New Releases 12 May 2008

Sacred Bonds is the third monthly instalment of 40 fixed cards for the A Clash of Arms expansion to the A Game of Thrones Collectible Card Game, based on George R.R. Martin's bestselling Song of Ice and Fire saga. It contains 20 different never-before-seen cards designed to augment existing decks and add variety to the A Game of Thrones metagame. This is not a standalone deck; a A Game of Thrones CCG starter set is required to play.

Mind Storm Lab’s flagship product, Alpha Omega, is a thrilling, comprehensive, and adaptable role-playing game. Alpha Omega provides players a unique and innovative rule set with optional layers of complexity. These optional rules are presented to add realism and strategy, but can be set aside to simplify and expedite game play.

Players find themselves in a richly detailed, post-apocalyptic Earth where mankind stands on the brink of extinction. Our planet is about to become the battleground for otherworldly creatures of incredible power as they wage an ancient war. The End of Times seems to have arrived. Are angels and demons walking among us, or is there a larger chain of events unfolding? All is not lost... Alliances are forming and mankind is learning to evolve and unlock its hidden potential... Heroes are emerging... heroes like you.

The spellbinding word-race game set in a letter maze where even little words are winners and, because the board changes each time you play and as you play, you’ll never play the same game twice.

ATS Warfighting Guide #2 contains 52 pages of ADVANCED TOBRUK SYSTEM material aimed at making the ATSer a system expert. Included in the new issue is George Anderson's ATS Robot, a card-based system for playing ANY ATS scenario solo with a random generation of actions by the 'enemy'.

The ATS Robot includes a set of over 50 cards (provided on cardstock for you to trim out) for use with George's solo rules.

Also included in the issue are the first installment of Drew Dorman's 'ATS Set Ups', suggested set up data for all six D-Day Ranger scenarios. You can set up either side Drew's way, then use the ATS Robot to hammer it out. Alone. Just like you like it! What's more, Drew uses the D-Day Rangers NEW Edition scenarios, which also happen to be included in the issue as a FREE bonus!

The FREE bonus approach continues...with a strip of funky new ATS leader counters bundled with EACH copy of ATS WARFIGHTING GUIDE #2.

So this is it. And this is NO DRILL. The expert ATSer needs his warfighting, and he (or she) needs it now.

Do you have trouble winning at racing games. Well, this game is for the losers out there. Yes, to "win" the game, you have to pick the horse which comes in last. Sounds simple, but, of course, the other players are trying to lose as well.

D-DAY—The Great Crusade portrays the invasion of France by Allied forces during World War II. Suitable for solo and team play, the game covers Operation Overlord from June 6th and depicts the action in Normandy until July 6, 1944.

Turns represent one day each. A hex represents 1.5 km and unit size ranges from company to brigade, with most units depicted as battalions and regiments.

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This expansion game is for owners of D-Day: The Great Crusade. This is not a complete game; the original is required for use. Its purpose is to add a more detailed invasion sequence to the original game, and includes a detailed setup to reflect unit positions of the German defenders on the morning of 6 June, 1944. This replaces the 6 June sequence from the original game, and the 7 June turn is now treated as a normal turn.

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In an ancient and forgotten land, the five dragon clans held dominion over the lesser races. Now the throne of power sits empty, and the leaders of each clan scheme to claim it for their own. Only expert use of resources, commoners, dragon magic, and the prestige of each clan’s Lairds can one hope to claim the throne!

Dragon Lairds is a fantasy-themed board game from legendary game designers James M. Ward and Tom Wham, featuring Wham’s fan-favorite artwork. It combines elements of building, resource management, and dirty tricks to create a memorable game experience.

Contents: game board, 160 playing cards, and 11 plastic pawns.

Creation at the height of the First Age. Features everything players and Storytellers need to generate First Age Exalted characters, including high-Essence Charms for each Exalt type. Complete with stats for prominent Exalted of the period.

An alternate setting for use with Exalted Second Edition. Dreams of the First Age is a boxed set featuring the world of Exalted as it appeared during the wondrous golden era predating the Great Contagion and the Usurpation.

GameMastery Map Pack: Slums contains 18 full-color 5 x 8-inch map tiles, stunningly crafted by cartographer Corey Macourek, that combine to form a variety of locations in the slums of a large city.

Locations include:

The riding event of the season has just begun! Five promising racehorses race along the course. The racing cards determine the speed. However, the race does not always go according to plan, because some of the horses push their way through and thrust others aside in their determination to win. Players who tactically use their cards and have luck on their side will win the race by a head.

GO mental® is a different type of game. Why? Because ALL of the players are involved ALL of the time. There's no sitting around waiting for your turn.

That's because at the start of each game each player is dealt a bunch of Steal Cards. You use these to steal other player's questions. When it's someone else's turn and they get a question that you know the answer to, you just jump right in, slap down one of your Steal Cards and shout "Steal". You steal the question right away from them, and you get to answer it.

Also, at the start of each game, each player is dealt a bunch of Challenge Cards. You use these if you get a question you don't know the answer to - or, maybe, you DO know the answer but you have a pretty shrewd idea another player DOESN'T. In that case, you slap down one of your Challenge Cards, and you challenge that player to answer the question instead of you. If he/she gets it wrong - they get sent BACKWARDS.

The object of the game is to move your brain (playing piece) around the board from GO to MENTAL. You do that by answering GO mental® questions. The questions are very straightforward. Each question contains 4 things. One is the odd one out (doesn't fit). The other three are somehow connected. The connection is always positive. So, when you get a question, first you have to say which of the four is the odd one out. Get that right and you advance one space. Second, and if you got the first bit right, you say why the other three are connected. Get that bit right as well and you advance another three spaces.

Words of Power

Hidden within the covers of innocuous books, written in fire on pages of brass, uttered in ancient tongues on mysterious recordings — the power of the Supernal can be trapped in physical form. For those who unlock the secrets of the grimoires, great majesty and great peril await.

Grimoire of Grimoires includes:

The people of the Skies survive, tested by an unimaginable apocalypse, struggling daily against ravenous beasts, sky pirates, and the effects of the inescapable voidglow! But the fate of the Skies is in danger! The magic of the glow is not the only taint in this unforgiving realm. Dark forces conspire to bring the Skies to the brink of an even greater catastrophe. Can you survive long enough to discover the secrets of Sundered Skies? Sundered Skies is a dark fantasy Plot Point™ setting for the award-winning the award-winning Savage Worlds RPG™.

A shattered world. A thousand floating islands. A constant glow of madness. Sundered Skies begins where every other world ends.

TZAAR is a game about making choices. Both players have 30 pieces, divided in three types: 6 Tzaars, 9 Tzarras and 15 Totts. The 3 types of pieces form a trinity: They cannot exist without each other. The aim is either to make the opponent run out of one of the three types of pieces or to put him in a position in which he cannot capture anymore. The tricky question the players will have to ask themselves on each of their turns is: “Shall I make myself stronger or my opponent weaker?” Meaning: Will you capture an opponent’s piece and make him weaker, or will you jump on top of one of your own pieces and make yourself stronger? If you choose to jump on top of your own pieces too often, you will probably leave your opponent with too many pieces on the board. On the other hand, if you capture too often, you may end up with pieces that are not strong enough at the end of the game. What to do? Up to you to decide!

Which mouse family doesn’t want to live in a cheesy paradise world? A possibly perilous expedition leads you to a fantasy land filled with delicious pieces of cheese. Every step you take will be followed by a hungry cat - a dangerous journey! The winners at the end of the expedition is the mouse family with the most pieces of cheese.