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Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear: Firefight Generator in December

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Nov 172015

Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear: Firefight Generator

$45.00

Awakening the Bear: Firefight Generator builds on Academy Games’ award-winning Conflict of Heroes series for a whole new experience. Players use strategy and cunning to manipulate the battlefield and available forces to create an engagement set to their advantage. This expansion for Awakening the Bear 2^nd Edition includes everything you need to create countless Firefights; from solo Firefights that make use of Awakening the Bear: Solo Expansion to giant, multi-map, four-player battles!

To create a unique new Firefight, players alternate playing Generator Cards to choose their units, Victory Point conditions, weapons, weather conditions, and more. Players can bluff, outmaneuver, and thwart their opponents…all before the Firefight even begins!

Successful commanders will make smart and strategic choices by allocating their limited resources to set themselves up for victory. This is a groundbreaking new system that is challenging and fun to play and can be fully integrated with the Solo Expansion!!

This expansion requires Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear.

Features:

Soviet and German Generator Card Decks

Option Record Boards

1 Rule Book with Mission Guidelines

Special Additions:

Solo Mission Generation System

Solo Mission Sheet

Artificial Intelligence Tiles

1-4 players

Automania this October

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Sep 272015

Automania

$54.99

In Automania, you run a car factory, trying to produce the most popular cars in the market. To achieve this, you buy tiles to upgrade and customize your factory, and hire specialist employees to help you.

Central to the game are the factory boards: each player has a factory with three assembly lines, and each assembly line produces one type of car. You can put machine tiles along your assembly lines to change the specifications of your cars. However, your three assembly lines intersect, so each machine tile placed might affect more than one type of car – which means you have to think carefully about where you put those machines.

When a car is produced, it must be sold in one of two markets, and the better the specifications of the car is in line with the demand in the chosen market, the more popular the car will be. The most popular cars reap the highest profits, earning money or prestige – which is what you need to win this game.

2-4 players

Ages 12+

60-90 minute play time

Cubicle 7 Entertainment launch Cold War espionage setting for Call of Cthulhu on Kickstarter

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Jun 252015

Cubicle 7 Entertainment launch Cold War espionage setting for Call of Cthulhu on Kickstarter

Following on from their first two smash-hit Kickstarters, Cthulhu Britannica: London and The Lone Wolf Adventure Game, Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd have announced that their latest project – World War Cthulhu: Cold War – is now live on Kickstarter!

World War Cthulhu: Cold War is a new Call of Cthulhu setting full of thrilling espionage, tense horror and sudden betrayal set at the height of the Cold War in the 1970s. The tangled webs of the spymasters tear and rejoin, double and triple agents make their moves and counter-moves, and it’s hard to be sure which side you’re really working for. Nuclear destruction hangs over everyone, and a few people at the heart of western intelligence continue their personal battle against the insidious influence of a much older enemy…

NOIR: Black Box Edition from Level 99 Games in May

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Apr 132015

NOIR: Black Box Edition

$24.95

Take to the streets for a life or death game of cat and mouse. Plan your moves carefully to avoid the Police or capture the Killer.

In the new Black Box Edition, there are six game modes to test your mettle and these include Killer vs. Inspector, Hitman vs. Sleuth, Spy Tag, Master Thief vs. Chief of Police and more! With over 50 suspects to scrutinize, will you catch a killer, or end up dead?

2-9 players

15+ minute play time

Contains:

50 Suspect Cards

50 Innocent Cards

24-page Rulebook

35 Role Cards

Various tokens for different play modes

Made in China.

HOLDFAST KOREA 1950-1951 from Worthington Games April 1

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Mar 212015

HOLDFAST KOREA 1950-1951

$64.99

Korea is called America’s “forgotten war”. There are very few games on the topic, and none quite like this. The US Army, US Marine Corp, ROK Army, NKPA, and CPA forces are all represented. Air power, armor, and the naval might of the UN forces are represented simply and elegantly. Rail movement, amphibious landings, and surprise attacks are in here too.

Dystopian Legion March Releases

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Feb 202015

DWEX18 The Black Wolf Aerial Battle Group

As his horde of Mercenaries grows, Captain Vladimir Nikinov, or the ‘Black Wolf’ as he is infamously known, has now complemented his deadly naval forces with a devastating Aerial  Battle Group. At the heart of this new force is the massive and most intimidating Retribution Sky Fortress, one of the most impressive flying models in the world of Dystopian Wars.
The Retribution is designed to act as a mobile command centre for Nikinov should be choose to leave his famed Death Bringer Submarine, and as such the Retribution hammers enemy models with withering fore weapons, brutal rocket batteries and crushing bomb attacks. In support of this beast are three Chimera medium airships, also armed with fore guns and rocket batteries, and supporting these are five small Wrath airships, armed with fore and aft turrets.
The arrival of aerial mobility to Black Wolf forces makes them an even more dangerous foe to fight off, both as a standalone force or as mercenaries hired by the various nations of the Dystopian World. Only one fleet is spurned by Nikinov, that of the Russian Coalition, the Admirals of which have orders to kill the Black Wolf on sight.
Contains: 1 Retribution Class Sky Fortress, 3 Chimera Class Medium Airships, 5 Wraith Class Airships, 16 SAS Tokens, 3 Movement Trays & Micro Dice, 1 TAC Deck and Tokens & Templates. Models supplied unpainted and unassembled.

Pathfinder Adventure Path #90: The Divinity Drive (Iron Gods 6 of 6)

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Jan 082015

Pathfinder Adventure Path #90: The Divinity Drive (Iron Gods 6 of 6)

$22.99

Silver Mount has long beckoned explorers and adventurers from across the Inner Sea with its promises of exotic, otherworldly treasures. Yet more than treasure waits within the alien chambers within this towering ruin – here, the greatest of the Iron Gods dwells, inexorably drawing its plans against the world of flesh and preparing for its final triumphant emergence from the eons of time. With allies recruited from across the land of Numeria and the brutish rulership of its capital city (for the time being) cowed, the time is right for the most extensive expedition into Silver Mount’s mysterious interior. What strange perils from beyond the stars await the heroes within the metal walls of one of Golarion’s most legendary dungeons, and could they just be walking into an Iron God’s trap?

“The Divinity Drive” is a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 15th-level characters. The adventure concludes the Iron Gods Adventure Path, an exploration of the lands of Numeria, where savage barbarism clashes with the wonders and horrors of superscience.

Coming soon from What’s your Game ZhanGuo

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Nov 102014

ZhanGuo

$59.99

Between 230 and 221 B.C., the ambitious and extremely young king of Qin, Ying Zheng, unified China, adding all the other so-called Warring States (ZhanGuo) to his empire. Through this, Ying Zheng became the first emperor in Chinese history, taking the title of Qin Shi Huang Di.

Plenty of things had to change in order to make the Chinese empire whole, and Qin Shi Huang Di didn’t waste any time. He divided the empire into prefectures, personally appointing central and local functionaries; afterward, he decreed that the same writing symbols had to be used throughout the entire nation. Furthermore, he unified the laws and the units of measure, particularly the currency, creating amazing conditions for the economic development and growth of the empire.

Internal decisions were not the only things that shaped this new unified nation. From the North, the menace of the Hsiungnu barbarians kept shaking the empire, and Qin Shi Huang Di knew that the only way to stop that menace was to build one of the most ambitious buildings in human history: The Great Wall of China. Thousands of peasants left their fields to take part in the construction, not only of the Great Wall, but also of roads, channels, palaces, and majestic buildings that included the emperor’s mausoleum with the Terracotta Army.

In ZhanGuo, you are the emperor’s emissaries, and you have been assigned the challenging task of contributing to the process of unifying the empire, helping to build the wall, the Terracotta Army, and all infrastructures needed. During the five rounds of the game, you must make the best of the few cards you get each round. You can play each card either on your own player board to increase your personal power in the empire, or on the game board to recruit manpower, construct buildings wanted by the emperor, call reinforcements from Qin, and move the armies from kingdom to kingdom.

Each player has to choose the best time and best way to play his cards in order to earn the emperor’s favors. Careful, though, because trying to get too much power, or exploiting the workers for personal gain could increase dissatisfaction among the populace, and consequently increase the risk of uprisings in the newly added kingdoms. Whoever is able to make the greatest contribution to the emperor’s cause, while at the same time keeping the citizens placid, will be the winner.

The Oil Returns After 40 years

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May 112012

The Oil Game

$ 69.95 SRP

James St. Laurent’s classic oil game is back after nearly 40 years! Crude: The Oil Game allows players to play as the C.E.O. of an oil company, seeking their fortune by drilling, refining and selling oil and gasoline to a hungry market. But the economy can be difficult to predict and players must contend with sudden changes in demand. The first player to reach $750 Million is the winner! Enjoy this classic game once again courtesy of Stronghold Games!

Off the Palette Xian Ling

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Mar 172012

In Todays Off the Palette Matt Paints up Xian Ling from Studio 38’s game Alkemy.

Matt had a lot of fun painting this fig.

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Needless to say things have slowed down a little bit. Ther is good reason for that. One the driving force behind the blog fell ill. He is still recovering, but his energy level is up so more post should be coming soon. Plus we are also developing secret plans behind the scenes.

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