Leylines is a re-imagining/update of the classic game Auf Achse by Wolfgang Kramer set in a brand new world with new rules by Daryl Andrews, featuring beautiful acrylic standees and a circular board filled with magical leylines and mystical markets!

To win, players must collect resources in the forest and bring them back along the leylines to the markets to sell them. Be aware though the magical merchants pay different amounts depending on what they are interested in!

Each round players will take turns waking up and preparing for the day by placing their dice to program their actions and then adventuring through the forest using their placed dice. They will pick up resources along the way and deliver them to the markets for either Gold or Magical items to help them in their journey.

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Shuffle the deck of terrain cards, then reveal most of these cards one by one. Based on the terrain revealed, each player places on their board cubes that are connected to their starting city or other cubes. You want to complete areas on your board, cross the seas to new land, and establish new cities on the board. You can explore capsised ships for treasure — which gives you special placement capabilities — and create linked connections between locations to score bonus points. Common objectives can be completed by all players, with those who complete it first scoring more points.

At the end of a round, all cubes are removed from each board, leaving only the cities behind, so if you don’t establish new cities, you’ll be stuck in the same places.

The Guild of Merchant Explorers contains multiple copies of four different maps, and the game is designed so that you can play remotely with one or more copies.

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The player holding the JumbleJack Doll is safe from accusation. Each round, players debate, accuse, and read each other while tracking who has what. When the table is ready, everyone chants “JUM… BLE… JACK!” and points to decide who will face the ritual.

The chosen player receives the Doll, and the current holder may add or remove one accessory before passing it along. The target must reveal just enough information to survive, but cannot lie about what is shown. Bluffing, memory and timing all shape the outcome.

If the Doll matches a player’s secret identity exactly, they are cursed and lose, while everyone else survives. To win, avoid being the match. If the game reaches its final ritual, everything comes down to one last call where one player survives… or everyone else does.

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In this puzzly tile-layering game, players continue the journey started in Cascadia to create the most diverse Pacific Northwest environment as they draft new double-hexagon habitat tiles and unique new wildlife tokens to build out — and up — their beautiful landscape mosaic.

Each game of Cascadia: Alpine Lakes features unique combinations of scoring objectives linked to how the five wildlife species are arranged across three different alpine habitats. Players also score for how well surrounded and elevated their lakes and wildlife are. Habitat and environment scoring cards add unique scoring conditions so that each game provides a new spatial challenge with thousands of possible combinations.

Turns are simple: Choose a habitat tile and wildlife token pair, then place them into your expanding environment. This time, each habitat tile is a double-hexagon and tiles can be stacked. Many of the core game mechanisms are similar to Cascadia, but the twist is that each habitat scores in different ways and your environment is now a three-dimensional spatial puzzle with new stacking and adjacency challenges.

Cascadia: Rolling Rivers features unique content specific to the riverine environments of Cascadia!

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In War Chest: Nightfall you will have the opportunity to use specialized units to hamper and hinder your opponent’s attempts to effectively mobilize their forces. Mastering the art of subterfuge will be key to success with this new and exciting expansion for the classic War Chest strategy and tactics game!

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Into the Machine is a highly tactical race in which circle-bots race to one end of the machine to tag in their hex-bot teammates who race in reverse on the same track to win. A pit crew of bots outside the machine are sent to work the terminals, moving and manipulating their teammates in the machine.

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Drafting resources, collecting sets and scoring bonuses in Tatsumi relies on the position of your dragon avatar on the seaboard, creating a more immersive and believable abstract strategy experience. The seaboard randomises and stages the entire game’s resources into a 3-dimensional central board, so you can strategically look ahead planning when to collect and when to score.

The tile-placement in Tatsumi has a puzzly yet satisfying feel through a clever combination of engine-building, instant scoring and elemental inspired end game tile-placement bonuses for you to maximize.

Each player may play with a symmetric setup for learning or competition, or a fully asymmetric island and dragon combination for tons of replayability.

Fans of games like Azul, Harmonies, and Splendor will appreciate the intuitive gameplay, elevated componentry, and additional features specifically developed to extend beyond gateway games in this genre for gamers that enjoy solo-play, symmetric and asymmetric combinations, and a multigame feel packed into a single box.

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In this board game you will lead the boyar families competing for power and honor in the 16th-century Tsardom of Russia. Over four decades, you’ll collect income from estates and equip troops, trade with foreigners and fortify cities, seek privileges and carry out royal assignments. Use your influence on the tsar, bribe his minions, and perhaps it is your family that will succeed in taking the Russian throne in the next century.

The game is played over four rounds, each one representing approximately a decade of Ivan the Terrible’s reign. At the beginning of each round the players send their boyars to the Kremlin chambers, choosing their actions for the current decade.

Then the players perform the chosen actions:

• receive income from cities;
• place boyars and warriors on the map and move them;
• gain and complete construction, trade and military projects;
• exchange goods;
• acquire new titles and estates.

At the end of the round, the players with the most influence in the four regions receive additional rewards.

An important element of the game is the Tsar’s favour,
which is used to resolve all ties.

At the end of the game, the player with the most victory points wins.

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Agricola: Special Edition revitalises Uwe Rosenberg’s iconic board game, bringing it to life with new artwork and refined usability. This special edition includes all previously released expansions and introduces Irrigations, a brand-new expansion that challenges players to manage water resources to sustain and grow their farms.

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With this race a series of unique serious wounds are introduced! They will not only deal “standard” damage but also perform unique attacks. Imagine being caught in a Xyrian net, losing precious time as you struggle to free yourself, being poisoned with an unknown substance that makes you weaker for a few rounds, or gaining a special marker that will cause all Xyrians to slowly but consequently hunt your Marine. These events definitely add new challenges and some extra narrative depth to your Retaliation missions.

Also, you must be aware that successfully defeating a Xyrian is a rare and challenging feat. But those who manage it are rewarded with exceptionally rare artefacts (eg  weapons, armour or some precious items), adding a tantalising incentive to engage with this new threat. You know the saying – high risk, high reward.

They introduce some strategic manipulation to the game! There are possible conflicts between the Xyrians and other alien races, which can be used to your advantage. So, it is likely that the Xyrians will eliminate as many Primebloods as possible. Their goals will be different with every game. They might aim to infiltrate the Nest, target the most wounded player, or try to hunt down the Queen. Generally, each encounter with the Xyrians feels fresh and challenging and will bring some twists to your game!

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This time, players take on the roles of highly trained marines, entering the alien nest with strict orders and the most advanced tools available. But will they be well-prepared enough to face the unrelenting horde that awaits them? In Nemesis: Retaliation, players must survive against overwhelming odds and the possibility of betrayal at every step.

Some of the new mechanics are:
Reworked health system
New character actions
Modular map system with special exploration cards
Item management track
Individual objectives allow for hidden traitors

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The core mechanisms of rolling one or two dice and activating blue/red/purple cards remain essentially the same, and one can either buy another engine-building card or a card with “dream” points after rolling the dice and obtaining the corresponding amount of hearts.

The first player to obtain 8 dream points will have attained their ideal life and wins the game.

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Explore a different take on the world of The Witcher and discover the rich tradition of Japanese folklore! The Witcher: Path of Destiny: Ronin takes you to this alternative world. It is an independent, stand-alone game based on the Path of Destiny. You will be able to take on the role of 7 characters – Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri, Yaskra, Vesemir and Triss in a brand-new instalment. Geralt, Vesemir and Ciri will be equipped with katanas, Jaskier will move crowds of geisha with the help of a biwa, and Triss and Yennefer will charm many of samurai on their way.

Story cards are replaced by illustrated Round cards. At the end of a round, contrary to the basic version of the game, players earn Victory Points for the symbol they jointly collected less of, and Experience Points for the symbol they collected more of. This new way of scoring forces players to constantly find balance in their tableau. This means they need to make strategic decisions and blend them with constant interaction with their neighbours at the table.

The variety of characters, Partnership Tracks, as well as the new large deck of Action cards will make each visit to the Japanese Witcher universe a unique and equally engaging one. In the box, you will find 5 double-sided Partnership Tracks, which are to be placed between the neighbouring players. New symbols and effects on Action cards often require neighbours to determine common tactics for playing cards. New effects allow players to climb up on their tracks, gaining additional bonuses together. Another component that enhances the feeling of building relationships are special Character Ability cards. Some effects from the Partnership track allow you to use the special abilities of your companions sitting next to you. Trust your Partners, but focus on achieving your own goals!

Ronin offers a competitive mode, but the new expansion puts quite a big emphasis on cooperation. In Ronin, players not only try their best to draft and play cards, but also to cooperate with each neighbouring player to get the best shared bonuses.

When playing with two players, you will use the help of Automa – an additional player, managed by the game. In solo mode, we will play with two Automa. Automa plays cards and allows players to use cooperation tracks, but does not collect points by itself.

In the solo variant, the player chooses a character, neighbouring characters and the difficulty level. The goal of the game is to collect Victory Points and achieve a special Victory Condition. The characters, as well as the difficulty level, give you a huge variability in this variant (hundreds of different starting layouts of the game).

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Now the time has come for the final exam. You must prove you can create new solar systems, coax stars into life, shape a range of biomes, and ultimately seed planets with life. It may only be a simulation, there are limits to what you can do here; this is science, not magic.

And you are not alone. Across the complex, fellow apprentices step into their own chambers, beginning the same trial. Only one will rise to join the caste. This is your moment of truth.

Entropy plays out over a variable number of rounds. Each turn, you must move your Scientist between 1 to 3 spaces clockwise around the Main board. You must end your movement on either an inner Action space on the Main board or an outer space of an Action tile, and resolve it. You will build Solar Systems with Stars, Planets and Asteroids, then fill them with Life, by playing cards. You may also gain various special abilities by adding Biomes and upgrading your Console.

The end game is triggered when any 2 out of 6 Main Objectives are Completed. The player with the most Victory Points at the end of the game is the winner.

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Tianxia: Silk Road expansion introduces a new scoring opportunity at the end of each round. This scoring depends on the number of exchange actions they do, the scoring condition shown on the Caravan tiles, and the outcome of the Battles. There is also another threat the players must consider – the Pirates attacking the east coast.

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Contents:
– 1 drawstring bag
– 4 character meeples
– 1 poacher meeple
– 4 tribal meeples
– 120 XP tokens
– 80 tent-shaped player meeples

NB This is just the upgrade pack – game available separately

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Discover, adapt, and build the most thriving ecosystem as you journey through the breath-taking Nilgiris region.

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Players collaboratively adapt to two ever-changing scenarios in each game, introducing fresh concepts and objectives. As specialists, they explore the vast reaches of Nilgiris, journal field entries, gain experience at the station, equip themselves with tools, conserve species in their habitat, and skilfully resolve ecological challenges. The game is intended to be an immersive experience celebrating nature’s wonders and the art of conservation.

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This expansion for Sniper Elite: The Board Game introduces two new maps, 2 vehicles with miniatures, new loadout and objective cards, a dozen new tokens and new Solo Mode cards.

Infiltrating the ‘Norman Village’ map is a real challenge for players as armoured cars patrol the area and crucial intelligence needs to be found to help bring about the downfall of the enemies’ ‘“Super Carrier”’.

From the wide-open fields surrounding the village to the air ducts, tight corridors, and multiple decks of the Super Carrier map itself, players will find diverse challenges each time they play. New gameplay mechanics from tools such as TNT or Bolt Cutters will be crucial for the sniper’s success while the defenders will be able to utilise reinforced walls and locked doors to turn the ship into a nightmarish maze.

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At the start of the game, each player holds three cards and on a turn a player draws one card, then plays one card. By playing cards, you can put new rules into play that change numerous aspects of the game: how many cards to draw or play, how many cards you can hold in hand or keep on the table in front of you, and (most importantly) how to win the game.

Who’s a good dog? Is it you? Yes? Well, we’ve got eleven of the very best doggos in Dog Fluxx! So, who’s ready for Walkies? Your Human better bring a plastic bag, because Poop happens. Hey, check out this Really Nice Stick we found Outside! Ooh, a Ball! But watch out: those Scary Noises could be a Stranger at the Front Door! Bark at it Until it Goes Away! Oh, it’s a Friend? Whatever you say, Bringer of Yums, you’re the Best Person Ever!

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At the start of each round, armies are placed face down, keeping your plans hidden from your opponents. Once everyone has finished placing their units, all armies are revealed at the same time. Then, it’s time for special actions—clever moves that can shift control of a realm at the last moment.

Treasures are awarded based on who has the most Vikings in a realm. But be warned: ties are harsh. If you’re tied with another player, you’re bumped to the back of the line—if there’s any treasure left for you at all…

After three rounds, players tally their points from collected treasures and forge powerful Norse artifacts for bonus points. The player with the highest total wins the title Master of Warfare!

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