BILLOWING SMOKE FROM THE NORTH

As battles wage through Skulk Hollow, a thick, dark, haze appears around Maul Peak. The smell of war wafts down through the valley as clouds of wrath engulf towns and villages. As fate spreads the smoke far and wide, destruction follows. A foxen scout, their fastest, is hastily dispatched to learn more...

Maul Peak is a two-player, asymmetric, tactical combat game in which players take the roles of either a tribe of bears or a towering behemoth of a Guardian.

Maul Peak is a standalone sequel to the original game Skulk Hollow, and all Guardians / Heroes can be pitted against each other. All new guardians work with the original Foxen Heroes & Map, Bears vs old Guardians, Bears vs new Guardians — you name it!

Combining the two games also allows up to 4 players to pit 2 guardians vs both bear and foxen heroes for Epic Battles.

* One vs Many Asymmetric Combat creates a fresh, fun, 2-player experience.
* Action takes place on the Board AND the Guardian. Not only does the battle occur on the Kingdom board, but the bear must traverse full size, Guardian gameboards. Each guardian has unique routes and abilities to stop the bears.
* Dual Purpose Cards give players a wide range of movement and ability powers while keeping them quick to pick and easy to play.
* Unique Bear Leaders and Guardians creates a range of tactics and dynamics, adding depth and strategy that makes each game a new challenge.

2 Players
40 Min
Age: 12+

This extension for Mr Jack London is a reedition of the 2009 one. It features a new set-up, new artworks with the original 5 characters aged 10 years - to fit to the 10th anniversary edition of the base game - but also an unpublished character (Moriarty) that totally change the dynamic of the game!

At the start of the game, the players choose who will play Jack and who will play the Detective. Mr Jack London is exactly played with its 8 characters. With the expansion, a pool of 14 characters is available, but you still only play with 8 at a time: 4 mandatory basic plus 4 characters among the 10 left.

The Aliens are here - and they need our bovines! You and your alien friend have decided to make it a competition to see who can get the most cows for investigation and cultivation. Herd cattle and jockey your ships around to be in the best locations to focus your tractor beams and capture the best beef on the hoof in Udder Terror, a 2-player, head-to-head mini-game set in the Nightmare Forest universe.

2 Players
5–10 Min
Age: 6+

Their names are virtually synonymous with the long conflicts with the native indigenes of the American West. Cochise, Victorio, Chato, Geronimo. These great war band leaders all come from the various tribes of the Apache, and the Apache Wars dominated the attention of the US government in its westward development for the critical 25 years from the American Civil War to the final capitulation of the natives of the area.

Played extensively by the Norsemen and Anglo-Saxons in every city of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Orlog is played by two players who use dice rolls and bonus effects to claim victory over their opponent.

Players roll dice to generate attacks and acquire tokens for God favors - using a combination of both for attacking and regaining health. Players roll their dice up to 3 times per round, then resolve the effects. Play continues until one player has lost all their Health stones.

Will you earn the favor of the Gods and receive their blessings to win?

2 Players
10–30 Min
Age: 8+

Its time to hit the arena, Coach!

Draft your team and get ready to face-off in one of six different action-packed game modes. Pass the bomb, capture the flag or fight to become king of the hill - but knowing when to unleash your players powerful OverDrive move will be key to coming out on top. Whatever you do, dont go down without a fight!

OverDrive features an exciting drafting mechanic that means you never quite know what Players youll have on your team each game. Take it in turns to choose the Players you want in your roster to create your dream team before heading into the arena.

2 Players
60–90 Min
Age: 14+

Let the sunken underwater city of PACIFICA shine in all its glory! Each player takes over responsibility for rebuilding half of the city. Build, strategise and outperform each other. You will compare your success in 8 categories: Treasure, population, resources, architecture, knowledge, machines, city festival and diversity. Which will you focus on?

Players:2
Playing time: 30 Min
Age: 10+

Patchwork is a form of needlework that involves sewing together pieces of fabric into a larger design. In the past, it was a way to make use of leftover pieces of cloth to create clothing and quilts. Today, patchwork is a form of art, in which the designers use precious fabrics to create beautiful textiles. The use of uneven pieces of fabric in particular can result in real masterpieces and is therefore being practiced by a large number of textile artists.

To create a beautiful quilt, however, requires effort and time, but the available patches just do not want to fit together. So choose your patches carefully and keep a healthy supply of buttons to not only finish your quilt, but to make it better and more beautiful than your opponent's.

Contains:
* 1 neutral token
* 2 time tokens
* 2 quilt boards
* 1 two sided central time board
* 33 patches
* 50 button tiles
* 1 rule book.

Ages 8+
For 2 Players
Playing Time: 15 + minutes

Designer: Uwe Rosenberg
Artist: Klemens Franz

The refinement of oil has long been part of the government-controlled energy sector. Amassed with an incredibly complex and inefficient system of refineries, the government has felt the severe pressures of worldwide demand and the ever-increasing global standards for refinement. Unable to keep up with demand, the government has only one option: privatizing the oil industry.

This is where you come in. Seeking to capitalize on this new opportunity, you start a company in the oil business.

2–4 Players
120 Min
Age: 12+

A two-player game of deduction and area control, players in Pocket Ops are rival spymasters, positioning their agents to outmaneuver their opponent and dominate the battlefield. Predict your opponent`s moves to prevent them from gaining ground, and when all hope seems lost, snatch victory away from your opponent with clever use of your elite agents: the Assassin, Sniper, Pusher, Grappler, Ninja, Courier, Mole, or Hacker. If you`re the first to capture both parts of the doomsday device, it`s game over for your opponent!

2 Players
10–20 Min
Age: 6+

This is a reprint and is the multi-lingual version (German/English):

After the Spaniards conquered the Incan Empire, some Incan princes could flee into the mountains to a well hidden place: The lost city of Machu Picchu. But they are in danger to be discovered by the Spaniards: Can the city survive with the help of all their priests and virgins of the sun? Or will the Spaniards discover the secret place? The destiny of Machu Picchu will be decided upon within only a few days!

You will be one of those princes in town. Your workers will grow corn, plant coca, feed Llamas, and manufacture pottery and cloth. Your priests and virgins will sacrifice at the temples of the city.

Whether the Incans or the Spaniards will win depends on the Princes of Machu Picchu themselves. If their workers produce often and all their priests and virgins will help, the Incans will win. If they don’t work hard everyday and their priests and virgins don’t hurry to help, the Spaniards have a good chance of discovering the lost city.

# of Players: 2 - 5
Age: 12 +

by: Mac Gertts

Each round, the layout of the castle will change the explorers available to you and the order they will come out will also change. Deploy your explorers to reclaim valuable treasures, but keep in mind their individual speeds for acting–rival explorers who come later can still grab the treasure first, if they are faster! Strategically block treasures from your opponent, and secure keys to unlock chests that you plan to grab. It takes careful planning to make the best possible use of your time and resources each round!

2 Players
15–30 Min
Age: 13+

Putin Strikes: The Coming War for Eastern Europe is a two-player game (solitaire suitable) in which one player (the Russian player) commands the Kremlin's forces, and the other (the Allied player) commands a polyglot international coalition opposed to him.

This isn’t a simulation of the "opaque (a.k.a. gray) war" techniques most recently used by the Russians in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Rather, it's designed to facilitate the examination of the strategic possibilities (along with their operational undertones) inherent in the larger situation. That is, it models the parameters of possibilities if Putin decides to go all out--taking advantage of the democratic West's increasing befuddlement by the jihad--to make one quick blitzkrieg-like strike to grab Russia's western "Near Abroad."

Each turn of play equals half a week of real time. Each hexagon on the map represents 20 miles (32.5 km) from side to opposite side. The system is based around the central idea that large First World armies (as well as those from elsewhere that have been trained and equipped to try to perform like First World armies) almost always begin major wars seemingly well prepared. Unfortunately for those in their front-line units, both the training and equipment usually only make them ready for the previous war, not the one they're about to fight. Beyond that, the initial period of such wars is characterized by only a partially abandoned peacetime psychology among the officers and enlisted. That is, no one as yet appreciates what it means operatively to be in an all-out war. All that comes together to give overall performance high-risk, volatile and fragile qualities: no one as yet really knows what's actually possible or wise to try to accomplish. Seemingly powerful units therefore easily become "disrupted"--especially as gauged in relation to similar units' performances later, after everyone's been thoroughly schooled in the art of war as it exists in the present. The system therefore doesn't play--when looked at on a step by step basis--in a way common to division-level simulations. The whole thing has a "Go" like quality to it. The commander will succeed best who--rather than reacting to or launching operations opportunistically one at a time--plans his campaign and then campaigns on that plan. Of course, we all know it's also true "no plan survives first contact with the enemy." So, even as you plan, you must do so while leaving within your overall scheme at least some capacity for opportunism. Strategy is not simple; it is complex.

The design explores the philosophic backlash that seems to be building throughout First World militaries in regard to the increasing organizational dominance of brigades over divisions. That is, even as the former have increasingly come to be the unit-of-choice at both operational and strategic levels, there's growing concern in the literature that brigades may be too large to employ the dexterity needed in counterinsurgency operations while also being too small to hold up for long in any force-on-force shootouts between First World opponents. Hence the contrasting characteristics generated by the differences in size between brigades and divisions are highlighted.

This boxed game includes:
* one full-size map
* one sheet of die-cut, mounted, full-color counters
* rules
* charts & tables

2 Players
120–240 Min
Age: 12+

Simple rules, quick rounds, and rather subtle tactics: Pylos is one of the strangest yet most beautiful abstract games on the market today, and winner of several Game of the Year awards around the world.

The object is to save your marbles so that you can be the one to place a marble at the very top of the pyramid. Pylos offers a unique challenge that is irresistibly attractive as both a game and a decorative object.

2 Players
10 Min
Age: 8+

The stakes are high in this forbidden game of the Pharoahs!

Pyramid Poker is a quick, head-to-head game that takes your ancient Grand-Pharaoh`s Poker to whole new levels. Each player takes turns placing blocks to assemble the pyramid. Once it`s completed, players begin dismantling the pyramid, taking a block each turn as they attempt to create their best three Poker hands in their quest to become master of the Pyramid!

2 Players
10–30 Min
Age: 12+

Quantik is a pure abstract strategy game. The goal is to be the first player to pose the fourth different forms of a line, a column or a square zone. Mini version.

2 Players
20 Min
Age: 8+

Rules.

Civilization is gone. Water is precious. Competition is savage.

Radlands is a competitive dueling card game about identifying and exploiting fiercely powerful card synergies.

Act as the leader of your post apocalyptic group of survivors in a tooth-and-nail fight to protect your well springs from a vicious rival tribe.

Use people and event cards to protect your last three remaining camps from a vicious rival tribe in this inappropriately colorful and tightly designed post apocalyptic tooth-and-nail fight to the bitter end.

Features:
- Setup and teach in a minute
- Features text minimal cards, and a short rulebook
- Designed by former Magic: The Gathering external developer Daniel Piechnick
- Gives the experience of a huge expandable card game, in a small box that actually fits on your shelf
- Do not let the game's level of elegance fool you, as Radlands provides one of the highest strategic depth to complexity ratios Team Roxley has ever experienced.

Components:
* A function-first magnetically sealed box
* 12 fat and heavy backgammon-style painted water discs
* 2 decks of nearly indestructible and haptically satisfying synthetic cards

2 Players
20–40 Min
Age: 14+

Ragnarocks is a 2-player area control game designed by Gord! - the designer of Santorini and Santorini: New York. In Norse mythology, humans exist in the land of Midgard - a place in the center of the world tree and connected to the nine realms. Among these nine realms live gods and goddesses, serpents and spirits, and all manner of mythical and mystical creatures.

In Ragnarocks you take on the role of a Viking clan using Runestones to mark your clan’s claims of land. In the advanced game, your clan worships one of these powerful beings from another realm who lends you their power to help you outwit rivals and claim territories for your clan. At the end of the game, the clan who controls the most territory in Midgard wins!

A player's turn consists of a move phase and a summoning phase. During the move phase you move one of your active Vikings any number of spaces in a straight line.

During the summoning phase you summon a runestone and place it on any space along a path following a straight line from the location of the Viking you moved. Whenever a summoning creates an encloses area containing only vikings of a single clan, that area becomes settles and belongs to the player whose clan occupies it.

When all vikings have settled, the player who controls the most territory wins.

2 Players
15–30 Min
Age: 10+

It is 1828 and the time for elections has come around again in this newly-formed democracy we call the United States of America. John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson are the candidates vying for the peoples votes. For the first time in history, this grand campaign is also fought on the pages of newspapers and the eager public audience. This was an election that found its way into history books with its yet unseen ruthlessness and malevolence. This was Americas first smear campaign.

In this two-player game, you are trying to become the next President of the United States! To reach this lofty goal, each player will try to take Election tiles that suit you best and hinder your opponents campaign. Election tiles allow you to garner the allegiance of Electors and use the power of Smear Campaigns to skew the populace in your favor. If you also use the powerful Campaign Actions to your advantage and have the press look the other way, nothing should stand in your way! Gain the most votes by the end of the game and start your work as Americas 7th President!

2 players
30-60 minutes
Ages 12+

In Riftforce, the two-player duel card game, each player starts by drafting four of the ten different guilds, each with a unique power, to forge their own asymmetrical alliance.

Every game of Riftforce gives you a chance to discover new synergies between guilds which will greatly influence your overall strategy and strengths. Do you want to strengthen your position at the Rift, sacrifice elementals for powerful combo attacks or gather support for your next turn?

2 Players
20–30 Min
Age: 10+

The Rival Networks is a standalone two-player version of The Networks. Much of the original`s gameplay is preserved, but streamlined so that it plays in 30-45 minutes.

You and your opponent each have a display of 3 Timeslots, and at the start of the game, they show your starting 3 (terrible) Shows. There is also a Goal Card showing for the current Season, with 3 Goals available to hit (like winning a particular Timeslot, or having more Stars on your Shows than your opponent).

On your turn, you will pick one new Show from a display of 3, and use it to replace one of your existing Shows, which moves to your Reruns.

2 Players
30-45 Min
Age: 14+

Troubled times blight England since the good and just King Richard the Lionheart was captured in the Crusades. Meanwhile, Robin of Locksley is stealing from the rich Norman lords to free the King.

In Robin of Locksley, you aim to collect loot tiles with your Robin and sell loot collections of the same color. Move forward on the racing track surrounding the 5x5 loot tiles by spending earned gold. Every field will give you a task to gather fame: You may fulfill the task, or you may spend one gold coin to pass it. Whoever first circles the racing track twice wins.

This is a quick-playing game that can be enjoyed by everyone. The variable track setup means the challenges are different every time! 2 Players
30–45 Min
Age: 10+

Will you attempt to capture the SDF-1, recover the secrets of Protoculture and destroy the Earth? Can you protect the SDF-1 and defend the Earth from the assault of The Zentraedi?

ROBOTECH: Force of Arms is a two (2) player strategic game where the players take on the roles of the brave RDF (Robotech Defense Force) and their galactic nemesis, The Zentraedi. Gain battle supremacy by maneuvering your warships and deploying mecha.

Victory points are accumulated by defeating the enemy ships and protecting your own. You will utilize fearless heroes and dynamic commands to protect your forces and annihilate the opposition.

2 Players
20–40 Min
Age: 8+

The Second Robotech War rages!

One player leads the plotting, scheming, desperate Robotech masters, while the other player commands the valiant and determined Army of the Southern Cross.

In this head-to-head card game, players are engaged in conflict for control of the Earth, each side pitting their varied infantry and mecha-based units against each other in an all-out war with only one victor. In addition to their mecha and weapons. players wield powerful command actions and amazing heroes to turn the tide of conflict and ensure victory.

2 Players
30–50 Min
Age: 8+