New Releases 05 November 2007

When cameleers meet at the campfire after a long and straining journey, they tell each other stories about cities in the middle of the desert, from hidden oases, and flying carpets. A versed cameleer will of course not whistle-blow the exact location of these precious places, but if you can .read. the desert, you will find them anyway. And with the help of a powerful jinn, you may rearrange the location to your own benefit - or to the disadvantage of someone else.

Players move their caravans through the desert in search of these marvellous locations not telling the others what they discovered. But if you make use of such a location, you automatically reveal some information about it. For instance, if you trade in a desert city the other players will roughly know where the city is. Object of the game is to find three artifacts, or to buy them with the gold you earn.

You will find cities, oases, caravanserais and artifacts. Knowing where they are is very beneficial when you equip a caravan. Do you still remember where they were?

PARKER’S CROSSROADS—The Battle of the Bulge contains a highly-detailed and on-site researched game map depicting the Belgian countryside along the Baraque de Fraiture crossroads. This hotly contested battlefield was the scene of a collision between Americans and German Waffen SS and Volksgrenadier units during the Battle of the Bulge. It was later to be known as “Parker’s Crossroads”, named after Major Arthur C. Parker III, the Commander of the 589th Field Artillery unit assigned to this sector.

Another historical map researched on site by Pedro Ramis and brought to you with the cooperation of hobbyist Nadir El Farra and his FRONT LINE PRODUCTIONS, PCBOB includes 8 new scenarios and a sheet of new counters, all used on the 24" x 26" map.

Ownership of DARKEST DECEMBER or German Personnel, US Personnel, US AFVs, German AFVs, and the LATE WAR GERMAN AND AMERICAN AFVS sheet (DD_1) is needed to use this expansion.

Turmoil grips the lands of Onara. It is the end of an era, and a dawn of a new age. It is an age of struggle against the end of existence; an age which shall witness the rise of history’s greatest champions. Will Arcanis pass into nothingness, or shall her heroes raise her up to new heights?

The Elorii look into the divining pools of the Elluwe’ as they roil with blood and know that the end times prophesied so many centuries ago are now upon us. Emerging from their forest sanctuary, they wonder if humanity can indeed weather the storm of Silence. Each of the Shattered Empires struggles to survive. In the north, the nation of Canceri buckles under the oppressive rule of the Theocracy - most pray for death, and the rest, for deliverance. Enemies gather round the proud nation of Milandir, each one eager to pull down its bright towers and humble its defenders. Fear gnaws at Milandir's people, and they begin to lose hope. To the south, the once mighty Coryani Empire sleeps under an indifferent ruler, while its greatest general bides his time, waiting to seize the throne for his own noble house. The Imperial Court looks on like a flock of carrion crows, ready to pick apart the corpse of the land. The nascent Serpent Empire stirs with renewed vigor, the Serpent Kings no longer content to set his own subjects against one another, and instead looks to the destruction of the children of Althares.

The Codex Arcanis is the essential tome for the critically-acclaimed Arcanis: the World of Shattered Empires campaign setting. Within one will find:

A fun snap game, which features interesting facts from around the UK.

A sweeping conflict in the South Pacific where naval might leads to air superiority. Axis and Allies: Guadalcanal challenges you to control sea zones and island groups while managing troop and supply transport and directing land, sea, and air forces in one of the decisive campaigns of the Second World War's Pacific Theater.

Axis and Allies: Guadalcanal incorporates crucial elements that were key factors in the historical campaign, such as air strip construction, troop and supply transport, and furious land, sea, and air battles. It introduces the Cruiser unit as well as mechanics for land, sea and air combat in the South Pacific using a randomized casualties system.

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Who has the biggest brain? Find out with the new mental fitness game based on the original best-selling Nintendo™ DS title. Players answer questions in five fun categories: Analyze, Compute, Identify, Memorize, and Think; but it's speed and accuracy that count - not smarts! Teams collect chips based on the number of questions they answer correctly. After five rounds of play, teams weigh their chips on the "brain-o-meter" to see which team has the biggest brain. Big Brain Academy keeps minds nimble and players laughing! Contents include 330 Cards, Spinner, Scale, Puzzle Pieces, Scoring Chips, Red Revealer, Sand Timer, Dry Erase Pen and Instructions.

The World of Aihrde is the official Castles & Crusades adventure setting. The book comprises a detailed history in which the whole of the world's development is laid out as a penelopian tapestry. Aihrde’s unique design allows Castle Keepers and Players alike to customize and adapt this unfolding tapestry of adventures to their own design and style of play.

A world like no other, Aihrde has a true coherent historical framework, with a depth unreached by any other adventure setting. From the cosmological origins of its creation, to the inner world, to the Winter Dark Wars, Aihrde offers a complete picture for any adventurer’s background. Aihrde’s unique features are only strengthened by its familiar trappings and classic feel of dragons, orcs, goblins, elves, dwarves and more. These classic aspects of most fantasy worlds are highlighted by wholly original creatures such as the Gottland Trolls whose life times of evil deeds root them to the ground like old trees . . . .

This 24 page primer serves as an introduction to the world of Aihrde. Originally published in 2000 as the After Winter Dark Campaign Setting, this primer revises the world of Aihrde for the Castles & Crusades system. It includes a brief history of time, cosmology, and descriptions of geographic and geo-political entities as well as notes on the calender, maps and more.

From the aging trolls of the Gottland to the red trees of the Rilthwood, adventurers encounter an exciting world where the present is alive with the past. It is Epic in its scope, accommodating both high and low level adventures with ease. Erde's boundaries are only as narrow as the walls of your imagination. It is a World of Epic Adventure.

Shall you claim the glory of heroes, or accept your doom?

You have raised the ire of the goblin warlord, and now you flee his kingdom with war parties hot on your trail. You must reach the borderland town of Felsentheim, for if you do not, no alarm will sound to harken the coming of the Dogs of War and your bodies will lie in the forest grass, forgotten by all but the worms!

Dogs of War, is a C&C System adventure for 4-6 characters with a challenge level of 3-5. It provides intense action, including a large-scale siege, and it requires heroes of high mind and daring spirit. Such heroes shall linger long in the halls of memory.

Enter again the World of Inzae, where all things slip into the Maelstrom, and from hence true heroes are born.

The 1st full color adventure for the world of GODSEND Agenda! Godmaker takes the players from the sleep hills of middle America to the scorching deserts of Egypt in the hope of finding the secrets of lost artifacts and a three way power grab by beings as ancient as time itself.

The initiates have waited for this day for centuries, and now that the grail appeared, they are well prepared. Following an ancient plan, the grail shall be brought to its designated place. But do the other initiates have the same goal as you? Whom can you trust?

Assassins, Templars, Rosicrucians and Illuminates start the hunt for the grail. The pawns on the gameboard belong to nobody, each player may move each of them. Throughout the game, however, each player may try to gain control over the pawns by secretly exerting influence on them. The winner of the game is not the one who brings home the grail, but the one who controls the bearer of the grail; in other words: The one who proves to have the highest influence ...

Clockwise, the players move one of the pawns on the gameboard, or invest hidden influence points. Displeasing moves by other players may be rejected if you reveal to have a higher influence on that pawn than the player who made the move. Furthermore, displeasing pawns can be removed from the game by uncovering them. But in order to do so, you have to control the pawn which blows the other pawn's cover, and the amount of influence you can spend during the game is limited.

Discombobulation is a fun, fast-paced game guaranteed to make the entire family laugh. The goal…be the first to play all of your cards before someone can discombobulate you with one of 10 unique Discombobulation challenges.

You will go head-to-head against other players to compose rhymes, sing popular songs, make lists, mimic others, remember nicknames, and much more. Mess up, you draw more cards.

Sound difficult? You bet. But outplaying your opponents in a game that requires a quick mind, fast reflexes, and a good memory makes it worth the challenge.

Just outside of the border city of Cillamar lies a hidden ruin, once home to a clan of gnomes, now the lair of twisted aberrations that shun the surface world and its people. The heroes are called to explore this ruin. They pick their way through subterranean byways and galleries, past deadly traps and ancient caverns, to discover the eldritch source of the aberrations: a malevolent crystal monolith hidden atop an island in the center of an underground lake. But ending the crystal’s curse carries its own repercussions...

Learn about the 4 functions of maths in a fun and exciting way!

Buying castles in Scotland can turn out to be excellent business. Even more so when you can provide tourists with these lands attractions: natural beauties? Oh no, no, rather offering them scary ghosts infestations!!!

Some eccentric characters fight in an auction to be assigned castles and manors. This, in the hope that presences will not be too numerous! Even if a castle without ghosts may be found useless, on the contrary one which is too “populated” will end up terrorizing tourists and being valueless...

Every player, after having seen the various castles, can declare what was seen: were there gloomy presences or only old and powdery family portraits?

But beware, not all declarations are reliable: many players could lie... or perhaps all of them?

Mrs Truelight could help everyone to find out actual results of such decisions... if you will pay her enough!

Ghost for sale is a clever deductive game, with a subtle bluffing component, for 3 to 5 players, suitable for all the families, but with a strategy component that will not leave indifferent even most experienced gamers. In the box there are 8 special cards to be used for “special auctions”, which constitute a set for playing advanced rules games and which, randomly combined to the various castles and manors, guarantee rounds which are always exciting and different.

Brought to us by the makers of the Lord of the Rings comes a new epic trilogy: Philip Pullman's Dark Materials. The Golden Compass is the first in the trilogy, to be released in 2007. The official DVD adventure board game will include clips from the film that take the player inside Philip Pullman's world - can you help Lyra discover the truth?

One of the greatest military commanders and tacticians in history descends on the Roman Empire once again. Do you face him as Rome and try to ward the invasion that comes from the North, or do you climb atop your war elephant and show Rome you will take that which they hold most dear: their territory.

Designed with all new artwork from Kurt Miller this is a reprint of the very popular Avalon-Hill version from 1996. The game uses the popular card system, which first appeared in Avalon Hill's We the People, to recount the Second Punic War from 218 to 203 B.C. Players use strategic-level cards for multiple purposes: moving generals, levying new troops, reinforcing existing armies, gaining political control of the provinces involved in the war, and generating historical events. When two armies meet on the battlefield, a second set of cards, called Battle Cards, are used to determine the winner. Ultimately both players seek victory by dominating both fronts: military and political.

Fighting the Forces of Darkness so you don't have to

InSpectres is a game about the burgeoning supernatural investigation and elimination market. Start a company and try to stay afloat long enough to cash in those sweet, sweet stock options.

Players are challenged with a series of dilemmas taken from Jacqueline Wilson’s stories.

The Creation of the Mystery and the Girl from Blue City (second attempt)

Sinister secret agents with shadowy employers and mysterious pasts. A bizarre landscape built from six- billion human minds. Arachnid-headed beings that guard a war-torn borderzone. And all the worst that Mankind has to offer, stalking the alleys and crumbling buildings of a place called Blue City.

Is it a dream? Is it a nightmare? Or is it just a game? And are you already playing?

Match the name, sound or the picture of the animals on the cards.

The psychotronic game of post-apocalyptic trash-culture America.

Gas up your smartcar, tune up your six-string and don't forget to feed your monkey. octaNe is a roller-coaster ride through irradiated wastelands and strip-mall paradise from the alien rockstar splendor of Shangri-L.A. to the decadent neon strip of Lost Vegas. Masked wrestlers rule the lands of New Texaco and sentient monkeys study the Tao in the flooded ruins of San Francisco.

Global warming? The world got a whole lot cooler.

This game is a historical simulation, with the ambitious goal of describing, in three eras, the origins of everything human. Players start with a brain map of one of five pre-conscious hominid species, 115 thousand years ago. They also start with a Demography sheet and a single hunter-gatherer unit in the Old World, as it enters the glacial period of the Pleistocene Ice Age.

The maps of the Old and New Worlds depict various plants and animals, from coconuts and maize to mammoths and sheep, that they must try to domesticate to become herdsmen and agriculturists. They must expand their mind, as they learn the arts of language and imitation of competing cultures. Players who do poorly may become enslaved by other cultures, only to get a new chance as advanced civilizations go through cycles of chaos and renaissances. Global Warming may end the Ice Age and flood the coastal settlements, and deserts, jungles, and glaciers advance and retreat as the millenia pass. There are three eras in the development of the mind: The Age of Instinct (pre-lingual), The Bicameral Age (lingual but not yet conscious), and the Age of Faith (conscious with faith-based authorizations).

The 24 page rules book, in English and German, includes maps and 6 pages of historical background, a theory on the origins of consciousness, weather charts and historical maps. The historical backdrop of each and every card, from the Pleistocene to the Medieval Era, is described and illustrated.

Jump aboard great vessels like the Flying Dutchman and the Black Pearl and set sail with Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann and Captain Barbossa in a fight to claim the most treasure!

Each Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Game Pack will include everything a player needs to play, including two ships to be assembled by the player, one island / terrain card, a treasure or crew card, a rulebook and a die.

Get 3 x Pirates of The Carribean Booster Packs at a GamesLore multibuy price.

Jump aboard great vessels like the Flying Dutchman and the Black Pearl and set sail with Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann and Captain Barbossa in a fight to claim the most treasure!

Each Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Game Pack will include everything a player needs to play, including two ships to be assembled by the player, one island / terrain card, a treasure or crew card, a rulebook and a die.

Get 36 x Pirates of The Carribean Booster Packs at a GamesLore multibuy price.

Jump aboard great vessels like the Flying Dutchman and the Black Pearl and set sail with Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann and Captain Barbossa in a fight to claim the most treasure!

Each Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Game Pack will include everything a player needs to play, including two ships to be assembled by the player, one island / terrain card, a treasure or crew card, a rulebook and a die.

This is what drives the 10 characters in the world of PROPHECY. A fantasy world full of adventure, where you will battle creatures and other characters in different terrain, increase your skills and learn spells at the five Guilds, acquire Items of a common and rare nature in the civilized spaces (or as rewards for defeating creatures).

And the goal: to possess 4 out of 5 ancient Artifacts that are guarded in the Astral Planes by terryifying creatures. Only then will you show the world that you are their rightful king!

Really Nasty Golf Game -- There's foul play on the fairway , as you "revenge" your way to the 19th hole! Designed to bring out the worst in all players! A perfect tee shot can splash in the lake , a sumptous drive can suddenly be "trampled" in!! It's a question of how craftily you play your "Nasty cards" to impede your opponents. Game can be played on this neat nine hole course at 2 levels Really Really Nasty or the slightly less frustrating Relatively Nasty Golf Game. A riot of a game for golf nut or novice alike!