Early Italy, 600 BCE – Five city states are vying each other for superiority in the region: Roma with their Roman inhabitants, Velletri with the Volscian inhabitants, Reate with their Sabin inhabitants, Veii with their Etruscian inhabitants, and Alba Longa with their Latin inhabitans. Each player controls a city state and tries to be the first to have 16+ population and 10 monuments. This city state is destined to be a glorious power of the Ancient World!

A game of Alba Longa offers a fine combination of dice selection, city management and worker assignment (inside your own city), and is spiced up with the ingredient of city combat (soldiers and heroes)! Inside the box are three big variants – Assisi, A Job Well Done and Spoils of War – which can be added and combined at your will and which add even more longevity to this game!

In prototype form, under the name The Great Pyramid, this design was one of four winners of the 2009 Concours International de Créateurs de Jeux de Société, a design competition run by Centre National du Jeu in France. Here's what the jury said about the game: The Great Pyramid is rich with an astonishing number of possible strategies but manages to convey the clarity of the whole mechanism. The choices offered to the players are numerous and present a contentious interaction too rare in this kind of game.

Construction of a new amphitheatre in Rome has been ordered. An amphitheatre so large that it dwarfs all the others - a Colosseum! As a prominent architect, you have been tasked with the planning and building of the colosseum according to the specifications set forth by the Consul. Manage your resources well, and you may be named the Master Architect!

This new game from famed designer Klaus-Jurgen Wrede includes a special insert where the walls of the colosseum are erected as the game is played.

2–4 Players
30 Min
Age: 10+

Alchimia — a land where the works of a single grand alchemist has caused alchemy to develop more quickly than other technology. The everyday lives of the people rely on the alchemy factories that this first pioneer built.

In Ars Alchimia, you work at one of these factories. As an overseer belonging to the Academy, you take orders from the people, gather resources, and transmute them — but you need to be more efficient than your competition.

The game lasts four rounds, with each round representing a year. Each round, players take turns placing one or more of their workers on one action they want to do: gather resources, take up an order, employ an assistant, or transmute at the alchemy forges. The trick is that the more workers on one spot, the less effective an action becomes; if you want to place workers on a spot where there are already some, you'll have to exceed the number of workers already there.

3–4 Players
100 Min
Age: 10+

At the Gates of Loyang is a trading game in which you are able to produce goods by planting them and later selling them to customers. You can use the abilities of some helpers to increase your income or production.

Fields, customers, helpers, and miscellaneous objects are represented by cards. Each player receives two of these cards per round distributed by a bidding/drawing mechanism in which you end up with one of the cards you draw and one of the cards of a public offer filled by all players. Additionally, to these cards you always receive one field for free each round.

Placing one good on a field fills the complete field with goods of this type. Each round, one unit per field is harvested. After planting, harvesting, and distributing cards, each player can use as many actions as he wants, only limited by the number of his cards or the number of goods he owns. At the end of his turn, he can invest the earned money on a scoring track, where early money is worth more than late money. The game ends after a certain number of rounds, and the player who is first on the scoring track wins.

1–4 Players
60–120 Min Playing Time
Age: 10+

Go as high as you can without breakingin this quick dice game!

Each round youroll and re-roll dice to advance on pointtracks- but if you go too high, you'll trigger a "Break", which drops your pointsAND causes an immediate scoring round.

1–10 Players

You are an adventurous archaeologist, digging into the earth for artifacts, treasure, and other goodies. Every day requires a new plan to be efficient, so you and the other archaeologists on the site will be competing to see whose is the most efficient!

Each turn in Big Dig, you draft a card from the center that shows you the shape in which you must dig (by crossing out squares on your personal dry-erase board). You must touch either the top of the digging area or a previously dug area, and you can't go through certain areas (though you may forgo regular digs to blow up stones that are in your way). When the cards in the center run out, everyone returns their cards to the center and flips them over so that different digging shapes are now available.

Every game, three random goals are dealt out, and the first person to accomplish all of them wins!

There are a variety of goals that can be in play, the player boards are double-sided (everyone plays with the same side in any given game), and which side of the digging cards is face-up to start is different, so every play is different!

2–4 Players
5–15 Min
Age: 8+

Welcome to the Bomb Squad!

You and your teammates must program a robot to navigate a building, rescue hostages, and defuse bombs in real time... but with incomplete information, you’ll have to rely on your partners to figure out which commands to play.

The game is turn-based and cooperative, but a timer counts down in real time... every 10 minutes a bomb will explode unless you defuse it first! The clock is ticking... act fast!

Bomb Squad is a cooperative game in which 2-6 players are members of a team operating a disposal robot with the mission to disarm bombs and save hostages. The players work together, racing against the clock to provide the appropriate instructions for the robot to achieve their mission objectives.

Bomb Squad features:
* Real-time play: Players each take a turn in clockwise order and are free to take as long as they want on their turn. However, there is a timer counting down in real time until the bombs will detonate, so players will want to be as efficient as possible.
* Hidden Card Information: Players hold their cards so that the fronts are facing the other players, which requires that players give each other Intel to figure out which cards they have in hand.
* Limited Communication: While players have their cards up and visible to each other, players are allowed to communicate only via the Intel they give each other, which provides hints about the cards they have in their hands. Table talk about which cards are needed, or where the robot should go, gives implied hints about which cards to play and is prohibited.

Contents:
• 1 Robot Control Frame
• 6 Double-sided Floor Tiles
• 1 Rule Book
• 1 Mission Book
• 54 Instruction Cards
• 15 Role Cards
• 2 Battery Markers
• 4 Robot Tiles
• Hostage, Door, Bomb, and Obstacle Tiles
• Downloadable Timer Companion App / MP3

2-6 Players
13+ Years
10-30 Mins

The red wire... or the green one?

As trainees at the Bomb Squad Academy, ONE of you is going to get it wrong. Graduate at the head of your class by decisive yet prudent action in this quick push-your-luck card game for 2 to 5 players.

his is the final field exam of your bomb disposal training course. The instructor has rigged three training bombs for you and your team to defuse, but little do you know that there is no way to actually defuse them! The bombs will explode eventually, and if you want to graduate at the top of the class then you'll want to cut high-value wires without triggering the explosives! Grab your wire cutters and steady that shaky hand, because it's going to be an explosive night!

In Bomb Squad Academy there are four decks of cards representing the four wires of the bomb, and a trigger track next to each deck. Every round, each player secretly decides (then simultaneously reveals) the wire that they will cut this round (or perhaps they'll chicken out, or even call "Wait!" preventing a wire from being cut). After actions are revealed, the chosen wires are "cut" by flipping cards from those decks. When a card is flipped, its value dictates how far the trigger moves down the trigger track and how many points are earned; cutting wires alone is worth a lot more than cutting the same wire as other players. Push the triggers too far and the bomb will explode! Whoever causes the bomb to explode loses points. Players earn useful Tools during the game that they can use to break the rules. Get through three grueling bombs with the cleverest cuts to finish your final exam with the most points!

Contents:
• 48 Wire Cards
• 30 Action Cards
• 20 Tools Cards
• 4 Trigger Tracks
• 12 Trigger Tiles
• 2 Pressure Plates
• 4 Triggers
• 46 Point Discs

2-5 Players
10+ Years
20-40 Mins

As a captain of industry in the suitably titled game Captains of Industry, you will vie for domination in the cutthroat arena of the marketplace. To do this, you will:

* Build facilities to control supply,
* Develop real estate to manipulate demand,
* Invest in technology to increase efficiency,
* Complete hidden agendas to secure your legacy, and
* Undercut the competition to dominate the marketplace!

You will depend on your opponents to fuel your expansion as they exploit your production for theirs. Supply and demand are king in this player-driven marketplace! Use your best business acumen to come out on top and show the world that you are a true Captain of Industry!

Contains:
• 1 Rule Booklet
• 1 Game Board
• 1 Tech Advance Board
• 5 Player Banks
• 5 Sets of wooden Turn Order & Price Markers
• Goods Tokens
• Money Cards
• Facility Cards
• Captain Cards
• Real Estate Cards
• Progress Cards & Chips
• Market Share Tokens
• Age Markers

3-5 Players
13+ Years
150 Minutes

Leverage your money and influence to win the voters' approval and become the next Mayor of New York!

City Hall sees players competing to become Mayor of New York City. They do this by attempting to be the most successful at both bringing people into the city as well as campaigning for the citizens' approval. Whoever best balances these two goals will win the election.

There are seven offices within City Hall. These offices deal with a different aspect of building the city or campaigning, such as the Tax Assessor, Surveyor, or Zoning Board. In a round, each player will get to activate one of these offices. However, just because you activate an office doesn't mean you will get to use it. The other players will have an opportunity to use their influence to steal control of the office away from you. Keeping it will require countering with your own influence. However, you can instead let another player control that office this round and add their influence to your own, giving you a leg up on controlling things later on.

In using these offices, players will buy land and build properties to create attractive neighborhoods which will bring the most people into the city - or they might place a factory next to an opponent's housing complex to drive people out. They will also tax their constituents to raise funds (with the option of sacrificing popularity to tax at higher rates), buy and sell influence to the Lobbyist, and campaign to increase their approval level.

At the end of the game, the citizens of the city will vote based on which player brought them in and that player's approval level. Special interest groups will also collect votes for players based on certain goals, such as Wall Street backing the player with the most money. Whichever player has the most votes on election day will become Mayor of New York and appoint his or her opponents to the Sanitation Department.

Säännöt valmistajan sivuilta. (toistaiseksi kuvattomat)

Earn Wealth & Glory in the Colosseum!

As a master impresario, you have prepared for this moment your entire life. Titus himself has taken his seat in the Emperor`s Loge. At the drop of his hand, the final spectacle will begin. Your moment in the sun has come...

In Colosseum, each player is a Roman impresario - producing great spectacles in their arena in the hopes of attracting the most spectators. Earn wealth and glory for each event run, while improving your arena, finding the best performers, luring the Emperor and his nobles, and managing assets for long-term success. Seek the title of Grand Impresario with tales of your extraordinary spectacles acclaimed throughout the empire!

Colosseum is a game about being a Roman magistrate charged with hosting a series of shows for the people and Roman nobles, with a chance that even the Emperor himself will visit your performance. You'll earn wealth and prestige for the shows they host, using your rewards to perform greater and more elaborate spectacles than have ever been seen before. You will need to manage your resources to improve your arenas, hire performers, contract scripts, and lure the Roman Nobility to your shows.

Contents:
* 1 Game Board
* 10 Arena Pieces
* 10 Arena Expansions
* 5 Emperor's Loges
* 10 Season Tickets
* 5 Scoring Columns
* 1 Emperor Piece
* 2 Consul Pieces
* 3 Senator Pieces
* 80 Coins
* 152 Asset Tokens
* 1 Event Asset Bag
* 32 Event Scrolls
* 18 Emperor Medals
* 4 Podiums
* 7 Star Performer Tiles
* 2 Dice
* 5 Reference Cards
* 1 Start Player Token
* 1 Game Round Counter

3–5 Players
60–90 Min
Age: 10+

Fight, erect buildings, and earn prestige for your order before King Philip IV calls for your head!

In the year 1119 AD, the Crusading Orders were formed to protect the thousands of pilgrims who were travelling to Jerusalem. The knights were closely tied to the Crusades, and they were considered to be some of most highly skilled fighting units of that time. The orders grew in wealth and power for almost 200 years until King Phillip IV of France had them persecuted and arrested for reasons that are discussed by historians to this day.

Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done, a new game from designer Seth Jaffee (Eminent Domain, Terra Prime), will put players in the role as the leader of a Crusading Order. Using an innovative Mancala/Rondel mechanism, they will move their knights through Europe and the Middle East. They will battle with enemies, construct buildings, and train troops - all the while trying to be the order that has gained the most influence before the game comes to a close.

Contents:
* 4 Player Boards
* 24 Action Wedge Tiles - 6/player
* 12 Knight Tokens - 3/player
* 64 Building Tokens - 16/player
* 48 Action Tiles - 12/player
* 20 Troop Tokens - 5/player
* 10 Random Knight Order Tiles - 2/player

2–4 Players
40–60 Min
Age: 14+

In the year 2213, the world order came to an abrupt end over a 19-day war. The bombs started falling on the 3rd day, and by the 19th ninety-nine percent of earth`s population was dead - or would soon be. Wars and conflicts had raged for decades prior - as populations rose up, the global government quelled the growing resistance and maintained the status quo.

But, the conflicts escalated rapidly, and the world leaders became anxious and wary. No one knows who pressed the button first, and in the harsh realities of the world that followed, no one cared. What mattered was surviving and, if possible, rebuilding.

Thrive - and survive - in the wake of the apocalypse in Downfall.

3–6 Players
90–150 Min
Age: 14+

You and your fellow adventurers stand at the entrance to a dangerous dungeon full of treasure. Will you brave Goblins, Skeletons, and Oozes in order to collect more treasure? Or will you escape to safety, carrying out your loot? Bravery is rewarded, but many a foolhardy adventurer has had to flee when the Dragon arrives!

Dungeon of Fortune is a push your luck dungeon crawl (in the world of Dungeon Roll) for 2-6 players where you compete with your opponents for the best share of the loot. The deeper into the dungeon you go, the more dangerous it will be, but the more loot you will find. Gain Experience from fighting monsters to level up, and keep a close watch for the infamous dragon!

Dungeon Roll Legends: Hero Booster Pack #2 is a set of eight extra heroes, each with its own special and ultimate powers, for use with Dungeon Roll.

The heroes in this pack are already leveled up and more powerful than the previous heroes from the base game and expansions, but are balanced against each other and should only be pitted against one another for a fair game, or put up against previous heroes to give some players a handicap.

Some of the new heroes include Cassandra the Cursed, Tou'lak the Minotaur Chieftan, Szopin the Infamous Warlord, and Marpesia the Amazon Queen.

As new islands appear out of the mist, send your voyagers in search of wealth and adventure! In Embark, you will load various boats heading to these new, uninhabited islands in order to explore, colonize, and mine their riches. Only fully-loaded boats will launch, so assign your voyagers carefully. Explorers will scout out the islands, unlocking their mysteries. Miners will collect ore, and colonists will cultivate farms and reap the benefits that the islands have to offer. Watch out for your opponents’ warriors, who can replace your voyagers and take over their jobs!

Embark is a game for 2-5 players, designed by Philip duBarry, and developed by Seth Jaffee. It lasts about 15 minutes per player, and could be described as a light-to-medium weight game.

In Embark, you and your friends simultaneously assign your voyagers to boats, then take turns assigning them jobs by placing them into specific berths in the boats. When a boat is full, it launches, carrying your voyagers to one of the islands in play, where your voyagers will start to perform the jobs to which they were assigned:

* Explorers explore the island, scoring 1 point per round, and increasing an exploration bonus for the island.
* Miners collect ore, which will score an end game bonus.
* Colonists build farms worth a chunk of points. Having a majority of colonists also wins a player the exploration bonus for the island.
* Captains can do any of the three jobs above.
* Warriors must displace another voyager and take over their job, sending the displaced voyager back to the owner's pub to be reassigned next round.

After six rounds of assigning voyagers and launching boats, the game ends, bonuses are tallied, and the player with the most points wins!

2–5 Players
30–60 Min
Age: 14+

Giant warships locked in battle...

Captain a mighty battlecruiser in the middle of a firefight as you try to gather 15 units of precious ore and get out, or die trying.

In Eminent Domain: Battlecruisers, you want to be the first to escape with 15 victory points, or be the last ship standing. Each round you and your opponents each play a card from your identical hands. If you play the same card as an opponent, you'll clash and bad things will happen! But if you manage to sneak a card through unhindered, then you'll reap the benefits.

Collect points or knock cards out of your opponents' hands. If you lose all of your cards, then you're out of the running. At the end of each round, check to see whether any player has won; if not, prepare to play another card!

Contents:
• 1 Rule sheet
• 5 Player sets of 33 cards each
• 42 VP tokens
• 5 reminder tokens
• 5 Player mats

3-5 Players
13+ Years
20 Minutes

The time for unchecked expansion is over. Warmongers raise their flags over weaker empires, while civilized planets take shelter behind peace treaties. Brace yourself for rising tensions in this next chapter of Eminent Domain: Escalation!

2-5 players.
45-60 min
Ages: 12+

Your civilization has grown to the edge of the known universe. To expand farther you'll need to explore exotic worlds and learn their language and customs. Mine foreign asteroids for valuable crystal and befriend alien cultures in Eminent Domain: Exotica!

Exotica is an expansion to Eminent Domain and cannot be played without the base game. The designer recommends that you play the base game several times before incorporating this expansion.

Contens:
• 1 Rule Booklet
• 31 Technology cards
• 27 Planet cards
• 4 Starting Planet tiles
• 4 Mining Tiles
• 9 Starting Scenarios

2-4 Players
10 Years
60 Minutes

What`s left of civilization on this planet is being cut into portions by those most prone to cutting. Those of us who want something better... we`ll find it somewhere else. Exodus Fleet features resource management and tableau building mechanisms along with a highly interactive system of role selection and bidding in which players compete to hire miners, spaceship builders, and other groups to piece together their own fleet to escape a dying Earth.

2–5 Players
60–120 Min
Age: 13+

A deceptively simple microdeckbuilder!

The citizens of Flip City want you to expand and renovate their neighborhoods, but if you ask for too much in taxes all at once, they won’t be happy! To keep them at ease, you will play cards from the top of your deck (no hand!), push your luck, build your deck, and upgrade cards by flipping them.

86 Building cards:
• 20 Residential Area/ Apartment cards
• 16 Convenience Store/Shopping Mall cards
• 16 Hospital/Church cards
• 12 Factory/Power Plant cards
• 12 Central Park/ Station cards
• 10 Office/Trade Center cards

1-4 Players
8+ Years
30 Minutes

Flip City goes green!

Two new stacks of double-sided cards are included in this expansion to the Flip City base game. Recycle for some extra cash, or gum up the works for your opponents with a Plumber's Office!

Wilderness is a stand-alone sequel to the hit micro-deckbuilding game, Flip City.

1–4 Players
30–50 Min
Age: 14+