Strategic Games, Page 56

The catacombs of the skeletal dragon Umbrok Vessna are mysterious and dangerous. Portals transport you all around the dungeon depths. Wayshrines offer vast riches to intrepid explorers. Prisoners are counting on you to free them. Ghosts, once disturbed, may haunt you to death. Despite all that, it's time to leave the board behind with Clank! Catacombs, a standalone deck-building adventure.

In Pioneer Rails, you represent a railroad owner who has seen an opportunity to expand your empire across the new lands of the frontier. You'll compete against other railroad owners to plan your railway in the best way possible to connect establishments to the railroad and satisfy the demands of the locals.

How do you win a world war, a game in which the stakes are so high that your nation's survival is at stake? You shall harness your industries to craft new technologies superior to that of the enemy. You shall make alliances with the neutral forces. You shall attempt to soar to the edge of the atmosphere and build the biggest bomb the world has ever seen. You shall never surrender! And in Total...

A New Addition to the Space Base Galaxy! Genesis is an expansion for every Space Base player, providing massive card variety and additional paths to victory for experienced players, and only a few simple rules for newer players.

Select rooms to add to your castle’s floor plan. As you complete rooms’ entrances by connecting them to other rooms, earn new abilities such as adding or removing entrances, earning new bonus cards, and taking extra turns. Keep your eye on the King’s favors to beat out your opponents for public goals, as well as create courtyards and moats around your castle for some massive points to get...

Krampus is Santa Claus' evil twin. Each year the horned devil would go out on Christmas Even punishing the naughtiest of the naughty kids. He was so good at his job (as was Santa!), that Krampus' list got smaller and smaller every year, until finally he hungered for new targets to inflict his pain and punishment on... Santa and his elves!

The Geological Factor is a mini-expansion for Barrage that introduces a new level of challenge and additional variety to the game.

Each player starts with the same set of cards in Mycelia, improving their deck with better cards over the course of play as they race to clear their playing field of dewdrops first. In this deck-building game, you need the support of mysterious forest dwellers to improve your deck, develop new and better skills, and bring the sacred dewdrops from your forest to the Shrine of Life in order...

A new faction, the Netherlands, uses Jan Leeghwater’s expertise in water management, adding even more water to your dams. The External Works mechanic, The Personal Building mechanics, Two new Executive Officers, and Three new Advanced Technology tiles.

Přehrada (Czech Edition of Barrage) is a resource management strategic game in which players compete to build their majestic dams, raise them to increase their storing capacity, and deliver all the potential power through pressure tunnels connected to the energy turbines of their powerhouses.

This mini expansion for Chaos Order adds 12 Leader Cards, 6 Attribute Cards, 12 Tactics Cards, and 2 new Production Tokens. Each Faction now has 2 new Leaders to choose from. After deploying their starting Leader during setup, they must select 2 of their other Leaders, and return them to the box. This provides a lot more variability and strategies to discover within each Faction.

When you think of a Village builder you sometimes think of card tableaux or static hex tile grids. Think again! Lots of buildings, all with different shapes, all fitting together in interesting ways. One central Hamlet that the players contribute to, with its own self-forming demand and supply economy. Villagers walking through the Hamlet, delivering food to households and building resources to...

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.

The Mesozoic era spans between 252 and 66 million years ago and is subdivided into the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. This is the time that saw dinosaurs first appear, dominate the world, and go extinct (except for some groups of avian dinosaurs, i.e., birds). However, dinosaurs weren’t the only animals of the Mesozoic; they shared their habitats with amphibians, reptiles, mammals,...

Here I Stand: Wars of the Reformation 1517-1555 is the first game in over 25 years to cover the political and religious conflicts of early 16th Century Europe. Few realize that the greatest feats of Martin Luther, Jean Calvin, Ignatius Loyola, Henry VIII, Charles V, Francis I, Suleiman the Magnificent, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernando Cortes, and Nicolaus Copernicus all fall within this narrow...