https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/collections/all.atom vaibhavhospital 2016-03-15T04:47:00-04:00 vaibhavhospital https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/5438455361 2016-03-15T04:47:00-04:00 2016-03-15T04:47:00-04:00 Pirate Den Board Games Crash Games

Vendor: Crash Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer
Publisher Crash Games
Players 3-5
Playtime 30 mins
Suggested Age 14 and up

Pirate Den is a game of bluffing and deception for 3-5 players that plays in 30 minutes or less. Players take on the role of pirate captains trying to get the most loot. Plunder the seas, steal from your rivals, and bury your treasure to protect it. The captain with the most loot at the end of the game, wins.

In the game players will play cards to take gems from the center of the table and from each other, and bury to turn 5 gems into buried treasure to prevent it from being stolen. When one player has 5 buried treasure the game ends and the person with the most points between their gems and buried treasure wins, with each gem being worth 1 and each buried treasure being worth 5.

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Vendor: Z-Man Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 21.24

Designer Richard James
Publisher Z-Man Games
Players 2-5
Playtime 35 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up

Introduction

The throne lies empty and the clans are restless. As a lord of Scotland with land, men and money at your disposal, now is the time to lay your claim. But you are not alone. Your rivals have been waiting for just such an opportunity themselves and they are poised to act. With the clans of Scotland ready to follow the strongest leader, it is up to you to win the loyalty of the clans first. If you can demonstrate your prowess in battle to enough clans, then the rest will fall in line behind you. Do you have the audacity and cunning it takes to be crowned king?

 

How to Play

 You acquire the support you need to win the game by winning skirmishes against your rivals. A skirmish is five consecutive rounds of play. During each round of a skirmish, you have the opportunity to either build up your army by playing cards from your hand or recruit clans to fight for you by drawing cards from the recruit pile. At the end of the five rounds, each lord gets to claim a supporter in order of highest strength army to lowest. Then you discard all the clans you mustered and begin a new skirmish. The game ends when one lord reaches forty or more points worth of supporters and claims the throne. If you hope to be the one to do so, you will need to know when to commit your forces to battle and when to regroup to fight another day.

 

Design Notes

 Lords of Scotland borrows design elements of Three-Dragon Ante, Condottiere and Havoc: The Hundred Years War and sets the action in the interregnum period of Scottish history surrounding the wars for Scottish Independence. The gameplay is broken up into five round skirmish which are conducted in a turn based clockwise fashion. During each skirmish, the ability to activate more special card powers by going first is balanced by the knowledge of what strength card you need to play to win by going last. While throughout the game, there is a general pressure to use resources to make immediate attacks of opportunity balanced with the need to collect resources for long-term strategic advantage. Lords of Scotland scales well to the number of players with most victories being determined in the final skirmish.

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Vendor: AEG
Type: Board Games
Price: 10.95

Designer Richard James
Publisher AEG
Players 2-6
Playtime 30 mins
Suggested Age 8 and up


Straw is a light-hearted family card game that takes place in the world of Arabian Nights. In Straw, you try to pack as many items as you can on top of a camel without breaking its back. If you can't, you lose the round – but other players must be careful not to load the camel too close to its limit because if you can break the camel's back with the Straw card, you win instead of losing!

Will you be the one who breaks the camel's back?

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Vendor: Z-Man Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 9.95

Designer Richard James
Publisher Z-Man Games
Players 2
Playtime 25 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up

Court of the Medici is a casual card game of politics and intrigue at the Medici court. 

In Court of the Medici, you play the leader of one of the powerful factions in the city of Florence. Your faction’s power and prosperity in Florence are tied to your favor with the city’s ruling family, the Medici. Favor with the Grand Duke de Medici comes from having the nobles of your faction present at court. However, with nobles from all the other factions at court as well, your influence on the duke is limited. 

Through wisely using the nobles you send to court though, you may be able to reduce your rival’s influence while increasing your own faction’s prestige. ]]> 2-Players-Only Age_9+ Availability_Out of Stock BGG-Set Category_Strategy Google-True INV-0-L INV-C Non-TCG Players Maximum_2 Players Players Minimum_2 Players Playtime Maximum_30 Minutes Playtime Minimum_30 Minutes Product Type_Board Games Product-International Restock-20230112_Full_Restock Restock-20240526-Long Year Published_2000s https://www.vaibhavhospital.com/products/167975894 Default Title 9.95 100413 376