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Empire's End
You lead a grand civilization at the height of its influence, but can you save it from collapse? In Empire's End, 2-4 players compete to keep calamity at bay. Empire's End marries the intuitive and elegant mechanism of reverse-bidding with engine-building, long-term planning, and strategic depth. The result is a game with a quick tempo, abundant tension, and multiple challenging paths to victory. Players begin with a civilization at the height of its power. Play proceeds through a series of phases, varying as you progress through the game. During the Disaster phase, players face a common threat such as famine, a flood, or barbarians. The player who ends the bidding must take the disaster, which devastates one of their territories. With each disaster that befalls an empire, its people grow in wisdom and resilience. In the style of the modern classic game No Thanks, resources bid by all players will end up in the hands of the player who ultimately takes the disaster card. That player also gains a new ability, an innovation that reflects their empire's ability to adapt in the face of challenging times. Each turn, players move along a progress track that dictates whether they will face a disaster or another type of phase. Players can gain new resources during Production phases, rebuild lost territories during Industry phases, and challenge one another during Military phases. At the end of the progress track, the game is concluded and the winner is the civilization with the greatest number of victory points. Intact territories contribute points, but innovations and military successes can provide alternative ways to win.
$56.00$51.00
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Nexum Galaxy: Asteroids Expansion (Pre-Order)
This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of Q3 2024. Orders containing a pre-order item WILL NOT SHIP until the final pre-order item is able to be shipped. Dates and product details are subject to change as new information from the manufacturer is updated. Expansion "Asteroids" that compliments the base game "Nexum Galaxy". With this expansion, Nexum Galaxy becomes completely a 4X game (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate). It also introduces asymmetry in the factions, technology, new resources, more ships... Increases replayability by adding new Systems to those included in the base game, as well as Event and AI cards. Special Multibattle mode. Play several games simultaneously, by sides transferring ships and resources between tables, through Wormholes. Special Campaign mode, Navigate and fight for the different Sectors, orienting yourself with the map and atlas of the Galaxy. Special Tournament mode. Join several base+expansion games and organize with your friends, or in your association, or in the classroom, quick tournaments of up to 4 tables of 4 players playing simultaneously by sides.
$41.00$35.00
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Nexum Galaxy: Fleet Expansion (Pre-Order)
This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of Q3 2024. Orders containing a pre-order item WILL NOT SHIP until the final pre-order item is able to be shipped. Dates and product details are subject to change as new information from the manufacturer is updated. Box with 120 miniatures of four different shapes and colors to dramatically enhance "Nexum Galaxy" games. Optionally complements the game "Nexum Galaxy" and its expansion "Asteroids". Ideal size for use in your own games, or completing other games. Fight for your civilization! Conquer planets, plunder, extract energy, capture relics, create and mobilize your fleets of ships to achieve control of the Galaxy. 120 plastic miniatures of ships, in 4 different models and colors for each Civilization:♦ PSYCON: capable of altering energy, communications, and even others' will.♦ CLONIX: an army of cyborg beings remotely controlled from an undisclosed location.♦ BIONTES: after assimilating countless life forms in their travels, they have incorporated their deadliest characteristics into their current form.♦ GNOMICON: cold machines that function as multisensory swarms with collective intelligence.Approximate size of the miniatures: 16 x 10 mm. Contents: Box with 120 miniatures (30 miniatures for each faction) to dramatically enhance Nexum gameplay.
$35.00$30.00
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Nexum Galaxy (Pre-Order)
This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of Q3 2024. Orders containing a pre-order item WILL NOT SHIP until the final pre-order item is able to be shipped. Dates and product details are subject to change as new information from the manufacturer is updated. Nexum Galaxy is a game for 1 to 4 players from 12+ years old, in which we fight against other Civilizations in epic interplanetary battles to dominate the Galaxy. With simple and intuitive rules that can be learned very quickly, but at the same time with a high tactical and strategic component. You will be able to eXpand and eXploit resources from each Galactic Sector while eXterminating your enemies. Allows hundreds of different games with progressively increasing difficulty, from pure strategy without chance to the incorporation of Cosmic Events to which you will have to adapt your strategy. Special modes solitaire, cooperative, and with or against several Artificial Intelligences. Excellent presentation, with its plastic insert, initial help guide and advanced guide. It is enriched with the expansion "Nexum Galaxy: Asteroids" that turns it into a 4X, adding eXploration and countless game modes, scenarios and components.
$55.00$47.00
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Barbarian Kingdoms (Pre-Order)
This item is a pre-order item with an expected release date of April 2024. Orders containing a pre-order item WILL NOT SHIP until the final pre-order item is able to be shipped. Dates and product details are subject to change as new information from the manufacturer is updated. "Gold is the lifeblood of the war!" As the Hun horde swept across Europe, they forced the Germanic tribes into exodus. These warlike peoples spread within the borders of the Western Empire and, by dint of looting and war, will eventually cause the collapse of the Empire. In the twilight of antiquity and at the dawn of the Middle Ages, the so-called "barbarian nations" founded kingdoms on the former imperial territory. In Barbarian Kingdoms, an asymmetrical and competitive strategy game, each player controls their own nascent kingdom and competes for supremacy over Western Europe. The first player to control seven territories or to eliminate two opposing kings wins. On a turn, each player chooses and resolves a single action of their choice: Recruitment: deploy a warrior from the reserve by paying a cost Taxation: collect money from the provinces in their kingdom Assault: invade a province or attack an enemy unit Maneuvers: reposition their units in their provinces or towards the sea Claim: try to take control of a province by paying a cost Assault and claim actions can be immediately challenged by an opponent and resolved by a battle. During the battle, a bribe may be paid to the opponent to try to reverse the outcome. Players must be vigilant in positioning their forces (with the constraint of a maximum of one unit per province), keep an eye on their opponents, and take advantage of their two asymmetrical powers: that of their kingdom and that of their king.
$70.00$60.00
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Voidfall
For centuries, the Novarchs, descendants of the royal House of Novarchon, have ruled with an iron fist over the feudalistic galactic empire of humankind, the Domineum. During this time, they brought stunning technological innovation and scientific advancements to their domain. This accelerated progression helped the Domineum reach — and eventually inhabit — even the farthest segments of the known galaxy, where new Houses emerged to govern the outer sectors of the empire. As the House of Novarchon grew in power, so grew the religious cult that surrounded them, proclaiming grim prophecies about an ancient cosmic being from another dimension: the Voidborn. Many thought it to be only a myth, but in truth, it was the Voidborn's dark influence that granted the Novarchs the sheer knowledge to achieve rapid expansion for the empire. While the cult of the Novarchs envisaged eternal life through the otherworldly entity, the Voidborn's only intention was satiating its eternal hunger. And so, when the Domineum had achieved a vastness fitting the Voidborn's craving, interdimensional rifts opened at the heart of the Domineum to unleash cosmic corruption. As the House of Novarchon and its followers welcomed the Voidborn and sought their false salvation, the entity infected and spread and seized control over the inner worlds. Now, it is time for the remaining Great Houses to purge the galactic corruption, prevent the Voidborn from fully manifesting in our dimension, and to ultimately overcome the chaos as the new rulers of the Domineum. Voidfall is a space 4X game that brings the genre to Euro enthusiasts' tables. It combines the tension, player interaction, and deep empire customization of the 4X genre with the resource management, tight decisions, and minimum-luck gameplay of an economic Euro. Win by pushing back the Voidborn in the solo/coop mode, or by overcoming your rivals' influence in restoring the Domineum in the competitive mode — both using the same rule set and game system. Variability is ensured not only by multiple playable houses with their own strengths and weaknesses, but also by many different map set-ups for all game modes. As the leader of a defiant Great House, you play through three cycles, each with a game-altering galactic event, a new scoring condition, and a set number of focus cards that can be played. Focus card decisions and sequencing is the centerpiece of the gameplay. By selecting two of their three impactful actions as you play them, you develop and improve techs; advance on your three house-specific civilization tracks; manage your sectors' infrastructure, population, and production; and conquer new sectors with up to five different types of space fleets. Space battles are fought either against the Voidborn's infected forces (which are present as neutral opponents even in the competitive mode) or against other players. Instead of relying on the luck of a die roll, battles in Voidfall are fully deterministic and reward careful preparation and outsmarting your opponents.
$168.00$143.00
