Box Breaking Terran Alliance Starter

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Aug 062012
 

In this Box Breaking David busts open the Terran Alliance Starter for Firestorm Armada from Spartan Games.  David has had a lot of fun destroying fleets with his Terrans so he just wants to share.

 

 

Thanks for watching.  David is very excited that we are starting to cover the Spartan Games lines.  Coverage may seem to be sporadic at  first but it will pick up soon.

 

 

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Libertalia from Asmodee Editions

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Jul 282012
 

 

Outwit the plans of competing pirates over three campaigns while using the same crew cards as your comrades! Will you be able to make the most of the abilities of your characters at the right time, or will you have the loot snatched from under your foot by a wilier pirate than you? Dive in and prove your knack for tactics! The game takes place over three campaigns where players try to amass riches by looting ships. Looting is a dangerous activity, as players need to avoid collecting cursed relics. At the end of the game, the richest player is deemed the winner! The box contains: 1 game board; 6 pirate dens; 6 score tokens; 6 crew tokens; 180 character cards (30 for each player); 1 score track; 50 booty tiles [4 chests, 6 jewelry, 10 goods, 6 Spanish Officers, 6 sabers, 8 treasure maps, 10 cursed relics]; 13 doubloons of value 10; 10 doubloons of value 5; 45 doubloons of value 1, rules

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Mythic Battles from Iello in August

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Jul 272012
 

Mythic Battles

$ 49.99

 

Mythic Greece is in chaos: Athena and Hades are at war and have sent their greatest heroes to battle. Take on the role of these generals out of legend, leading fantastic armies and lead your troops to victory!

Mythic Battles is a game which simulates epic confrontations and battles that will take your breath away. Thanks to its innovative system – the Building Battle Board (BBB), which combines game mechanisms from miniature games, board games and card games – Mythic Battles offers you an experience the likes of which you have never seen. Recruit your army, play your cards to activate your units, roll your dice to resolve combat – reinvent your way of playing!

This box contains two complete armies to play with two or four players, an initiation campaign, as well as all that’s required to play as you wish. Other armies and units will periodically be released to flesh out your campaigns.

Write your legend in the blood of the fallen!

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Victoriana 3rd Edition from Cubicle 7 in August

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Jul 252012
 

Victoriana 3rd Edition

$ 49.99 SRP

 

The third edition of the Victoriana Core Rulebook includes: Complete and revised rules for making Victorian adventurers and resolving conflicts. Rules for creating technological marvels. Information on the world of Victoriana, including alternate diversions from actual history. A trove of supporting characters, from scullery maids and barristers to elementals and undead, as well as beasts both mundane and preternatural.

 

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Arch from Tech Lab Games in August

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Jul 242012
 

ARC is an exciting, artful and new expandable card game based on the world of time travel. The future has been corrupted and manipulated by five powerful factions spread out through time. With each faction creating rifts in time for their own private goals – some for peace and others for world domination – mankind’s fate remains uncertain. In the realm of ARC you are a powerful time traveler known as an Aeon. Rifting through time from era to era you must use events, powerful items and your cunning wits to defeat all opposing Aeons. Gain control of the timeline and reshape the future! A time-spanning, expandable card game, ARC is introduced in five faction-themed, 63-card decks – Cyborg, Engineers, Mercenary, Politician, and Purist.

 

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Mistborn Review

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Jul 212012
 
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Mistborn is an RPG set in the fantasy steampunk setting created by Brandon Sanderson. Before getting too in depth with the review I must give Brandon two thumbs up on his involvement in the process of creating the game. He not only authors the introduction story, he makes comments throughout the book.

 

The book itself is large, 500 pages. It is really three books in one. It is well organized and follows a sensible direction for teaching you how to play the game. I did find myself wishing there was more art. The book opens with a short story. The short story does an excellent job of immersing you into this game world. Sharing with you some of the basic concepts, like how this world is different, and allomancy. Allomancy is “metal magic” or one’s ability to weave, control or manipulate the powers and effects a metal obtains.

The world of Mistborn is a world trapped in an industrial revolution. The government is a fascist one that basically makes you conform or die. A few people (your character maybe) take on roles of thieves and bandits. By skirting the law they are easily seen as rebels, and heroes.

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WOW TCG Battle of the Aspects Raid Deck Coming August 7th

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Jul 202012
 

WOW TCG Battle of the Aspects Raid Deck

$ 30.00 SRP

 

Contents: 60 Card Deck • 5 Oversized Dragon Aspect Multiplayer Hero Cards • 2 Oversized Deathwing Raid Boss Cards • 12 Token Cards • 8 Achievement Cards (for additional replayability) • 4 Limb Tentacle Cards (for additional replayability) • 1 Cataclysm Card (for additional replayability) • Treasure Pack ($5.99 Value) • Rulebook Play against the automated Deathwing Raid Deck with 2 or more friends. Includes additional cards to help alter gameplay against Deathwing for added replayability. Use any of the five Dragon Aspect oversized hero cards for epic multiplayer or one-on-one battles with brand-new deckbuilding rules.

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Varisia, Birthplace of Legends for Pathfinder

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Jul 132012
 

Varisia, Birthplace of Legends

$ 10.99 SRP

 

Never has a land needed heroes more than Varisia. There, at the edge of civilization, barbarians clash with dark armored invaders, foul creatures lurk within the hearts of titanic monuments, and daring explorers unearth the secrets of a forgotten age of wizard-tyrants. This definitive guide equips players with all they need to face Varisia’s dangers and mysteries, as well as dozens of new options for playing characters native to this wild region—perhaps as a mystical thunder caller of the Shoanti barbarians, a daring bravo leading a caravan of Varisian wanderers, or an obsessed magic-user steeped in the lore of the sinister Thassilonian empire. New options for character backgrounds and campaign traits allow players to integrate their characters into any of the Adventure Paths set in Varisia—such as the Rise of the Runelords or Shattered Star Adventure Path—like never before. Varisia needs heroes, be one of them with the all-new format Pathfinder Player Companion: Varisia, Birthplace of Legends!

Written by F. Wesley Schneider

Each monthly 32-page Pathfinder Player Companion contains several player-focused articles exploring the volume’s theme as well as short articles with innovative new rules for all types of characters, as well as traits to better anchor the player to the campaign.

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Scavengers Review

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Jul 092012
 

Scavengers is a board game that was an Origins Nominee this year. Each player has four recipes they need to scavenge the ingredients for. The first to do so wins the game. Where players compete to win, or scavenge, food at camps. They do this by using a hand of cards that contains “camp” effects, and scavengers. The two scavengers that come to my mind are Coyote and Raccoon. Each animal has a strength that is used to determine who wins the camp. This is done by adding each players strength and comparing them to other players totals at the same camp. The board consists of only three camps.

 

When I opened up the game I really though that it was going to be superficial. Then I read the rules. I was to say the least frustrated. It isn’t the rules fault. It is mine. There is a lot to take in visually when learning how to play scavengers. I suggest having one person moderate the first game while others play. About the game itself, I really thought it was going to be simpler than it is. The game is truly a tactical and strategy game. What do I mean by that? It is tactical because each round brings new challenges to each player for recipe fulfillment. And it is strategic because you have long term planning in the works from the start of your first turn.

 

All in all Scavengers is an excellent game that has earned a spot in my convention box. In other words I like it enough it is going to travel with me, and I am hard to please.

 

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Sky Traders From fantasy Flight Games

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Jul 032012
 

Sky Traders

$ 49.95 SRp

 

Launch your skyship into the clouds in Sky Traders, a board game of adventure, commerce, and intrigue for two to five players. Evade ruthless Wind Pirates and manipulate the commodities market. Work with your peers to create larger profits for everyone, or try to undermine your rivals and keep all of the revenue for yourself. Trade your way to fortune and fame as you attempt to take control of the powerful Sky Guild! • A board game of trading and negotiation for 2-5 players • Players assemble a unique board for each game, creating additional replayability • Includes a finely sculpted miniature for each sky trader • Control the value of trade goods and gain Influence with the powerful Sky Guild • Plot your course and rise to the ultimate rank of Master of the Sky Guild.

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