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City of the Great Machine: Stand-In Heroes

2023-02-21T16:58:20-05:00

Vendor: CrowD Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer	German Tikhomirov
Publisher	CrowD Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	City of the Great Machine
Additional Info	366259/city-great-machine-stand-heroes http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/366259/city-great-machine-stand-heroes/forums/63

The valiant Heroes, represented in the core game, have done their best to resist the Great Machine... but alas have failed. The Stand-In Heroes continue on what their predecessors were struggling for!

The Stand-In Heroes expansion adds 6 new Heroes with exceptional abilities and tactics. Each of them takes place of the corresponding Hero from the core game in their last attempt to stop the Great Machine.

Limited printrun.

City of the Great Machine: The Escalation

2023-02-21T16:57:54-05:00

Vendor: CrowD Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 38.95

Designer	German Tikhomirov
Publisher	CrowD Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	City of the Great Machine
Additional Info	366258/city-great-machine-escalation http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/366258/city-great-machine-escalation/forums/63

The struggle between the Resistance and the Great Machine enters a whole new level. New Heroes with unique abilities join the side of Revolution, while the Great Machine enhances its Servants with powerful implants and sends its new secretly trained Servant into the field. The governmental Surveillance Zeppelin now cruises over the City, opening up new opportunities for both sides of the conflict.

The Escalation expansion consists of 4 separate Modules suitable both for One-vs-Many and Solo & Cooperative play. You may add any of them to your games in various combinations. Each Module combines perfectly with each other and the core game. Also, the expansion offers a challenging Aeterna scenario designed for Solo & Cooperative play.

City of the Great Machine

2023-02-15T22:19:15-05:00

Vendor: CrowD Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 71.95

Designer	German Tikhomirov
Publisher	CrowD Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansions	City of the Great Machine: Stand-In Heroes City of the Great Machine: The Escalation
Additional Info	263895/city-great-machine http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/263895/city-great-machine/forums/63

City of the Great Machine is a strategy game set in a grim universe of technocratic Victorian steampunk. The game features the conflict between the Great Machine, an artificial intelligence network, and an alliance of Heroes. The Great Machine is either controlled by a player or is automated, which completely changes the gameplay.

The Great Machine controls the City built on mobile platforms in the sky. As the Great Machine, the player (or game AI) commands a force of perfected Servants and mechanical Guards. The Great Machine's ultimate goal is to suppress social unrest and complete its grandiose Master Plan to perfect the mankind.

The other players are Heroes working together against the Great Machine to start a revolution. They encourage discontent in the City, enlist the support of famous citizens, and inflame riots. They also attempt to prevent the Great Machine from completing the Master Plan, as it leads to the enslavement of the mankind.

Game features:

City of the Great Machine may be played as One-vs-Many (2-4 players) or cooperatively/solo (1-3 players).
Modular board allows for infinite City layouts. The players may reposition the City Districts during the game.
Hidden movement. Each round, the Heroes secretly choose the Districts they will go to.
Resource management. Both sides of the conflict have multiple actions to take and pay for them in Trust (Heroes) or Bonds (the Great Machine). The same is true for movement and other tasks.
Asymmetric gameplay and unique victory conditions. The Heroes need 3 Riots to win, while the Great Machine strives to complete the Master Plan.
Secrecy. The Heroes need to conceal their plans from the Great Machine, however, they may discuss their intentions only in the presence of the Great Machine.

Deranged

2020-12-01T00:13:41-05:00

Vendor: Hobby World
Type: Board Games
Price: 51.95

Designer	German Tikhomirov
Publisher	Hobby World
Players	3-6
Playing Time	90-180 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	274566/deranged http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/274566/deranged/forums/63

Deranged is a gothic semi-cooperative adventure survival game in which you fight rivals, horrific monsters, and your own inner demons.

In more detail, you must survive in a city for three days and nights, leaving this city uncursed as a human being in order to win. The game is scenario-driven, and you never know when a player — or which player — will turn into a monster (the deranged of the title). The only way to turn back into a human is to kill another player. There is no player elimination, but each death increases the level of doom, with the player receiving a curse or with other bad stuff possibly happening to the group as a whole. You might have better odds of surviving Deranged if you form temporary alliances, but good luck keeping those in place when you might have to kill one another...

Deranged includes deck-building elements, and each player has their own hidden objective. The game board is modular, and the game includes miniatures to represent the players, both as humans and as members of the deranged.