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StegegetS PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:29:51-04:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.95

Designer	Jon Manker
Publisher	Ion Game Design
Players	2-6
Playtime	20-60 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	349748/stegegets http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/349748/stegegets/forums/63

ETA Q4 2023

StegegetS is a roll and write game set in space. Easy enough for the whole family to enjoy. All players use the same common, beautiful map-sheet for writing and creating a memorable score image.

Roll the 7 dice to get combinations that lets you land on the available planets, moons, and other objects in our solar system. Draw directly on the sheet to show where you go and what you score. When you landed somewhere it becomes your spot, no one else can score for that combination.
When you land you also collect water resources to be able to roll more times and collect points to be able to win. If you want you can use your roll to instead invest in technology, to get various bonuses for the remainder of the game. This makes you more likely to reach the more difficult places to land on in our solar system and find the really high points.

Vendel to Viking PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:27:41-04:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 72.95

Designer	Jon Manker
Publisher	Ion Game Design
Players	1-6
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	357724/vendel-viking http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/357724/vendel-viking/forums/63

ETA Q4 2023

Vendel to Viking is a standalone prequel to Pax Viking for 1 to 6 players. While inspired by the clever mechanisms of Pax Viking, Vendel to Viking includes some significant differences in the game system as well as taking players back to the centuries prior to the Viking era. In Vendel to Viking, you are immersed in Nordic culture between 550 to 800 CE as you build your family’s legacy with every turn.

You represent a family in one of the Nordic cultures that evolves into one of the prominent families of the Viking era. Each turn represents a generation and you seek to include the best formidable persons in your family as you evolve from generation to generation. You place family members on the map and use them for accessing different effects in various locations, such as worker actions or for even elevating them into a formidable person. When elevated to status, the family member is linked to a character card taken from a market and moved to an achievement tree. The Character goes to your family board and both their presence in the achievement tree and on the family board affects your family’s opportunities for the rest of the game.

You must plan well before the centuries run out! The first to hold two Future-level achievements in the achievement tree wins. If no player manages to do so before a set number of turns, the one with the most points wins.

In addition to having a robust Solo Mode, the end state of Vendel to Viking will interface with the starting state of a game of Pax Viking making it possible to play the two games as a Campaign.

Smarter than a Monkey PRE-ORDER

2024-09-03T11:27:41-04:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer	Jon Manker
Publisher	Ion Game Design
Players	2-8
Playtime	30-60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	349607/smarter-monkey http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/349607/smarter-monkey/forums/63

ETA Q4 2023

A quiz game for the whole family where the question goes to the one who bets the highest! All questions are written in a manner where you have 4 alternatives that are true or false. A Monkey would on average get 2 right. So you need to have 3 out of 4 to be Smarter than a Monkey.

The questions are revealed in parts and you bet bananas to gain the right to answer the question. If your answer is correct you win the bananas. Most bananas in the end wins! The base game can be expanded with question expansions. Along with this first version, one expansion will be made available: Smarter than a Monkey - The Solar System.

Pax Viking Junior

2023-12-27T14:51:20-05:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.95

Designer	Jon Manker
Publisher	Ion Game Design
Players	2-6
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	378917/pax-viking-junior http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/378917/pax-viking-junior/forums/63

True, some Vikings lived as robbers, but most of them were doing well as great farmers, traders and explorers. And the Vikings were true animal lovers. Above all, they liked cats. Freya, one of the strongest gods in the Norse fairy tales who had her own Valhalla called Folkvang, had a chariot pulled by two cats.

How to play
Viking ship had cats with them on the voyages, across seas and along rivers. In Pax Viking Junior, you are such a cat family! On a Viking ship traveling across seas and along rivers.
You win by collecting silver, gold and jewels and by making friends among other animals around Europe. The exact combination you need differs from game to game, so you can many times with different experiences.

—description from publisher

High Frontier 4 All - Tools 1

2023-12-27T14:49:26-05:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Justin Grey Geoff Speare
Publisher	Ion Game Design
Players	1-5
Expansion For	High Frontier 4 All
Additional Info	413405/high-frontier-4-all-tools-1 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/413405/high-frontier-4-all-tools-1/forums/63

Tools 1 is a player aid pack.

It includes;

72 Cards for Tracking Futures and other things (for M1-4)
Jump Start Rulebook with 48 technology cards
Extensive Card and Map Quick Guides
Extra Aqua & Isotope counter tokens

StegegetS Moomin

2023-11-01T10:35:47-04:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Jon Manker
Publisher	Ion Game Design
Players	2-6
Playtime	20-60 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	369623/stegegets-moomin http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/369623/stegegets-moomin/forums/63

In the roll-and-write game StegegetS Moomin, you will find many characters from the Moominvalley. As a player, you travel around Moominvalley to visit them on picnics in nature and to collect treasures — jam, marmalade, and such — given to you by them from their earth cellars.

Moomin is a globally famous and loved story world. The plot in these stories often includes excursions and trips in their valley, and this idea was used as inspiration for the story behind the mechanisms in StegegetS Moomin, which centers around a map of the Moominvalley, as depicted in the stories from the 1950s and 1960s.

—description from the designer

High Frontier 4 - Spectral Factories

2021-07-06T11:37:23-04:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 15.95

A set of factory cubes that show the Spectral type of the Site where they were built.

Pax Viking

2020-12-27T00:10:47-05:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 73.95

Designer	Jon Manker
Publisher	Ion Game Design
Players	1-6
Playing Time	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Accessory	Pax Viking Metal Coins
Additional Info	303954/pax-viking http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/303954/pax-viking/forums/63

Pax Viking is a strategic, historical card game for 1-6 players age 12 and up, about the less known Vikings, those who travelled eastwards. These came primarily from Sweden and were for the most part merchants. They were skillful opportunists both in matter of silver and axes. Ready to use whichever works best as a tool in the current situation they encountered. They did so with the same adventurous explorer mindset found among the westward travelling Vikings, and reached far to the south and east in their journeys, forming many strong connections, founding societies and future empires on their way.

In Pax Vikings you represent a Jarl, one of the powerful leaders in the nordics during the 10th century that may have had ambitions towards ruling Sweden. The game takes place just before the turn of the previous millennia. Your goal is to build your family's power through trade, personal connections and smart, but sometimes deceitful actions. With the ultimate goal to become the first King to rule Sweden.

There are 4 main paths that history may take. During the game you will strive to have a high reputation in one or more of these.

Sweden - through a stronger centralized ruling where Sweden becomes a unified country, with a heavier emphasis on trade and networking.
Rus - where the new strong areas in the east, founded by the Swedish Vikings, becomes a closer part of the Swedish Viking culture, and eventually a part of Sweden.
Theocracy - by succumbing to the growing and expansionist political system Christianity, which is spreading throughout Europe.
Jarldom - sticking to the more raiding-oriented, decentralized Jarldom structure, that has served your culture well during centuries.

The window of opportunity to win comes through the Event cards. Every time an Event card is played during a winter-action it will include a check-for-win for one or more of the 4 paths.

—description from the publisher

High Frontier 4 All

2020-12-27T00:09:10-05:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 109.95

Designers	Phil Eklund Justin Grey Jon Manker Dom Rougier
Publisher	Sierra Madre Games
Players	1-5
Playing Time	30-240 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansions	High Frontier 4 All: Module 1 - Terawatt & Futures High Frontier 4 All: Module 2 - Colonization High Frontier 4 All: Module 3 – Conflict High Frontier 4 All: Module 4 – Exodus High Frontier 4 All: 6th Player Component Kit High Frontier 4 All - Tools 1 High Frontier 4 All: Promo Pack 2 – Achievements
Accessories	High Frontier 4 All - Neoprene Mat High Frontier 4 All Map High Frontier Spectral Factories
Honors	2020 Golden Geek Heavy Game of the Year Nominee
Additional Info	281655/high-frontier-4-all http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/281655/high-frontier-4-all/forums/63

The 4th edition of Phil Eklund's signature game High Frontier. It all started with Rocket Flight. This game had the ambition to let "Each player start as a space faring company in the year 2020 trying to make a profit in trade and technology development." We are now at 2020 and High Frontier 4 All will turn High Frontier into an game system open for additions and modules. This will enable the active and brilliant community around High Frontier to continuously evolve it.

The game comes in a Core box, which contains the previous edition's basic and advanced rules. The rules have been given a complete overhaul in order to make them watertight and accessible. Modules of additional game content will be published over time that adds gameplay and mechanics to the game.

In High Frontier you represent a space enterprise, in the near future, spanning about 100 years from now. Your goal is to initiate the exploration and industrialization of the solar system. The game has several variants but the main goal is to build factories on various locations in the solar system. To do this you need to be smart when developing technologies and daring but precise when navigating the solar system with your space craft. High Frontier's iconic map is the most complete representation of the solar system in any game ever published and your options and combinations for strategies are next to limitless.

Transition rules are included so that High Frontier works as an independent 4th stage in the Bios:Earth trilogy (Bios:Genesis, Bios:Megafauna and Bios:Origins) about the evolution of life on our planet.

—description from the publisher

High Frontier 4 All - Neoprene Mat High Frontier 4 All Map

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

	Vendor: Ion Game Design Type: Board Games Price: 72.95
The High Frontier 4 All map in neoprene, size 900mm x 1350mm (double the regular size board included in the core box: 900x600mm). 1,5mm thickness with edge sewing.

High Frontier 4 All: 6th Player Component Kit

2020-12-27T00:09:08-05:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Publisher	Ion Game Design
Players	1-6
Expansion For	High Frontier 4 All High Frontier 4 All: Module 1 - Terawatt & Futures High Frontier 4 All: Module 2 - Colonization

All the components needed to play the High Frontier 4 All core game, module 1, and module 2 as a 6-player game.

—description from the publisher

Bios: Origins (Second Edition)

2019-12-03T00:06:55-05:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 89.95

Designer	Andrew Doull Phil Eklund Jon Manker
Publisher	Sierra Madre Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	90-180 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	235555/bios-origins-second-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/235555/bios-origins-second-edition/forums/63

Bios origins is the 2nd edition of Origins - How we became human. The game is redesigned from the bottom up and made to fit into the Bios Trilogy. The theme is similar to the first edition, the evolution of an intelligent species from the time they become self aware until the time they start sending things into space.

The game takes place during the time period from 3 million years ago up until now. Each player represent one of the sub-species of the kind of animal that first developed a more advanced language and embarked on developing into intelligent creatures that spread all over the world. The game ends as they enter space.

You evolve your population both through spreading on a world map (to acquire land and resources) and spreading on the market of visionary thinking (to acquire action possibilities and technologies). The vision market consists of cards ideas from the evolution of humans that you invest in. The game is driven by events that takes place at set times in history and after a certain number of events, or when someone lands on the Moon if that occurs sooner, the game ends. The winner is calculated based on your progression.

As of October 2017 the game is still in development.
The game may or may not include possibilities to start as other skeletal types than the human endoskeletal one. Such as exoskeletal, cytoskeletal or hydroskeletal.
The game may or may not include possibilities to play as creatures of other specialization than the human land specialization. Such as burrower, flyer or maritime.
The game may or may not include possibilities to play the evolution on Mars or Venus.

Bios Origins is the third part of the Bios Trilogy. The end state of the games transfers into a starting state of the next game in the trilogy if you want. By playing Bios Genesis - Bios Megafauna and Bios Origins you can play a game about the evolution of life ranging from 4 billion years ago up until the start of space exploration. Bios Origins is (as the other two in the series) also fully independent and playable as its own game.

Bios: Megafauna (Second Edition)

2019-12-03T00:06:54-05:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 83.95

Designer	Andrew Doull Phil Eklund Jon Manker
Publisher	Sierra Madre Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-180 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Integrates With	Bios: Genesis
Additional Info	221769/bios-megafauna-second-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/221769/bios-megafauna-second-edition/forums/63

Bios: Megafauna starts where the predecessor game Bios: Genesis left off, with the invasion of the land on the daybreak of the Phanerozoic eon. Starting as either a plant, mollusk, insect, or vertebral skeletal type, your flapping, paddling, and squawking carnivores and herbivores make a beachhead on one of the drifting continental plates in the Cambrian, Their struggle for terrestrial dominance may eventually include language-based consciousness. Although this achievement elevated a certain mammal species to notoriety, in your game things may occur differently.

This second edition of Bios: Megafauna is an evolutionary descendant of American Megafauna but as a part of the Bios series of games it is linked to the game Bios: Genesis. It plays well independently but if you have both games you can let the end state of a game of Bios: Genesis affect the starting state of a game of Bios: Megafauna. A successor game, called Bios: Origins (which would be a descendant of Origin), is planned to cover the events of the Quaternary period including the rise of ideas and technology.

—description from the publisher

Expedition Zetta: Andromeda

2019-02-01T12:03:43-05:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 11.95

Designer	Jon Manker
Publisher	Ion Game Design
Players	1-5
Suggested Age	10
Additional Info	256247/expedition-zetta-andromeda http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/256247/expedition-zetta-andromeda/forums/63

The Andromeda expansion for the game Expedition Zetta adds new planetary systems to visit when you use the Quick Zetta deck. This expansion can be used alone if you want to make journeys that visit stars in only the Andromeda Galaxy, or it can be mixed with the standard deck that comes with the game (that features stars from the Milky Way).

Crusader Kings

2019-01-02T15:12:52-05:00

Vendor: Fria Ligan
Type: Board Games
Price: 96.95

Designer	Tomas Härenstam Nils Karlén Jon Manker
Publisher	Fria Ligan
Players	1-5
Playtime	180 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansions	Crusader Kings: Councilors & Inventions Expansion
Additional Info	253574/crusader-kings http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/253574/crusader-kings/forums/63

You are a crusader King, striving for wealth, political power, religious influence, and military might across the continent and across generations. Reshape the history of medieval Europe in your own image — if only that dimwitted son of yours set to inherit the throne doesn't spoil your grand plans...

The board game Crusader Kings captures the essence of the Crusader Kings video game experience in a physical tabletop format. This is a strategy game at heart, but with a special focus on characters, intrigue, and drama. It's a big, beautiful game centered on a map of medieval Europe, using cards for actions, characters, and events and well-crafted plastic miniatures to represent knights, armies, castles, and more.

In this game, your goal is to spread your influence over medieval Europe and lead your dynasty to triumph over its rivals. To do that, you need to groom your family over the generations, build and develop your dominion, be shrewd in the realm of diplomacy and intrigue, and use your vassals wisely to grow your wealth and military power, while at the same time fulfilling your duty to partake in the crusades to the Holy Land.

To win, you need to survive invasions, plots, crusades, and even marriage! Or at least have children or siblings standing by to take over the throne if your regent dies. Failure to raise a suitable heir can mean the end of your dynasty.

—description from the publisher

Expedition Zetta

2018-09-25T16:22:47-04:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 99.95

Designer	Jon Manker
Publisher	Ion Game Design
Players	1-5
Playtime	30-180 mins
Suggested Age	10
Additional Info	184247/expedition-zetta http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/184247/expedition-zetta/forums/63

Have you ever looked up in the sky at all the stars, at the marvel of the Universe and felt a curious nerve inside wanting to travel to these stars, see the planets, and maybe find life? Expedition Zetta includes 3D-models of spaceships, gorgeous art, and a modular game system. In this game for 1-5 players, you and your fellow travelers each represent a country in a maiden voyage of the first starship to ever use a newly developed warp drive. The goal is to brave the unknown and collect discoveries in four different star systems. Though you may have to cooperate, one player will bring special fame and fortune to their home country. Will it be you?

In Expedition Zetta, you start the game by recruiting 1-4 crew members, then you will:

Discover strange planetary systems, randomly generated each game based on the latest scientific data
Find exotic new substances never before seen
Develop exo-products that can advance human technology
Gain new knowledge
Encounter new forms of life or ruins and settlements of vanished, ancient alien civilizations with their promise of both danger and discovery
Perhaps encounter another star-faring civilization whose members might even become part of your crew, making it not only international but interstellar
See crew interactions that can lead to romance or intrigue, which can either help or hinder you

Every game plays differently! Each game includes four planetary systems. After warping together to a distant star, you travel with your crew individually between planets, searching for life and substances or trying to construct exo-products. If the life you find is intelligent, you may even interact with it. The discoveries are your main source of Fame.

The revolutionary Zetta Planetary System Generator, used in the advanced game, can generate as many different star systems in the game as there are in the known universe, each with its own unique characteristics and its own name. Thus, no two voyages to the stars will ever be the same! During the warp stage in the advanced game, you interact with the other players' crew members to gain advantages. Romance or intrigue may occur, with varying effects.

Apart from the gameplay experience, a journey with Expedition Zetta will give you knowledge about stars and planets, along with memories of when you for instance managed to extract gems from a gaseous giant in a triple star system, from when you found life in a lenticular galaxy or when you managed to produce time crystals near a super-hot supergiant O-star.

Expedition Zetta has a basic version that is great for the whole family.

Want a quick game? Use the Quick rules!
Want to add special adventures and encounters to your mission? Play adding one or several of the specialized rule modules!
Want to play solo? There are two different solitaire variants.
Playing for the first time? Use the play-and-learn tutorial.

HIRÞ - The Viking Game of Royal Combat

2017-01-27T00:17:00-05:00

Vendor: Ion Game Design
Type: Board Games
Price: 47.95

Designer	Jon Manker
Publisher	Ion Game Design
Players	2
Playtime	10-60 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	121715/hirth http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/121715/hirth/forums/63

HIRÞ (pronounced hɪrð, i.e., with a th-sound as in "the" at the end) is a two-player abstract strategy game in which two leaders (Viking kings) fight over control of a piece of land. The first to either control the five middle spaces or push the other player's king off the board wins. Although it has a relatively small board (eleven squares), the ability to use moves to build stronger units makes the gameplay quite intricate. The game is designed in recent times but with the ambition of resembling a game that could potentially have been found in a Viking grave.

In the game, the players start on each short end of the board and take turns. Each turn they can make five moves. For a move, a player either moves one piece (Hird or King) one step, moves a Hird into or off a Karve (boat), or moves a Karve and all Hirds on it one step. A Karve may have at most four Hirds on it. Pieces entering empty spaces have to stop. Pieces entering enemy-controlled spaces stop on the line between the spaces. After a player's five moves, any conflicts (pieces on lines) are resolved. All pieces except empty Karve are worth 1. The King is tiebreaker. In case of a loss, solitary Hirds are removed from the game, Karves and Hirds in Karves are removed from play, and Kings have to retreat to an adjacent empty or friendly space. If there are no possible squares for the King to move to, the player loses. If after their turn a player controls all five middle spaces, that player wins.

There is also a doubling coin in the game affecting points received if several games are played. Normally a game is won after receiving five points.