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The Last Spell: The Board Game PRE-ORDER

2024-10-23T09:23:47-04:00

Vendor: Tabula Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 55.95

Designer	Nestore Mangone Alessandro Veracchi
Publisher	Tabula Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	120-150 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
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ETA Q1 2025

In the tactical co-operative game The Last Spell: The Board Game, a tabletop adaptation of Ishtar Games' video game of the same name, you are a hardened warrior whose only purpose in life is to desperately defend the last of the mages while trying to cast "the last spell" and banish all magic from this world and maybe save us all. Maybe.

The game is set in a dark fantasy, post-apocalyptic world in which you have to carefully manage the scarce resources at your disposal to survive long enough. Gameplay revolves around three cycles of day and night in which players use daylight hours to bolster the game economy, fortify defenses against nocturnal invaders, and upgrade their heroes' equipment to unlock more power.

You can choose to play single scenarios or embark on a campaign that challenges you with increasing levels of difficulty. With a plethora of weapons and abilities at your disposal across multiple plays, there's always something new to explore — and for the ultimate test of your strategic prowess, witness the fiery destruction of your city in the face of overwhelming odds.

—description from the publisher

Newton: New Horizon (Import)

2023-11-18T14:29:07-05:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designer	Simone Luciani Nestore Mangone
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	1-4
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expands	Newton Newton & Great Discoveries
Additional Info	363526/newton-new-horizon http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/363526/newton-new-horizon/forums/63

Newton: New Horizon is a new game board that provides a new technology track. You can find spaces that
give VP in special conditions and objective spaces that give double VP.

In more detail, as long as you have at least one student on a triangular space, you receive 1 VP every time you perform the indicated action. You receive 1 VP if you perform it as a Basic Action and/or as a Special Effect from an action card and/or as an effect from an Invention tile or a Master card. The bonus is always 1 VP even if you have more students on the same space and even if the action's value is more than 1.

Two Objective spaces on the board show a x2 symbol and require 5 Volumes. If you have a Student here at the end of the game, you will receive double the VP provided by that Objective tile (so, if the tile shows a "max. X" limitation, also that limitation is doubled).

Darwin's Journey: Fireland Expansion

2023-11-03T02:11:39-04:00

Vendor: ThunderGryph Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designer	Simone Luciani Nestore Mangone
Publisher	ThunderGryph Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Darwin's Journey
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The Fireland Expansion includes a new map and alternative board layout with new mechanisms and additional content. It contains:

4 Wooden ships
4 Wooden explorers
4 coloured wooden discs
4 Special Action tiles
2 Player Objective tiles
2 Crew Cards
21 Adventure Cards (land and ocean)
20 wooden Adventure tokens
4 Adventure Player Aid cards
6 Observation score tokens
6 Time tiles
8 cardboard Time seals

Darwin's Journey

2023-11-03T02:05:20-04:00

Vendor: ThunderGryph Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 67.95

Designer	Simone Luciani Nestore Mangone
Publisher	ThunderGryph Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion	Darwin's Journey: Fireland Expansion
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When all you can identify in the horizon for many long days is the line that detaches the sea from the sky, the glimpse of a distant shore appearing before you will make you shiver at the understanding that the adventure is about to begin.

You find yourself astonished, landing on the shore that will be the origin of an extensive exploration through the Galapagos, a magic place of inconceivable beauty and endless biodiversity. There, you will gather repertoires and expand your knowledge of the natural sciences. Your eyes will learn how to detect the hidden species in the tropical forest, gazing at the countless colors and textures of nature. After inspiring hours spent studying and getting to enlightening conclusions, you will rest under a sparkling sky, admiring the stunning complexity of the animal realm.

Darwin's Journey is a worker-placement Eurogame in which players recall Charles Darwin's memories of his adventure through the Galapagos islands, which contributed to the development of his theory of evolution.

With the game's innovative worker progression system, each worker will have to study the disciplines that are a prerequisite to perform several actions in the game, such as exploration, correspondence, gathering, and dispatch of repertoires found on the island to museums in order to contribute to the human knowledge of biology. The game lasts five rounds, and thanks to several short- and long-term objectives, every action you take will grant victory points in different ways.

Newton: Italy Grand Tour (Import)

2023-10-06T04:52:42-04:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.95

Designer	Simone Luciani Nestore Mangone
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	1-4
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
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For scientists from all over Europe, the time has come to move to Italy, a country rich in culture and stimulating discoveries, but you have to be careful! Time is limited and it is important to visit each place at the right time!

Newton Italy Grand Tour is an alternative map for the Newton game.

Autobahn

2022-09-16T21:31:57-04:00

Vendor: Alley Cat Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Fabio Lopiano Nestore Mangone
Publisher	Alley Cat Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	90-150 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	348554/autobahn http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/348554/autobahn/forums/63

Autobahn is an economic strategy game about the building of the German motorway system over three periods of time spanning from the end of World War II to the present day.

At the end of the second period (in 1990), the Unification opens up opportunities to further extend the network into the eastern part of the country.

As a director within the BundesAutobahn Organisation, you are responsible for managing and developing the German Federal Highway System.

Aside from building roads, you’ll also be responsible for facilitating the transport of goods to neighbouring countries and constructing petrol stations to benefit from this new traffic.

As you contribute to the development of the network, you gain seats at the administration boards of each highway, and they will increase your budget at the start of each period.

Over the course of the game, your board members will eventually advance to more prestigious seats within the Bundesautobahn building, which instead will provide victory points at the end of the game.

Plan ahead to optimize your efficiency: Each contribution you make builds your reputation and gains you access to new departments and scoring opportunities that better align with your chosen path to victory.

The cards in your hand allows you to take actions on one of the 7 main Autobahns.
You’ll need to plan carefully and time your actions perfectly if you want to make the most of your hand before you need to collect your cards back.

—description from the publisher

Humboldt's Great Voyage

2020-04-22T15:17:05-04:00

Vendor: R&R Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer	Remo Conzadori Nestore Mangone
Publisher	R&R Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
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In the 19th century, Alexander von Humboldt was considered the second Columbus. His first great discovery journey to and across America led him from the Amazon jungle all the way to the White House. The knowledge he gained not only opened up a new way of viewing nature and its relationships, but also made Humboldt the most famous man of his time besides Napoleon.

But the measuring of the world goes on: As venturous young scientists, players in Humboldt's Great Voyage follow Humboldt's legendary expedition route all across the American continent. Using the "mancala" principle, they travel in stages from one location to the next, collect the objects they find, and ship them to selected personalities all over the world in order to make the findings they obtained available as quickly as possible to a public hungry for knowledge. Who will succeed in making a name for themself among the renowned scientists of the 19th century and be admitted as an associate member of the Academy of Sciences?

—description from the publisher

Newton: Great Discoveries Expansion

2020-01-16T16:53:56-05:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 12.74

Designer	Simone Luciani Nestore Mangone
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	1-4
Playing Time	90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Newton
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Great Discoveries, the first expansion for Newton, adds two different modules to the game:

A deck of 30 new action cards. Once you use these cards below your personal board, you can choose on which side you would like to turn it: action symbol or income.
Great discovery tiles you can collect on the different action boards that will give you bonuses during the game or victory points for the final scoring.

—description from the publisher

Masters of Renaissance: Lorenzo Il Magnifico – The Card Game (Import)

2019-12-09T16:25:08-05:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 72.95

Designer	Simone Luciani Nestore Mangone
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	1-4
Playing Time	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honors	2019 Meeples' Choice Nominee
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Relive the majestic Renaissance period in Masters of Renaissance: Lorenzo Il Magnifico – The Card Game.

Masters of the Renaissance is a new engine building game that recreates the atmosphere of Lorenzo il Magnifico with simple rules and a limited duration.
On your turn, you draw a Development card, take resources from the market or activate Development cards on your board. Each Development card allows you to transform resources by moving them from your limited depots to the unlimited bank space; in this way you will be able to accumulate many resources to purchase the most powerful cards.

As in Lorenzo il Magnifico, you will have to follow the requests of your leaders to gain access to their powers.
The game uses an engine building mechanism, with which players will develop their properties to increase their faith and military power to generate victory points.

Newton

2018-07-30T15:47:28-04:00

Vendor: Cranio Creations
Type: Board Games
Price: 62.74

Designers	Simone Luciani Nestore Mangone
Publisher	Cranio Creations
Players	1-4
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion	Newton: Great Discoveries Expansion Newton: New Horizon
Honors	2020 MinD-Spielepreis Complex Game Nominee 2019 Kennerspiel des Jahres Recommended 2019 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee 2018 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee 2018 Cardboard Republic Tactician Laurel Winner 2018 Cardboard Republic Tactician Laurel Nominee
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Around the middle of the 17th century with the advent of the scientific method, a period of great change begins, called the scientific revolution. Many great scientists, with their theories and ideas, change our perception of the universe: Galileo Galilei, Copernicus, Kepler, Bacon and, above all, Sir Isaac Newton.

In Newton, players take the role of a young scientist who wants to become one of the great geniuses of this period. To do this, they travel around Europe, visit universities and cities, study to discover new theories, build new tools, and work to earn money.

The game is played over six rounds. Each round, every player plays five cards from their hand, with each played card allowing the player to perform one of the game's actions. An action has a variety of effects, which depend on the symbols of that action visible on the board. At the end of the round, a player can take back all the cards played except one. One card has to be left on the board, which means that you give up one possibility of doing that action, but also that the action will be carried out with greater strength. Fortunately, you can acquire new cards that will allow you to perform more actions and with additional powers.

After six rounds, you calculate your final scoring, and the player with the most VP wins.

—description from the publisher

Expo 1906

2016-04-26T08:53:00-04:00

Vendor: Gotha Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 52.95

Designer	Remo Conzadori Nestore Mangone
Publisher	Gotha Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
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Milan, early 20th century, the city is in turmoil as more than 200 new buildings are rushed to being completed in time for welcoming the best minds of the planet. The 1906 Universal Exposition is approaching and, as one of the 40 exhibiting nations, you are confident that your engineers and scientists will impress the world. Who will exhibit the most impressive technological advancements? Which energy source will prevail: the majestic power of Steam or the more elegant and efficient Electricity? Can you prevail in prestige and glory against the other competing nations?

In Expo 1906, players will win by totaling more prestige points at the end of the game than their opponents. Points are awarded for completing Projects which represent historical inventions of the period. To complete a Project, a player must purchase Resources and place them in a proper combinations together with a Project in his Laboratory. This is a challenging task as Projects come in many different shapes and must fit together with their resources in an already tight space. Soon the available room in the Laboratory will reduce and players will face the puzzle solving aspect of the game.

Strategy plays an important role too: to speed up the completion of a Project players can acquire Technologies, which can either reduce the number of Resources required to complete a Project or enhance the type of actions at their disposal. This will require careful management of the available space in their Laboratory too. Also, by registering ideas at the Patents'Office players can become leader in the development of specific Resources and accumulate more prestige points when completing Projects. Setting priorities between all these actions will become critical as players rush to prepare in time for the upcoming World Exposition.