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The Struggle for Catan™ is a fast-paced game between the 2-4 factions developing newly settled Catan. Manage your resources to build settlements, cities, city expansions, knights, and roads that generate victory points or special abilities. While your settlements, cities, and city expansions remain yours, valuable roads and knights change hands. Varied expensive city expansions give you additional victory points and lasting advantages, so they're generally key to victory. As in The Settlers of Catan® board game, you win by being the first to acquire and play 10 victory points.

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Rivals for Catan puts you in charge of one of the two factions developing newly-settled Catan. Use your cards to create your own principality. Explore and settle new lands, acquiring resources through card play and the luck of the dice. Use gold, resource combinations, and trade to develop your domain. Expand your settlements and cities, recruit heroes, and defend your lands through politics, invention, and intrigue. Your cunning and a dash of luck decides who will be the ruler over Catan. In addition to the starter game, Rivals for Catan contains three exciting “Theme Games” to challenge you: The Age of Gold, The Age of Turmoil, and The Era of Progress all await...

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In Troyes (pronounced "twah"), players recreate four centuries of history of this famous city of the Champagne region of France. Each player manages their segment of the population (represented by a horde of dice) and their hand of cards, which represent the three primary domains of the city: religious, military, and civil. Players can also offer cash to their opponents' populace in order to get a little moonlighting out of them — anything for more fame! Make your underlings: work on the cathedral combat misfortune bustle about the city and other such tasks that are below your family's stature

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Rivals for Catan Deluxeâ„¢ is a fast-paced card game for 2 players. Rivals for Catan Deluxe puts you in charge of one of the two factions developing newly-settled Catan. Use your unique card mix to create your own principality. Explore and settle new lands. Acquire resources through card play and the luck of the dice. Use gold, resource combinations, and trade to develop your domain. Expand your settlements and cities, recruit heroes, and defend your lands through politics, invention, and intrigue. Use your cunning! Become prince of Catan! Rivals for Catan Deluxe is the perfect way for 2 players to settle and develop the ever-mysterious and fantastic land of Catan.

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In City of Crowns, noble allies have responded to the recent attacks against our borders. Only through careful negotiation and diplomacy will these dukes, barons, counts and margraves offer the aid we so desperately need. Will you be able to muster enough support to once again defend this great city, or will you crumble beneath the weight of indecision and apathy?This expansion adds new extensions for both the main board and player boards. Players have a new attribute to manage and new actions available on each turn.Contents: 1 Rulebook1 Diplomat Token4 Workshops4 Diplomacy Markers7 Board Extensions40 Muster Cards4 Ally Cards30 Negotiate Cards16 Paladin Cards6 Outsider Cards8 Townsfolk Cards5 King's Favor Cards2 King's Order Cards6 Tomesaga Co-op Cards Ages: 12+Players: 1-4Game Length: 90-120 minutes

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Orléans: Invasion, the first large expansion for the award-winning game "Orléans", contains six scenarios designed by Reiner Stockhausen and Inka & Markus Brand. It also includes a new set of Place Tiles that can be used with or without any of the scenarios. The new scenarios are: Prosperity: An extensive scenario introducing new Events and a Carpenter that all players may use to build Structures for victory points, designed by Inka and Markus Brand. Invasion: A cooperative scenario in which players have to work together to fend off an invasion while fulfilling personal objectives, designed by Inka and Markus Brand. The Duel: A two-player scenario in which both players race to be the first to complete a series of objectives, designed by Reiner Stockhausen.   In addition, Invasion contains three single-player challenges by Reiner Stockhausen. The Dignitary: You are an important dignitary trying to gather as many Citizens as possible. Capital Vierzon: Develop the city of Vierzon to become the capital of its region. Traveling Salesman: Travel through the country and make important deliveries to faraway cities.

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Orléans: Trade & Intrigue is the second large expansion for the award-winning game Orléans. This expansion adds new place tiles and four new modules: Orders: a new set of cards, each depicting goods and a city - collect the goods and turn them in at the city for victory points New Events: a completely new set of 34 Hour Glass Tiles from which 18 are semi-randomly chosen for each game New Beneficial Deeds: a replacement Beneficial Deeds board providing completely new rewards for sending away your Followers Intrigue: a replacement Beneficial Deeds board allowing you to attack and hinder your opponents or even steal from them

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ABOUT ORLEANS: THE PLAGUE EXPANSION Mon Dieu, quelle horreur! Now the inhabitants of Orléans have been hit hard; the plague has come upon them, bringing suffering and misery to the population. There are many dead to mourn, and even the plague doctor can only bring limited relief and hope to the long-suffering inhabitants. The clergy also has little to offer in the way of relief. And so, in the end, everyone is on their own and must try to protect their followers as best they can… With The Plague expansion, the game conditions are made tougher from the start of play! Sometimes there are fewer monks in the game, sometimes no gears may be placed on place cards, or the building of trading stations must be paid for with an additional coin. New events are now also linked to the new Corpse Tokens which players must place a certain number of in their bag at the end of each round. These tokens might be randomly drawn from the bag at the beginning of the round and occupy valuable space on the marketplace because they cannot be used for any action. To get rid of them for good, a player can fulfill indulgence cards through pilgrimage, donations, or other conditions, which also bring victory points at game’s end. Fortunately, each player has a Plague Doctor, a new figure that is available in nearly every round and can be used anywhere!

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