The Fall of Pompeii™ from Mayfair August 2013

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Jul 072013
 

MFG4125-cxThe Fall of Pompeii™  $35.00

Can you escape the inferno?

It’s the year of the Consulship of Augustus and Vespasianus. The rich, beautiful Roman city of Pompeii sits at the foot of majestic Mount Vesuvius.  Renowned for exotic, easy, and ample luxury, the wealthy town attracts the best of Rome’s proud citizens.

But a terrible secret lies deep beneath the slopes of the mighty mountain. A primeval secret is about to unleash unspeakable horrors on this fateful afternoon. The mountain, so very long asleep, is finally reawakening…

 

Come to beautiful Pompeii! Use your cards to attract your Roman friends and relatives to visit select sites. But beware! The dreaded Vesuvius card means the mountain is awake, spewing fiery lava onto the unsuspecting city.

Now you must struggle to get your compatriots out of the doomed town before they are engulfed. Rushing to avoid lava flows, your people must flee before Vesuvius explodes and ash seals their fate. Lead the most survivors to safety and you win !

 

Designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, the talented creator of “Carcasonne”

A historically rich, fun game for 2-4 players age 10+, “Pompeii” plays in ?45 minutes

 

Includes 3 dual vent tiles and a new “Dual Vent” variant!

 

“Pompeii” contains:

• 120 wood pieces

• 62 game cards

• 45 lava tiles

• 3 dual vent tiles

• 1 volcano

• 1 cloth bag

• Game board

• Simple rules

 

MFG4125 The Fall of Pompeii™  $35.00

Ages 10+

For 2-4 Players

Playing Time 45+ minutes

UPC 0-29877-04125-1-03500

ISBN      1-56905-269-7

Case Pack 6

Designer:  Klaus-Jürgen Wrede

Art:  Oliver Freudenreich & Guido Hoffmann

Made in the U.S.A.

Dimensions   10.875” x 7.5625” x 2625” (approximate)

 

Pompeii and The Downfall of Pompeii are trademarks of Mayfair Games, Inc. All rights reserved.

Copyright © 2013 by Mayfair Games, Inc.

Development with AMIGO Spiel & Freizeit GmbH (Germany)

 

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Box Breaking 68 The Duke from Catalyst Game Labs

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Jul 022013
 

The Duke is the newest “abstract” game I have seen.  It has a chess like feel to it – that is if chess can be a hyper squirrel doing back flips. Check  it out as Matt shares his box with you.

 

 

In a few days we hope to have some sample games up for you or a tutorial.  Hope you have had fun.

 

Music found at Music Alley

Zantlop was performed by Alexander Jenkins

Print and play version of The Duke

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FluxX: The Board Game Arriving in July

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Jun 252013
 

board fluxxFluxx: The Board Game

$29.99 SRP

 

Fluxx: The Board Game is all about change: changing rules, changing goals and now changing tiles. Occupy the right spaces to claim the current goal and reveal the next goal… getting you one step closer to victory! Based on the hit card game.

Words With MERCS Miniatures at Origins 2013

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Jun 242013
 

MERCS_logoWe had the chance to talk with the MERCS Miniatures team at Origins Game Fair 2013.  They share some more information about MERCS and Myth.  Plus the give us an inside scoop on the MERCS roleplaying Game, their boardgame, and the MERCS dice game.

 

You can visit MERCS to learn more about MERCS Miniature, Myth and their upcoming IP’s.

 

Later this week we will have our testimonies on the Myth experience.

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The Walking Dead Board Game 2

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Jun 082013
 

The Walking Dead Board Game 2

$ 40.00 SRP

 

In this co-operative game, players take on the roles of Rick, Glenn, Daryl, Michonne, and other characters. The Survivors are on the hunt for Walkers and must defend 4 key Locations in order to stay alive: The Farm, The Prison, The Town, and The Highway. Using oversized Location tiles, the map board is built at random each game, providing for great replayability. At each Location there is a Resource deck of 25 cards: Equipment, Allies, Food, or Ammunition. These decks are also placed at random locations, further adding to the replayability. A 48-card Event deck drives the action and triggers Walkers and other calamities to show up at the various Locations. Players draw Event cards each turn and have to figure out how to minimize the effects of their Events over the course of their turn. Dice are used to resolve combat and to determine the outcome of some Event cards.

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Zpocalypse: Zmaster Expansion June 14th

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Jun 072013
 

ZpocZpocalypse: Zmaster Expansion

$40.00 SRP

Zmaster adds a fifth player to the Zpocalypse main game as the game master. This new player controls the zombies as they converge upon the survivors, who are trying to protect their bunker. Via zombie upgrades, new mutated zombie miniatures and the Deck of Doom, the zombie master adds new mechanics which spice up an already epic zombie survival game. Choose which scenario you prefer for the style of zombies to combat each game.

 

Zmaster provides rules and mechanics for altering the physics of the game to make it harder or easier, depending on your preferences and style of play. It turns Zpocalypse into the ultimate sandbox for testing out survival strategies and testing out how one would cope with a zombie threat.

 

Requires the Zpocalypse main game to play.

 

2-5 players

Ages: 13+

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Box Breaking 61: Zpocalypse from GreenBrier Games

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Apr 292013
 

zpoc_overview_adIn this Box Breaking Matt takes a look at Zpocalypse.   Zpoc is a semi-cooperative board game that take place in a post apocalyptic world. The game lends both a tactical miniatures feel and RPG flavors to create a unique  game experience.

 

 

 

 

You can learn everything there is to know about Zpocalypse at GreenBrier Games.

The GreenBrier crew is currently using Kickstarter to make Zpocalypse  Aftermath a super reality.  The Kicksater link is on the right hand side of the screen.

If you liked our video and want to stay up to date with  videos yon can follow us using any of the social media links on the right hand side of your screen.

 

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The Duke

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Apr 202013
 

dukeThe Duke

$34.95 SRP

The Dukeis a dynamic, tile-based strategy game with an old-world, feudal theme, high-quality wooden playing pieces, and an innovative game mechanism in its double-sided tiles. Each side represents a different posture – often considered to be defensive or offensive – and demonstrates exactly what the piece can do within the turn. At the end of a move (or after the use of a special ability), the tile is flipped to its other side, displaying a new offensive or defensive posture.

Each posture conveys different options for maneuver and attack. The full circle is a standard Move, the hollow circle the Jump, the arrow provides for the Slide, the star a special Strike ability and so on. Each turn a player may select any tile to maneuver, attempting to defend his own troops while positioning himself to capture his opponent’s tiles. If you end your movement in a square occupied by an opponent’s tile, you capture that tile. Capture your opponent’s Duke to win!

Players start the game by placing their Duke in one of the two middle squares on their side of the game board. Two Footman are then placed next to the Duke. Each turn a player may choose to either move a single tile, or randomly draw a new tile from the bag. With twelve different Troop Tiles, all double-sided, and sixteen total pieces for each player, the variety of game play is limitless.

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Amber From Rebel Publishing

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Mar 082013
 

Amber

Release Date: Coming Soon

$ 26.60

In Amber, players take the role of the barons, and their goal is to build trade routes that connect their castles to the villages where the amber is collected, and to the other barons’ castles where it is traded. To this end, players build roads through the wilderness – placing one tile each turn in the shared playing area – which will allow their buyers to reach the sources of the amber. Since all buyers can use the roads, however, it’s important to have suitable connections with the road networks built by others. The baron whose castle is connected with the greatest number of villages and castles will become the richest and most respected Lord of the new land.

This looks like a nice easy game to sit down and play with the kids thanks, Rebel Publishing for giving me more family time.

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