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Magna Roma: Emperor's Box

2024-07-18T02:35:45-04:00

Vendor: Archona Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer	Thomas Nielsen Kai Starck Milan Tasevski
Publisher	Archona Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Magna Roma
Additional Info	355145/magna-roma-emperors-box http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/355145/magna-roma-emperors-box/forums/63

Emperor's Box contains all of the unlocked stretch goals (mostly components), including the Barbarians Solo module.

Pest: Light in the Dark

2024-03-02T10:00:24-05:00

Vendor: Archona Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 26.95

Designer	Kai Starck
Publisher	Archona Games
Players	1
Playtime	15-30 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	395581/light-in-the-dark http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/395581/light-in-the-dark/forums/63

In Light in the Dark, you are a plague doctor on a mission to heal a region from the plague while fighting monsters and bandits. Complete quests and gain powerful abilities to overcome increasingly difficult challenges.

Welcome to Light in the Dark, the solo dungeon crawler board game where you take on the role of a courageous plague doctor, on a quest to heal a region afflicted by the deadly plague. The journey ahead won’t be easy, as you’ll face fierce monsters and dangerous bandits who are determined to stop you.

You’ll need to use all of your skills and resources to complete challenging quests that will put your strategic thinking to the test. Whether it’s finding a rare herb or curing the sick, each task will bring its own unique set of obstacles and rewards.

As you progress through the game, you’ll level up your skills that will help you overcome even the toughest challenges. But beware, as the stakes get higher, so do the risks. Stay vigilant and keep your wits about you as you venture deeper into the darkness.

—description from the publisher

Pest

2024-03-02T09:53:13-05:00

Vendor: Archona Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 79.95

Designer	Thomas Nielsen Kai Starck
Publisher	Archona Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	60-150 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	353572/pest http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/353572/pest/forums/63

Our once great Empire was struck by a devastating plague… will you answer the call to save it?

Once standing tall and great, we now need to rediscover and rebuild our fallen cities. There are still survivors among the ruins – we must take them in our care and cure them. In order to stay ahead of the plague, we must implement new inventions and technologies. Our influence will expand as we rebuild, but the plague will still lurk in the shadows, ready to strike when we least expect it. Once it does, it will be difficult to adapt, but we will survive. In addition to the procurement of important resources, our imperative will be to get the plague under control.

In Pest, players slip into the roles of leaders of the ruling houses of a once great empire that was struck by a cataclysmic plague. The plague has left much of the empire in ruins, so now it is up to the players to restore it to its former glory.

Pest is played in 6 rounds. Each round before players take their turn, a plague card will be revealed which shows how the plague will spread in that round. On their turn, players will be able to select among many actions on their player board using a unique action selection system. Thus, players will be able to move their containment team on the board, quarantine and cure infected people, rebuild, assign workers, harvest for resources, and more.

As their house influence grows, players will be able to play more actions, generate more resources, and house more people. This will bring forth new technological advancements which are much needed to get the plague under control.

The game ends after the 6 round is over and players count their final amount of Renown (victory points). The player with the most Renown is the winner and declared the savior of the empire!

—description from publisher

Vejen (Import)

2019-03-20T06:43:13-04:00

Vendor: Spielefaible
Type: Board Games
Price: 86.95

Designer	Thomas Nielsen Kai Starck
Publisher	Spielefaible
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	245371/vejen http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/245371/vejen/forums/63

Note: This game is in both German/English

In Vejen, players slip into the role of traders in the late Middle Ages. On many small paths which connect villages in Denmark and Germany, players must set up trading houses, upgrade their ox cart, buy goods, travel long distances, and resell goods. The game has both a Danish and a German currency, which can change at any time.

A game lasts twelve rounds, with each round being divided into four phases:

1. Event phase
2. Income phase
3. Action phase
4. Round-end phase
5. Evaluation phase (only after round 12)

At the beginning of an event phase, a new event tile is revealed. An event consists of two parts, one part changing the bid price and the other having events that change the interaction between the players, restrict movement on the game board, or similar.

During the income phase, each player receives resources from the trading houses they've built.

The main phase is the action phase, during which players can buy resources, build buildings, travel over the Haerveje, and sell resources in other places. You always have to keep an eye on the price in order to sell as profitably as possible. They can accept assignments to get more profit.

Only those who expand their trading network and develop their oxcart will be able to win in the end.

Scythe: The Wind Gambit

2017-04-02T16:28:56-04:00

Vendor: Stonemaier Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	Kai Starck Jamey Stegmaier
Publisher	Stonemaier Games
Players	1-7
Playtime	70-140 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Scythe, Scythe: Invaders from Afar
Honors	2017 Golden Geek Best Board Game Expansion Winner 2017 Golden Geek Best Board Game Expansion Nominee
Accessories	Broken Token - Scythe Legendary Organizer Broken Token - Scythe Organizer Scythe Legendary Box Folded Space - Scythe Fenris and Expansions
Additional Info	223555/scythe-wind-gambit http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/223555/scythe-wind-gambit/forums/63

Description from the publisher:

Mankind has long been confined to travel by land and sea, but a new technology has emerged from the greatest minds in Eastern Europa: airships. These steam-driven behemoths sail freely across the sky, aiding their empire's expansion through innovation and confrontation. As the years pass, the world has come to understand that no single faction will rise above the rest for any span of time. In the hope of decreasing the conflict and increasing the peace, leaders of Europa begin to gather each year to declare a new way for the factions to resolve their differences.

Scythe: The Wind Gambit, an expansion for Scythe, adds two new modules that can be played together or separately at any player count and with either the base game on its own or with other Scythe expansions:

• Airships: (1 miniature per faction; 16 tiles) An airship is a new type of unit that is distinctly different from characters, mechs, and workers. Unlike those units, airships never control territories. Airships are moved via a Move action, and rivers and lakes do not constrain their movement. Each airship has two randomly combined abilities (1 aggressive and 1 passive ability; same combo for all players).

• Resolutions: (8 tiles) The resolution module changes the way a game of Scythe ends. If you play with this module, ignore the standard end-game trigger (when a player places their sixth star, everything stops and the game ends). Instead, the resolution tile for the current game will determine when and how the game ends.

Scythe: The Wind Gambit will be available in Q4 2017 (hopefully at Essen).