thirst for power of the massive machines and unstoppable engineering progress.

Barrage is a resource management and strategic placement game in which players compete to build their majestic dams, raise them to increase their storing capacity of precious water, and deliver all the potential power through pressure tunnels connected to powerhouse energy turbines. Each player represents one of the international companies who are gathering machineries, innovative patents, and brilliant engineers to claim the best locations to capture and exploit the water power of a contested Alpine region crossed by rivers.

Barrage includes two innovative and challenging mechanisms. First, the construction wheel has to be managed by players to carefully plan their actions and handle their machineries since both your action tokens and resources are stored on the wheel and come back only after a full wheel round is completed. The more you construct and perform maintenance on your wheel, the earlier that resources and actions return to you.

Second, the water flow on the rivers depicted on the board is a shared and contested resource. Players have to intercept and store as much of the water as they can, build dams (upstream dams are expensive but can block part of the water before it reaches dams downstream), raise their dams to increase capacity, and build long tunnels to divert water to their powerhouses. Water is never consumed — its flow is just used to produce energy — and released in the rivers, so you have to strategically place your dams to recover water diverted by you and other players.

Over five rounds, players must fulfill power requirements represented by a common competitive power track and meet specific requests of personal contracts. At the same time, by placing a limited number of engineers, they attempt to increase their machineries to acquire new and more efficient construction actions and to build and activate special unique effect buildings to customize their own developing strategy.

Barrage: The Leeghwater Project Expansion
The Leeghwater Project Expansion adds:

A new faction, the Netherlands, that uses Jan Leeghwater’s expertise in water management, adding even more water to your dams.

The External Works mechanic, a set of powerful tiles that can be obtained from a new action space. With them you'll be able to perform many actions, but be careful. To unlock the External Works power you'll need to burn the required amount of Concrete Mixers and Excavators rather than just assign them to the Construction Wheel.

The Personal Building mechanics. You’ll be able to use a combination of five Building tiles, each one with a different, powerful effect that can be activated by your engineers.

Two new Executive Officers designed to enhance the External Works and the Personal Buildings.

Three new Advanced Technology tiles dedicated to the construction of Personal Buildings.

Prepare yourself to take flight as a bee!

In Beez, players compete to optimize their flight plans to secure nectar for their hive. Be careful of the other bees as you will compete with them over a set of public and private scoring goals. The challenge in planning and storing the nectar will make your brain buzz!

Hullu kuningas vaatii linnaa! Sinä olet maailmankuulu rakennusmestari, jonka Ludvig on palkannut suunnittelemaan itselleen linnoja. Näin suuret projektit vaativat kuitenkin useamman asiantuntijan työpanoksen, joten kukin rakennusmestari saa yhden aisaparin. Ovatko sinun suunnittelu- ja yhteistyötaitosi riittävät, jotta tuloksena syntyy maailman upeimpia linnoja?

Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig on kilpailullinen laatanvärväyspeli, jossa jokainen laatta on linnan huone. Työskelet yhdessä sekä vasemmalla että oikealla puolellasi istuvan pelaajan kanssa. Kummankin kanssa on käynnissä erillinen linnaprojekti. Joka vuoro valitset kädestäsi kaksi huonelaattaa, paljastat ne, ja sitten yhdessä naapureidesi kanssa neuvotellen asetat yhden kumpaankin linnaprojektiisi. Voittaaksesi joudut jakamaan huomiosi molempien linnojen kesken.

Pelissä on 147 huonelaattaa, kussakin uniikki kuvitus, sekä 83 muuta laattaa. Komponenteissa on myös 20 bonuskorttia, 7 puista linnanappulaa, pistevihko ja 4-osainen Game Trayz - lajittelulaatikko, joka mahdollistaa sen, että peli on pelattavassa kunnossa pöydällä alle minuutissa.

Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig on julkaistu Stonemaier Gamesin ja Bezier Gamesin yhteistyönä.

Beyond the Sun is a space civilization game in which players collectively decide the technological progress of humankind at the dawn of the Spacefaring Era, while competing against each other to be the leading faction in economic development, science, and galactic influence.

The game is played over a variable number of rounds until a number of game-end achievements are collectively claimed by the players. The winner is the faction with the most victory points, which are obtained by researching technologies, improving their economy, controlling and colonizing systems, and completing various achievements and events throughout the game.

On a turn, a player moves their action pawn to an empty action space, then takes that action. They then conduct their production phase, either producing ore, growing their population, or trading one of those resources for another. Finally, they can claim up to one achievement, if possible.

As players take actions, they research new technologies that come in four levels. Each technology is one of four types (scientific, economic, military, commercial), and higher-level technologies must match one of the types of tech that lead into it. Thus, players create their own technology tree in each game, using these actions to increase their military strength, to jump to different habitable exoplanetary systems, to colonize those systems, to boost their resource production, to develop android tech that allows growth without population, and more.

The Nippon Expansion adds a new challenge to Blitzkrieg! What if the Axis coalition had won World War Two, and Germany invaded and occupied the United States of America? And … what if Japan then turned on its former ally and invaded German-held America? With the help of Godzilla?

The Nippon Expansion explores this hypothetical scenario! One player controls the German forces and the other player controls the Japanese forces in a battle for domination of America in an alternate universe 1946.

Recreate World War Two in 20 minutes! The perfect wargame for non-wargamers, Blitzkrieg! allows two players to battle across the War’s most iconic theatres, winning key campaigns and building military might.

Players draw army tokens from a bag to determine their starting forces and to replenish their losses. Rather than ‘fighting’ battles with dice or cards, players allocate their military resources to each theatre’s campaigns, winning victory points, further resources, special weapons, and strategic advantages as they play. Refight World War Two several times in one evening!

Includes Solo mode by Dávid Turczi

In Blood Rage, each player controls their own Viking clan’s warriors, leader, and ship. Ragnarök has come, and it’s the end of the world! It’s the Vikings’ last chance to go down in a blaze of glory and secure their place in Valhalla at Odin’s side! For a Viking there are many pathways to glory. You can invade and pillage the land for its rewards, crush your opponents in epic battles, fulfill quests, increase your clan's stats, or even die gloriously either in battle or from Ragnarök, the ultimate inescapable doom.

Most player strategies are guided by the cards drafted at the beginning of each of the three game rounds (or Ages). These “Gods’ Gifts” grant you numerous boons for your clan including: increased Viking strength and devious battle strategies, upgrades to your clan, or even the aid of legendary creatures from Norse mythology. They may also include various quests, from dominating specific provinces, to having lots of your Vikings sent to Valhalla. Most of these cards are aligned with one of the Norse gods, hinting at the kind of strategy they support. For example, Thor gives more glory for victory in battle, Heimdall grants you foresight and surprises, Tyr strengthens you in battle, while the trickster Loki actually rewards you for losing battles, or punishes the winner.

Players must choose their strategies carefully during the draft phase, but also be ready to adapt and react to their opponents’ strategies as the action phase unfolds. Battles are decided not only by the strength of the figures involved, but also by cards played in secret. By observing your opponent’s actions and allegiances to specific gods, you may predict what card they are likely to play, and plan accordingly. Winning battles is not always the best course of action, as the right card can get you even more rewards by being crushed. The only losing strategy in Blood Rage is to shy away from battle and a glorious death!

The Blood Rage: 5th Player Expansion introduces the mighty Ram clan into Blood Rage! This clan comes complete with 8 Warrior figures (in two different sculpts), 1 Leader Figure, 1 Ship figure, 1 Clan Sheet, 1 Plastic Glory Marker, 4 cardboard Clan tokens, 11 small colored bases, and 2 large colored bases.

This expansion introduces the option of playing Blood Rage with 5 players. The game board supports this by simply not having any province destroyed by Ragnarök before the beginning of the game. However, more players need more cards, so this expansion box comes with 24 "Gods' Gifts" cards (8 for each Age deck). All of these cards have the "5+" players pre-requisite listed on them. While most of them are extra copies of cards from the base game, there are a few new ones, like the "Widespread!" Quest, where you need to dominate any 2 provinces.

The Gods of Ásgard expansion:

Only two gods will be part of each game session. Randomly draw two god cards and place them next to the board so all players can see their powers. At the end of the initial setup, shuffle the Ragnarök tokens that are not on the board or on the Age Track and draw two of them. Look at the names of the two provinces listed on the tokens and place one god figure in each of them (these Ragnarök tokens are then put aside).

Each god's ability is always in effect, changing the rules of the province they're in. The rest of the provinces are not affected. After a player attempts to pillage a province containing a god figure, whether he succeeds in the pillaging or not, he must then move the god to a different unpillaged province that does not contain a god figure. So the two gods can never occupy the same province, and they never go to a pillaged or destroyed province.

At the beginning of the 2nd and 3rd Ages, the two gods are again placed in random provinces, determined by drawing 2 unused Ragnarök tokens.

The combination of the two gods used in each game creates a unique texture to that session. They affect draft choices and influence the flow of the battles. Will you try to benefit from a god's power again and again by moving him where you want and always pillaging his province? Or will you do your best to neutralize him by pillaging around his province? Perhaps you'll want to attempt a hopeless pillage on his province just to move him onto another province where he will hinder another player's plans. They add a whole new layer to the game, without adding hardly any complexity to the rules.

The miniatures each come with a tarot-sized God card.

Known by many names (Seiðmenn, Völva, Vísendakona, etc.) and possessed of different powers granted by their connection to the gods, these warrior-shamans will be a boon to any clan able to recruit them!

Mystics are special units (neither Warrior nor Monster) that players can only employ once they've given their clan one of the Mystic Clan Upgrades. Each of these Clan upgrades adds 1 Mystic figure to your clan's reserves, which you can then use to Invade and battle normally. All Mystics have STR 2 and the special ability that allows them to Invade at no Rage cost. Clans are only able to recruit a maximum of 2 Mystics.

Besides adding Mystics to your reserves, each of these Clan Upgrades grants your Mystics a special ability. If you collect several different upgrades, each of your Mystics will posses all the abilities you accumulated, making them incredibly resourceful and strategic additions to your clan!

Theme:

The bonfires are sources of light, energy and warmth created by the guardians of light in order to brighten the cities on the otherwise dark planet. The residents of the cities however, took the bonfires for granted and exploited them for their personal gain. Disappointed the guardians of light retreated and let the bonfires extinguish. The citizens could no longer live in the now dark cities and were forced to leave.

You are a group of gnomes living close to the cities and you also need and the light of the bonfires. Missing it now, you try yourself to visit the cities and learn how to ignite the bonfires once again: You must visit the guardians of light on their holy islands and ask for tasks to prove your good will. For each completed task, they will re-ignite one extinguished bonfire. Whoever manages to earn the greatest trust from the guardians and manages to brighten their city the most will win the game.

Game-play:
The engine for the game are the three-coloured tiles you will be puzzling onto your player board. When you manage to place the same colours adjacent to one another, you will receive more action tiles of that specific kind. This will allow you to specialize in certain types of actions and pursue different strategies.
You can use the tiles to perform the following actions:
- Move your ship to an island
- Receive a task from an island by spending two resources
- Invite a guardian of light into your city
- Trigger a procession of guardians through your city and gain resources.
- Add a landscape tile to your city (this is where the processions take place)
- Recruit a gnome gaining a special ability or victory points
- Find support by the last bonfire, gaining portals, resources or action tiles

You will play in turn order until a fixed number of tasks has been solved, after which each player has 5 more turns. During final scoring, you will receive points for your completed tasks (the bonfires) and any improvements made there (portals, landscapes or guardians).

Brass: Birmingham on strateginen talouspeli, joka on jatkoa Martin Wallacen vuoden 2007 mestariteokselle, Brassille. Birmingham kertoo kyseisessä kaupungissa kilpailevista liikemiehistä ja -naisista teollisen vallankumouksen aikana, vuosina 1770 - 1870.

Kuten edeltäjässään, myös Birminghamissa pelaajat kehittävät teknologiaa, rakentavat teollisuutta ja verkostoituvat yrittäessään hyödyntää markkinoiden vaihteluita.

Peli pelataan kahdessa jaksossa. Ensin on kanaalien aika (1770-1830), jota seuraa rautateiden aika. Pelin voittaa keräämällä muita enemmän voittopisteitä ja pistelaskut tehdät kummankin jakson lopussa kanaalien ja rautateiden osalta, sekä ns. vakiintuneiden teollisuuslaattojen pohjalta. Teollisuudenaloina molemmissa Brasseissa ovat rauta, hiili ja puuvilla.

Birminghamin erikoisuus on olutteollisuus. Oluella voi myös “rasvata teollisuuden rattaita”: myydäkseen tuotteita eteenpäin, pitää kuluttaa olutvarantojaan. Uusia teollisuudenaloja ovat myös tehdastuotteet ja keramiikka.

Brass: Birminghamin lisäksi alkuperäinen Brass on myös nyt uudelleenjulkaistu nimellä Brass: Lancashire. Molemmat pelit näyttävät suorastaan upeilta verrattuna vuoden 2007 klassikkopainokseen. Molemmat ovat myös saaneet huikean hyviä arvosteluja. Peliin kannattaa tutustua jos vähän raskaammat talouspelit yhtään kiinnostavat.

Brass: Lancashire on komea uusversio Martin Wallacen palkitusta pelistä Brass (2007). Strateginen talouspeli kertoo kilpailevista 1800-luvun lopun teollisuusyrittäjistä Englannin Lancashiressä. Teollinen vallankumous on käynnissä ja pelaajien tavoitteena on kehittää, rakentaa ja verkottaa teollisuuttaan, siten että he voivat vastata kasvaneeseen raudan, hiilen ja puuvillaan kysyntään.

Peli jakaantuu kahteen osaan: ensimmäisessä rakennetaan tavaroiden kuljetusta varten kanaaleja ja toisessa rautateitä. Brass vaativa, mutta palkitseva peli.
Brass: Lancashire on Roxley Gamesin 2018 julkaisema versio, joka tekee aiemmin aika ankean näköisestä pelistä todella upean. Silmäkarkin lisäksi peliin on tullut joitakin sääntöpäivityksiä.

Pupuparonit valloittavat uusia mantuja itsensä Kanikuninkaan nimeen. Pelaajat ottavat haltuunsa maa-alueita, rakentavat kaupunkeja ja hankkivat resursseja. Samalla voi suorittaa kunkulle tehtäviä. Vain paras voi saada halutun Pitkäkorvan arvonimen.

Richard Garfield on ihan parhaita pelisuunnittelijoita ikinä: Magic The Gathering, RoboRally, The Great Dalmuti ja King of Tokyo nyt ihan vaan joitakin mainitakseni. Tämä Kanien kuningaskunta on sekin aika veikeä tapaus

Bunny Kingdom on tosi söpö kortinvärväystä ja aluehallintaa yhdistelevä peli. Laudan maailma on jaettu 10 x 10 ruudukkoon, josta pelaajat pyrkivät kortteja värväämällä saamaan hyviä yhtenäisiä alueita haltuunsa ja sitä kautta parhaat mahdolliset pisteet. Järvistä nousee kalaa, pelloilla kasvavat herkulliset porkkanat, vuorilta saa arvometalleja. Värväyskierroksen jälkeen tehdään aina välipisteytys. Neljän ison kierroksen jälkeen katsotaan kenellä on eniten pisteitä.

Bunny Kingdom in the Sky adds a new game board to the world of Bunny Kingdom that allows you to link fiefs in the sky with those on land. Aside from the game board, this expansion includes new cards, new types of resources, a set of playing pieces that allow five bunnies to play in the same game, and a larger type of building that increases your influence in that area by a factor of five.

Calico is a puzzly tile-laying game of quilts and cats.
In Calico, players compete to sew the coziest quilt as they collect and place patches of different colors and patterns. Each quilt has a particular pattern that must be followed, and players are also trying to create color and pattern combinations that are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also able to attract the cuddliest cats!

Turns are simple. Select a single patch tile from your hand and sew it into your quilt, then draw another patch into your hand from the three available. If you are able to create a color group, you may sew a button onto your quilt. If you are able to create a pattern combination that is attractive to any of the cats, it will come over and curl up on your quilt! At the end of the game, you score points for buttons, cats, and how well you were able to complete your unique quilt pattern.

The players slip into the role of rich patricians in ancient Rome. Everyone is trying to build a lucrative city district to score as many prestige points as possible. The novel way to get to the individual buildings of a district combined with a large variety of score cards make for an unusual game with a large number of strategies. From the successful designer, Stefan Feld.

Castell käsittelee katalonialaista ihmistornien rakentamista. Suuret joukot väkeä kaikkialta Kataloniasta kokoontuu eri festivaaleille juhlistamaan katalonialaista kulttuuri ja kilpailemaan siitä, kuka tekee korkeimmat ja vaikeimmat ihmistornit.

Castell on suhteellisen raskas strategiapeli, jossa pelaajat manageroivat omaa Castell-joukkuettaan halki koko festivaalivuoden. Pelin aikana vieraillaan katalonian kaupungeissa, laajennetaan joukkueen kokoa, opetellaan uusia torninrakennustaitoja ja esiinnytään niin paikallisissa pikkutapahtumissa kuin kilpaillaan festivaaleilla.

Pelissä pärjää vain hyvällä ennakkosuunnittelulla ja taitavalla ajoituksella.

In the tile-laying game Castles of Mad King Ludwig, players are tasked with building an amazing, extravagant castle for King Ludwig II of Bavaria...one room at a time. You see, the King loves castles, having built Neuschwanstein (the castle that inspired the Disney theme park castles) and others, but now he's commissioned you to build the biggest, best castle ever — subject, of course, to his ever-changing whims. Each player acts as a building contractor who is adding rooms to the castle he's building while also selling his services to other players.

In the game, each player starts with a simple foyer. One player takes on the role of the Master Builder, and that player sets prices for a set of rooms that can be purchased by the other players, with him getting to pick from the leftovers after the other players have paid him for their rooms. When a room is added to a castle, the player who built it gains castle points based on the size and type of room constructed, as well as bonus points based on the location of the room. When a room is completed, with all entranceways leading to other rooms in the castle, the player receives one of seven special rewards.

After each purchasing round, a new player becomes the Master Builder who sets prices for a new set of rooms. After several rounds, the game ends, then additional points are awarded for achieving bonus goals, having the most popular rooms, and being the most responsive to the King's demands, which change each game. Whoever ends up with the most castle points wins.

Following along the same lines as its predecessor (Agricola), Caverna: The Cave Farmers is a worker-placement game at heart, with a focus on farming. In the game, you are the bearded leader of a small dwarf family that lives in a little cave in the mountains. You begin the game with a farmer and his spouse, and each member of the farming family represents an action that the player can take each turn. Together, you cultivate the forest in front of your cave and dig deeper into the mountain. You furnish the caves as dwellings for your offspring as well as working spaces for small enterprises.

It's up to you how much ore you want to mine. You will need it to forge weapons that allow you to go on expeditions to gain bonus items and actions. While digging through the mountain, you may come across water sources and find ore and ruby mines that help you increase your wealth. Right in front of your cave, you can increase your wealth even further with agriculture: You can cut down the forest to sow fields and fence in pastures to hold your animals. You can also expand your family while running your ever-growing farm. In the end, the player with the most efficiently developed home board wins.

You can also play the solo variant of this game to familiarize yourself with the 48 different furnishing tiles for your cave.

Caverna: The Cave Farmers, which has a playing time of roughly 30 minutes per player, is a complete redesign of Agricola that substitutes the card decks from the former game with a set of buildings while adding the ability to purchase weapons and send your farmers on quests to gain further resources. Designer Uwe Rosenberg says that the game includes parts of Agricola, but also has new ideas, especially the cave part of your game board, where you can build mines and search for rubies. The game also includes two new animals: dogs and donkeys.

Caverna: The Forgotten Folk — Caverna: Vergessene Völker in German — originated as a fan project on BoardGameGeek, and Caverna publisher Lookout Games has decided to work with the designer to develop this material and release it as an official expansion.

Forgotten Folk consists of eight different species or race packs such as elves, dark elves, and trolls, and now each player in Caverna can be one of these species instead of only the dwarves in the base game. Each species has special advantages and disadvantages, and some species introduce new resources into the game. Each species has four unique rooms, and they replace rooms in the base game, which allows other players to gain the powers of these species.

A classic game is back! As one of the first worker placement games, Caylus stands among the true board game classics of the 2000s. The original designers' team, together with the Space Cowboys, have now created a revamped version!

The mechanisms of Caylus 1303 have been streamlined and modernized for an intense and shorter game. Don't be fooled, though, as the game has kept both its depth and ease of play while a lot of new features have been added:

    Variability of the starting position for a virtual infinity of possibilities. No more pre-set strategies!
    Characters with special abilities, with a wavering loyalty, offer their services to the players.
    And of course, brand new graphics!

The King calls you again, so it's time to go back to Caylus!

Century: A New World is the third and final installment of the Century series from designer Emerson Matsuuchi.

Century: A New World sends players to the Americas at the dawn of the 16th century. Braving the wilderness, players are forced to explore new lands, trade with local inhabitants, journal their findings, and hunt/gather to survive! The game integrates the compelling and incredibly fun resource trading mechanisms found in the Century series with a worker placement mechanism with a twist!

Century: A New World may be combined with Century: Spice Road or Century: Eastern Wonders or both for all new mixable games.

“Vuosisatoja sitten arvokas maustekauppa sai maailman rikkaat valtiot etsimään vaihtoehtoisia reittejä arvokkaille Maustesaarille, joista maailman arvokkaimmat mausteet löytyivät.”
Century-pelisarja tekee pesäeroa historiaan ja jättää vuosisadat ja maa-alueet nimeämättä, historiallisesti liikutaan kuitenkin 1400-luvulla Intiaan suuntautuneessa kaupassa. Century: Eastern Wonders on iloisen värinen ja hyvin sujuva peli, jossa sääntöjä ei ole kaksi sivua. Peli on jatkoa Emerson Matsuuchin aiemmalla, Vuoden strategiapeli -palkinnon 2018 pokanneelle Century: Spice Roadille. Mielestämme tämä jatko-osa on vielä edeltäjäänsäkin parempi. Pelissä purjehditaan omalla laivalla saaristossa vaihtamassa mausteita toisiin tavoitteena koota tilaajien pyytämiä maustelasteja. Sarjan kaksi peliä voi myös yhdistää, jolloin tuloksena vähän strategisempi Century: Sand to Sea.

Todellisuuspaon arvion pelistä voi lukea täältä: https://todellisuuspako.blogspot.com/2018/08/century-eastern-wonders-ja-from-sand-to.html

Champions of Midgard is a middleweight, Viking-themed, worker placement game with dice rolling in which players are leaders of Viking clans who have traveled to an embattled Viking harbor town to help defend it against the threat of trolls, draugr, and other mythological Norse beasts. By defeating these epic creatures, players gain glory and the favor of the gods. When the game ends, the player who has earned the most glory earns the title of Jarl and is recognized as a champion of Midgard!

Placing workers allows for the collection of resources and warriors, which players may then send on journeys to neighboring villages or across the sea to defeat monsters and gain the glory they need for victory. Resources are used to carve runes, build ships, and feed your followers. Viking warriors (custom dice) do battle with the myriad enemies the town faces.

The Dark Mountains, the first expansion for Champions of Midgard, extends your adventures to distant lands, allowing you to trek into the dark mountains where the Bergrisar live and wage constant battle with the Archer Clans of the North. Fight fearsome mountain giants and liberate archers who join your cause. Once freed, you will find the archers to be worthy allies, rarely missing and being exceptional hunters. Enemies you face will fall easily before their sure shots.

Champions of Midgard: The Dark Mountains adds a ton of new content to the base game, including the ability to play with up to five players.

The expansion includes new land journeys, a new enemy type (Bergrisar), more powerful Trolls and Draugr, as well as additional rune cards, market tiles, and more.

In Valhalla, the second expansion for Champions of Midgard, you will find yourself rewarded when your warriors die in battle. Your warriors' eternal glory becomes your earthly reward as the Valkyries bestow powerful effects, relics, and warriors upon you for use in your battles in Midgard. Some of your fallen soldiers may do more, rising to face the greatest enemies even in the afterlife, defeating epic monsters and bringing you glory from beyond the grave!

Couple these new rewards with fierce new warriors in the form of Berzerkers and Shieldwarriors, and new custom dice and powers for your leaders, and your adventures in Midgard will never be the same!

After the great Chicago Fire of 1871, the brave men and women of Chicago sought to rebuild their once-great city, and rebuild it they did. Over the next 60 years Chicago experienced an economic golden age, making such great progress that it hosted The World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, followed not long after by a celebration of its Century of Progress at The World's Fair in 1933.

Many of the household brands we've come to know and love today had their start in Chicago during this time period; Oscar Mayer, Kraft, Quaker Oats, Nabisco, Swift & Co, Armour & Co, Schwinn Bicycles, Charles Schwab, and many others made a home here in this tall, bold slugger.

In City of the Big Shoulders players take on the roles of entrepreneurs and investors seeking to rebuild Chicago into a city fit for the world stage. In this unique merger of 18xx-style stock manipulation mechanics with euro-style gameplay, players start companies, trade in shares, hire employees, equip their factories, produce goods and sell them to be delivered to homes across the midwest.

Although City of the Big Shoulders features a large amount of strategic depth and rewarding gameplay, it does so in a shorter timeline than is typical of most heavy economic games. Players play just five rounds (also known as decades) in about two and a half hours. Each decade consists of five unique phases: A stock phase where players can buy and sell stock; a building phase where players rebuild the city of Chicago, placing action spaces on the board; an action phase where companies send their partners to make deals across Chicago; an Operating Phase where companies buy resources, produce goods, and ship them out of Chicago; and finally a cleanup phase where the board is set up for the following decade. At the end of the fifth decade, the game ends. Players then exchange shares that they have purchased over the course of the game for cash, are rewarded for any of the public goals they have accomplished over the five decades of play, and tally their money to determine who is Chicago's greatest resident.

We were light years from our home, galaxies away, when we first discovered this ancient celestial body — a planet filled with intriguing, intelligent lifeforms, not too unlike our own. Some built kingdoms below the surface of the green seas, while others controlled the desert-filled plains and cliffs. Among them we found scientists, inventors, farmers, traders and fighters. While our presence has been unsettling for some, we have had very few incidents with the locals. Still, we Circadians, Earth's famed explorers, must do what we can to ensure peace. We must respect this world and its hosts. The heads of Moontide passed down orders from above. We are to open negotiations with the three clans, in hopes of gaining their favor, along with our own security while on the planet. We must also collect organic samples for the depository on Moontide. This is new ground for all of us, but we must be brave and resourceful. The future of the Circadians depends on it.

The aim of Circadians: First Light is to lead a team of researchers on the planet of Ryh. Players need to manage their crew (dice) to visit various parts of the planet for trade, farming, construction and research. Players score points for negotiating with the locals, harvesting resources for the depository, upgrading their research base, exploring the planet, and collecting gems. The game is played over eight rounds. At the end of the final round, the player with the most points wins.

Pakanrakennusseikkailu Clank! In! Space! saa nerokkaasti(?) nimetyn jatko-osan Clank! In! Space! Apocalypse!

Pienet vastarintaryhmät jatkavat pahan Lordi Eradikuksen vastustamista, mutta nyt tämä cyborgipahis aikoo pyyhkiä vastustajansa lopullisesti maailmankaikkeuden kartalta. Suunnitelma on suureellinen ja julma.

Sinun tehtäväsi on tietenkin pissiä Lordi Eradikuksen aamiaismuroihin. Samalla saatat vahingossa päätyä sankariksi, mutta ainakin henkiin jäädessäsi rikkaaksi.


Lisäosa vaatii Clank! In! Space! -pelin.

Pelilaatikko sisältää:


2 Kaksipuolista pelilautaa
35 Adventure -korttia
8 Large Scheme -korttia
1 Haldos Boss -merkin

Clank! on suosittu pakanrakennuspeli, jossa pelaajat ovat vihaisen lohikäärmeen luolaan hiipiviä varkaita. Mitä syvemmälle luolaan menee, sitä arvokkaimpia aarteita käsiinsä saa. Hankkimalla pakkaansa yhä parempia kortteja, aarteiden rosmous onnistuu entistä paremmin.

Paras on kuitenkin katsoa mihin astuu, sillä yksikin väärä liike voi aiheuttaa kolinaa, joka kiinnittää lohikäärmen huomion. Myös jokainen varastettu artifakti lisää lohikäärmeen epäluuloisuutta. Aarteista (ja pelin voitosta) pääsee nauttimaan vain jos osaa ajoittaa oman poistumisensa niin, että A) yleensä säilyy hengissä ja B) omaa eniten aarteita niistä pelaajista, joita lohikäärme ei syönyt.

Jos ryöstösaaliin janosi on sammumaton, Clank! Expeditions: Gold and Silk voi sopia sulle. Lisäosa tuo Clank! -peruspeliin uusia pelilautoja.

Ensimmäinen tutkimusmatka suuntautuu hylättyyn Ruin Dwarven Mining Companyn (Ruin DMC) kaivokseen. Kaivos jouduttiin hylkäämään monsteri-infestaation vuoksi, mutta siellä olisi vielä paljon kultaa jäljellä niille, joilla on tarpeeksi sisua astua peremmälle.

Vielä enemmän rikkauksia lepäilee Hämähäkkikuningattaren linnassa. Toki kuningatar on jo kuollut tai pelkkää legendaa, jonka tarkoitus on pitää ihmiset loitolla hienosta linnasta...

Lisäosa vaatii Clank! A Deck-Building Adventure -pelin ja on englanninkielinen.

Some thieving jobs deserve a professional approach. When you absolutely must acquire it, call Acquisitions Incorporated! This renowned multi-planar corporation has years of experience snagging all the loot that isn’t nailed down. Each Upper Management character comes with a unique deck reflecting their talents. Use them in the original Clank! A Deck-Building Adventure, or with a franchise established in Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated!

Clank! Sunken Treasures on laajennus Clank! A Deck-Building Adventure -peliin. Pelaajat tutkivat kahta osin veden peittämää luolastoa. Mukana tulee uusia luolakortteja, monstereita, ja ympäristöllisiä haasteita.

Pakanrakennuspeli saa lisää haastetta, kun varastelukyvyillä pitäisi selvitä myös uudessa vetisessä ympäristössä. Uintitaito olisi kovasti jees, sillä monet huoneista ovat kokonaan veden peitossa. Ja sitten on vielä lohikäärme, mainitsinko jo siitä? Se on aina vihainen ja tosi nälkäinen....

Muinaisessa pyramidissa on uskomattomat määrät aarteita – mutta niitä suojelee epäkuolleen muumion inha kirous. Ja tietenkin aarteet ovat houkutelleet paikalle myös… sanotaan se yhtä aikaa: vihaisen ja tosi nälkäisen lohikäärmeen. Sen nimi on Croxobek, mutta se tieto sinua tuskin pelastaa.

Clank! The Mummy's Curse on laajennus Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventureen. Se lisää peliin uuden pyramidilaudan, kortteja, kirouksia ja vaeltavan muumion, joka liikkuu samoilla käytävillä kuin missä uudet artifaktit odottavat vain löytäjäänsä.

Seuraa pakollinen historiallinen taustoitus, ei nuokuta siellä takarivissä!
Skotlanti siirtyi 1800-luvulla maataloudesta teollisuuteen. Maa nojautui vahvasti kauppaan ja vientiin. Ruoantuotantoa lisättiin merkittävästi asukasluvun lisääntyessä. Puuvilla korvasi kalliimman pellavan ja lampaankasvatus nosti merkitystään. Viskitislaamoita perustettiin runsaasti ja viskistä tulikin Euroopan tärkein väkijuoma.

Pelaajat kuuluvat Skotlannin yhdeksään historialliseen klaaniin, jotka käyttävät uniikkeja kykyjään kilpaillakseen maataloustuotteiden ja viskin tuotannossa ja myynnissä.

Clans of Caledonia on keskiraskas talouspeli, jonka on suunnitellut Juma Al-JouJou ja kuvittanut monesta klassisesta europelistä tuttu Klemens Franz. Teema ja pelimekaniikat sopivat pelissä hienosti yhteen.

The election of the Aztec High Priest is imminent. In order to prove their value and merit, the contenders engage in a race for prestige to win the favor of the gods. Will you be able to make the most beautiful sculptures of feathered snakes (called Cóatl) to stand out and gain access to the coveted title of High Priest?

In Cóatl, players work to build the most beautiful and valuable serpents. The serpents, or Cóatl, are constructed with a head, a tail, and a number of body tiles, each made from chunky, colorful plastic. On a turn, players will either take tiles from the central board to their personal board, or work to construct one of their Cóatls with the different tiles they've collected.

The game end is triggered when one player finishes their third Cóatl. Players receive points for fulfilling objectives, and the one with the most is named the new High Priest!

Coffee Roaster is a solitaire pool-building game. You choose a variety of coffee beans you want to roast, and put a number of tokens specific to that variety into a bag. Each turn, you draw a number of bean tokens randomly from the bag to advance their roast level. When you are finished, you make a cup-testing to check the taste of your coffee and score points accordingly. Each variety has its own target roast level, but approaching the target is not enough for perfect roasting; you also have to even out the roast level of each bean, while not spoiling the flavor of that variety.

You also have to screen out smoke tokens and burnt bean tokens that hinder your roasting, and reject bean tokens that spoil the taste. It is important to control the contents of your bag utilizing flavor effects and unique effects caused by placing tokens on the roast board.

There are 22 varieties of beans in the game. In one game, you try to roast three of them, and your roaster title is awarded based on the total score. Enjoy the world of coffee-roasting, and aim for the ultimate title "Meister".

1970. It is the dawn of a new era – the future of coffee farming is bright!

Empowered with new Fair Trade standards, small-scale coffee farmers from regions around the world have access to new markets.

Work with your competitors to develop the regions you see fit for the best coffee beans while keeping a watchful eye on the market. Construct buildings to help your Fair Trade coffee plantations thrive while enhancing your network for trading coffee. Will your plantations fall to ruin or will you rise to the top and become the world’s greatest Coffee Trader?

Components:

1 Large Game Board
5 Player Boards
387 Wooden Game Pieces
117 Cardboard Tokens
90 Coffee Beans
55 Metal Coins
1 Score Pad
1 Rulebook

Tämä on Concordia Venuksen itsenäinen versio, joka sisältää kaikki pelaamiseen tarvittavat komponentit. Concordia Venuksesta on olemassa myös edullisempi, Concordia-peruspelin jatkoksi hankittava lisäosa.
Venuksessa voivat kahden pelaajan joukkueet kilpailla keskenään. Perus-Concordiaan verrattuna uutta ovat myös Venus-kortit, jotka mahdollistavat uudenlaisia strategioita. Mukana tulevat perus-Concordiasta tuttu Imperium-kartta, sekä Cyprus, Hellas ja Ionium. Vaihtelua siis riittää ja tämä onkin varsin kattava Concordia-paketti, jos peruspeliä ei ole ennestään hyllyssä.

Concordia: Aegyptus / Creta is an expansion for Concordia that contains two maps for new strategic challenges:

    In Aegyptus, the Nile and its yearly flood brings some extra food. You can also engage yourself in trade with frankincense or gold for sestertii and victory points at the end of the game.
    In Creta, you play on a tight map containing only twenty cities in nine provinces (one with only a single city).

Both maps can be played at all player counts, but become very competitive with four and especially with five players. The maps also have a new format which is a little longer, but clearly smaller than previously released maps.

The two-sided personality card display is separated from the map and contains a side with different additional costs.

Concordia: Britannia / Germania features a double-sided map for Concordia.

    The Britannia map offers tight play with only 23 cities in ten provinces. Players start in London and Boulogne, expanding Britannia from the south.

    The Germania map features 30 cities in twelve provinces again. The additional castles, different starting positions, and sea colonists moving along rivers bring new options into play.

Concordia: Gallia / Corsica is an expansion for Concordia that contains two maps for new strategic challenges:

    In Gallia, you start moving around with only one land colonist and have to settle inside one of the harbor cities before you can use your sea colonist as well.

    In Corsica, you will play on the tightest map ever published for Concordia, containing only twenty cities in eight provinces.

Both maps can be played at all player counts, but Corsica is especially meant for two or three players.

"Salsa" is the Latin word for "salted", and in the Concordia: Salsa expansion for Concordia, players will discover:

Two new maps: "Byzantium" and "Hispania"
Wooden pieces for a sixth commodity: salt
City tokens for additional salt cities
27 Forum Cards for new strategies to follow
The cards are all different, can be acquired during the game, and salt your game with new strategic challenges! Some cards have permanent effects, others return to stack after using. Both the sixth commodity and the new cards can be played with the base game and the Britannia expansion as well, thus giving even more variety.

Concordia Venus includes new personality cards with the goddess Venus allowing for new strategies, two maps (Hellas/Ionium) on which to play (using components from the Concordia base game in addition to new cards), and rules that enable teams of two players to play against one another.

Awakening the Bear is the first game in the multi-award winning Conflict of Heroes series. This series is a squad level combined arms training game used by history fans, universities, and military personnel throughout the world. This game takes you to the eastern front during Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Russia. Many consider this time period to be the birth of modern warfare tactics that continue to be used and perfected by today's modern armies.

You command German or Soviet forces comprised of infantry squads, crewed support weapons, individual tanks, armored cars, artillery, and more. Much effort went into distinguishing the units in the game by highlighting their historical strengths and weaknesses. For example, each tank's defense rating takes into account relative armor thickness, armor slope deflection percentage, speed, size, targeting mechanics, and crew training. All these factors are represented in an easy to learn target number system. You do not have to worry about the details; they are all built into the system! As the commander, you concentrate on tactics to execute your mission and firefight objectives.

The 3rd Edition Rules change several key elements of Conflict of Heroes from previous editions. A Unit no longer receives 7 Action Points. Instead, each Turn, a player selects one of their Units to take an Action. After completing the Action, they roll a custom d10 die to determine if the Unit becomes Spent. If the player rolls higher than the Action’s Cost, the Unit is free to continue taking Actions on future Turns. More involved Actions have a higher Spent probability. On average, Units will be able to take the same number of Actions as in the previous 7AP edition rules, but now your units may not always perform as expected.

This and other new mechanics like Stress encourage players to experiment with integrated battlefield tactics that make use of multiple Units working together. They also heighten the experience of ‘Fog of War,’ in that players must now assess the risk attached to each Action they take, and determine the best time to use their CAPs to mitigate that risk.

All previous Conflict of Heroes editions are 100% compatible with these 3rd Edition rules. This game can also be played with previous edition rules.