https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/collections/all.atom vaibhavhospital 2019-08-21T12:51:56-04:00 vaibhavhospital https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/2164437254195 2019-08-21T12:51:56-04:00 2019-08-21T12:51:56-04:00 Fortress Europa (Signature Edition) Board Games Compass Games

Vendor: Compass Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 99.95

Designer John Edwards
Richard Hamblen
Alan R. Moon
Publisher Compass Games
Players 2
Playtime 240 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up

Fortress Europa recreates the Allied campaign in Western Europe from D-Day to March 1945. The Allied player must select an invasion site and make a successful landing, breakout of the beachhead, drive across France and push deep into Germany. The German player must prevent the Allied Invasion or else conduct and orderly withdrawal across France, constantly delaying the Allies, and then counter attacking in the winter.

Fortress Europa is the successor to Avalon Hill’s highly acclaimed Russian Campaign...The basic game is 37 turns long, but several scenarios are provided for those wishing a shorter game. In addition, Sudden Death Victory Conditions are included which shorten the basic game ...

Fortress Europa comes in an 8.5” x 11.5” x 2” game box with three part mounted 22” x 24” map board; 520 double-sided die cut cardboard counters; a 16-page rule booklet with rules for play, optional rules and scenarios; several cardstock player aids including German & Allied Order of Battle charts, Aircraft Mission and Replacement Chart and a Time Record Chart; and one six sided die.

Avalon Hill also published a Play By Mail (PBM) kit for Fortress Europa including two-page, pink instructions and double sided pages for the German and Allied Order of Battle Charts used for tracking play.

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Vendor: Fantasy Flight Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 83.95

Designer Richard Hamblen
Robert A. Kouba
Publisher Fantasy Flight Games
Players 1-4
Playtime 180 mins
Suggested Age 14 and up
Honors 2012 Charles S. Roberts Best Science-Fiction or Fantasy Board Wargame Nominee


Merchant of Venus uses many elements which come together to form a very interesting game. Players take on the roles of space traders who move their ships through interconnected systems discovering new alien worlds to trade with. As players start to make money delivering commodities in a unique supply-and-demand system, their earnings can be used to purchase better ships and equipment (shields, lasers, engines, etc...) and construct their own spaceports (which speed up trading) and factories (which create better commodities). Variations included in the rulebook allow for interplayer combat. The player who first acquires enough total value ($1000, $2000, $3000, $4000) in cash and port/factory deeds takes the day.

For the 2012 edition of Merchant of Venus from Fantasy Flight Games, the company promises that this revision "remains true to its magnificently campy core while updating the map and game components and expanding game play in surprising ways that will cause even the most hardcore fan to celebrate." That said, the player count has been lowered from six (in the Avalon Hill edition) to four, with the four races in the game being Human, Whynom, Qossuth, and Eeepeeep.

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