Osprey Publishing
War Story
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65
$73.00
Reader Reward Price: $65.70
A choose-your-own-adventure board game set in World War II occupied France, capturing the stakes and tension of espionage and resistance warfare.
Darkness covers your approach as you alight on the riverbank. Swiftly, you hide the boat and shoulder your gear. The mission is clear: capture or kill your target; rendezvous at the extraction point; get out. You have two days. Nodding to your team, you set off toward the glowing lights of Vaillant.
War Story: Occupied France is a cooperative narrative game for one to six players. Your team of covert operatives is all that stands between the infamous German officer Heidenreich and the systematic destruction of French Resistance forces in Morette. Through three replayable story missions, you must exploit the specialties of your chosen agents to uncover information, enlist allies, and obtain weaponry. Engage occupying forces on tactical encounter maps, where careless positioning could cost your agents' lives. Remember, no plan survives contact with the enemy. And time is running out.
Number of Players: 1-6
Ages: 14+
Time: 60-90 minutes
Components: 1 rulebook, 3 mission books, 80+ cards, 90+ tokens
Undaunted 2200
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65
$110.00
Reader Reward Price: $99.00
"This game is electric" - Shut Up & Sit Down
The award-winning Undaunted series takes to the stars: build your decks, ready your mechs, and battle for dominance over the bleak, resource-rich moon of Callisto.
Jovian Moon Base - Callisto, 2200 CE. Tensions have arisen between the conglomerate of Earth's leading corporations that funded the base, and the mining collective tasked with operating it. Protests have erupted, strikes been called, and contracts broken. Private security forces have been hired, industrial mining vehicles repurposed for combat, and long-disused military mechs reawoken. The battle for Callisto is about to begin: it's time to choose your side.
Undaunted 2200: Callisto is a standalone game in the Undaunted series, adapting the core gameplay of previous games to a new science fiction setting. Play across stunningly illustrated map boards in two-player, four-player, and solo game modes. Navigate the barren lunar landscape, manoeuvre to seize dominant high-ground positions, and utilize your formidable mechs to gain control of Callisto and its precious resources.
Ages: 14+
Players: 1/2/4
Playing Time: 45-60 minutes
Contents: 4 double-sided boards, Rulebook, Solo Rulebook, 135+ playing cards, 70+ tokens, 12 dice
Brian Boru High King Of Ireland
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Games & Puzzles
$80.00
Reader Reward Price: $72.00
A cut-throat game of power-brokering and intrigue in eleventh century Ireland designed by award-winning designer Peer Sylvester.
Ireland is awash with would-be kings, power-hungry pretenders, and self-professed rulers. The provinces are in disarray, and the common folk are paying the price. The land needs a leader.
In Brian Boru, players will strive to unite Ireland under their domain, securing control through might, cunning, and matrimony. Join forces to fend off Viking invaders, build monasteries to extend your influence, and gather support in towns and villages throughout the land. To become High King of all Ireland, you will need to navigate a web of shifting alliances, outmaneuver your enemies, and grab history by the reins.
Includes rules in English and German.
Number of players: 3-5
Ages: 14+
Play time: 60-90 minutes
Components: Board, 46 cards, 139 tokens, 125 wooden discs
Cryptid
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Games & Puzzles
$53.00
Reader Reward Price: $47.70
Voted #1 Game of 2018 from GeekDad.com and GameBoyGeek.com
You've studied the footage, connected the dots, and gathered what meagre evidence you could. You're close--soon the whole world will know the truth behind the Cryptid. A group of like-minded cryptozoologists have come together to finally uncover the elusive creature, but the glory of discovery is too rich to share. Without giving away some of what you know you will never succeed in locating the beast, but reveal too much and your name will be long forgotten!
Cryptid is a unique deduction game of honest misdirection in which players must try to uncover information about their opponent's clues while throwing them off the scent of their own. Each player holds one piece of evidence to help them find the creature, and on their turn they can try to gain more information from their opponents. Be warned; give too much away and your opponents might beat you to the mysterious animal and claim the glory for themselves!
The game includes a modular board, five clue books, and a deck of setup cards with hundreds of possible setups across two difficulty levels. It is also supported by an entirely optional digital companion, allowing for faster game setup and a near-infinite range of puzzles.
Description
Number of players: 3-5
Ages: 10+
Time: 30-50 minutes
Components: 5 player booklets, 6 board pieces, 60 cards, tokens & counters
General Orders
- David Thompson 
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65
$47.00
Reader Reward Price: $42.30
Take command of Axis and Allied troops at the height of World War II in the first ever worker-placement wargame, brought to you by the designers of the Undaunted series.
General Orders: World War II pits competing commanders against each other in a tug of war for control over a crucial Second World War battlefield, either in the mountains of Italy or the islands of the Pacific. Players strive to seize crucial strategic assets that unlock special abilities, and prevent their opponents doing the same. Balance the desire to gain these advantages with the need to secure supply lines, ward off aerial assault and artillery barrages, and protect your vulnerable headquarters, in this compact and elegant two-player game.
From critically acclaimed design duo David Thompson and Trevor Benjamin, General Orders: WWII combines the dynamic tactical gameplay of a traditional wargame with the cut-throat decision-making of worker-placement games.
Ages: 14+
Time: 30 minutes
Number of players: 2
Components: 1 double-sided game board, 32 playing cards, 80+ wooden pieces, dice and tokens
High Society Game
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Games & Puzzles
$32.00
Reader Reward Price: $28.80
Reiner Knizia's classic auction game returns in a new edition from Osprey Games!
Players must out-bid one another in an effort to acquire the social status they deserve, whilst avoiding scandals which will ruin their reputation. The player who achieves the highest status without going broke will be crowned the winner!
Number of Players: 3-5
Playing Time: 20 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 10+
Imperium
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65
$100.00
Reader Reward Price: $90.00
The Imperium series continues in this asymmetric card-based civilisation building game for 1-4 players, charting the rise and fall of fourteen of the greatest civilisations from history.
Formidable adversaries are arrayed against you. Your people stand ready. History beckons.
In your hands lies the destiny of one of the most storied peoples of history. Under constant threat of attack, you must conquer new lands, oversee dramatic scientific and cultural advances, and lead your people into the era of empire. Expand too rapidly and unrest will bring your civilisation to its knees; build up too slowly, however, and you might find yourself a mere footnote of history. As one of fourteen radically asymmetric civilisations, you will compete to become the most dominant empire the world has ever seen.
Imperium: Horizons is a standalone game that contains an astonishing fourteen distinctive civilisations, each of which makes for a unique and challenging opponent, even in a solo game.
Fully compatible with Imperium: Classics and Imperium: Legends for those wanting to expand their pool of civilisations even further, Imperium: Horizons also incorporates a new trade module that allows players to recreate all the intrigue, wealth generation, and dynamic politics of a thriving economy.
Players: 1-4
Ages: 14+
Playing Time: 40 mins per player
Contents: 550 cards, 150+ tokens
Imperium
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65
$64.00
Reader Reward Price: $57.60
An asymmetric card-based civilization building game for 1-4 players, charting the rise and fall of some of the greatest civilizations from history and legend.
Formidable adversaries are arrayed against you. Your people stand ready. History beckons.
In your hands lies the destiny of one of history's great civilizations. Under constant threat of attack, you must conquer new lands, oversee dramatic scientific and cultural advances and lead your people into the era of empire. Expand too rapidly and unrest will bring your civilization to its knees; build up too slowly, however, and you might find yourself a mere footnote of history. As one of eight radically asymmetric civilizations you will compete to become the most dominant empire the world has ever seen.
Imperium: Legends is a standalone game that contains the three most challenging civilisations in Imperium - the Arthurians, Utopians, and Atlantians - as well as the Egyptians, Mauryan, Minoan, Olmec, and Qin civilisations, each of which can be played against solo. It is fully compatible with Imperium: Classics for players wanting to expand their pool of civilisations even further.
Letterpress
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Games & Puzzles
$28.50
Reader Reward Price: $25.65
A clever card game of drafting letters to construct the highest scoring word.
Johannes Gutenberg has given us letterpress printing, but it's up to you to master it!
Compete with your rival wordsmiths to craft the most impressive words and win first pick of letters to add to your collection. Choose wisely, for you will find any you leave in the words of your opponents, and the player who uses their stored letters to greatest effect will spell victory.
Playable by up to six players, with solitaire rules pitting you against the industrious rotary printer, Letterpress offers an enticing challenge sure to appeal to gamers and word-lovers alike.
Players: 1-6
Playing Time: 20 minutes
Ages: 14+
Contents: 110 cards
Odin's Ravens Game
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Games & Puzzles
$35.00
Reader Reward Price: $31.50
Every morning Odin sends his ravens, Huginn and Muninn, across the entire world to bring back news of what life is like on Earth. Naturally, after thousands of years, they've gotten a little competitive. Race through the landscape in opposite directions to be the first to return to Odin. Focus on speed, or enlist the help of the trickster god Loki to create shortcuts and hinder your opponent. Can you be certain Loki's changes won't help your opponent instead? There's only one way to find out!
The revised edition of Thorsten Gimmler's award-winning Odin's Ravens has been completely redesigned, with new rules and a beautiful new art style inspired by Norse mythology.
Number of Players: 2
Playing Time: 15-30 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 10+
Samurai Gardener Game
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Games & Puzzles
$27.00
Reader Reward Price: $24.30
Balancing thoughtfulness and great speed - such is the way of the gardener.
You are a samurai, tasked with upholding the honor of your noble lord. Now you must face your toughest task yet - ensuring he has a more beautiful garden than the other Japanese lords!
Move quickly to grab the best cards, but play them thoughtfully to ensure you have the most appealing bushes, paths, and ponds. Race to complete your garden quickly, or plan carefully to go for the big points!
Components: 64 Garden cards, 5 Specialist cards, 20 Specialist counters, 5 Player markers, Score-track
Number of Players: 2-5
Playing Time: 15-20 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 10+
Tomorrow City
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Hardcover
$47.00
Reader Reward Price: $42.30
A dieselpunk roleplaying game of action, mystery and mad science!
Tomorrow City was one of the cities of the future, built to usher in a new age of prosperity, seizing upon scientific achievements at the dawn of the twentieth century. Then came the War. Radium-powered soldiers assembled, diesel-fuelled nightmares rolled off production lines, city fought city, and the world burned in atomic fire. We survived, barely. Tomorrow City still stands, an oil-stained beacon of hope, part-refuge, part-asylum. Beset by dangers from both within and without, a secret war now rages on its streets. Diesel-born monstrosities stalk the alleyways, air pirates strike from the wastelands, mad scientists continue their dark work, occultists manipulate the city's strange geometry, and secret societies plot in the shadows.
Tomorrow City is a roleplaying game of dark science and dieselpunk action. Swift and simple character creation and an easy-to-learn dice pool system places the emphasis on unique personalities and the momentum of the plot. Join the Underground and fight the crime and corruption at the heart of the city. Sell your dieselpunk tech, occult knowledge, and sheer grit as troubleshooters for mysterious paymasters. Hunt down spies, saboteurs, and science-run-amok. As weary sky rangers, fringe scientists, and radium-powered veterans, you might be all that stands between a better tomorrow and no tomorrow at all.
Undaunted
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65
$73.00
Reader Reward Price: $65.70
The RAF faces the Luftwaffe in this two-player deckbuilding game of aerial WWII combat.
Summer, 1940. The German war machine has rolled through the continent in less than a year, crushing all before it. Britain is all that stands in the way of German victory in Europe. Command the pilots of the battle-tested Luftwaffe, looking to extinguish all resistance and pave the way to invasion, or the resourceful and determined RAF opposing them at every turn.
Undaunted: Battle of Britain is a standalone game in the Undaunted series, adapting the core gameplay of the previous games to recreate the dynamic dogfighting of aerial combat. Maintain cohesion between your pilots, evade anti-aircraft artillery, and leverage talented aces to win the battle for the skies!
Ages: 14+
Players: 2
Playing Time: 45-60 minutes
Contents: 116 cards, 32 large map tiles, 4 dice, tokens, scenario booklet
Undaunted
- David Thompson , ,
65
$64.00
Reader Reward Price: $57.60
A two-player deck-building war game, pitting players against one another in the European theater of World War II.
June, 1944. Through the D-Day landings, the Allies have seized a foothold on the beaches of Normandy. Now you must lead your troops forward as you push deeper into France and drive the German forces back. You will face intense resistance, machine gun fire, and mortar bombardment, but a great commander can turn the situation to their advantage!
Undaunted: Normandy is a deck-building game that places you and your opponent in command of American or German forces, fighting through a series of missions critical to the outcome of World War II. Use your cards to seize the initiative, bolster your forces, or control your troops on the battlefield. Strong leadership can turn the tide of battle in your favour, but reckless decisions could prove catastrophic, as every casualty you take removes a card from your deck. Take charge amidst the chaos of battle, hold fast in the face of opposition, and remain undaunted.
Players: 2
Ages: 14+
Playing Time: 45-60 minutes
Contents: 108 cards, 18 large map tiles, dice, tokens, campaign booklet
Undaunted
- David Thompson , ,
65
$64.00
Reader Reward Price: $57.60
The Undaunted series continues with this two-player deck-building game of tactical combat, pitting the raiders of Britain's Long Range Desert Group against Italian forces in the North African Theater of World War II.
The North African campaign has begun. Take control of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group and operate behind enemy lines or command the formidable Italian forces opposing them. In this sequel to Undaunted: Normandy, players will once again lead their sides through a varied series of missions. As casualties mount, wounded soldiers leave the players' decks, forcing them to adapt in the face of changing tactical circumstances. Use your cards to strengthen your forces, deploy vehicles to advance rapidly across the battlefield, and seize the initiative as you determine the outcome of the North African Theater.
Ages: 14+
Players: 2
Playing Time: 30-45 minutes
Contents: 100+ cards, 22 large map tiles, 4 dice, tokens, campaign booklet
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