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Side Quest: Frostpunk

2024-09-03T11:36:32-04:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.95

Designer	Jakub Caban Bartosz Idzikowski
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	420948/side-quest-frostpunk http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/420948/side-quest-frostpunk/forums/63

You signed up for this mission knowing that many have failed before. You're leading, what, the umpteenth group of scouts in search of a place to call home? Each day is the same out here — white snow and unbearable cold — but it's the grim and desperate faces of your team that keep you from sleeping. After who knows how long trekking through snow, you finally spot something in the distance, an abandoned generator. You're almost out of provisions, almost out of time. You have six days to make this ruin inhabitable before you have to turn back and report on what you've accomplished. Will this be yet another false light on the horizon, or a new beginning for your people?

Side Quest: Frostpunk provides players with engaging puzzles, an interesting storyline, and difficult decisions. The game tests your creativity, perceptiveness, and ability to think outside the box. It's time to join the expedition to ensure that we have enough resources to survive and keep the generator working!

Side Quest: Frostpunk is a new, exciting puzzle game from the authors of the Escape Tales series, set in the immersive world of Frostpunk - the globally acclaimed video game from 11 Bit Studios.

—description from the publisher

Windmill Valley

2024-07-02T10:19:17-04:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 62.95

Designer	Dani Garcia
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	45-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	403441/windmill-valley http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/403441/windmill-valley/forums/63

It’s the late 19th century, and more than 9000 windmills dot the landscape of the Netherlands, some of them purpose-built to dry the lowlands, called polders. In the polders between these windmills are fields filled with colorful tulips—the flower that once was a part of the turbulent history of the first financial bubble but is now simply a quintessential part of the Dutch landscape, especially on the famous Bloemen Route (or “Flower Route”).

In Windmill Valley , a game inspired by the Bloemen Route, you and up to three players take on the role of tulip farmers and entrepreneurs. You will build and enhance your windmills, look for new tulip bulbs in foreign trades or among local vendors to buy and plant, and try to get an edge with hired help and lucrative contracts. Let your blooming fields make your competitors green with envy!

During their turn, players choose the action by rotating the wheels on their windmill board. During the game they can:

Enhance their wheels, by adding enhancements, to build their engine
Plant tulips in their fields, which will score VP at the end of the game
Build windmills on the main board to activate rewards from adjacent fields
Hire helpers that provide bonuses for certain actions
Get contracts for endgame scoring
Visit the local market and conduct a foreign trade

All in all, Windmill Valley is a lightweight game with quick turns, a smart action-selection mechanism, multiple options to build your engine, and a lovely setting.

—description from the publisher

Nucleum: Australia

2024-01-11T13:38:53-05:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 31.95

Designer	Simone Luciani Dávid Turczi
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-150 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Nucleum
Additional Info	408223/nucleum-australia http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/408223/nucleum-australia/forums/63

Saxony's energy revolution was so impactful that everyone wanted to start using Nucleums in their regions. Australia's huge deposits of uranium were ripe for the taking, leading to visionaries — lured by the vast number of possibilities — visiting the continent and changing it into a new global power. Here, these entrepreneurs have to face new challenges presented by the sheer size of the continent. Fortunately, the clever use of shipping lanes will help them transport resources more efficiently than by rail and even gain access to the nearby island of Tasmania, where a mad scientist conducting his own experiments managed to replicate Elsa's invention, which is now proudly presented as an experimental power plant in the island's capital of Hobart.

Nucleum: Australia comes with a new map that introduces several new concepts and rule changes to the Nucleum base game. Use shipping lanes to expand your networks, build your own coal mines, and try the expert variant with bidding for the experiments.

—description from the publisher

Dark Ages: Holy Roman Empire (Standard Edition)

2023-10-04T03:06:49-04:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 101.95

Designers	Adam Kwapiński Andrei Novac
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playing Time	120-180 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Accessories	Dark Ages: Holy Roman Empire - Playmat Dark Ages - Coin Set Dark Ages - Realistic Resources
Additional Info	304985/dark-ages-holy-roman-empire http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/304985/dark-ages-holy-roman-empire/forums/63

Dark Ages is a historically-based civilization-building game that features an innovative action selection mechanism. As long as your action markers remain on the board, you may be able to gain secondary bonus actions whenever you or another player repeat the action.

While Dark Ages features objectives commonly found in 4X games — encouraging you to explore nearby regions, expand your territory, exploit the resources, and exterminate your opponents — it does so featuring several Euro-centric mechanisms. Collect resources from lands under your control, using them to build up your cities and fortifications. Some building types provide several ways for you to gain important in-game advantages, while others enhance your military strength or simply score you victory points. As you expand your territory, you will lay claim to noble titles, acquire new technologies, and train your military units. Each region and leader offer asymmetrical choices with their unique abilities.

—description from the publisher

Dark Ages: Holy Roman Empire has the same core mechanisms as Dark Ages: Heritage of Charlemagne, but it focuses on Central Europe. As a result, it has a different game board. In addition, the card mixes are different, with different unique Culture Cards for the rulers, technologies and units. Furthermore, Heritage of Charlemagne contains a set of Vassals, which are missing from Holy Roman Empire. Instead, this version has a set of Relics.

The two sets also differ in micro-expansions ("modules") that are included. Holy Roman Empire contains the Crusades and The Pope modules.

Dark Ages: Heritage of Charlemagne (Standard Edition)

2023-10-04T03:02:34-04:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 98.95

Designers	Adam Kwapiński Andrei Novac
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playing Time	120-180 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Accessories	Dark Ages: Heritage of Charlemagne - Playmat Dark Ages - Coin Set Dark Ages - Realistic Resources
Additional Info	295535/dark-ages-heritage-charlemagne http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/295535/dark-ages-heritage-charlemagne/forums/63

Dark Ages is a historically-based civilization-building game that features an innovative action selection mechanism. As long as your action markers remain on the board, you may be able to gain secondary bonus actions whenever you or another player repeat the action.

While Dark Ages features objectives commonly found in 4X games — encouraging you to explore nearby regions, expand your territory, exploit the resources, and exterminate your opponents — it does so featuring several Euro-centric mechanisms. Collect resources from lands under your control, using them to build up your cities and fortifications. Some building types provide several ways for you to gain important in-game advantages, while others enhance your military strength or simply score you victory points. As you expand your territory, you will lay claim to noble titles, acquire new technologies, and train your military units. Each region and leader offer asymmetrical choices with their unique abilities.

Dark Ages is actually two games: Western Europe (subtitled Heritage of Charlemagne) and Central Europe (subtitled Holy Roman Empire). While both versions feature identical gameplay, each focuses its attention on a specific part of Europe during the Dark Ages (Western and Central, respectively). As a result, the game board maps differ between the two versions, as do the lands in which players vie for control over along with the flavor of the inhabitants and leaders of those lands. However, by combining both versions, you can enlarge the map into an epic battle for superiority for five or more players!

Each game box is filled with finely sculpted miniatures of cities, fortresses, farms, and other buildings. The different types of troops — infantry, bowmen, and cavalry — are represented by unique miniatures.

The solo mode for Dark Ages has been designed by Dávid Turczi.

—description from the publisher

La Granda (La Granja: Deluxe Master Set Upgrade)

2023-09-14T03:27:52-04:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 79.95

Note: Game is not included

"La Granda" is an additional box filled with colossal components: boards, buildings and player markers, dice, and more! Play your games of "La Granja" in a truly epic scale!"

The box is 40x38x10 cm large; the board game is 96x96 cm instead of 56x56 cm large; components, dice and other features are up to 30% bigger.

A copy of "La Granja Deluxe Master Set" is needed to play.

The cards, some of the tokens (such as the Donkey Tiles), player markers (to mark wares delivered to cards), and a few more components of the base game are needed.

SideQuest: Nemesis

2023-09-05T09:40:56-04:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.95

Designer	Jakub Caban Bartosz Idzikowski
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	387538/sidequest-nemesis http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/387538/sidequest-nemesis/forums/63

Captain Jessica Kowalski's crew has been offered another offer from the Corporation. Apparently, a ship carrying a precious load vanished a few weeks ago. The mission was simple: locate the ship, assess the situation and make sure the cargo reaches Earth. However, the last log entry was rather unsettling. She recorded: the AI of the ship detected alien lifeforms, labelled Intruders, aboard. Silence is scarier than usual…

SideQuest: Nemesis is a game of puzzles and enigmas by the designers of the Escape Tales series, but now in the Nemesis universe. SideQuest: Nemesis offers captivating puzzles, an interesting scenario and difficult choices to make while under pressure. The game will test your creativity, your perception, your open-mindedness. Be aware the silence aboard is not a good sign and intruders are hiding in the darkness. Complete your mission and avoid being contaminated at all costs!

SideQuest: 7th Sea

2023-09-05T09:40:55-04:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.95

Designer	Jakub Caban Bartosz Idzikowski
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	392372/sidequest-7th-sea http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/392372/sidequest-7th-sea/forums/63

Hurry! From what you've heard in the inn the Dragonsteel Shield can be found in Nüllrode, but the Inquisition is already on their way! You're lucky they chose to use the roads – you can overtake them using the shortcut. A few hours, two terrified settlements, and one totally honorable saber duel later, you are here. The village looks boring, but there is an old, pagan chapel, seemingly sealed tightly. Sneaking in is not an option, so it's time to get these doors open!

Get inside the chapel and reach for treasure before others! SideQuest: 7th Sea is an escape room-style game set in the world of well-known TTRPG system 7th Sea, published by Chaosium.

Nucleum

2023-09-05T09:38:36-04:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 72.95

Designer	Simone Luciani Dávid Turczi
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-150 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion	Nucleum: Australia
Additional Info	396790/nucleum http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/396790/nucleum/forums/63

When Elsa von Frühlingfeld presented her invention to King Frederik Augustus II of Saxony, people thought it was trickery. She used the recently isolated element Uranium to heat up a jar of water and used the resulting steam to power an engine that kept the Uranium active via a process she called “atomization.” Her device, the Nucleum, ushered in a new era of energy and prosperity over the next decades. Saxony went from a minor regional power to the hub of European science and engineering. Now, a generation later, factories are still hungry for more power, demanding bigger and more Nucleums to be built, more Uranium imported from the nearby country of Bohemia, and railways and power lines built across the country to carry the tamed power of the atoms to Saxony’s great cities. Inventors, engineers, and industrialists flock to the Saxon court, vying to be the leader in this new industrial revolution.

Nucleum is a heavy euro board game in which players take role of industrialists trying to succeed during the economic and technological boom of 19th-century Saxony, fueled by the invention and spread of the Nucleum (a nuclear reactor).

Players earn victory points by developing their networks, building and powering urban buildings, securing contracts, and meeting milestones (randomized endgame goals). Each player also gets unique asymmetric technologies, giving them special powers when unlocked. Gameplay is continuous; players take turns one after another with no rounds or phases.

—description from the publisher

Barcelona

2023-06-19T10:19:34-04:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 64.95

Designer	Dani Garcia
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	383607/barcelona http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/383607/barcelona/forums/63

It's the mid-19th century. The city of Barcelona is the most densely populated city in all of Europe. Shortly after the old city walls were finally destroyed, Ildefons Cerdà, who is now considered the inventor of urbanism, presented the plan for the creation of the "Eixample", the expansion that Barcelona so desperately needed. Its construction began in 1860.

In Barcelona, you will take on the role of builders in 19th-century Barcelona who are working on the new expansion to the city. Your main goal is to construct buildings to accommodate the citizens who want to leave the old city, and in the process, you will also build streets, create tram lines, and build public services. You may even decide to explore "Modernisme", a new architectural and arts style that has been gaining popularity among the rich.

Barcelona is played over a variable number of rounds interrupted by three scoring phases before a final scoring phase. Every round, each player takes a single turn consisting of two or more actions, a building phase, and then preparation for their next turn. At the end of the game, the player with the most points wins.

—description from the publisher

La Granja: Deluxe Master Set

2022-12-27T10:45:17-05:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 94.95

Designer	Michael Keller (II) Andreas "ode." Odendahl Tony Boydell Stefan Feld Błażej Kubacki Adam Kwapiński Andrei Novac
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	341945/la-granja-deluxe-master-set http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/341945/la-granja-deluxe-master-set/forums/63

La Granja: Deluxe Master Set is an upgraded and expanded version of the 2014 game La Granja in which 1–4 players manage small farms by the Alpich pond near the village of Esporles on Majorca.

The players must carefully consider the decisions of which dice to draft, which cards to play, when and where to deliver goods to various markets, and how best to utilize the flexible powers afforded by several "anytime" actions.

The multi-use cards offer four different options for players to choose from. Decide whether you want to use the card as an extension to your fields (increasing your ability to grow olives, grain, or grapes), as an extension to your farm (increasing the number of pigs you can house, the deliveries you can make, or the coins you will earn each round), as a market barrow (providing a personal contract you can fulfill for valuable rewards), or as a hired helper (each providing a unique and powerful ability to improve your actions).

Game Round

Each game round follows a consistent and simple structure.

Farm Phase
Play a farm card (optional)
Draw new card(s)
Take income
Farm growth (harvest goods and pigs)
Purchase roof markers (optional)

Revenue Phase
Roll revenue dice
Draft a revenue die and perform the associated action (in turn order; repeated once)
Common action (undrafted revenue die)

Transportation Phase
Choose donkey marker
Advance on siesta track and reset turn order
Deliver goods to common markets in the village, or to fulfill personal contracts

Scoring Phase
Score victory points based on your position on the siesta track
Reset the siesta track

At the end of the sixth game round, the game ends, wherafter the players convert remaining farm goods and coin into victory points. The player with the most victory points is crowned the winner.

Deluxe Master Set

While La Granja Deluxe Master Set reimplements the beloved original game, it also adds a lot of never-before seen content, including modular expansion content designed by Michael Keller and Andreas "ode." Odendahl themselves.

Additional expansion modules have been designed by Stefan Feld, Adam Kwapiński, and Andrei Novac.

Many others have also participated in designing promo cards for La Granja Deluxe Master Set, including Tony Boydell, Mike Murphy, and David Waybright.

This Deluxe Master Set features brand new artwork, redesigned multi-layer player boards, high quality upgraded components, metal coins, and more.

—description from the publisher

Origins: Ancient Wonders

2022-12-17T08:34:56-05:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 20.95

Designer	Adam Kwapiński
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	363480/origins-ancient-wonders http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/363480/origins-ancient-wonders/forums/63

Ancient Wonders is an expansion to Origins: First Builders and consists of two separate modules which can be added to your game separately or together.

Ancient Wonders
This module enables a new type of building that can be added to your city, eight majestic ancient wonders that bring more variability and options to the game.

Trials of the Builders
End-of-round scoring objectives require you to find the right balance between pursuing advancements required by the current round objective versus progressing the personal goals you have set for your civilization already. This module also brings a predetermined length to the game, eliminating all other end game conditions.

—description from the publisher

Tiletum

2022-11-29T09:30:42-05:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 62.95

Designer	Simone Luciani Daniele Tascini
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-100 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	351913/tiletum http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/351913/tiletum/forums/63

In Tiletum, you and fellow players take on the roles of rich merchants traveling throughout Europe, from Flanders to Venice, during the Golden Age of the Renaissance.

You will travel to various cities to acquire trade contracts for wool and iron, as well as a collection of their coats of arms. You must collect the required resources to fulfill contracts, invest in the construction of monumental cathedrals, gain the favor of noble families, and participate in important fairs where your main business occurs. You will also use the services of notable people who will be welcomed into your houses. You will thus gain prestige that will make you the most famous merchant of the Renaissance.

Tiletum is a dice management game in which dice have a dual function: gaining resources and performing actions. A certain number of dice will be rolled each round. On your turn, choose a die to gain the number of corresponding resources equal to the value of the die, then perform the associated action. The power of the action is inversely proportional to the value of the die, so the fewer resources you gain, the more powerful the actions you take and vice versa.

Terracotta Army

2022-11-29T09:30:00-05:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 72.95

Designer	Przemysław Fornal Adam Kwapiński
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	350458/terracotta-army http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/350458/terracotta-army/forums/63

Emperor Qin Shi Huang has passed away. To protect him in the afterlife, a great army in the form of statues of faithful warriors must be assembled to stand guard in the Emperor's tomb. You will be among those tasked with building this magnificent army.

In Terracotta Army, you represent talented craftsmen and artists laboring to build the wondrous assembly of statues. During the game, you collect resources, upgrade your workers, and seek favor with the Emperor's advisors. Your goal is to play a crucial role in the process of creating the terracotta army, and your success is measured in victory points (VPs). During the game, you and your fellow players build the army together, but after the fifth round of the game is over, only one of you — the one with the most points — will stand as the winner.

During the game, you place warrior miniatures within the mausoleum, forming groups. A group's miniatures may belong to multiple players as denoted by the player bases on those miniatures. Multiple separate groups consisting of the same type of miniature may exist within the mausoleum.

You will have many opportunities to score points based on domination and presence. To achieve domination, you must be the only player with the most of the specific resource or type of statue currently being scored. (If you are the only player, you have domination.) To have presence, you must have at least one of the specific resource or type of statue currently being scored.

At the end of the fifth round, the player with the most VPs wins.

Nightmare Cathedral

2022-04-11T15:21:17-04:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 189.95

Designer	Błażej Kubacki
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	357659/nightmare-cathedral http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/357659/nightmare-cathedral/forums/63

Nightmare Cathedral prominently features the haunting artwork by the late polish surrealist painter and sculptor Zdzisław Beksiński.

Nightmare Cathedral is a strategy game for 1–4 players, where victory is gained by controlling the map, managing resources, following objectives and selecting when to engage in fast and furious conflicts to gain strategic advantage. Over the course of the game, you will perform actions — and follow the actions of other players — to produce units, build fortifications, maneuver around the map, and spend your followers to climb the ritual track. Throughout the game, a haunting Cathedral will grow in the center of the board, and once it is completed, you will face — and gain the ability to control! — the physical manifestations of nightmares that are released upon the world. Nightmare Cathedral is a game of both strategy and tactics, where finding clever ways to follow your objectives and combining different strategies is the ultimate route to victory.

Each player has a set of Action cards. These Action cards display various effects that may be activated either on that player's own turn, or as a reaction when other players perform that action. When you are the Active Player, you will move your Dreamer to a Day space that is not adjacent to its current Night space and perform the Action associated with that Day space, as outlined on your own Action card.
Inactive Players may react to your chosen Day Action.

The game is divided into two stages. During the first stage, the titular Nightmare Cathedral is built, piece by piece, as the game progresses. Once the final Cathedral piece is placed on the main board, the Nightmare Cathedral is finished, at which point the game transitions to the second stage. From this moment on, Nightmares, powerful beings channeling the presence of the completed Cathedral, enter the game board, Devouring Units in their path. However, as a player, you may also take actions to control a Nightmare, Commanding it to do your bidding.

The game end is triggered in one of the following ways:

The Time marker reaches a certain space on the Time track.
A single player reaches the final step of the Ritual track.
A certain number of Units have been devoured.

Tabannusi: Builders of Ur

2021-12-27T09:13:49-05:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.95

Designers	David Spada Daniele Tascini
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playing Time	120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	316786/tabannusi-builders-ur http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/316786/tabannusi-builders-ur/forums/63

Set in ancient Mesopotamia, a cradle of civilization, at a time when the location of Ur was a coastal region, players work to build the Great City of Ur, expand its districts, and establish themselves as powerful builders.

Tabannusi: Builders of Ur features a stunning board showing the city of Ur divided into 5 regions, each tied to a specific color die. There are 3 building districts, 1 temple district, and 1 port district.

Each turn, your worker will activate one of these districts. When activating a district, you must first take a die from the district. This die matches the color of the district and serves two functions:

1) The die itself becomes a resource of its color.
2) The value of the die determines which district your worker will activate on the following turn.

Through various actions you will be able to expand your influence in the various districts, expanding construction sites and turning them into buildings to score valuable victory points. But you will also exert your influence in the temple district in order to earn the king's favor. In the port district you can obtain ships with important abilities and for scoring victory points.

You must spend your actions wisely and always make sure that you keep an eye on the general timing of the game. The moment a district is emptied of dice, a scoring will occur.

—description from publisher

Origins: First Builders

2021-12-27T09:11:56-05:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.95

Designer	Adam Kwapiński
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playing Time	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Honors	2022 American Tabletop Complex Games Recommended
Expansion	Loot Box #1
Additional Info	322588/origins-first-builders http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/322588/origins-first-builders/forums/63

They came to this planet, and they chose you. They uplifted your people and promised great prosperity. They provided the wisdom and the resources to build your cities sky high. They taught you the ways of culture, science, and warfare. They promised knowledge for any willing to learn. Come, Archon, guide your citizens to victory, under the watchful eyes of the Builders, our benefactors from beyond the skies above.

In Origins: First Builders, you are an archon, guiding a population of freemen, influencing the construction of buildings and monuments, climbing the three mighty zodiac temples, and taking part in an arms race — all in an effort to leave the greatest mark on mankind's ancient history.

You start the game with a city consisting of just two building tiles: the Agora tile and the Palace tile. As the game develops, your city will grow in both size and strength as you add new building tiles, each of which has a special ability that triggers when it is first added to a city and when closing a district. Your placement on the military track indicates the rewards you receive when you attack and your chances of becoming first player.

Origins: First Builders is played over a number of rounds, with a round ending only after each player has passed. If a game end condition has not yet been triggered, the game continues with a new round. On your turn, you perform one of the following actions:

• Visit an encounter site with your workers to gain resources and additional citizen or speaker dice, advance on the zodiac temple tracks (and potentially gain zodiac cards), and advance and attack on the military track.

• Close a district, gaining victory points (VPs) and possibly gold for matching a district card's building pattern, additional bonuses based on the buildings you activate, and additional VPs at the end of the game based on the value of the citizen die you use to close the district.

• Build a tower level to increase your endgame scoring based on the tower heights and the matching color dice you use to close your districts.

• Grow your population.

• Pass.

The game finishes at the end of the round when one or more of the following conditions has been met:

At most three colors of tower disks are still in stock.
No gold remains above any district card.
No citizen die of the proper color can be added to the citizen offer.
A player has moved all three of their zodiac disks to the top space of each temple track.

The temple area is divided into three tracks: the sea temple, the forest temple, and the mountain temple. You score points only for your two least-valued temples, and once all the points have been summed, whoever has the most VPs wins.

Founders of Teotihuacan

2021-12-27T09:08:40-05:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 47.95

Designer	Filip Głowacz
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	345088/founders-teotihuacan http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/345088/founders-teotihuacan/forums/63

Travel back in time to the founding of one of the greatest cities of Mesoamerica and become a part of its history once again. Design the foundations of a great pre-Columbian civilization, with its buildings, temples, and a grand pyramid in the center. Find perfect locations for production buildings and great temples, and build the might of the great pyramid overlooking your city. Establish yourself as the very best among competing architects, and your project will secure you a spot among the great Founders of Teotihuacan!

Founders of Teotihuacan is a strategy game where you compete against your friends to create the best design of the city of Teotihuacan. Over the course of three to four rounds you will place your action disks to the main board, forming towers of varying strength, strategically use the bonuses they offer, and construct temples, resource buildings and the pyramid central to your project of Teotihuacan. You will balance generating resources and using them, as finding good locations on your city board becomes increasingly more difficult, and you will try to outwit your opponents, making use of an innovative and interactive action system. Finally, once the eclipse comes, all designs will be assessed and the player with the most points will win and become the architect to join the ranks of Founders of Teotihuacan!

Founders of Teotihuacan is a stand-alone game, related to Teotihuacan: City of Gods only by the shared setting of the ancient city of Teotihuacan. Thematically, the events in Founders takes place at an earlier time in history, while what was to become a magnificent city was yet in its infancy and only few inhabited the area.

On your turn, you must either perform an Action or pass. To perform an Action, place between 1 and 3 of your Action disks on an Action space on the Main board that already contains at least one disk (minimum a Bonus disk and possibly also opponent disk(s)), and carry out a corresponding Action. The Action disk(s) should be placed on top of the disk(s) already on that space, forming a stack. Each Action space can hold a maximum of 4 Action disks—including Bonus disks!

Your personal player board is divided into four Districts or quadrants. Buildings and Temples can only be placed within the two Districts closest to your Architect. Pyramid tiles can only be placed within the six Pyramid squares closest to your Architect. Your Action Strength is equal to the total number of disks (whether yours, an opponent’s disks, or Bonus disks) on an Action space.

After performing an Action (not when passing), move your Architect clockwise to the next side of your Player board, signifying
the end of your turn. This changes your Architect's Reach for your next turn. After all players have passed, the current round ends.

After the game has ended, players score additional Victory Points for how well their Districts complement their Pyramid.

—description from the publisher

Mandala Stones

2020-12-27T00:09:56-05:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designer	Filip Głowacz
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	2-4
Playing Time	30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion	Mandala Stones: Harmony
Additional Info	317504/mandala-stones http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/317504/mandala-stones/forums/63

Welcome to Mandala Stones, a game of tranquility and beauty! Arrange colorful stones to create a stunning work of art together with your friends. However, while there are many creators, there can be only one winner. Influence artists, positioning them cleverly on the main board, to form towers out of collected Stones, which you then display onto the mandala board at an opportune moment to score Victory Points.

Mandala Stones is played over a number of rounds. Each round, beginning with the starting player and continuing clockwise until around the table, every player will take one turn. The game will conclude at the end of the round during which the end-game condition is triggered, thus giving all players an equal number of turns. The player with the most Victory Points is the winner.

On your turn, you must perform one of two possible actions: PICK or SCORE.

PICK
Choose one Artist and move it to a different position on the board. Then, take all adjacent Stones that match the pattern of the Artist you selected and are not adjacent to any other Artists.

Collected Stones are gathered in towers on your player board, waiting to be scored on a future turn.

SCORE
Decide whether to score a color or to score any top Stones.

When scoring a color, you must choose a colored shared by the top Stones of at least 2 towers on your player board. Their patterns do not matter, as long as the Stones themselves are of the same color. Score each such tower individually, according to the rule depicted next to it on your player board.

When using the option to score any top Stones, select any number of Stones from the tops of your towers and score 1 Victory Point for each selected Stone. The individual colors and patterns of these Stones do not matter.

All scored Stones, regardless of option chosen, are placed on a central Mandala board, where you may score additional Victory Points by covering spaces with special markings.

END OF THE GAME
If a Stone is placed on the Mandala board covering a space showing a number of hands equal to the number of players — finish the round, thus giving all players an equal number of turns. Finally, each player has the opportunity to score one of the two Objective cards that were dealt to them during setup.

The player with the most Victory Points is the winner!

Tawantinsuyu: The Inca Empire

2020-05-15T17:57:08-04:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 51.95

Designer	Dávid Turczi
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playing Time	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion	Loot Box #1
Additional Info	306481/tawantinsuyu-inca-empire http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/306481/tawantinsuyu-inca-empire/forums/63

The great Sapa Inca Pachacuti turned to his offspring and ordered them to worship Inti, the Sun God, and to expand the Inca Empire as far as the llamas roam. With Chinchaysuyu, Antisuyu, Qullasuyu, and Kuntisuyu — the four regions of the new empire — now ripe for conquest, the time has come for Pachacuti's true successor to arise.

Gather your people from the villages below and use their unique abilities to strategically place them where they can perform the greatest tasks for you. Climb the steps of the Sun Temple, reaping the rewards of your piety. Build structures that both nourish your people and provide you with benefits no other has at their disposal. Muster an army and conquer villages in the four realms of Tawantinsuyu. Prove yourself a worthy successor to Pachacuti and lead the Inca to glory!

During Tawantinsuyu: The Inca Empire, players place workers onto various locations on the game board, performing actions, collecting resources (potatoes, corn, stone, and gold), constructing buildings and stairs, sculpt statues, expanding their military strength, and collecting weavings.

The game board features a hill located within the old Inca capital of Cusco, the sides of which are terraced and divided into five sections. Atop the hill sits the Coricancha, The Golden Temple, the most important temple of the Inca Empire. Within the Coricancha, each player has a High Priest. On the terraced sections below exist a variety of worker placement locations, interconnected by paths and individually marked by symbols. On your turn, you must either place a worker onto a location outside the Coricancha OR choose two of the following:

Recruit one worker.
Take two god cards.
Draw two army cards and keep one of them.
Move your High Priest one or two steps clockwise within the Coricancha.

When placing a worker, you must first discard a god card with a matching symbol or pay one gold. Once placed, the worker remains on the game board for the rest of the game! Each worker placement location is connected to exactly three action spaces. You must always perform at least one of these actions. However, for each adjacent worker (i.e., connected to your worker's location via direct path through one of the action spaces) that matches the type of worker just placed, you receive one additional action!

While some locations will result in you being able to perform multiple actions, other actions and placements may be more desirable, especially since each of the five types of workers has a unique ability:

Warrior: Remove one of the adjacent workers, placing it in your player area.
Craftsman: Gain +1 action if placed onto a craftsman space.
Architect: Gain +1 action if placed onto an architect space.
Courier: Decreased placement cost; +1 action if it's the first worker placed within a given area.
Priest: Take one god card; you may pay one potato to gain +1 action.

All god cards feature one of the different symbols found on the worker placement locations. Before placing a worker, you must either discard a god card with a matching symbol or pay valuable gold resources. God cards also depict special abilities that can be activated only if you have previously built a matching statue!

Army cards allow you to send one or more units to conquer villages in nearby regions. You must compete against the other players for control of each region as well as for valuable rewards that can be gained as a result of military conquest.

The position of your High Priest within the Coricancha has a significant impact on your overall strategy, affecting your access to powerful actions and determining any potential resource costs when placing your workers. More specifically, when placing a worker, you must pay additional resources the farther your worker is from your High Priest, from nothing all the way up to eight potatoes or corn!

Additionally, when moving your High Priest, you can activate powerful actions available only within the Coricancha:

Produce: Gain all rewards from your production buildings.
Worship: Sacrifice previously sculpted statues to gain permanent temple advancements.
Offering: Pay resources to gain temple advancements.
Conquer: Engage in military conquest of nearby villages.
Rejuvenate: Refresh previously activated buildings and military units.

Throughout the game, you score victory points whenever you construct stairs or sculpt statues. Gain bonus victory points whenever another player makes use of the stairs you have constructed. Score victory points from temple advancements and control of the four regions.

The game ends when the worker pool has become exhausted, symbolizing the full incorporation of nearby regions and villages into the newly risen Inca Empire. You then score bonus victory points from reaching the top of the temple, from your woven tapestries, and from various buildings and resources you have accumulated.

—description from publisher

Sierra West

2019-06-05T13:37:34-04:00

Vendor: Board&Dice
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer	Jonny Pac Cantin
Publisher	Board&Dice
Players	1-4
Playtime	40-60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	257066/sierra-west http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257066/sierra-west/forums/63

In the late 1840s, thousands of pioneers headed out West to seek wealth and opportunity. Many of these brave souls traveled by wagon over the Sierra Nevada mountain range, into what would soon become the Golden State of California. In the game Sierra West, you are an expedition leader who must guide a party of rough-and-ready pioneers—employing a clever mix of strategy and tactics with each step.

Sierra West comes with four sets of special cards and parts, each of which can be combined with the game's basic components to create a unique mode of play. During setup, the players choose a mode, then build a mountain of overlapping cards with the corresponding deck. Each mode adds new thematic content, alternate paths to victory, and interesting twists on the core mechanics.

The four included modules are:

Apple Hill
Gold Rush
Boats & Banjos
Outlaws & Outposts

Overview of Play
At the start of each turn, you will overlap and arrange three cards into your player board—exposing and concealing a selection of the action icons available on them. This will create two unique paths for your pioneers to follow. Next, you will move your pioneers across their paths from left to right, performing a series of small actions. Common actions include: claiming cards from the mountain, building cabins, gaining resources, and advancing your wagon. Additional actions are brought into the game by the chosen mode—such as: harvesting apples, mining for gold, fishing, and fighting outlaws. As your pioneers complete their paths, they will gain access to the action spaces on the upper portions of your cards. On these, you will be able to exchange resources for to advance on the wagon trail and homestead tracks, or activate other special abilities unique to the mode.

As the game continues—and more cards are removed from the mountain—new and exciting things are discovered! Each piece of the mountain is either a card that can be gained to improve your deck, or a special card that is added to a face-up row at the mountain’s base. As this row extends, more of the mode’s opportunities and challenges come into play. For example, in Boats & Banjos mode, the row is a river that offers more fishing and gold panning options as time goes on.

Sierra West can be set up and played in under an hour, often leaving people with the desire to play it again right away—especially to explore the other modes! It is a highly thematic Eurogame that offers a truly novel and satisfying spin on action-programming, worker-placement, and deck-building.

Includes solo mode by Dávid Turczi.

—Description from the publisher