In Charterstone, a competitive legacy game, you construct buildings and populate a shared village. Building stickers are permanently added to the game board and become action spaces for any player to use. Thus, you start off with simple choices and few workers, but soon you have a bustling village with dozens of possible actions.

Your journey through Charterstone’s many secrets will last twelve games, but it doesn’t end there. Your completed village will be a one-of-a-kind worker-placement game with plenty of variability.

The post Charterstone appeared first on Meeple & Sheep.

You are a marine researcher seeking to find and observe an array of aquatic life in the colorful Sunlight Zone, ghostly Twilight Zone, and pitch-black Midnight Zone of the world’s seas and oceans. In Finspan, the fish you discover over 4 weeks will generate a series of benefits as you dive deeper into the ocean.

• Each dive site specializes in a key aspect of expanding your research:
• Grow your collection of fish.
• Discover freshly laid eggs.
• Hatch eggs into young and consolidate young to form schools.

The winner is the player with the most points gained from fish, eggs, young, schools, and achievements.

The post Finspan appeared first on Meeple & Sheep.

Ready Set Bet is played over 4 rounds. Each round consists of a race followed by bet resolution. During each race, players freely place their Bet Tokens on the board while the race is going on. After each race, players win or lose money for each of their placed Bet Tokens and then receive a VIP Club Card to help them win more money in the following races. After 4 rounds, the player with the most money wins!

Contents:

• Rulebook
• 32 VIP Cards (standard)
• 28 Prop Bet cards (mini)
• 5 Exotic Finish Cards (standard)
• Race Track Board
• Bet Board
• 143 Money Chip tokens
• 52 Bet tokens
• 6 House Bet Tokens
• 2 6 Sided Dice
• 9 Wooden Horse Meeples
• 8 Win, Place, Show Tokens

The post Ready Set Bet appeared first on Meeple & Sheep.

In Captain Sonar, you and your teammates control a state-of-the-art submarine and are trying to locate an enemy submarine in order to blow it out of the water before they can do the same to you. Every role is important, and the confrontation is merciless. Be organized and communicate because a captain is nothing without his crew: the Chief Mate, the Radio Operator, and the Engineer.

All the members of a team sit on one side of the table, and they each take a particular role on the submarine, with the division of labor for these roles being dependent on the number of players in the game: One player might be the captain, who is responsible for moving the submarine and announcing some details of this movement; another player is manning the sonar in order to listen to the opposing captain’s orders and try to decipher where that sub might be in the water; a third player might be working in the munitions room to prepare torpedoes, mines and other devices that will allow for combat.

Captain Sonar can be played in two modes: turn-by-turn or simultaneous. In the latter set-up, all the members of a team take their actions simultaneously while trying to track what the opponents are doing, too. When a captain is ready to launch an attack, the action pauses for a moment to see whether a hit has been recorded — then play resumes with the target having snuck away while the attacker paused or with bits of metal now scattered across the ocean floor.

Multiple maps are included with varying levels of difficulty.

The post Captain Sonar appeared first on Meeple & Sheep.

Components include 180 multifunctional cards, a central game board, and a scoring pad. During the game, players attempt to gather more trees than their opponents. Taking turns playing cards from their hand, they must attract wildlife by combining plants and animals for extra points or bonus actions. But the animals have different preferences, some favoring dense treetops, others lush undergrowth, which players must take into consideration as they combine plants and animals to earn points. The player with the highest score wins the game.

The post Forest Shuffle appeared first on Meeple & Sheep.

After Us is a deck-building and resource management game featuring an original and intuitive combo system in which players are each leading a tribe of apes. Starting only with tamarins, they combine their cards each turn to collect resources and gather victory points, attracting new apes into their tribe along the way: powerful gorillas, resourceful orangutans, versatile chimpanzees, and wise mandrills. The first player to obtain 80 points prevails in the race to collective intelligence — and wins the game.

The post After Us appeared first on Meeple & Sheep.

Space Base is a dice game where players draft ships into their Space Base. Every turn, no matter whose turn, players harvest rewards from their Space Base, whether those rewards are an increase in your baseline income, credits for the next turn, influence or some other powerful effect that will lead you to victory. Space Base has you involved and engaged on every player’s turn, from the first roll of the dice to the last!

• Dice Game where players build their own chart of rewards
• Fantastic Artwork by Chris Walton set in a hopeful and humorous world
• Easily taught with rich depth of play
• All players engaged on every turn and every roll of the dice!

Contents:

• 204 cards
• 45 wooden cubes
• 5 player boards
• 1 rulebook
• 2 dice

The post Space Base appeared first on Meeple & Sheep.

More than just a new map, Ticket to Ride: Europe features brand new gameplay elements. Tunnels may require you to pay extra cards to build on them, Ferries require locomotive cards in order to claim them, and Stations allow you to sacrifice a few points in order to use an opponent’s route to connect yours. The game also includes larger format cards and Train Station game pieces.

The overall goal remains the same: collect and play train cards in order to place your pieces on the board, attempting to connect cities on your ticket cards. Points are earned both from placing trains and completing tickets but uncompleted tickets lose you points. The player who has the most points at the end of the game wins.

Copyright 2002-2014 Days of Wonder, inc.

Part of the Ticket to Ride series.

The post Ticket to Ride – Europe appeared first on Meeple & Sheep.