Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear! From Academy Games

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Oct 102012
 

Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear!

$ 80.00

Expected Release Date: Oct 2012

The year is 1941. Germany has defeated Poland, Denmark, Norway, and France with ease. Now the Führer desires more ‘Lebensraum’ and attacks the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 under the code name Operation Barbarossa. He thinks the Soviets will fold like a house of cards. Their officer cadre had been massacred by Stalin, training was poor, and morale low. The Blitzkrieg catches the Soviets by surprise and they lose over 1.75 million men in the first two months alone. The Germans are unstoppable, their Panzers pushing to the very gates of Moscow. But the winter comes and the Soviets begin to counterattack. THE BEAR AWAKENS! Winner – ‘Origins Historical Boardgame of the Year’ Winner – ‘Charles S Robert Historical Boardgame of the Year’ Winner – ‘James F Dunnigan Design Elegance’ Winner – ‘Genius Award for best Historical Game’ The #1 Rated Wargame Series is finally available again! NEW – 3D map graphics, NEW – Counter Art, NEW – Firefights and Campaign Games! Fun – Quick simultaneous play allows players to interact without waiting. Simple – Teach new players how to play in under 5 minutes. Historically Accurate – Portrays realistic forces and tactics. Counters – Depict individual vehicles, tanks, guns, squads and more. Consistent – Each game in the series uses the same rule system. Awakening the Bear is the perfect introduction to tactical squad level war gaming!

Get this today at Academy Games and  start developing your mind through play

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Guns of Galicia From Worthington Games

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Oct 092012
 

Guns of Galicia

$ 55.00

Goming Soon

Guns of Galicia (GoG) uses the same core rules as Guns of August (GoA) to simulate Corp-level fighting on the Eastern Front in WWI. Game mechanics compensate for players’ 20/20 hindsight to encourage historically accurate play that makes “sense” in game terms while avoiding a “straight jacket” of special rules to enforce irrational play. Players maneuver corps and divisions through 9-mile wide hexagons in turns that span three days each. Chit pull activation along with modest movement point allowances generates a highly interactive game. Scenarios included are the 1914 Galicia campaign, 1915 Tarnow campaign, and 1916 Brusilov campaign.

Learn more at Worthington Games and help rewrite history how you see fit

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Box Breaking # 48 Thunderstone Advance from AEG

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Oct 082012
 

In this Box Breaking Matt takes a look at AEG’s Thunderstone Advance Tower of Ruins.   If you are teetering take a look at what you get in the game.  It likes like it is a semi-cooperative game, more on that when we play.

 

Check back soon for our review and a play session,  I hope to have a few games in before giving a full game review.  You can follow Thunderstone Advance and learn more about the Root of Corruption Expansion here.

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Naval War of 1812 200th Anniversary LE From Worthington Games

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Oct 082012
 

Naval War of 1812 200th Anniversary LE

$ 75.00

Release Date: Oct 2012

Naval War of 1812 showcases the global commerce war between Great Britain and the young United States.
The goal of the American player is to hunt down British merchant ships while avoiding their warships. The British goal is to seek out the American frigates and merchant ships, while protecting their own. The game includes a hard mounted game board, plastic ships in four colors, and cards for ship maneuver that depict the strategic and tactical capabilities of the era.

Come get this and more Worthington games to relive your favorite historical times and battles 

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Box Breaking 47 Zombicide from Guillotine Games

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Oct 072012
 

In this Box Breaking Matt busts open Zombicide from Guillotine Games.  Matt is overwhelmed with all the product there is with this game, and we think that is obvious.  Watch as he staggers through his first look of Zombicide.

This truly going to be an amazing game.   It starts off only using a couple of tiles, and Guillotine Games has a lot planned for 2013.

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Looney Pyramids – Treehouse From Looney Labs

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Oct 072012
 

Looney Pyramids – Treehouse

$ 16.00

Release Date: Oct 2012

Treehouse is a fast, fun, easy-to-learn game for 2 to 4 players, winner of the Origins Award for Best Board Game of 2006. Your goal is to rearrange your pyramids to match the set in the center of the table, using only the moves you roll on the custom die. Rules to a bonus game, Pharaoh, are also included, along with a colorful 24 page Guide to Looney Pyramids promoting the game system and 11 other games that can be played with the pyramids. Packaged in a pyramid shaped zippered pouch (5.5″ x 3.25″ x 3.25″) with 15 pyramids, 2 custom dice, and instructions for two games.

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Get this and other fun family games from Looney Labs today to play with you kids

Catan Europe From Mayfair

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Oct 062012
 

In the late Middle Ages, trade flourished in Europe. Economic groups like the Hanseatic League, the Welser and Fugger families, and merchants from Northern Italy established trading posts and factories in all of the important cities throughout Europe. These businesses provided the population with goods of all kinds, such as fur from the north, cloth from Flanders, wine from the south, and spices from India. The most important commodity of all was salt. In the Middle Ages salt was highly prized it was used to preserve food.

You are a powerful merchant! Start your trading posts in three cities. Recruit new merchants and send them to distant cities to establish trading posts and expand your interests. The more trading posts you have, the more commodities are at your disposal which you can sell profitably in foreign cities.

To ensure that your commodities arrive safely at their destination, you must open up trade routes and equip caravans. You win the game if you are the first to deliver all of your commodities to foreign cities.

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Space Empires Close Encounters Expansion From GMT Games

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Oct 042012
 

Space Empires Close Encounters Expansion

$ 59.00

Release Date: Oct 2012

Space Empires: Close Encounters is the first expansion to Space Empires: 4X.Alien races meet up close as they encounter each other for the first time in ship boarding engagements and planetary invasions with different types of ground troops. The strengths and weaknesses of each alien empire are brought out with roughly 20 unique racial abilities. The expansion takes advantage of the streamlined nature of the game system to add more technology and cool sci-fi things in very simple ways. While it is designed to be used as a whole, the expansion is modular and players can choose to use only the parts that they like.

Get this and more from GMT Games and go kick some alien butt.

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October Hordes Releases from Privateer Press

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Oct 032012
 

Hordes: CoO Woldwrath Gargantuan

$ 129.99 SRP

 

Woldwraths stand as towering monuments to the woldcrafter art, meant to tap into and unbind the ultimate fury of Orboros. Brought to life amid strenuous, blood-fueled rituals conducted atop powerful conjunctions of ley lines, woldwraths channel the vast energies that flow within the earth. Their tempestuous assaults are prefaced by voltaic flickers that play along darkening clouds above and the pulsing runes inscribed across their stone forms. The Woldwrath gargantuan comes in a box (PIP 72067). A player may field up to two Woldwraths for each warlock in a Circle Orboros army.

 

 

 

 

Hordes: CoO Warpborn Skinwalkers (5)

$ 44.99 SRP

 

Warpborn skinwalkers are chosen from the finest hunters and trackers among the families of the Wolves of Orboros and subjected to rituals that transform them into hulking savages. With their senses heightened and their bestial bodies augmented to become stronger than any human, they wield their massive pole axes with enthusiastic brutality. A player may field up to two Warpborn Skinwalker units for each warlock in a Circle Orboros army. SPECIAL NOTE: PIP 72070 contains the same Mk II stat card as PIP 72046. The models in this box represent the same figures in the game. PIP 72070 replaces PIP 72046 and PIP 72053 by offering their contents in a complete unit. However, the models in PIP 72070 are a new sculpt and therefore look different from the models in PIP 72046 and PIP 72053. In addition, these models are plastic rather than metal. The replaced PIPs will no longer be available from Privateer Press beginning October 1, 2012. Box

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BlackRock City From Blackrock Edtions

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Oct 032012
 

BlackRock City

$ 24.15

Released Date: Oct 2012

You are the Chief of your group of outlaws and you must win a maximum of gold and silver by attacking banks and stagecoaches. You will have to be clever to estimate the number of outlaws needed to attack; and watch out for the Sheriff and your opponents!This game is played in rounds. Each round, players bid on the right to perform the next bank robbery, using the members of there robber band (outlaws). The winner of the bid attacks the city, which will often net him some gold and give him new outlaws (by freeing them from prison). However, which city is attacked is determined by the difference between the winning bid and the lowest bid. So, bids from the other players will influence the winner’s gains. The player with the second highest bid will attack the stagecoach and gain some silver.The game ends when no player has an outlaw left or all players refuse to bid on a given round. The player who has collected the most gold and silver wins the game.

Come see this and more from Blackrock Edtions on their site. This site will need translated

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