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Pocket Battles: Confederacy vs Union

A war game that fits in the pocket?The armies of Confederacy and the Union are yours to command in this portable and exciting tile-based war game. You'll fight on three fronts with armies you create for each battle, making every battle a new experience.Each Pocket Battles game depicts two armies. The rules for combat are the same in each Pocket Battles game so you can have armies from different series fighting: Elves vs. Romans! Macedonians vs Confederates! It's all possible with Pocket Battles.The Pocket Battles series can satisfy your need for battle, strategy, and victory, just by reaching into your pocket.Contents:60 Troop tiles20 Order/Wound Tokens6 Dice2 Player AidsRulebook
Source: Pocket Battles: Confederacy vs Union

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Slavika: Equinox

Slavika Equinox is both a standalone game and an expansion to the game Slavika. Players lead powerful families in the fantastic world of Slavika or, - if they want - the new faction: Christians. Each player will have a team of 6 heroes. During the game, the heroes will travel to different regions, fight monsters and gain treasures. The larger the contribution of a player's heroes in defeating monsters, the more glory points for the player's family. The Pomeranian Regions are ruled by the eternal cycle of light and darkness, day and night, summer and winter. As time passes, depending on the current phase of the cycle, monsters will be weaker or stronger. According to the will of the princess of Slavika, the player whose family has the most glory at the end of the game earns the right to govern the Pomeranian Regions!
Source: Slavika: Equinox

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Twin Peaks: The Battles of South Mountain and Cedar Mountain

Twin Peaks is Volume VI in the Great Battles of the American Civil War series.Two full battles and included:Cedar Mountain - August 9th, 1862. With the Peninsular Campaign winding down, Gen. Robert E. Lee sent Maj. Gens. Stonewall Jackson and A.P. Hill to attack Maj. Gen. John Pope's New Federal Army of Virginia with 27,000 troops. Gen. John Pope, hoping to draw attention away from Maj. Gen. George McClellan's withdrawal from the Peninsular, moved against the rail junction at Gordonsville, Va. Stonewall Jackson found USA Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks' forces on high ground near Cedar Run, seven miles south of the town of Culpeper. These two forces met in the afternoon heat.South Mountain - September 14th, 1862. After the CSA success at Second Bull Run Gen. Robert E. Lee believed the demoralised USA armies could not respond to any bold action. Thusly, he planned a campaign to raid Maryland and Pennsylvania and to threaten Washington D.C. itself. Once again Lee confidently divided his army to both move north and neutralise the large Union garrison at Harper's Ferry. However, the Union Army under Gen. George B. McClellan was quick to recover from the Bull Run defeat and was already in pursuit of Lee. The gods of war smiled on the Union troops as a copy of Lee's orders fell into Union hands. An attack through the lightly held gaps at South Mountain would cut Lee's army in two and perhaps end the war. At 6:00am the Union Army moved.The Great Battles of the American Civil War Series:This series is one of the hobby's longest lived design concepts, springing from the legendary regimental level Gettysburg game - Terrible Swift Sword (SPI) - designed by Richard Berg in 1976. The rules system has remained stable but has shown remarkable flexibility to allow each game to smoothly incorporate additional rules to reflect the historical battles.  This series relies on interactive chit-pull mechanics to simulate the oftentimes chaotic nature of the 19th Century battlefield at the regimental level.The Game:Twin Peaks contains two battle games, each with its own full-sized map. Experienced players will be able to play either in one sitting. Both battles highlight the effects of fatigue from the late summer heat and the difficult terrain. The optional fatigue rules are mandatory in both battles. The Cedar Mountain battle also includes optional units which could have joined the battle.
Source: Twin Peaks: The Battles of South Mountain and Cedar Mountain

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Empire Engine

In Empire Engine, players take on the role of a mighty empire, powered by rotating gears. Players use their gears and engines to perform attacks, defend, salvage, export, and collect precious resources. The player who scores the most points for their goods, soldiers and inventions is the winner!Contents:46 Wooden cubes8 Engine cards1 Round Track card1 Starting player card4 Reference cards1 Empire bagRulebook
Source: Empire Engine

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Fresco: Big Box Edition

Includes basic game, 10 expansion modules and a Queenie:The Portraits - Renowned personalities want their portraits painted at the studio of the painters. This will be advantageous during the game!The Bishop's Request - If a player fulfils specific requests and forfeits part of their income, they will get extra victory points and will be regularly rewarded with valuable paints!Special Blend Colours - The fresco turns even more colourful. New paint pieces require even more blended colours.The Wishing Well - The players get bonus actions when using the wishing well.The Leaf Gold - Selected fresco parts are gilded with leaf gold.The Glaziers - Specially coloured stained glass makes the cathedral's windows shine in a new light.The Scrolls - With the help of these chronicles of the elder masters, the players now can restore the fresco according to his fancies and earn extra victory points.The Bells - The bishop plans to acquire a new bell for the cathedral and is therefore looking for donors with deep pockets.The Wall Fresco - Seeing to the refreshment of an aged wall fresco is the latest heart's desire of the bishop.The Medico - The time schedule for restoring the fresco is hard enough to meet, but now the apprentices are taking ill, one after the other.Queenie: The Bishop's Favour - If a player restores that segment of the fresco, which is the bishop's current location, they claim that favour tile additionally to the fresco tile.
Source: Fresco: Big Box Edition

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Bitter Woods: The Battle of the Bulge - Designer's Edition

On December 16th 1944, Germany launched its last desperate offensive in the West. The result was the Battle of the Bulge, a brutal struggle in a dismal winter landscape, set against an enemy imbued with a fanatical conviction that victory could be snatched from defeat. It was the United States Army's greatest and fiercest battle of World War II. Over a million men and thousands of guns, tanks, and other fighting vehicles were engaged. In those "bitter woods", fighting against heavy odds, the American soldiers slowed and stopped the spearhead of two elite Panzer Armies, forever emblazoning themselves in the annals of military history.Compass Games presents the Designer Edition of this Charles S. Roberts and ORIGINS award nominee. New to this edition are enlarged, colour unit counters, additional scenarios, and an extended campaign game to allow the Allied counterattack to be fully realised. In addition to the 6 and 8 turn tournament games, Patton's famous relief of Bastogne can be recreated via scenario play. Specific rules include: Mechanised Exploitation Movement, Hidden Fuel Dumps, Leader Units, Reserves, Random Events, Bridge Demolition, Kampfgruppe Peiper Breakout, Skorzeny Infiltration, Air Power, and Artillery Support.Bitter Woods: Designer Edition is the premier edition of this highly acclaimed regimental-level Battle of the Bulge game. The potential for mechanised exploitation movement and an appropriate Allied counterattack capability ensure an exciting challenge for both sides. Bitter Woods: Designer Edition is highly playable, yet historically accurate, further ensuring a game you will want to revisit for years to come.
Source: Bitter Woods: The Battle of the Bulge - Designer's Edition

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Enemy Coast Ahead: The Dambuster Raid, 1943

ENEMY COAST AHEADThe cypher message reads: "MOST SECRET: Operation Chastise [stop] Immediate attack of targets X,Y,Z approved [stop] Execute at first suitable opportunity [stop]"It is May 16, 1943 and 617 Squadron is about to fly its first mission - to crack open the mighty dams in the heart of Germany. Nineteen British Lancaster bombers specially modified to carry a most unusual ordnance sortie at dusk and fly at low altitude across the North Sea. Some hit the crest of waves and dunes, others clip the tops of trees and utility pylons. Desperate to stymie the Luftwaffe's radar system guiding its fleet of Nightfighters patrolling the skies, bomber crews maintain that precarious altitude across Germany. Negotiating a terrain of antiaircraft batteries, barrage balloons and dreaded searchlight arrays, and contending with feathered engines and other mechanical malfunctions, most of the squadron arrive at the dams in the dead of night. One by one the Lancasters skim across the reservoirs towards their targets, releasing the mine at a precise altitude, speed, angle of approach and distance. Four dams were attacked that night and two were breached. By dawn, eleven of the nineteen bombers would touch back down at Scampton in Great Britain, and its surviving crews would earn 33 decorations, including the Victoria Cross.Enemy Coast Ahead is a solitaire game depicting that remarkable mission. It recreates the action over the reservoirs, the arduous flight to the targets, and the preparation and training for this special raid. Ten scenarios allow you to explore every aspect of the action, from the tactical predicament at each target to the problem of organising a squadron from scratch, equipping it, commandeering top airmen and groundcrews, and training it to learn untried tactics imagined by a slide-rule wielding engineer.The game is presented in program fashion, allowing you to play the first five scenarios after reading only Part 1 of the rules. Each scenario can stand alone or be combined, and each has a unique Debriefing Chart involving you in the raid's outcome. Will Albert Speer break delicate news to the Fuhrer? Will Air Marshal Harris of Bomber Command come to know the fate of every Lancaster, or must he endure the mystery of garbled transmissions and empty chairs in the squadron's Mess Hall? Part puzzle packed with tough decisions and part reenactment, Enemy Coast Ahead can be played with two or three players either cooperatively, or competitively. Can you breach a third dam, or will you be able to breach even a single one?
Source: Enemy Coast Ahead: The Dambuster Raid, 1943

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Click Clak Lumberjack

Go ahead and ask yourself, Wood I like this game? Let's get right down to the root of it, YES YOU WILL! You and your fellow Lumberjacks take turns hacking at the tree trying to strip the bark while leaving the trunk itself standing. +1 point for bark that comes off and -5 points for any centre trunk segments. Highest score wins!But watch out for the grubs. They're worth +1 point but force you to take an extra turn!Great for players of all ages and great for parties, to entertain children or as a great filler between longer games.Contents:9 Core Blocks26 Bark Blocks1 Tree Stump1 Axe1 Manual
Source: Click Clak Lumberjack

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Slavika: Equinox

Slavika Equinox is both a standalone game and an expansion to the game Slavika. Players lead powerful families in the fantastic world of Slavika or, - if they want - the new faction: Christians. Each player will have a team of 6 heroes. During the game, the heroes will travel to different regions, fight monsters and gain treasures. The larger the contribution of a player's heroes in defeating monsters, the more glory points for the player's family. The Pomeranian Regions are ruled by the eternal cycle of light and darkness, day and night, summer and winter. As time passes, depending on the current phase of the cycle, monsters will be weaker or stronger. According to the will of the princess of Slavika, the player whose family has the most glory at the end of the game earns the right to govern the Pomeranian Regions!Contents:155 cards6 score boards12 player score markers1 equinox board1 time marker8 special abilities markers5 player aidsrules
Source: Slavika: Equinox

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Huzzah! Grand-Tactical Battles of the American Civil War

Huzzah! simulates American Civil War combat at the grand-tactical level. The system features encounters little known yet strategically significant. These are fights that, had they concluded differently, might well have transformed a campaign, a reputation, or both. So, although the battles in Huzzah! were little more than scrimmages compared to, say, Gettysburg or Stones River, they were not insignificant, bearing weight well beyond what mere numbers suggest.This game is the first instalment of what will become a series of games using the Huzzah! system. The next instalment in the series will be a quadri-game focusing entirely on the Wilderness Campaign.Scale: Combat units are infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery. Each Infantry and Cavalry unit represents 3 or more companies of a given regiment. Each Artillery unit represents and Artillery Section of 1 or two guns. Leader units represent individual commanders. Each hex equals about 150-200 yards.Stephenson's Depot was a prelude to the battle of Gettysburg. Richard Ewell enjoyed his finest day of the campaign when he smashed the isolated outpost of Robert Milroy at Winchester. This is a rock-em sock-em affair, with the Yankees throwing the first punch. The blue player must land his blows quick and hard, driving the Rebs off the railway.Rosey and the Woodpecker, the battle of Iuka, was a meeting engagement of sorts; few units begin on map and both sides receive a steady stream of reinforcements. Grant, the Yankee commander had divided his army into wings, each to simultaneously converge upon the rebels at the small railhead of Iuka.Old Burn at Newbern, the battle of Newbern, North Carolina. A promising young star of the Union, Ambrose Burnside (Old Burn to his equals) runs up against a scratch force of Confederate militia, artillery, and cavalry.Smash 'Em Up! the battle of Belmont Missouri, was U.S. Grant's first significant encounter with the Confederate Army. HE initially drove the Rebels across the Mississippi River capturing both their headquarters and Belmont, a minor ferry point to Kentucky.Components:One RulebookOne Scenario BookFour 22"x17" Full Colour Game Maps560 Double-Sided Die-Cut CountersCharts and Tables SheetsTwo Ten-Sided Dice
Source: Huzzah! Grand-Tactical Battles of the American Civil War

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King's Vineyard

The King intends to appoint a new Master for his vineyard and wishes to discover which apprentice has the cleverest way with grapes. The wily King will pay three surprise visits, judging the grapes for colour, sweetness and the size of the vine, dispensing gifts of goblets, bottles, and barrels to demonstrate his appreciation. After the final visit, the apprentice with the most valuable gifts will become Master of the King's Vineyard.Contents:Rulebook96 Grape Cards20 Other Cards80 Vine Tiles70 Wooden |Tokens
Source: King's Vineyard

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D-Day at Tarawa

Command the US 2nd Marine Division in "one square mile of hell"D-Day at Tarawa is a solitaire game simulating the amphibious invasion of Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll. The US marines assaulting the tiny island, with its strategically vital airstrip, found themselves in their toughest battle of World War II, a fight to the death against 5000 Japanese defenders.D-Day at Tarawa advances the solitaire game system of its award-winning predecessor D-Day at Omaha Beach to the next level. You control the US forces against a tenacious Japanese defence. An innovative diceless combat system highlights unknown enemy deployments and the importance of the right weapons and tactics. Event cards keep the action flowing and the rules simple, while introducing extensive historical detail.Players familiar with Omaha Beach will recognise the harrowing amphibious landings, overlapping enemy fields of fire, uncanny Japanese strategies and the emergence of US heroes and leaders, as the story of the two-day struggle unfolds. Tarawa adds new features covering LVT landing craft, movement through the surrounding coral reefs, close combat, Japanese night infiltration, US combat engineers and Japanese tanks.Scenarios:The First Waves - can your marines survive the initial landings?November 20, 1943 - establish a viable beachhead before nightfall.Two Days in Hell - can you secure the island in two days?November 21, 1943 - on D+1, expand your narrow beachhead against undiminished Japanese resistance.Game Components:Rules bookletPlayer Aid cards352 Die cut counters1 33" x 22" Map55 Event cardsStorage bags
Source: D-Day at Tarawa

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Dungeons and Dragons Attack Wing Dwarven Ballista Wave 1 Expansion Pack

Expand and upgrade your D&D Attack Wing game!Dwarves are proud of their craftsmanship in engines of war, and today they are unveiling one of their finest works: Calamity, a ballista covered in protective runes that make it nearly invulnerable to attack. Each bolt has been similarly enchanted to fire with greater force than anything the dwarves have launched in their proud history.Balagos the Red Dragon is not happy at all about this turn of affairs. He plans to destroy Calamity, as well as the very training facility where it is being unveiled. And if he roasts a few dwarves in the process, so much the better. Will the dwarves be able to use Calamity to survive the onslaught of the vicious red dragon and his allies?Game Contents:10 Cards25 Tokens1 Manoeuvre Dial1 Painted Plastic Creature with Base and Adaptor
Source: Dungeons and Dragons Attack Wing Dwarven Ballista Wave 1 Expansion Pack

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Dungeons and Dragons Attack Wing Hobgoblin Troop Wave 1 Expansion Pack

Expand and upgrade your D&D Attack Wing game!The Zhentarim employ many followers, but few are as ruthless as their personal troop of hobgoblin warriors, led by Amog the Shaman. With sophisticated battle tactics and rigorous battle formations, the Zhentarim Warband is always eager to enter the fray and bring death to their foes.Today they have just such an opportunity. Hired by Eshaedra the Blue Dragon to transport goods to her new desert lair, the Zhentarim Hobgoblin Warband lead an Armoured Wagon through treacherous terrain. Just as the wagon begins to have trouble making it up a difficult hill, a band of exceptional highwaymen arrive to relieve them of their treasures. Amog shouts his minions to prepare themselves, but they are already ready: they've been itching for a fight since breakfast!Game Contents:12 Cards35 Tokens2 Manoeuvre Dials6 Painted Plastic Creatures with Bases and Adaptors
Source: Dungeons and Dragons Attack Wing Hobgoblin Troop Wave 1 Expansion Pack

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Dungeons and Dragons Attack Wing Sun Elf Troop Wave 1 Expansion Pack

Expand and upgrade your D&D Attack Wing game!The Harper Legion has recruited many powerful allies, including a troop of elven archers so deadly in their accuracy that they can find the weakness of the strongest enemies. Led by Limnen, the elven warrior with a mysterious past, they are known for forming up and peppering their enemies with countless arrows before their foes can even draw their weapons.Today Limnen's troop has been given a difficult mission. Nymmestra the Wizard has sent them to retrieve an important missive left at the edge of a forest, knowing full well that the area is crawling with enemies who serve the evil dragons. But Nymmestra knows that Limnen has led her troop to countless victories.Game Contents:13 Cards28 Tokens2 Manoeuvre Dials6 Painted Plastic Creatures with Bases and Adaptors
Source: Dungeons and Dragons Attack Wing Sun Elf Troop Wave 1 Expansion Pack