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Your ship has been surrounded by a hostile alien race and the situation looks dire, but you and your crew ain’t goin’ down without a fight! You must work together to contest the onslaught of enemy forces, recover items of scientific interest, rescue the innocent, escape imprisonment, and destroy the alien leader.

• An action-packed cooperative experience for you and your friends to conquer.
• Modular components allow players to craft their own missions.
• Includes a campaign of scenarios to test your courage and inspire your creativity.

Contents
* 20 6-sided custom dice
* 5
* 4 Player Boards
* 10 Room tiles
* 31 Enemy/Equipment cards
* 90 various tokens
* 8 plastic pillars

Nb of players: 1 to 4
Game time: 60 min.
Age group: 13 years and +

Earth has been devastated by thousands of years of human exploitation. The salvation of mankind lies millions of miles away, in the Martian tundra. Mankind embarks on The Ares Project, an ambitious and audacious program to terraform and colonize the red planet. As they spread across the surface of Mars, four factions will fight for the future…

Terrans: The remnants of the global Earth Defense Force, the Terran Alliance is making a last stand for democracy.

Kahoum: An ancient cabal that has kept their existence secret, the Kahoum have mastered psychic forces and are ready to reveal themselves to the rest of humanity.

Colossus: A renegade team of underpaid engineers retreated to a secret lab to create the ultimate fighting machine: The Colossus. It is the equal of an entire army, and is prepared to wreak havoc.

Xenos: The original inhabitants of Mars, they have lain in dormant hibernation for millenia. Now the human terraforming has awakened them from their slumber.

Lead one of these four unique sides in fast-paced, card-driven action. Build your forces, upgrade them with advanced technologies, and launch them into battle.

Contents:
* 1 Main Rulebook
* 4 Faction Rulebooks
* 212 Cards
* 4 Base Mats
* 1 Frontier Mat
* 360 Tokens
* 4 Six-Sided Dice
* 4 Player Screens

No. of players: 2-4
Ages: 13+
Playing time: 45-90 minutes
Designed by Brian and Geoff Engelstein

In Swahili, “Asante” means “Thank you.” A word every good merchant should say when bidding farewell to his customers. Through skillful buying and selling of wares, the players try to run the most successful business. They improve their chances by employing the help of various people and artifacts, each offering a different special ability. Players must keep on their toes as the other merchant sends animals to attack them. And whoever can best make use of the power of the Holy Places will reap great benefit.

Contents:
* 112 Cards
* 48 Wares
* 46 Gold tokens
* 2 Market stands
* 5 Action markers
* 1 Rulebook

Nb of players: 2
Game time: 40 min.
Age group: 12 years and +

Far beyond the bounds of the Solar System, a signal is launched that penetrates warp space. The signal is old—the only known working piece of technology from an ancient race.

Four different fleets answer the siren’s call, intent on claiming the Artifact for themselves at all costs. The destination: a lone asteroid ringed by failed ancient satellites in the middle of a lifeless asteroid field.

Contents:
* 1 Board (with hexes for 3 & 4 players)
* 8 Capital Ships (2 per player)
* 1 Rulebook 17 Asteroid Markers
* 36 Movement Cards (9 for each player)
* 7 Sensor Probe Markers
* 12 Special Power Cards (3 for each player)
* 5 Capital Ship Damage Markers
* 72 Fighters (12 squadrons of 6 ships each)
* 2 Elite Fighter Markers
* 4 Shield Markers
* 2 Elite Fighter Damage Markers

No. of players: 3-4
Ages: 13+
Playing time: 30-60 minutes
Designed by Frank Branham.

Being the premise.
A heinous crime has been committed. A team of the Kingdom’s finest detectives have been assembled, and put on the case. They have a prime suspect, they have a motive, and they know what the opportunity to commit the crime was. Now all they have to do is prove it.

Using powers of deduction and communication, the players will work as a team to eradicate dead leads, and find clues to prove who, how, and why. All the relevant clues are available to them to do so. They just won’t know it. On top of that, Sherlock Holmes himself is already on the case. Can they solve the crime, before he does?

Being how to play. At the start of the game, players will select one of the crimes to solve. A number of suspects, motives, and opportunities will be available for the players to convict of the crime. Each player holds a set of five clues, but they won’t be able to see their own clues, only their counterparts.

Each turn, a player may either:
* ASSIST another detective
* INVESTIGATE crime scene
* CONFIRM evidence
* ELIMINATE dead leads
* PURSUE new leads

Players will either win together if they can gather enough evidence to make a conviction before Holmes does, or crumble under the stress of the case.

Components:
* 1 Investigation Board
* 3 Confirm Markers
* 1 Holmes Marker
* 1 Investigation Marker
* 18 Character Cards
* 6 Case File Cards
* 24 Evidence Cards
* 12 Suspect Cards
* 8 Motive Cards
* 8 Opportunity Cards
* Rulebook

Age 13+
20 Min
2–4 Players

You are architects that must complete three different buildings by using Blueprints.

Who will be the best architect?

1. Get your Blueprint
2. Each turn, choose a die that you will use to erect your building.
3. Reveal your building and find out who wins the awards and prizes.

After a few rounds, you will see who was able to build his way to victory!

Contents:
* 32 dice (8 each of 4 colors)
* 24 Blueprint cards
* 9 Award cards
* 12 Prize cards
* 4 screens
* 1 scoreboard
* 1 cloth bag
* 4 scoring markers
* 1 Rulebook

Players: 2 to 4
Game time: 30 min.
Age group: 14 years and +

In Bruxelles 1893, you represent one of the famous architects who established the reputation of Art Nouveau in the Belgian capital. Your assistants help you perform actions such as the construction of Art Nouveau buildings, or creating the works of art that decorate these beautiful homes.

Constructing buildings allows you to fund your most beautiful masterpiece, shown on your personal board. It is also possible to develop your reputation as an architect, increase your influence at the Royal Palace or City Hall, and even benefit from Public Figures that you meet during your theater outings. The architect who garners the most fame in the form of victory points (VP) wins the game!

Contents:
* 1 Brussels gameboard
* 5 Action strips
* 1 Bonus strip
* 5 Personal Architect boards
* 30 Building tiles
* 23 Public Figure cards
* 25 Bonus cards
* 12 Stock Exchange cards
* 1 Bracket tile
* 1 Workshop cursor
* 6 Compass tiles
* 2 “needles”
* 35 Assistant pawns
* 20 discs
* 30 Works of Art
* 5 Exhibition turn-counting tiles
* 76 coins
* 30 Noble Materials
* 1 Manneken Pis pawn
* 1 rulebook

Nb of players: 2 to 5
Game time: 90 min.
Age group: 12 years and +

Cacao immerses the players in the exotic world of the “Fruit of the Gods.” As the chief of your tribe, you must lead your people to prosperity and glory through the cultivation and trade of cacao. Those who skillfully place their workers and wisely use the mighty power of the Gods will be richly rewarded.

Contents
* 44 Worker tiles
* 4 Water carriers
* 4 Village boards
* 28 Jungle tiles
* 20 Cacao fruits
* 12 Sun tokens
* 48 Gold coins
* Rules

Nb of players: 2 to 4
Game time: 45 min.
Age group: 8 years and +

Carcassonne's expansion continues.

Its citizens have now decided to expand upwards with imposing towers. These towers extend the rule of the local lords and introduce new options during the game. Towers allow players to capture their opponents’ followers. Once captured, your opponent will be able to reclaim his follower by capturing one of yours. If desperate, a player can always pay precious points to have his follower released. On top of new tactical possibilities, this expansion includes a tower used to store and distribute the tiles during your games.

The classic Choose Your Own Adventure series comes to life in this new narrative adventure game. Will you survive the House of Danger?

Gather your friends for a perilous and laughter-filled adventure through the House of Danger itself. Make risky choices, collect items as you explore, and face off against dire challenges. Play again and again to uncover more secrets and different endings!

1–99 Players
60 Min
Age: 10+

For centuries, the Lacoonian System, an alliance of the most advanced civilizations in the galaxy, has lived in peace, but now the Evil Power Master has returned and is leading a destructive rebellion. The Lacoonian System's Rapid Force crew must band together, follow data and clues the Evil Power Master left behind, and discover his location to defeat him in an epic final battle. Can you restore order to the galaxy?

Explore a brand new co-operative narrative adventure with the next entry in the Choose Your Own Adventure game series: War with the Evil Power Master! Travel to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, make risky choices, collect items, and face off against dire challenges.

1–99 Players
60 Min
Age: 10+

This revised edition of Citadels retains the signature bluffing and intrigue of Bruno Faidutti’s celebrated classic, condensing all the published content into a travel-friendly version at an unbeatable price. A game of intrigue awaits!

You have a rare opportunity. The kingdom has achieved an unprecedented level of prosperity, and as one of its great builders, you have been commissioned to build a new city from the ground up. However, this is a competition. If your city surpasses those of the other builders, you will earn the title of master builder and achieve lasting renown. If it does not, you will be rewarded with nothing at all. As eager as you are to shape the city of your dreams, you must also watch out for your opponents. They will do anything to ruin your plans and stop your city from being completed. You shouldn’t hesitate to do the same to them if you truly seek victory.

In the two-to-eight player card game Citadels, you and your opponents vie to build the most magnificent medieval city. Designed by Bruno Faidutti and first published in 2000, Citadels has become one of the most popular and greatest games of the modern era. It boasts a thoroughly approachable mechanical framework that is easy-to-learn but nevertheless rich in strategy, deception, and intrigue.

Noble and Nefarious Characters
Citadels is just as much about who you recruit to build your city as it is the districts within it. The kingdom is filled with personalities of all kinds who can fund your building projects, enable you to build multiple districts at once, or undermine your opponents by robbing them, stealing their work, or even killing off the characters they have recruited.

At the top of a round of Citadels, a number of character cards are passed around equal to the number of players plus one. The player who possesses the crown chooses their character first and has the chance to see all the characters that will be in play that round before passing the cards on. Once all characters have been chosen, players take turns in order of the number on their character card.

This simple structure, together with the characters' abilities, can create a lot of suspicion, bluffing, and intrigue, as well as some challenging choices. Do you focus on building districts, but leave yourself open to attack? Do you try to protect yourself, even if that means sacrificing districts and gold? Do you aim to take the crown and choose first, simply so you can have first pick and see all the characters in play? Do you lie about what character you have in an attempt to manipulate other players’ actions? The best answer to those questions—and even the questions themselves—changes every round.

Secrets and Sights
As important as carefully choosing characters is, the only way to win Citadels is to build the city that is worth the most points. That said, game end is triggered once any city grows to seven districts, so you need to build efficiently and wisely. Each district gives you points equal to that district’s cost to build in gold, but those are far from all the points available. You earn points for completing your city, and more for completing it first. You also earn points for having one of each kind of district (noble, religious, trade, military, and unique) in your city.

Noble, religious, trade, and military districts are all tied to their own character. The Trader for example, brings you gold for your green districts, like the Tavern, and enables you to build any number of them during your turn. Purple unique districts offer another means to make your city greater than the sum of its parts. Each offers a special ability that can grant you additional points, lessen how much districts cost to build, or put additional gold at your disposal and cards in your hand.

As you plan your turn, work from the districts and gold you have, and then think in terms of combinations and timing. What character pairs best with the districts that you can build this round, or that you’ve already built?

What purple districts might work well together? Do you have a hand now that makes it worthwhile to take the crown next round? Do you have a district that you want to build only at the last minute, lest it reveal your strategy or worse, be destroyed? If the Assassin kills of your character, can you still make a productive move this turn? Even then, you can never look to far into the future. Next round there may be different characters. You’ll have different resources, different choices, different opportunities.

30 - 60 minutes
2 - 8 players
Ages 10+

Transform a meager settlement into a mighty empire whose culture will be your greatest achievement!

To accomplish this, you will have to invent new technologies, build grand cities, and spread the influence of your culture accross your enemies’ borders. You will need to explore the lands and seas with your settlers and ships, and conquer foreign cities and barbarian settlements.

With 12 Advance categories, including various government types, a modular game board, superb city-pieces, and more, Clash of Cultures offers a myriad of experiences to accomplish your ultimate goal: be the one ruling culture, the one that will be remembered and admired for thousands of years.

Will you be the leader of this great culture?

Contents:
* 20 region tiles
* 8 dice
* 4 Player Boards
* 4 Player Aids
* Turn Track
* 119 cards
* 7 Wonder pieces
* 192 wooden cubes
* Over 120 tokens and more than 250 miniatures
* 1 Rulebook

No. of players: 2-4
Ages: 14+
Playing time: 180-240 minutes

Designed by Christian Marcussen

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During the Renaissance Era, Italy was divided into numerous independent city-states. While bursting with trade and wealth, the city-states` growing concern over jealous neighbors invited the rise of the Condottieri, ambitious leaders of powerful mercenary armies.

In Condottiere, 2-6 players vie to establish their influence and control over the cities and regions of Italy. Fight with skill and daring and use every tool at your disposal to reshape the political and military landscape of Italy for generations to come.

Fight for Control of Italy
The many city-states of Italy have flourished and grown rich thanks to prosperous trades. The wealth is too big of a temptation for their neighbors to pass up. Each city-state is jealous of the other, but a weak national army requires them to call in reinforcements. Known as the Condottieri, these mercenaries are ready for battle. March your army to a new region and carefully manage their strength to win the battle and establish control around Italy.

Strategically Send Soldiers to Battle
Only the strongest can win the battle. From the lowly foot soldier with a strength of 1 to the booming canon with a strength of 10, the mercenary cards form the backbone of your army. Strategically choose which mercenaries to send out to the field to match your opponents’ strength. Think ahead and play the special effect cards at the right point in the battle to turn the tide in your favor.

Outwit Your Opponents
Players will need to strategically manage their army, sending out strong mercenaries to win the battle or saving them for the next battle, striking when their opponent is most vulnerable. The mercenary cards form the backbone of your army. From the lowly foot soldier to the menacing cavalry, players must carefully decide which mercenaries will enter the fray.

A battle isn’t just about brute strength though. Special cards will affect the battle in powerful ways, possibly turning the tide in your favor, so you’ll need to use them wisely to surprise your enemy and claim control. We’ll explore the special cards further in a future preview.

Each round has all players vying for the same desirable location in a veritable free-for-all. Player’s take turns in clockwise order, playing one card from their hand to either add to their army’s strength or use a special card to execute a brilliant stratagem. Complete with bold assaults and clever feints, Condottiere gives each general a chance to display their strategic prowess. At the battle’s end, the strongest army wins and takes control of the contested region.

What's New
Tomasz Jedruszek’s iconic art style from the 2007 edition of Condottiere really grounded the game’s visual tone, so we invited him to put his years of experience to the test and do a new take on his earlier work. Fortunately, he was quite excited to revisit this project, and we’ll chat about the art and visuals more with him and the Z-Man creative team in a future preview.

In addition to the all-new art and graphics overhaul, this version of the game boasts some exciting new features:

* A larger board, for all those fans who spent years huddled over a tiny board.
* The modern ruleset, sticking to the formula that made the game so successful for the last decade.
* The classic ruleset, granting fans of the original game their wish of a portable version with their preferred ruleset—we heard you!
* A clever 2-player variant, for those times when you are only +1, but still need your Condottiere fix.
* Reminder icons on special cards, to summarize their effects and make the game more accessible for new players.

Sound the Advance
Will you boldly march into the conflict, or will you carefully draw out your opponent and exhaust their army?

Contents:
* 1 Game Board
* 1 Rulebook
* 118 Cards
* 30 Control Markers
* 1 Battle Marker
* 1 Favor Marker

Designer: Dominique Ehrhard

2–6 Players
45 Min
Age: 14+

A mission gone wrong. Tensions continued to mount aboard your colony ship as the days dragged on. An anonymous act of sabotage has sent the ship plummeting to the surface of a frozen uncharted planet. Damaged beyond repair, the scattered remains will do little to protect you from the brutal cold.

In the engine-building, worker placement game Cryo, leaders of separate, hostile factions compete to survive and claim control over the underground caverns on a remote icy planet. You need to act quickly and strategically to avoid further sabotage from other factions. Send drones out from your engineering platform to scavenge resources and save your crew still in cryostasis. Gather different materials to upgrade and customize your platform, fine-tuning new actions to suit your individual strategy. Utilize multi-use cards to your advantage, and claim the underground caverns for your faction to survive.

Though unplanned, a new chapter for humanity has begun. Scavenge, build, explore, and lead your faction to victory within this frozen world before the sun sets!

2-4 Players
60-90 Min
Age: 14+

Pillage! Destroy! Vanquish Your Foes!

Hordes of dark minions have descended upon the countryside, eager to secure their reputation as a scourge on mankind. The despicable evil marauders attack everywhere in search of conquest. The citizens are helpless and will soon be overwhelmed. Death and destruction awaits all those in the path of the evil ones…

Lead your army of 50 evil minions in battle. Use your dice to choose the actions your minions will take, whether it is to storm a town, destroy a tower, or to dig up their dear departed comrades. Play the advanced game, aided by powerful and evil Overlords, ready to do your bidding in the quest to increase your awesome influence and control.

Contents:
• 18 Town (pentagon) tiles
• 15 Skull tiles
• 44 VP tiles (22x 1VP, 22x 2VP)
• 3 Black dice
• 3 Red dice
• 1 White die
• 21 Tower tiles in three colors (White, Gray & Black)
• 5 Experience card & Player Aid Tiles
• 5 disks
• 100 small cubes
• 30 large octagons
• 1 large Graveyard tile
• 15 Overlord cards

No. of players: 3-5
Ages: 10+
Playing time: 45-60 minutes
A fantasy dice game by Alan M. Newman

A card game for the whole family using a very familiar theme. Basically each person looks at two pictures and tries to determine the subtle differences in each picture. The players race to discover more differences then the others. Great fun for families and their kids.

Game comes with French and English rules.

1943. The sun rises above the Russian steppe and the war on the Eastern Front pauses for a moment. Everything has been quiet since the latest offensive and your tank crew has had a chance to recover. However, the hopes for another day without a mission vanish as reports from your reconnaissance planes filter in, bringing with them the first photos of the enemy's armor build up. Fortunately, during your refit, you trained your crew well and can fully rely on them.

As the German player, are you prepared to defend your section of the front against the endless Red hordes? Or, as the Soviet player, are you going to be able to break through the Fascist lines and continue the advance towards Berlin?

The Germans program their movement and turret position using cards (see samples below). They also have the aid of anti-tank guns, mines and a Stuka. The Russians have more tanks to work with but have a lot of obstales to pass through.

The game comes with the ability to play a summer scenario and a winter scenario. Multi-player rules are provided as well.

Contents:
11 plastic figures (2 Tiger tanks, 8 T-34 tanks, 1 Ju 87 Stuka airplane)
1 game board (double-sided)
40 Landscape tiles
12 PAK-markers
8 anti tank mines
2 tire markers
5 weapon reference cards
38 move cards
16 tank markers
11 medals
14 frontline elements
1 victory point bar
3 markers (wood)
rules plus example of play.

No. of players: 2-4
Ages: 10+
Playing time: 30-45 minutes

Designer: Friedemann de Pedro

Bringing you more than just new pets, cages and magic items, the Dungeon Petz: Dark Alleys has a whole new district in the town. This is the heart of the expansion. It’s kind of a back alley district in the Imp town where all the weird existences live and try to do their business. So would you like to hire an illegal worker or buy a pet on the black market? Maybe book a facility that produces food for active dogs, cats and dragons? And what about a fancy ribbon or a cool spiked collar for your pet? Taking care of your pets will never be the same.

Contents
* 1 two-sided Progress Board extension
* 1 two-sided Dark Alleys Board
* 9 pets with rotating wheels
* 10 plastic fasteners for assembling Pets
* 9 plastic imps (2 in each color and one black)
* 3 Cage tiles
* 2 Addon tiles
* 2 Customer tiles
* 2 Exhibition tiles
* 3 Artifact tiles
* 6 Facility tiles
* 8 Accessory tiles
* 4 Permission tiles (1 in each color)
* Rulebook

Nb of players: 2 to 4
Game time: 120 min.
Age group: 12 years and +

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Delve into the world of Vikings and dabble in trading, hunting, raiding, pillaging, plundering, and raiding some more. Build houses, explore new worlds, and every round, have a feast in Odin’s name. The large variety of actions and occupations guarantees your Notherners long-lasting fun, with each game creating a new world on your player board!

Content:
• 2 goods boxes
• 1 orange eight-sided die
• 1 blue twelve-sided die
• 1 large action board
• 4 home boards
• 2 supply boards
• 4 exploration boards
• 52 tiles
• 15 special tiles
• 346 goods tiles
• 190 Occupations cards
• 47 red Weapon cards
• 125 silver coins
• 96 Wooden Goods
• 50 Wooden Components
• 12 plastic bags
• 1 appendix
• 1 almanac
• 1 rulebook

1–4 Players
100–120 Min Playing Time
Age: 12+

A long time ago in Europe, ages were pretty Dark. The distribution of wealth back then left a lot to be desired. Greedy people banded together to take things from other people so that the rich could get richer and the poor could have even less. Twas ever thus. Step into the middle of the normal state of human affairs as a Baron or Baroness somewhere almost in Europe a long time ago. Thanks to your birth you have a lot of little people working to make you richer, and you, in turn, are doing your best to make your king even more prosperous. If you do things right, you might someday be king.

Each player starts with a Fiefdom Management card, divided into 64squares (49 of which can have tiles played on them. Into four of these squares you deploy your Keep, in which you will put your fortification of some sort, and your soldiers. Elsewhere in your land you deploy assorted resource gatherers and buildings in an effort to grow, prosper, and score victory points. Along the way there may be wars, invasions, tournaments, taxes, and a lot of other nonsense. Eventually the game ends and the player with the most victory points will be the winner.

Contents:
• 180 wooden parts
• 1 Victory Point Track board
• Reference Card
Senior Player Shield
• 6 large Keep Tiles
• 12 Pawns
• 2 eight sided dice
• 6 double-sided Fiefdom Management Cards
• 50 random event cards
• 208 normal Tiles
• 24 Fortifications
• Reference Card
Baronial Actions

No. of players: 2-6
Ages: 13+
Playing time: 60 minutes
Designed by Mario Papini

n the small East Frisian village of Arle on the verge of the 18th Century, your family must take care of numerous tasks: dehydrate the moat, plow the farmland, and breed the animals.

Improving your craftsmanship in the village and constructing the appropriate buildings will be invaluable. Turn by turn, assign various tasks to the members of your family while keeping an eye open for the changing seasons. Use your vehicles to trade resources with others and upgrade your goods. The fields of Arle await you!

1–2 Players
60–120 Min
Age: 13+

Return to East Frisia and bring more variety to your labors in the far North with the Tea & Trade expansion for Uwe Rosenberg`s Fields of Arle!

This expansion adds tea - the national beverage of East Frisia - to energize your workers, as well as new ships for trading and fishing. Choose from a bevy of new features to add to your farm, including ditches that dehydrate your land and buildings that grant you more options for maximizing your yields.

And for those who aspire to be true 19th century farming magnates, Tea & Trade also includes components to introduce a third player to the game.

• An expansion for Uwe Rosenberg’s critically acclaimed Fields of Arle
• Features new buildings with brand new abilities and more actions to help you maximize your yields
• Energize your workers with potent East Frisian tea or dig ditches to dehydrate your land
• Build ships and send them on trading missions to faraway lands
• Includes components to add a third player to the game and new starting features to get everyone in the game more quickly