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Pocket Battles: Ancients #2 - Macedonians vs Persians

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The ancient armies of Macedonia and Persia are yours to command in Pocket Battles: Macedonians vs. Persians, a tile-based war game. You'll fight on three fronts with armies you create for each battle, making every battle a new experience.

Each Pocket Battles game depicts two armies. The rules for combat are the same in each Pocket Battles game so you can have armies from different series fighting: Elves vs. Romans! WW2 soldiers vs. Napoleonic forces! It's all possible with Pocket Battles.

Pocket Battles: Fantasy #1 - Orcs vs Elves

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Agricola: World Championship Deck 2011 Expansion

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The WM-Deck for Agricola is a new set of cards for Uwe Rosenberg’s boardgame hit. The 60 Minor Improvements and 55 Occupations are divided into 5 Mini-Decks and were created for the first Agricola World Championship 2011 in Vienna.

Agricola: Netherlands Deck Expansion

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Play Agricola with a new thematic setting set in the Netherlands! Discover the Netherlands - a small country with more than just the stereotypical windmills, cheese, and tulips. The 60 Minor Improvements and 60 Occupations in the 120-card NL-Deck Expansion can be played as a stand-alone deck or shuffled into other decks.

Feudality

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A long time ago in Europe, ages were pretty dark. The distribution of wealth back then left a lot to be desired. Greedy people banded together to take things from other people so that the rich could get richer and the poor could have even less. Twas ever thus. Step into the middle of the normal state of human affairs as a Baron or Baroness somewhere almost in Europe a long time ago. Thanks to your birth you have a lot of little people working to make you richer, and you, in turn, are doing your best to make your king even more prosperous. If you do things right, you might someday be king.

Each player starts with a Fiefdom Management card, divided into 64 squares (49 of which can have tiles played on them. Into four of these squares you deploy your Keep, in which you will put your fortification of some sort, and your soldiers. Elsewhere in your land you deploy assorted resource gatherers and buildings in an effort to grow, prosper, and score victory points. Along the way there may be wars, invasions, tournaments, taxes, and a lot of other nonsense.

Rattus: Africanus

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Ora & Labora

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Dungeon Petz

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The game consists of several rounds in which players use unusual worker placement mechanisms (players simultaneously prepare different sized groups of imps in order to play sooner than others). To become the leader of imp family that has just started a new business, they will have to prepare themselves for the uneasy task of raising creature cubs and pleasing their different needs represented by cards in order to sell them as grown scary creatures to Dungeon Lords. In the meantime they also attend various contests in which they show off their pets, scoring additional points.

Principato

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From Finnish designer Touko Tahkokallio comes Principato, a tactical game for 2-4 players.

Powerful principalities are forming in Northern Italy. When is the best moment to expand? When will harvesting be profitable? How much force will be necessary to defend the city walls? Only the player who can correctly judge the timing of such decisions will be successful in the end.

At the beginning of the game, each player receives a small, unprotected principality. Over three epochs the various principalities can be developed. A steady production of money and food is needed to expand the principality and to maintain an army of mercenaries. During the game there are several cultural and military valuations that give the players victory points.

The unusual part of this game are the action cards, which are available to all players. From the changing pool of possible actions, players have to secure the most suitable cards and use them at the appropriate time reaching for the new means while parting with the old. This simple mechanism turns Principato

Palenque

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Pacal, king of the Mayan city, Palenuqe, is trying to control all of the Yucantan's resources. As kings of other cities, you have other ideas. By using your influence to control resources in Kingdoms across the Yucatan, you can establish yourself as the greatest king of the Maya. Build temples. Alter borders. Control resources.

Mondo

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This game is designed by Michael Schacht of Zooleretto (and other games) fame. The object is to create a world landscape in 7 minutes. Players race to get tiles to match up landscapes - seas, deserts, forest, etc as well as competing to get a selection of animals (pictured on the tiles) into your design. Three rounds of play, special goal tiles for bonus points, and a solo play option is available in this game. Games also comes with a cool timer.

Undermining

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Undermining is a game where players need to make the best of the actions available to achieve short term goals, like gaining particular resources, as well as to consider how to set themselves up long term through upgrading their mining vehicle and fulfilling contracts. The game is all about gaining star bucks, with the player who manages to earn the most being the winner in the end. To earn starbucks players will be vying to satisfy contracts for certain resources, but may also earn them for upgrading their vehicles, having resources at game end and finding alien technologies 

Undermining comes with a double-sided board, meaning the way players are forced to interact can be significantly different one side to the other. With a random layout of resources, different strategies and bonuses that can be achieved through upgrading your UMVee, the timing of contracts for different resources, and one off special bonuses that can be achieved by finding alien technology, no two games of Undermining are ever the same. 

Gnomes of Zavandor

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In The Gnomes of Zavandor, gemstone deposits have been discovered near the city of Diamantina, and 2-4 players will slip into the role of zealous gnomes who mine precious stones, then buy and sell them on a stock exchange, and eventually transform them into powerful artifacts and precious gems.

Ninjato

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In 12th Century Japan, the Minamoto and Taira clans vie for power while retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa plays his rivals against one another. One of the three factions will triumph to impose the coming social order. In the shadow of these elite powers, a few ninja scheme to exploit the chaos. Daring raids, skill mastery, and subtle intrigue are essential to establishing one's honor. When the new era dawns, one ninja will flourish as the Ninjato, the Invisible Sword of the ruling family!

Ares Project

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Earth has been devastated by thousands of years of human exploitation. The salvation of mankind lies millions of miles away, in the Martian tundra, where four factions fight for the future: Terrans, the remnants of the global Earth Defense Force; Kahoum, an ancient cabal; Colossus, a renegade team of underpaid engineers gathered to create the ultimate fighting machine; Xenos, the original inhabitants of Mars, who have lain in dormant hibernation for millennia until now. Build your forces, upgrade them with advanced technologies, and launch them into battle with fast-paced, card-driven action in The Ares Project!

Dark Minions: Join the Forces of Evil

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In Dark Minions players represent the forces of evil as they try to pillage and destroy towns. 

On their turn a player will roll the number and type of dice equal to their level. These dice may then be used to perform three basic functions (and one extra function in the advanced game). Players may use dice to place Minions on town tiles, they may use them to claim towers, and they may use them to re-spawn minions from the graveyard. 

Players are racing to achieve the required number of Vanquish Points (VPs) to end the game. VPs are awarded for the sacking of towns, for VP tiles won, for a players experience level, and for any skulls unspent at the end of the game. 


The advanced game introduces Overlords, which are special cards that modify the game rules in different ways and provide those players that gain them access to special powers that can mean a vital difference between those who are truly evil and those who are merely bad. 

Dark Minions also includes a small expansion called Demon Lords, that adds some extra Overlords, a special town tile and a special die - making for some ways to really mix up the game play

The Walking Dead Board Game

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The Walking Dead: The Board Game from Z-Man Games transforms the Robert Kirkman comic book series into a board game, giving "fans the opportunity to play Rick, Shane, Andrea, and other favorite The Walking Dead characters as they deal with zombies, collect supplies and pick up the pieces of their lives", according to a press release announcing the game. Encounter and location cards recreate scenes and events from the comic book series.

Guards! Guards!

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Guards! Guards! A Discworld Boardgame is for 2 to 6 players; designed by Leonard Boyd and David Brashaw, it can be played in around 2 hours.

Eight Great Spells have been stolen from the hallowed halls of the Unseen University. The players, dauntless members of Commander Vimes' famous City Watch, infiltrate the guilds of Ankh Morpork in the hope of finding support in the quest to return the spells to the Unseen University before disaster befalls the Discworld. In so doing they will need to recruit help from the lowest to the highest ranks of Ankh Morporkian society, from the gilt-ridden nobility to those lacking any sense of gilt.

Players will compete to the be the first to return their 5 assigned Great Spells to the Unseen University. To do so they will need to charm or bribe volunteers to help them, as well as make use of spells, curses, magic items and other odds and sods. While running around the streets of Ankh Morpork they must also beware of other players, as Saboteurs, Great Dragons, the Luggage (of course) and many varied other things can wreak havoc on even the best laid plans.

On their turn a player will move, may take actions such as buying scrolls, equipment, bribing or charming a volunteer, collecting money, going to the hospital to be cured and many more, and then resolve any special effects. At times players will want to co-operate with one another, and at other times they will be doing their utmost to foil, trip, harangue or otherwise confabulate each others' plans.

The player who manages to successfully return their assigned Great Spells to the Unseen University will be regarded a hero of Ankh Morpork!

Quest: A Time of Heroes

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In Quest - A Time of Heroes, each player takes on the role of a brave hero. Together, players experience thrilling adventures, solve difficult riddles, and fight cruel enemies that do the bidding of one player only: the Quest Master.

Based on an adventure text, he is going to put the prowess and the cunning of the heroes to the test - but also their intelligence. The heroes' decisions guide the adventure and, thus, the fate of all good peoples.

Grimoire

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Grimoire is a game of spell-casting and questing. Players must use their “Grimoire,” or book of spells, to claim “Quest cards” which reward them with items and companions. Successful strategy requires balancing spell power and speed. For two to four players. Designed by Hayato Kisaragi.