https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/collections/all.atom vaibhavhospital 2024-02-16T06:17:54-05:00 vaibhavhospital https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/7055115583539 2024-02-16T06:17:54-05:00 2024-02-16T06:17:54-05:00 Doubt Is Our Product Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 124.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playtime 90 mins

In the second half of the twentieth century, faced with the incontrovertible truth that cigarette smoking caused lung cancer, the tobacco industry embarked on a campaign of deliberate disinformation while knowingly selling a deadly and highly addictive product. Deeply entrenched in American culture, and with deeper pockets, they leveraged their lobbyists and marketing to avoid regulation and dodge responsibility for a hundred million deaths. A disparate collection of scientists, grassroots activists, politicians, lawyers, and public health officials faced an uphill battle to change the culture, place limits on tobacco advertising, and combat a health crisis of unprecedented scope.

This game from designer Amabel Holland (Nicaea, Endurance) models the asymmetry of this conflict by giving each side a different game. The Company, representing the industry, plays an economic deckbuilder, setting themselves up for big turns, chains of actions, and big profits. The Movement that opposes them is playing a political tableau builder – slowly coming together and organizing to advocate for legislation and regulation. These two halves, each with its own mechanisms and components, intersect the most fully in the disinformation war. Illustrating Brandolini’s Law – “the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it” – the Company player easily muddies the water, while the Movement must work hard to clear it away.

—description from the publisher

]]> 2-Players-Only Arrival-Mar 2 2024 Arrival-New-Feb-26-Mar-3-2024 Availability_Out of Stock INV-D Playtime Maximum_90 Minutes Playtime Minimum_90 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20240303 Restock-20240526-Long Stock_New https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/7055115583539 Default Title 124.95 41725044850739 6799 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/7055115321395 2024-02-16T06:16:41-05:00 2024-02-16T06:16:41-05:00 But Then She Came Back Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 1
Playtime 45 mins

"It hurt so much when she died — but then she came back, and it hurt so much more."

In the solitaire horror game But Then She Came Back, a loved one has returned from the dead. But she's not as she was – parts of her are missing. Changed. Twisted. You need to protect her, while feeding the ravenous ugly thing inside of her – finding her fresh victims. If you come up short, you'll need to sacrifice your friends and family, cutting yourself off from your support network. And if she is still hungry, you'll cut off pieces of yourself – an arm, a leg, your eyes, and finally, when you have nothing left to give, your heart.

Each day, you'll go out to get the things you need: blood, to feed her; knives, to protect her; and locks, to protect yourself from her. Each day, you'll lose a piece of her as the thing inside her continues to grow and hunger – demanding more and more from you, even as you're able to do less and less. Desperation gives way to despair as the promises you made when she was alive threaten to swallow you up.

The game will end in one of two ways: either you'll die, or you'll let her down. And you don't know which is worse, and which is kinder. And you pretend you don't know which one you'd prefer.

This is a game about horror and heartbreak, grief and exhaustion. It is for mature audiences.

]]> 1-Player-Only Arrival-Mar 2 2024 Arrival-New-Feb-26-Mar-3-2024 Availability_Out of Stock INV-B Playtime Maximum_45 Minutes Playtime Minimum_45 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20240303 Restock-20240526-Long Stock_New https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/7055115321395 Default Title 49.95 41725043114035 2717 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6941926785075 2023-08-26T00:30:26-04:00 2023-08-26T00:30:26-04:00 Horse & Musket: Annual #4 Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designer Paul Aceto
Xavier Rubio Campillo
Sean Chick
Daniel Chick
Marc Figueras
Amabel Holland
Paul Mach
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 1-2
Playtime 0-0 mins
Suggested Age 0 and up

Horse and Musket Annual Number 4 is the fourth fan expansion to Horse & Musket. It will add new scenarios for owners of Volumes I-V and Horse & Matchlock.

The scenarios include...

Alford – July 2, 1645 – “I found myself so slighted”

Mohács – August 12, 1687 – 1526 Avenged

Almenar – July 27, 1710 – Stanhope’s Great Charge

Bassignana – September 27, 1745 – Bourbon High Tide in Italy

Rocoux – October 11, 1746 – “Hell opened her mouth to swallow us up.”

Kay – July 23, 1759 – Preamble to Kunersdorf

Trenton – December 26, 1776 – “Victory or death”

Assunpink Creek – January 2, 1777 – “We’ve got the old fox safe now.”

Bennigton – August 16, 1777 – “They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!”

Kings Mountain – October 7, 1780 – “With fire and sword.”

Valmy – September 20, 1792 – “Vive la Nation!”

First Abukir – July 25, 1799 – Jochim Murat Wins His Laurels

Jena – October 14, 1806 – “…if he were alive we wouldn’t be here today.”

Talavera – July, 27-28, 1809 – “My God! What is an army without a chief?”

Smolensk – August 17, 1812 – Napoléon Takes the Gateway to Old Russia

Borodino – September 7, 1812 – “And if there should be another battle tomorrow, where is my army?”

Berezina – November 28, 1812 – Perilous Winter Crossing

Lützen – May 2, 1813 – Napoleon’s Bloody Return to Prussia

Bautzen – May 20-21, 1813 – The Truce of Pläswitz

Lacoste Plantation – December 23, 1814 – “The British shall not sleep upon our territory!”

]]> Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Mar 2 2024 Arrival-New-Aug-21-27-2023 Availability_In Stock INV-H Non-TCG Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_1 Player Playtime Maximum_15 Minutes Playtime Minimum_15 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230828 Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6941926785075 Default Title 40.95 HMA4 2064 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6941860823091 2023-08-25T21:29:32-04:00 2023-08-25T21:29:32-04:00 Kaiju Table Battles Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 124.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playtime 30-60 mins

Clobber your enemies, knock down buildings, and unleash your fearsome breath weapons in this personal love letter to Showa-era monster fights. At its core, Amabel Holland's Kaiju Table Battles is about teams of giant monsters beating the snot out of each other on a tense 5 x 4 battle grid. Dice you roll and place this turn can be spent on a later turn to unleash attacks, or to use reactions to cancel or mitigate the attacks coming in your direction. Each of your fifty-foot fighters has their own combination of attacks, reactions, movement effects, and special powers, giving them a unique role on the battlefield and in your team.

While you're trying to win a match against your opponent, you're also working with them to achieve a cooperative goal that emphasizes some aspect of the game. For example, you might be trying to knock down three buildings, and the most efficient way to do that of course is to slam an enemy monster into them! Achieve the goal, and you'll get to open an envelope containing a brand new monster and a new rule that applies to all future matches. These envelopes also contain "swaps" – alternate attacks and powers for existing monsters, allowing you to customize your team and try out new strategies. (Each of the nine envelopes is hand-packed by the game's designer or someone important to her.)

Over the course of several matches, the game itself becomes more complex, challenging, and nuanced. It's not quite a legacy game – no components are destroyed or altered, and there isn't an overarching start-to-finish narrative with plot twists. But as the game's colorful cast of characters grows, what emerges is a kind of story told along the edges – a series of meditations on monsters, identity, community, and queerness.

-description from publisher

]]> 2-Players-Only Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Mar 2 2024 Arrival-New-Aug-21-27-2023 Availability_In Stock INV-K Non-TCG Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_60 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230904 Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6941860823091 Default Title 124.95 HS073 5439 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6941860298803 2023-08-25T21:18:00-04:00 2023-08-25T21:18:00-04:00 Dual Gauge: Netherlands and Eastern U.S. Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 3-5
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up
Expansion For Dual Gauge

The third expansion map set for Dual Gauge!

These maps introduce Star Dits, which function as normal dits for most purposes – they count as a stop but cannot be tokened – but are worth more money. Depending on the map, players may also have an additional incentive to hit these stops over others. Both maps also see players in a race to grab bonuses, which also serve as another game end trigger.

The Netherlands map seats up to five players and features a new gauge conversion step, allowing you to flip narrow track to its standard side. Of course, what it doesn't do is change your narrow trains. You'll need to plan your train purchases carefully, and beware of opponents who might use this tactic offensively.

That's if you have enough time, of course! The standout feature of this map is a race to complete certain Goals. Achieving one of the map's eight Goals will win you a disc. This can be traded in later, either to place a station or to buy a precious second share of stock in a single round.

The Eastern US map is for three to four, and is a bit subtler. Preprinted track segments provide awkward chokepoints to either work around or embrace. Company turn order isn't fixed, but shifts from round to round depending on company stock value. Increases in that value are gated – tied to your dividends, so you'll need to work for big routes while your rivals try to block you with aggressive token play.

At the western end of the maps, there are the destination cities of Detroit and Chicago, each containing a set of Bonus Discs. When a company ends a run there, their President claims a disc. At the end of game, you'll get a payout based on the number of discs you've claimed.

-description from publisher

]]> Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Mar 2 2024 Arrival-New-Aug-21-27-2023 Availability_In Stock INV-D Non-TCG Players Maximum_5 Players Players Minimum_3 Players Playtime Maximum_60 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20231105 Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6941860298803 Default Title 49.95 DGX3 2717 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6890622386227 2023-02-13T12:42:51-05:00 2023-02-13T12:42:51-05:00 Endurance Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 102.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 1
Playtime 60 mins

Endurance is a solitaire game of Antarctic survival, based on Ernest Shackleton's famous 1914 expedition. Stranded for eighteen months, the crew of the Endurance faced almost impossible challenges. Any one of these could have – by rights, should have – resulted in their deaths. Miraculously, every man survived.

The game does regard this as a miracle – as the least likely result - and evokes it not through reproduction, but through its absence. This is a bleak and grueling game about suffering and perseverance. Faced with circumstances beyond your control, you must make the best choices you can. You'll be hunting for food, buoying the men's spirits with distractions, and managing your ever-dwindling supplies while dealing with a hostile and unpredictable environment.

This game is unique in that there is no victory or loss condition. The game will end either when the men are rescued, or when rescue becomes impossible. How many men survived until then, and what that means, is up to you.

—description from the publisher

]]> 1-Player-Only Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Mar 2 2024 Arrival-New-Aug-21-27-2023 Arrival-Sept 23 2023 Availability_Out of Stock INV-E Players Maximum_1 Player Players Minimum_1 Player Playtime Maximum_60 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230828 Restock-20230924 Restock-20240303 Restock-20240526-Long Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6890622386227 Default Title 102.95 HS072 2268 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6889993240627 2023-02-09T07:16:32-05:00 2023-02-09T07:16:32-05:00 II Grass II Crown Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up
Expansion For The Grass Crown

Over the course of ten battles, The Grass Crown charted the military evolution of the Roman Republic from the days of the manipular Legion and its Triplex Acies formation to the veteran professionals that fought in a series of bloody civil wars. These battles were carefully chosen by designer Amabel Holland with an eye toward only keeping those that would propel the game's central themes forward. Some otherwise compelling, engaging, and interesting battles didn't make that list, either because they made the same "point" as a battle that did make the cut, or they introduced a level of complexity that detracted from the narrative.

You probably see where we're going with this! II Grass II Crown is an expansion that provides eight new scenarios: Beneventum, Metaurus, Ilipa, Great Plains, Cynoscephalae, Magnesia, Zela, and the Cilician Gates. These are aimed at experienced players who don't mind tackling a few extra special rules. Also included is a new countersheet with additional units. Among them are counters for two new unit types, Scythed Chariots and Cataphracted Cavalry, which provide new and daunting challenges.

—description from the publisher

]]> 2-Players-Only Arrival-Feb 10 2023 Arrival-Mar 12 2023 Arrival-New-Feb-6-12-2023 Availability_In Stock INV-I Non-TCG Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_60 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230212 Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6889993240627 Default Title 42.95 SSAX01 1623 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6889993011251 2023-02-09T07:09:57-05:00 2023-02-09T07:09:57-05:00 Dinosaur Gauge Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 82.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Mary Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 3-5
Playtime 60-90 mins

Dinosaur Gauge is a pick-up and devour game in which players invest in four different kinds of dino industries, all with an eye toward maximizing the value of their holdings on the Stomp Market. This extremely accurate and rigorously-researched game opens as the Western Interior Seaway shrinks, and with it the fortunes of once-mighty dino shipping magnates. But this paves the way for expansion by dino rail barons, eager to bring goods made at dino factories to emerging dino cities! But even these tyrannosaurus tycoons might find their legends eclipsed by dino airlines.

Hexagonal tiles are placed on water hexes to shrink the Seaway, and also serve as the timer of the game. Each player gets an equal number of turns in which they place a tile, buy one share of stock, and then take one action – building for a railroad, making a delivery, producing goods, establishing an airport, or recycling. Each industry works and scores a little differently, and with only a handful of turns, you'll need to invest and act carefully, with an eye toward incentivizing your fellow players to do the hard part for you. End the game with the most money, and you win!

The first game design by Hollandspiele founder Mary Holland, collaborating with veteran cube rails designer Amabel Holland (Irish Gauge), Dinosaur Gauge is a gleeful game about managing chaos, emergent alliances, and, most of all, how much Mary loves dinosaurs.

-description from publisher

]]> Arrival-Feb 10 2023 Arrival-Jun 18 2023 Arrival-Mar 12 2023 Arrival-New-Feb-6-12-2023 Availability_Out of Stock INV-D Players Maximum_5 Players Players Minimum_3 Players Playtime Maximum_90 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230212 Restock-20240225 Restock-20240526-Long Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6889993011251 Default Title 82.95 HS071 3135 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6677645885491 2022-07-04T07:07:30-04:00 2022-07-04T07:07:30-04:00 Dual Gauge: Denmark and England & Wales Maps Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 3-5
Playtime 60-90 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up
Expansion For Dual Gauge

The long-awaited second map pack for Dual Gauge. Both maps incentivize tokening cities. When the game end is triggered for the subtle Denmark map, a company's final stock value might drop depending on how many stations have been placed - the fewer stations, the steeper the drop! Tokening on the England & Wales map will increase a city's payout. Getting big dividends is the name of the game - helped along by the passenger trains that score dits without counting them against your route, and hindered by the dangerous momentum of railway mania that might rust your trains (including 4Ts and 5Ts!) right out from under you. 3-5 Players (Denmark), 3-4 Players (England & Wales).

-description from publisher's website

]]> Age_9+ Arrival-Aug 23-25 2022 Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Feb 10 2023 Arrival-May 20 2022 Availability_In Stock Google-True INV-D Non-TCG Players Maximum_5 Players Players Minimum_3 Players Playtime Maximum_90 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220224 Restock-20220519 Restock-20221030 Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20230423 Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6677645885491 Default Title 49.95 DGX02 1623 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6759555170355 2022-06-28T02:47:34-04:00 2022-06-28T02:47:34-04:00 Siege of Mantua Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 102.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playtime 60-90 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up

Two armies march to the relief of the fortress and its exhausted garrison. One from the East, and one from the North, converging on the outnumbered enemy. That enemy was the Army of Italy, the first field command of Napoleon Bonaparte. The fifteen days that followed would make him a legend.

Taking as its subject Bonaparte's famous Arcole campaign, Siege of Mantua is a game of operational maneuver and tactical daring. Players move blocks on the mapsheet to threaten and deceive their opponent, with the object of bringing them to a decisive battle. These are fought on a battle display with counters drawn randomly from your unit pool. The quality of your pool improves with every victory; suffering losses will damage morale, degrading unit quality.

You must master both of these spheres if you wish to be victorious. Though outnumbered, the French player has the benefit of moving along interior lines, allowing greater coordination of forces. But those men are stretched thin to deal with two distinct lines of enemy advance. The Austrian player can use this to their advantage, bringing superior forces to bear at weak points in the enemy line. What results is a desperate battle of wits and nerve, and a novel take on the "block game" genre.

-description from publisher

]]> 2-Players-Only Arrival-Aug 23-25 2022 Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Feb 10 2023 Arrival-Feb 10 2024 Arrival-Jun 29 2022 Arrival-Mar 2 2024 Arrival-New-Jun-27-Jul-3-2022 Availability_In Stock Category_Wargames INV-S Non-TCG Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_90 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220703 Restock-20220906 Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20230226 Restock-20230904 Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6759555170355 Default Title 102.95 HS068 726 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6752161759283 2022-06-10T10:41:31-04:00 2022-06-10T10:41:31-04:00 More Dinosaurs, Please Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 43.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playtime 30-45 mins
Expansion For Dinosaur Table Battles

This is an expansion for Dinosaur Table Battles. What happened is that Mary asked for more dinosaurs – she may or may not have said please, and it may or may not have been a request. Regardless, six new dino-combatants are ready to join the fifteen from the base game.

Some of the new dinos are classified as Air Dinos and some as Wet Dinos. Air Dinos ignore blocks – unless those blocks are thrown by other Air Dinos! Likewise, the targeting restrictions of Wet Dinos can be negated by enemy Wet Dinos. Air Dinos and Wet Dinos are also weaker against each other – Air Dinos aren't very strong swimmers, and Wet Dinos are afraid of heights. From the massive Quetzalcoatlus to the cunning Gallimimus, these new dinosaurs can dramatically change the flow of a match.

—description from the publisher

]]> 2-Players-Only 2023-LD 2023-LD-20 Arrival-Aug 23-25 2022 Arrival-Jun 29 2022 Arrival-New-Jun-27-Jul-3-2022 Availability_Out of Stock Google-True INV-M Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_45 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220703 Restock-20231009 Stocky-Clearance Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6752161759283 Default Title 43.95 DTB01 1661 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6729821880371 2022-05-20T10:30:01-04:00 2022-05-20T10:30:01-04:00 Eyelet Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playtime 20 mins
Suggested Age 6 and up

Eyelet is a roll-and-move game for two players in which shoelaces are threaded through holes in a custom-cut board. Any lace can be moved by either player, but it must be moved the exact number of spaces rolled, then threaded through an empty hole. When you're unable to complete your turn, you lose. And so, the goal is to maneuver the laces to limit your opponent's options — but should they escape, they might just hand your crafty trap back to you.

This is a simple, strange, and sprightly little game that takes only a minute to learn. There's something soothing about the sound of the shoelace sliding against the board as you pull it through. And there's something gently nerve-wracking as the holes get fewer and fewer and the laces start to get shorter and shorter. Each match results in a unique and visually appealing crisscross of blue and pink laces. Every lace has a knot carefully tied at one end by hand — by either designer Amabel Holland, publisher Mary Holland, or one of our friends.

—description from the publisher

]]> 2-Players-Only Arrival-Aug 23-25 2022 Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Feb 10 2023 Arrival-Feb 11 2023 Arrival-Jun 29 2022 Arrival-May 20 2022 Arrival-New-May-16-22-2022 Arrival-Sept 23 2023 Availability_Out of Stock Category_Abstract Category_Strategy Google-True INV-E Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220703 Restock-20221227 Restock-20230326 Restock-20240526 Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6729821880371 Default Title 49.95 HS065 1510 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6729822896179 2022-05-19T08:20:59-04:00 2022-05-19T08:20:59-04:00 Table Battles: Great Battles of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playtime 30 mins
Suggested Age 14 and up

Great Battles of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine is the sixth expansion to Amabel Holland's Table Battles, taking as its subject the not-exactly illustrious career of its namesake. Oh, the six battles in this set are "great" battles, including some of the most famous engagements of the eighteenth century. But they're not famous because of Charles, who is widely regarded as one of the worst commanders in history. They're famous because of guys like Frederick the Great and Maurice de Saxe, who ran circles around our boy Chuck, inflicting one humiliating defeat after another. Of course, the battles didn't have to end the way they did, and perhaps with your skill and a little luck, the outcomes might be very different!

This builds on some of the layers added in the last two expansions, and adds some new wrinkles of its own! Linked formations support one another, and tactical victory conditions allow you to win by attrition when a more decisive outcome is out of your grasp. Cards are demarcated as Infantry or Cavalry formations (with illustrations!), and the new Shift mechanic allows you to move forces of a certain type from one card to another. This not only can shore up places where your lines are weak, but if you concentrate enough force in one area, the resulting Oblique Attack can inflict heavier casualties on the enemy.

]]> 2-Players-Only Age_12+ Arrival-Jun 29 2022 Arrival-May 20 2022 Arrival-New-May-16-22-2022 Availability_Out of Stock INV-T Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220523 Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240526-Long Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6729822896179 Default Title 42.95 TBX06 1623 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6677647589427 2022-02-24T03:42:26-05:00 2022-02-24T03:42:26-05:00 Reign of Witches & The Toledo War 2-pack Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playtime 10-20 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up

Reign of Witches and The Toledo War were the 2020 and 2019 Hollandays Sale freebie card games. Due to popular demand, we are breaking with tradition and offering the two of them together as a retail release; a portion of the profits will be donated to the Morris Animal Foundation.

The Toledo War is about Michigan's conflict with Ohio over the Toledo Strip. Cards are played either as an event or for influence in one of three categories: Authority (support from the federal government), Belligerence (chest-thumping and provocative acts of violence to fire up your base), and Claim (legal pretexts). The game ends when the cash-strapped territory of Michigan capitulates, holding an illegal convention in the dead of winter – the "Frostbitten Convention" – so as to qualify for federal aid. In exchange for "losing" the war and Toledo, Michigan gains the resource-rich Upper Peninsula; in a way, both sides can claim victory. Therefore the player with the highest score wins the game.

Reign of Witches is a tableau-building game about America's Quasi-War with France, as viewed through the lens of factional conflict within the Federalist Party. President John Adams, the hapless party leader, attempts to navigate political intrigues, public unrest, and other crises while being undermined by the High Federalists who owe their loyalty to inveterate intriguer Alexander Hamilton. Players buy cards from a market (you will need to provide ten of your own coins or tokens) and play them into their tableau to earn points in one of three spheres: Politics, Public Opinion, and Military. But you have to do more than outscore your opponent: while the Federalists are tearing each other apart, Vice President Thomas Jefferson is building support for his own bid for power. The player who bests their opponent in at least two categories and has a total score higher than Jefferson's wins the game; fall short of that, and Jefferson wins the Presidency in 1800.


]]> 2-Players-Only Arrival-Feb 10 2023 Arrival-Jun 29 2022 Arrival-Mar 17 2023 Arrival-May 20 2022 Arrival-Oct 19 2022 Availability_Out of Stock Category_Strategy INV-R Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_15 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220307 Restock-20220523 Restock-20221025 Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240324 Restock-20240526-Long Year Published_2010s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6677647589427 Default Title 42.95 HG01 1623 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6677644902451 2022-02-24T03:36:33-05:00 2022-02-24T03:36:33-05:00 Nicaea Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 102.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 4-6
Playtime 60-90 mins
Suggested Age 18 and up

It's the year 325 and it's a pretty chill time to be a Christian.

Not only has it been a hot minute since they were forced to renounce their faith on pain of death, but the emperor Constantine has really leaned into it, hoping it will unite the often fractured Roman Empire. So, the big guy isn’t super-thrilled when bishops immediately get into nit-picky, esoteric arguments that John Quintus Romanus doesn’t give two flips about. He demands that the bishops gather together in the city of Nicaea to come to an accord. He doesn’t really care what these nerds decide, so long as they decide something.

This gathering is given irreverent treatment by Amabel Holland in this game for four, five, or six players. Like Constantine, it treats the theological positions argued at the first ecumenical council as fungible. Whether a position ends up accepted orthodoxy or damnable heresy has nothing to do with theology and everything to do with politics - with personal ambition, petty rivalries, and social dynamics. This is a sort of shared incentives game, in which each player commits to one of two sides in various theological disputes; guess which one the majority will go with and you’ll score points. Score the most points, and you’ll win the game.

Unless the player with the fewest points has accumulated the most political influence. That player is powerful enough to splinter the church, provoking a schism and stealing the win. To prevent this, you’ll need to make sure that someone that powerful isn’t left out in the cold during the final settlement.

At once a slick tableau-building game and a study in emergent alliances, Nicaea gives a rude but affectionate raspberry to what was perhaps the most pivotal event in the history of the early church.

]]> Age_15+ Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Feb 10 2023 Arrival-Jun 29 2022 Arrival-Mar 12 2023 Arrival-Mar 2 2024 Arrival-May 20 2022 Availability_In Stock Category_Thematic INV-N Non-TCG Players Maximum_6 Players Players Minimum_4 Players Playtime Maximum_90 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220228 Restock-20220523 Restock-20220725 Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20230220 Restock-20230628 Restock-20231210 Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6677644902451 Default Title 102.95 HS064 472 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6677643886643 2022-02-24T03:33:59-05:00 2022-02-24T03:33:59-05:00 The Grass Crown Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 124.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up
Expansion II Grass II Crown

This second game in the Shields & Swords Ancients series recreates ten battles spanning nearly three hundred years of Roman history. As was the case with the first game, With It Or On It (2019), The Grass Crown is a fresh, innovative taken on familiar material. The primary unit of maneuver is a "Wing" which itself consists of ten or so individual counters. Losses can be resolved by flipping the individual unit that was attacked, or by flipping any unit adjacent to it. Unrelenting pressure in the right places can prompt a Rout Check, causing the line to collapse. As the result of a single attack, multiple units can find themselves in your dead pile.

This simple but compelling theme sees many variations thanks to special rules that chart the evolution of Roman warfare, and contrasts them with the rigid Greek Phalanx, the sophisticated army of Hannibal, and the ferocity of the Gauls.

The ten battles are: Heraclea, Asculum, Trebbia, Zama, Pydna, Second Citra, Vercellae, Pharsalus, Thapsus, and Munda.

]]> 2-Players-Only Arrival-Aug 23-25 2022 Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Mar 2 2024 Arrival-May 20 2022 Availability_In Stock Category_Wargames Google-True INV-G INV-T Non-TCG Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_60 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220303 Restock-20220605 Restock-20230625 Restock-20231210 Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6677643886643 Default Title 124.95 HS062 635 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/4729065406515 2021-07-06T11:37:07-04:00 2021-07-06T11:37:07-04:00 Dual Gauge Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 79.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 3-5
Playing Time 60-90 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up
Expansion Dual Gauge: Honshu & Wisconsin Maps 
Dual Gauge: Denmark and England & Wales Maps 
Dual Gauge: Netherlands and Eastern U.S.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: this is a game in which players invest in train companies, build a rail network, and pay out dividends. The player with the most money - cash on hand plus value of their stocks - wins the game, and the publisher didn't even have the decency to put any play money in the box. Yes, friends, it's another choo-choo game, and you're probably wondering what makes it any different than the other choo-choo games on your choo-choo game shelf.

The title Dual Gauge refers to the fact that there are two kinds of track - standard gauge and narrow. Standard is more expensive and more efficient, while narrow gauge is cheaper and rather inefficient. These rectangular track tiles are laid across adjacent hexsides, and all companies are able to utilize a shared track network provided they are connected to it. Different types of track will of course call for different types of trains. Stock purchases put funds in the company coffers, and the company uses this money to pay for track. Trains, on the other hand, are paid for in stock value itself. Those trains can also be "rusted" by the purchase of newer models. Companies can also "token" station spaces on the map, increasing their routes while potentially blocking access for rivals. These, too, are paid for in stock value, by decreasing that value by an entire row in the game's capricious two-dimensional stock market.

This is not only a game, but a game system played on multiple maps. Each map has unique twists, and a set of companies with unique asymmetric abilities. What happened is, Mary told Tom that Tom needed to design a new train game once a year, and Tom thought that sounded like an awful lot of work, and being generally lazy, tried to find a loophole. "Aha! If I design a new train game system, I just need to do a new map or two and that will fulfill Mary's requirement." Tom was already quite deep into the work when Mary explained that this did not in fact satisfy that quota, and so in addition to a new train game every year, Tom also needed to come up with new Dual Gauge maps. "Curses! Foiled again!"

That works out okay for you, though, because that means a continual supply of new and exciting challenges for you and your friends. This base set gets the party started with two maps. Portugal is intended as an introduction to the system, but asks players to contend with difficult mountainous terrain. The challenging Detroit map, set in part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, finds players taking on debt to keep underfunded railroads afloat, all with an eye toward reaching Chicago and its double-route bonus.

Also, there is a cat on the Priority Deal marker.

—description from the publisher

]]> Age_9+ Arrival-Apr 15 2023 Arrival-Aug 23-25 2022 Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Feb 10 2023 Availability_In Stock Google-True INV-D Non-TCG Players Maximum_5 Players Players Minimum_3 Players Playtime Maximum_90 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220530 Restock-20221115 Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20230423 Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/4729065406515 Default Title 79.95 HS057 422 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/4741673320499 2021-07-06T11:36:30-04:00 2021-07-06T11:36:30-04:00 Iberian Gauge Board Games Capstone Games

Vendor: Capstone Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 43.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Capstone Games
Players 3-5
Playtime 60-90 mins
Suggested Age
 12 and up

Description from the publisher:

The morning stretches over the tops of the tall, rugged mountains that dominate the Iberian Peninsula. Hammers ring, iron on iron, fighting stubbornly for every inch of new track against the unforgiving and unyielding terrain. The age of the railroad is coming to Iberia, but it won’t be easy…

In Iberian Gauge, you will invest in railroad companies during Stock Rounds. In the Operating Rounds, each share of stock allows the shareholder to build track for that company, in the order those shares were purchased. But building in such hostile terrain is expensive! Leasing track from other companies reduces cost and keeps your railroads expanding. Failure to expand will sink your stock values, leading to ruin!

]]> Age_9+ Arrival-Apr 15 2022 Arrival-Apr 25 2023 Arrival-Aug 23-25 2022 Arrival-Aug 6 2023 Arrival-Dec 17 2022 Arrival-Dec 3 2023 Arrival-Feb 11 2023 Arrival-Jan 11 2024 Arrival-Jan 20 2023 Arrival-Jan 20 2024 Arrival-Jan 27 2023 Arrival-Jul 15 2023 Arrival-Jun 3 2023 Arrival-Mar 17 2024 Arrival-Mar 26 2023 Arrival-Mar 29 2024 Arrival-May 1 2024 Arrival-May 12 2022 Arrival-Nov 19 2022 Arrival-Oct 29 2022 Arrival-Oct 7 2023 Arrival-Sept 10 2022 Arrival-Sept 14 2022 Arrival-Sept 2 2023 Arrival-Sept 27 2023 Availability_In Stock Category_Strategy Google-True INV-I Non-TCG Players Maximum_5 Players Players Minimum_3 Players Playtime Maximum_90 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220224 Restock-20220409 Restock-20220503 Restock-20220815 Restock-20220825 Restock-20221023 Restock-20221110 Restock-20221201 Restock-20230112 Restock-20230319 Restock-20230416 Restock-20230514 Restock-20230716 Restock-20230730 Restock-20230828 Restock-20230918 Restock-20231119 Restock-20231225 Restock-20240114 Restock-20240310 Restock-20240317 Year Published_2010s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/4741673320499 Default Title 43.95 CSGIR301 1510 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6575004057651 2021-06-20T23:49:06-04:00 2021-06-20T23:49:06-04:00 Dual Gauge: Honshu & Wisconsin Maps Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 3-5
Playing Time 60-90 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up
Expansion For Dual Gauge

This is the first expansion for Amabel Holland's Dual Gauge.

Honshu is a small, cutthroat map for three to four players. Money is tight and the terrain unforgiving. Along the way, you and your opponents will help industrialize Japan's largest island, upgrading low-paying dits into profitable cities. (In fact, failing to do so will result in end-game penalties!) Of course, cities can be tokened, allowing you to create chokepoints on the fly. A nasty, nasty map.

The second map shifts the scene to exotic and fantastical Wisconsin. This is a sprawling "big money" map for three to five players. The major gimmick here is that there are nine 5Ts, and these trains are "diesels" – running as far as you like along a stretch of compatible track. Plan carefully in the early game, and you can end up with a triple-digit run in the last couple Operating Rounds. But an inconvenient change in gauge or station can stop your diesel before it leaves the station.

When the base game came "back in print" in 2021, we added Company Charter cards. Those cards are also included in this expansion for our early adopters.

]]> Age_9+ Arrival-May 20 2022 Availability_Out of Stock INV-D Players Maximum_5 Players Players Minimum_3 Players Playtime Maximum_90 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220224 Restock-20220519 Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240526-Long Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/6575004057651 Default Title 42.95 DGX01 1623 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/4742817284147 2021-02-03T12:58:04-05:00 2021-02-03T12:58:04-05:00 Table Battles: The Grand Alliance Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playing Time 30-45 mins
Expansion For
 Table Battles

The fifth expansion to Tom Russell's popular Table Battles series recreates six battles - two from the Nine Years War and four from the War of the Spanish Succession - the age of Eugene and Marlborough, Villars and Luxembourg. Unique to this set is the introduction of a "link" - a relationship between two formations that mitigates casualties. Some scenarios also allow players to shift unit sticks from one part of the battlefield to another. The six battles are Fleurus, Marsaglia, Chiari, Blenheim, Ramillies, and Denain.

—description from the publisher

]]> 2-Players-Only Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Feb 10 2023 Arrival-Mar 12 2023 Availability_In Stock INV-G INV-T Non-TCG Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_45 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220803 Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20230212 Restock-20230514 Year Published_2020s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/4742817284147 Default Title 42.95 TBX05 1623 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/2261639200819 2019-09-11T11:59:27-04:00 2019-09-11T11:59:27-04:00 With It Or On It Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 79.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up

With It Or On It is the first game in the Shields & Swords Ancients series. Like its medieval era cousin Shields & Swords, this series takes a broad brush approach to simulating battles, this time of the ancient period, with an emphasis on speed and playability. While the basic philosophy and the core system of using Command Markers to activate Wings remains the same, each game in this Ancients line is designed from the ground-up to incorporate elements specific to its period and style of warfare.

This first game looks at six battles fought during the Greco-Persian and Peloponnesian Wars. Hoplite units that are attacking may use the Combat Class of the best hoplite in the line, giving them an advantage over heavy and light infantry formations. As a result of combat, units become exhausted, but these results may be distributed elsewhere in the line - a break occurs when there are no fresh units that can satisfy the result. Break the enemy line at the right time in the right place, and it will crumble in a disastrous rout. Maintaining pressure on the enemy while managing the morale of your own men is crucial to deciding the battle, and with it, the fate of empires.

]]> 2-Players-Only Arrival-Aug 23-25 2022 Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Feb 10 2023 Arrival-May 20 2022 Availability_Out of Stock Category_Wargames Google-True INV-W Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_60 Minutes Playtime Minimum_60 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20220409 Restock-20220619 Restock-20220825 Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20230305 Restock-20240407 Restock-20240526-Long Year Published_2010s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/2261639200819 Default Title 79.95 HS041 2757 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/700209463347 2018-06-11T01:24:17-04:00 2018-06-11T01:24:17-04:00 Table Battles: Age of Alexander Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playtime 15-20 mins
Expansion For Table Battles

By any measure, Alexander III of Macedon was an exemplary military commander. If we believe his propagandists, he was always vastly outnumbered, yet he and his elite army were never defeated, always winning a decisive victory. "It is a sobering thought," says Table Battles designer Tom Russell, "that by the time he was my age, Alexander had conquered the Persian empire, made his incursion into India, founded city after glorious city, and had been dead for four years."

Table Battles: The Age of Alexander recreates that famous Macedonian's major battles, as well as two battles of the Diadochi. In almost all of these battles, the Macedonian Player has no room for error - the routing of a single Formation is often enough to lose the game. The opposing side has more leeway and more sticks, but generally comes up short in the quality department. Careful, nuanced play from both sides is require to stay competitive and to win the day. Most of these are larger engagements, with lots of cards and reactions for each side.

The seven battles in this set are:

Chaeronea (2 August 338 BCE)
Granicus (May 334 BCE)
Issus (5 November 333 BCE)
Gaugamela (1 October 331BCE)
The Hydaspes (May 326BCE)
Gabiene (316BCE)
Ipsus (301BCE)

]]> Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Feb 10 2023 Availability_In Stock Google-True INV-T Non-TCG Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20221002 Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20230305 StoreFront-2P https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/700209463347 Default Title 42.95 TBX02 1623 https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/682549739571 2018-05-31T11:34:32-04:00 2018-05-31T11:34:32-04:00 Table Battles: Wars of the Roses Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 42.95

Designer Amabel Holland
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playtime 30 mins
Expansion For Table Battles

The first expansion to the popular Table Battles is set during the Wars of the Roses. Players generally have fewer morale cubes this time around, meaning that there's less of a margin for error, and a well-timed blow can be much more decisive. There are also some formations with unusual special abilities, such as Edward IV's ability to act as a "wild die" for a friendly formation. As with the base game, good play involves being aware of your own strengths while exploiting the weaknesses of your opponent.

The eight battles in this set are:

First St. Albans (22 May 1455)
Blore Heath (22 September 1459)
Mortimer's Cross (3 February 1461)
Towton (29 March 1461)
Edgecote Moor (26 July 1469)
Barnet (14 April 1471)
Tewkesbury (4 May 1471)
Stoke Field (16 June 1487)

]]> Arrival-Aug 26 2023 Arrival-Mar 12 2023 Arrival-Mar 2 2024 Availability_In Stock Google-True INV-T Non-TCG Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230122 Restock-20230409 Restock-20231126 StoreFront-2P https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/682549739571 Default Title 42.95 TBX01 1510