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BattleTech: Alpha Strike

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Aug 142013

BattleTech: Alpha Strike

$44.99 SRP

Play BattleTech in a true “tabletop miniatures” style and speed, while still feeling like you’re playing BattleTech with this stand-alone rulebook, BattleTech: Alpha Strike!

Alpha Strike is a tactical-level rules expansion for the BattleTech universe specifically tailored for the miniatures wargamer. Presenting the Quick-Strike rules first introduced in Strategic Operations, refined and compiled for standalone use, this book will let players experience of BattleTech campaigns using a dynamic, fast-playing approach ideal for larger-scale battles and scenarios.

This book includes basic instructions, setup, campaign play, abstract aerospace systems, era settings and so much more!

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Box Breaking 70 Dreadball from Mantic Games

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Jul 062013

Watch as Matt explores the contents of the new Dreadball Kick Off 2 player box set from Mantic Games.

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Mansions of Madness: Call of the Wild From Fantasy Flight Games

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Jan 162013

Mansions of Madness: Call of the Wild

Release Date: Jan 2013

$ 59.95

Venture into the unknown with Call of the Wild, an expansion for Mansions of Madness! Five new scenarios and eleven double-sided board tiles plunge investigators into the mysterious backwoods, shaking the foundations of what players have come to expect. The keeper has even more surprises at his disposal, and at times must solve ritual puzzles and seek out clues. A focus on outdoor maps encourages non-linear exploration, and new Allies assist in combat while driving the macabre narrative. Survive the wilderness in Call of the Wild!

Key Selling Points

• A Mansions of Madness expansion with five new scenarios focused on non-linear exploration

• Gives the keeper new Action Cards and new ways of surprising investigators

• Introduces Ally characters that can help in combat, give hints and quests, or betray investigators

• Contains detailed plastic figures for four new investigators and eleven new monsters

• Includes two hundred and ninety-five cards, eighty-eight tokens, and eleven double-sided board tiles

Check this and so many more games out at Fantasy Flight Games to start playing with friends today

Suburbia From Bezier Games

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Nov 172012

Suburbia

Release Date: Nov 2012

$ 59.99

Plan, build, and develop a small town into a major metropolis. Use hex-shaped building tiles to add residential, commercial, civic, and industrial areas, as well as special points of interest that provide benefits and take advantage of the resources of nearby towns. Your goal is to have your borough thrive and end up with a greater population than any of your opponents.

Suburbia is a tile-laying game in which each player tries to build up an economic engine and infrastructure that will be initially self-sufficient, and eventually become both profitable and encourage population growth. As your town grows, you’ll modify both your income and your reputation. As your income increases, you’ll have more cash on hand to purchase better and more valuable buildings, such as an international airport or a high rise office building. As your reputation increases, you’ll gain more and more population (and the winner at the end of the game is the player with the largest population).

During each game, players compete for several unique goals that offer an additional population boost – and the buildings available in each game vary, so you’ll never play the same game twice!

This is my type of game where you get to build system to grow and work all by it’s self Bezier Games made one I know I want to try.

Article 27 from Stronghold Games

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Nov 152012

Article 27

Release Date: Nov 2012

$ 49.95

Your country has chosen you to protect their interests. If that means you have to bend the rules a little bit, well that’s just the cost of justice, right? In Article 27, you assume the role of one of the members of the UN Security Council, which means you wield the power of the veto. No proposal can pass when a member uses their veto, so there had better be something in the deal for you! Negotiations on the proposals can include side-deals, threats, or outright influence-peddling! But once the gavel comes down it’s time to vote, so you better have greased all the right palms with influence or your proposal is sunk! Article 27 requires no knowledge of politics or the UN to enjoy. If you like negotiation games, you’ll love Article 27! Sales Points: • An easy to play, pure negotiation game • Very fast paced, plays in ~6 minutes per player • Awesome components including a huge game board, thick cardboard player mat and player screens, 100s of wood and cardboard tokens, and a real wooden gavel! • Beautiful, colorful and funny cartoony artwork • No knowledge of politics or the UN is required at all!

Now is time to prove what you have told your friends when you all sat around and said you could do it better then the politicians Stronghold Games has done it again and give us all a chance to put our money where are mouths are.

1775: Rebellion From Academy Games

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Nov 032012

1775: Rebellion

Release Date: Nov 2012

$ 65.00

1775 – Rebellion’ is the second game in the Birth of America series that began with the popular ‘1812 – The Invasion of Canada’. 2-4 players form teams representing the British and the Colonial rebels. Players control British Regulars, British Loyalists, German Hessian Mercenaries, American Regulars, American Patriots, Native Americans and the French in the epic American struggle for independence from the ‘tyranny’ of King George! TEAMWORK – Interactive play for team objectives and decisions. FUN – Easy rules with continual involvement by all players. EDUCATIONAL – Learn about this important chapter in American and British history. 1775 is the perfect introduction to tactical boardgames! 2-4 Players. 1-1.5 hours.

Check this one out and relive history and maybe even rewrite it a little at Academy Games don’t forget to check out their other games too.

LotR: LCG: Heirs of Numenor Expansion From Fantasy Flight Games

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Oct 242012

LotR: LCG: Heirs of Numenor Expansion

Release Date: Nov 2012

$ 29.95

Heirs of Númenor is the second deluxe expansion for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, transporting your games to the realm of Gondor with 165 new cards (including three copies of each player card). Two new heroes and a host of new allies arrive to join an escalating war against the forces of evil, and three new scenarios lead you from the relative safety of the streets of Pelargir to the heat of an epic battle with an army of Orcs and Southrons.

Words With Ricky from Green Brier Games

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Oct 172012

At Con on the Cob 2012 we had a chance to sit down with the artist of Zpocalypse, the new Game from Green Brier Games. Zpoc is a post apocalyptic semi co-op game about surviving the growing a zombie horde.

As soon as we can pick a copy up we will do that to give you a good look at the contents.

In the mean time if you wish to learn more visit Green Brier Games.

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.

Sheepland From Coffee Haus Games

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Oct 022012

Sheepland

$ 50.00

Now Available

Sheepland: A sunny land of rolling green meadows, lush forests, and majestic mountains. The peaceful, happy people of the island want nothing more than to roam the land with their fuzzy little flocks of fluffy white sheep. All is well and good, until somebody has the bright idea to put up some fences…Now the shepherds must compete for the most profitable lands to raise their flocks, driving the sheep to the lands they own—and fencing them in so they don’t wander off and join some other shepherd’s flock! And then there’s that strange black sheep that keeps showing up. His rare black wool is certain to fetch a pretty price in the market for the shepherd that can pen him in! Can you corral the finest herd in the best lands and become the richest shepherd in Sheepland? 2-4 Players Ages 10 and up 30 Minutes

Get this and other games from Coffe Haus Games to enjoy with your friends

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