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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.

Castle Dash From 5th Street Games

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Oct 112012

Castle Dash

$ 25.00

Available now

Neighboring kingdoms have recently acquired lots of treasure. Naturally, this means you must lead your troops into battle to take it! How do you know there’s treasure to steal? Some of your soldiers were spying for you and got caught sending back news of the windfall. So it looks like you’ll have to rescue your soldiers, too… Be the first player to grab 3 coins from your rivals and you win the Castle Dash! Key Mechanics Worker Placement – Soldiers placed to battle and claim bonuses. Dice-Based Combat – Dice rolled to determine combat and cannon fire.

Get this now at 5th street games and play with your kids, mine can wait till it gets here

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

TableTop Pandemic

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Oct 042012

New TableTop episode

From Tabletop

Timeline: Historical Events From Asmodee

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Sep 302012

Timeline: Historical Events

$ 14.99

JFK’s assassination, the 1st step on the moon, the last crusade… Can you put all these events correctly on the timeline? Each player is dealt the same number of cards. At the start of the game, a card is drawn at random from the stack and is placed at the center of the table with the date showing. This is the starting point for a timeline that will be gradually completed by the players. The first player then chooses one of his cards and places it before or after the card on the initial map. The player’s card is then turned over to show the date of the historical event. If it is correct, it stays in place. Otherwise, the card is discarded and the player must draw another to replace it. The more cards in the timeline, the harder it is not to make a mistake! The first player with no cards left wins.

To see more of their games go visit them at Asmodee edition: board games

Tammany Hall

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Sep 082012

Tammany Hall

$ 60.00 SRP

Tammany Hall is a game of backstabbing, corruption, temporary alliances, and taking power at all costs. If you want to rule New York, you are going to need to play the city’s growing immigrant populations against one another. Help the immigrant groups who owe you political favors, call in those favors to slander your rivals, and win election.

In Tammany Hall, players help immigrants settle in New York, collect political favors from those immigrant groups, send ward bosses into Manhattan to secure votes, and slander political opponents. An election is held at the end of every fourth year, and the player who uses his power base best will be elected mayor. The Mayor’s grip on the city is tenuous at best. After every election, the Mayor must pay off his political rivals by placing them in offices that they can wield to try to take control of the city. Every player is your friend, every player is your enemy.

Tammany Hall was the political machine that dominated New York City politics by organizing the immigrant populations. While the organization’s influence spanned from its founding in the 1790s to its collapse in the 1960s, this game is set in lower Manhattan roughly between 1850 and 1870 – the era of Boss Tweed.

Republic F105 Thunderchief new from Osprey

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Sep 012012

Republic F105 Thunderchief

$ 18.95 SRP

The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was the fastest and most successful strike fighter of the Cold War. Designed to deliver nuclear weapons at low altitude and then fight its way back to base, by the early 1960s it was the primary weapon in the USAF’s tactical strike arsenal. Thunderchief pilots in Europe, the Far East and the USA stood on short-notice alert, ready to take on the formidable defenses of their Communist Bloc targets. The F-105 was, however, to become a legend in a very different conflict. As direct American involvement in Vietnam increased, F-105s were deployed – initially as a deterrent, but ever more as conventional attack fighters against insurgency in Laos and Vietnam. With the start of the bombing campaign against North Vietnam, the Thunderchief became a vital element in attacks against some of the most heavily defended territory in modern history.

Space Infantry: New Worlds coming in September

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Aug 302012

Space Infantry: New Worlds

$ 32.99 SRP

Space Infantry was one of our most popular games in 2011. Now designer Gottardo Zancani is back with another heaping helping of science fiction, solitaire gaming goodness. Space Infantry: New Worlds includes new missions, new enemies, and special creatures, all in one, neat zip locked package. Once again gamers can take their squad of Space Infantry into the hives, or experience a pair of new surface missions. Additionally, you’ll battle the deadly Void Spiders or heartless Drones. But you’ll have some brand new equipment to battle them with, including the new Flamer. It’s all here and all ready for your preorder. New Worlds Includes: – Two new Hive Missions (H007 and H008) – Two new surface Missions: Mission S009 and Mission S010 – Two new Enemies: Beastmasters and Cthonians – Two Special Enemies: Void Spiders and Drones – One new Unit: Flamer – One new Campaign Sheet – Special rules for Flame and Poison Damage – New counters: Flame Damage, Spider Eggs, Individual Enemy Counters, and more.

Press Release Spartacus Board Game

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Aug 302012

Gale Force Nine, LLC in partnership with STARZ Entertainment announces the release of the board game Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery.

Earlysville, VA — Spartacus: A Game of Blood & Treachery is an exciting board game of twisted schemes and bloody combats inspired by the hit STARZ Original series. Players assume the role of the Dominus of a great house competing for influence in the era of ancient Rome. Players vie for dominance through careful diplomacy, cunning intrigues and the glory of the Arena. Undermine the machinations of rivals, leverage your wealth for advantage at market and pit your gladiators in bloody contest; all with the goal of seeing your house rise to supremacy.

Parsec RPG

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Jun 292012

Parsec RPG

$ 20.00 SRP

Parsec is a science-fiction tabletop RPG that sticks close to what is feasible given what we know about the world today – the only big “cheat” is the new technology of faster-than-light travel. The setting is composed of things we can easily imagine in our own future, without any supernatural elements like psionics or magic. It’s a simple, versatile game, and you can probably teach the system, create characters and be ready to play in an hour or two the first time you sit down. Through this game, you portray stories of people who are living on Earth or elsewhere in our solar system about 100 years in our future. You tell their stories one scene at a time, focusing on the conflicts they get into, the secrets they know, and what they want most. Meanwhile, around them, neo-feudal corporations and a new world government fight for supremacy on a ravaged Earth while the very first FTL drive-ships change space travel forever. The stories you tell take place in vast post-urban wastelands, the crumbling fringes of great cities, cutting-edge and vibrant city cores or inside vast arcologies – or off-world, on permanent space-stations in orbit around Earth, colonies on Luna or Mars, mining operations in the Asteroid Belt, outposts on Europa or Titan, or on one of the many ships connecting all of them. Whether your character is an urban tribal insurgent or a corporate spy or a space-faring pirate captain, a simple system helps you get your character into interesting conflicts and fight her way out of them.

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