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Concordia is a peaceful strategy game of economic development in Roman times for 2-5 players aged 13 and up. Instead of looking to the luck of dice or cards, players must rely on their strategic abilities. Be sure to watch your rivals to determine which goals they are pursuing and where you can outpace them! In the game, colonists are sent out from Rome to settle down in cities which produce bricks, food, tools, wine, and cloth. Each player starts with an identical set of playing cards and acquires more cards during the game. These cards serve two purposes:

• They allow a player to choose actions during the game.
• They are worth victory points (VPs) at the end of the game.

Concordia is a strategy game which requires advance planning and consideration of your opponent’s moves. Every game is different, not only because of the sequence of new cards on sale but also due to the modular layout of cities. (One side of the game board shows the entire Roman Empire with 30 cities for 3-5 players, while the other shows Roman Italy with 25 cities for 2-4 players.) When all cards have been sold, the game ends. The player with the most VPs from the gods (Jupiter, Saturnus, Mercurius, Minerva, Vulcanus, etc.) wins the game.

Components

190 Wooden Pieces

• 75 houses
• 15 sea colonists
• 15 land colonists
• 5 scoring markers
• 80 individually shaped units of goods

Cardboard Pieces

• 5 storehouses
• 30 city tokens
• 24 bonus markers
• coins (as 1, 2, 5, 10 Sestertii)

72 Cards

• 65 personality cards
• 5 player aids
• 1 Concordia
• 1 Praefectus Magnus

• game board: Imperium (3 – 5 players) / Italia (2 – 4 players)
• game rules
• quick intro
• historical information booklet

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More specifically, cards are dual-indexed, with different values on each half of the card, with the 45 cards having all possible combinations of the numbers 1-10. During set-up, whoever is shuffling the cards should randomize both the order of the cards in the deck and their orientation. Once each player has been dealt their entire hand of cards, they pick up that hand without rearranging any of the cards; if they wish, they can rotate their entire hand of cards in order to use the values on the other end of each card, but again they cannot rearrange the order of cards in their hand.

On a turn, a player takes one of two actions:

• Play: A player chooses one or more adjacent cards in their hand that have all the same value or that have values in consecutive order (whether ascending or descending), then they play this set of cards to the table. They can do this only if the table is empty (as on the first turn) or the set they’re playing is ranked higher than the set currently on the table; a set is higher if it has more cards or has cards of the same value instead of consecutive cards or has a set of the same quantity and type but with higher values. In this latter case when a player overplays another set, the player captures the cards in this previous set and places them face down in front of themselves.
• Scout: A player takes a card from either end of the set currently on the table and places it anywhere they wish in their hand in either orientation. Whoever played this previous set receives a 1 VP token as a reward for playing a set that wasn’t beaten.

Once per round, a player can scout, then immediately play.

When a player has emptied their hand of cards or all but one player have scouted instead of playing, the round ends. Players receive 1 VP for each face-down card, then subtract one point for each card in their hand (except if they were the player scouted repeatedly to end the game). Play as many rounds as the number of players, then whoever has the most points wins.

Contents:

• 45 Cards
• 23 Scout Chips
• 30 Score Chips
• 5 Scout & Show Chips
• Starting Player Marker
• Game Manual (EN/ES/DE/FR)

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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.

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Like previous installments in the series, this game can be learned very quickly but will provide a much more immersive and narrative experience that should please every fan of the franchise.

At the end of the 12 games of this Legacy campaign, you will have transformed your game into a unique copy that you can continue playing for a lifetime.

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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.

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All factions can improve their skills in six different areas of development — Terraforming, Navigation, Artificial Intelligence, Gaiaforming, Economy, Research — leading to advanced technology and special bonuses. To do all of that, each group has special skills and abilities.

The playing area is made of ten sectors, allowing a variable set-up and thus an even bigger replay value than its predecessor, Terra Mystica. A two-player game is hosted on seven sectors.

Contents:

10 Space Sector Tiles
1 Research Board
7 Double-Sided Faction Boards
1 Scoring Board
10 Round Scoring Tiles6 Final Scoring Tiles
10 Round Boosters
36 Standard Tech Tiles
15 Advanced Tech Tiles
6 Space Stations
19 Federation Tokens
12 Gaia Planet Tokens
1 Lost Planet Tokens
15 Record Tokens
20 Action Tokens
7 Automa Cards
1 Terraforming Reference Card
17 Decision Cards
1 Automa Rulebook
1 Automa Player Aid
4 Player Aids
1 Turn Order Card
14 Credit Makers
7 Ore Markers
7 Knowledge Makers
30 Quantum Intelligence Cubes
50 Power Tokens
1 Brainstone
1 First Player Marker

Structures (in each player color)
– 8 Mines
– 4 Trading Stations
– 3 Research Labs
– 2 Academies
– 1 Planetary Institute
– 3 Gaiaformers
– 7 Player Tokens
– 25 Satellites

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As a leader of one of the Great Houses of the Landsraad, raise your banner and marshal your forces and spies. War is coming, and at the center of the conflict is Arrakis – Dune, the desert planet.

Dune: Imperium uses deck-building to add a hidden-information angle to traditional worker placement.

You start with a unique leader card, as well as deck identical to those of your opponents. As you acquire cards and build your deck, your choices will define your strengths and weaknesses. Cards allow you to send your Agents to certain spaces on the game board, so how your deck evolves affects your strategy. You might become more powerful militarily, able to deploy more troops than your opponents. Or you might acquire cards that give you an edge with the four political factions represented in the game: the Emperor, the Spacing Guild, the Bene Gesserit, and the Fremen.

Unlike many deck-building games, you don’t play your entire hand in one turn. Instead, you draw a hand of cards at the start of every round and alternate with other players, taking one Agent turn at a time (playing one card to send one of your Agents to the game board). When it’s your turn and you have no more Agents to place, you’ll take a Reveal turn, revealing the rest of your cards, which will provide Persuasion and Swords. Persuasion is used to acquire more cards, and Swords help your troops fight for the current round’s rewards as shown on the revealed Conflict card.

Defeat your rivals in combat, shrewdly navigate the political factions, and acquire precious The Spice Must Flow cards to lead your House to victory!

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Win two challenges to win the game…easier said than done

Simple to learn but dangerously difficult to win

A quick, yet tense, bluffing game

An original and streamlined design

This multilingual edition includes: English & French

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In each round, players – each for themselves – turn over cards from their decks that show different guardian animals. These helpful forest creatures bring various elements with them. But be careful, among the animals are some solitary creatures that don’t mix well with others. With the elements, the players can perform one or two actions and thus plant trees, extinguish fires, move on the Circle of Spirits to activate various bonuses, attract new animals, or receive magic fragments. At the end of each round, all players must together face the remaining flames in the circle. If they cannot fend them off, they have to add Fire Varan cards to their deck – grouchy solitary animals that do not contribute any elements. The only way to get rid of them is with magic fragments! The game ends as soon as one person manages to fulfill one of the three possible victory conditions.

Living Forest is an advanced family game or a light core game with a push-your-luck mechanism and beautiful illustrations. Although all players work towards a common goal to save the forest, only one person can win in the end.

Contents:

• 1 Circle of Spirits central board

• 4 Forest individual boards

• 14 Starting Guardian Animal cards for each of the four Spirits of Nature

• 23 Level 1 Guardian Animal cards

• 16 Level 2 Guardian Animal cards

• 12 Level 3 Guardian Animal cards

• 23 Fire Varan cards

• 4 Spirit of Nature standees

• 1 Sacred Tree standee

• 4 Starting Protective Tree tiles

• 2 Protective Tree dispensers to put together

• 58 Fire tiles divided into 3 levels

• 20 Fragment tiles

• 12 Victory tiles (3 per Spirit of Nature)

• 1 Guardian Animal board

• 1 Fire Varan board

• 39 Protective Tree tiles

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