New Releases Essen 2010

In 1655 - Habemus Papam, players are at a papal election. The conclave of 1655 is the theme in this new card game from DDD Verlag. Here players will try to have the most votes and see the rise of the white smoke. Whoever has the most votes wins and is proclaimed the new pope.

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No. of Players: 3 - 4
Duration: 30 to 45 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £14.99        (RRP is £17.99)

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Take the place of ancient navigators and lead your fleet to overcome storms and find the best winds and currents. Be the 1st to discover new places and to bring the high valued and desired spices.

Experimental Mix card included while stock lasts.

D3 is a treasure diving game of sneaky planning, risk-taking and mayhem fun. The game is played over 4 nerve-wrecking diving expeditions.

For each expedition, players have to plan the amount of oxygen they want to share, the depth they ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 5
Duration: 45 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £24.99        (RRP is £34.99)

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In Florenza, the players are the heads of the most powerful families in Florenza during the Renaissance period. The goal of the game is to become the most famous patron of the arts by hiring the most famous artists of the period and financing their works.

The Pacific Ocean, 1835. The ship HMS Beagle arrives at the Galapagos islands. On board is the young biologist Charles Darwin, who is later to become famous throughout the world for his revolutionary ideas of evolution and natural selection. However, before this, he spent much of his time collecting ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 60 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £32.99        (RRP is £39.99)

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In Kaigan, the players, overseeing teams of surveyors, compete against each other to map the coast of Japan. During the game, the players will generate income by improving their artistic skills and developing relationships with local governments. Using this money, the players will dispatch their ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 4
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £31.49        (RRP is £34.99)

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Try to Build your Gymnasium, Train your Gladiators, Fight in the Arenas! Who will forge the new Champion of Rome?

8 Bonus Townsmen included while stocks last.

In NORENBERC each player represents an ambitious merchant trying to gain influence in the town council of Norenberc. To do this, players must win over the craftsmen of the city's various guilds. The player who manages to win over the most (and the ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £38.99        (RRP is £44.99)

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Carthage – long before the deadly conflict with Rome.

During 5 decades, each a game round, players use their servants to earn income or position them to obtain goods and load the goods onto incoming merchant ships - or even take the risk of chartering a private vessel - all with the goal of ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 5
Duration: 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £33.99        (RRP is £39.99)

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Expansion for Stronghold introduces new story about invading a castle – this time brave defenders have to stand against forces of undead. Glory no longer maters, now both opponents fight for time.

TOTEMO - A colourful, 3D building game for Braves, Squaws and Papooses.

Players place custom-designed blocks into a restricted playing area to construct Totem Poles, for which they score victory points.

Totemo is bright, colourful, tactile and heap big fun!

Trolls used to live happily and merrily in the nice troll country. At night, sitting around the fire, they ate troll meals, told old troll legends, and played traditional troll games. Alas ! this golden age is past. Everything has changed for the worse since aliens, jealous of the troll wealth and ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 30 to 45 minutes
Min. Age: 14
GL Price: £13.99        (RRP is £18.99)

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In the 20th Century, every country strives to develop and improve, each in its own way. Some become financial leaders. Others become centers of learning. Both science and commerce serve to propel nations toward the future – but toward what kind of future? Growth produces waste, and the greatest advances ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 5
Duration: 75 to 120 minutes
Min. Age: 13
GL Price: £32.99        (RRP is £49.99)

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The world you know no longer exists. There is no government. No army. No civilization. The United States has collapsed. And now, 30 years after the war started, new powers finally try to take control over the ruined country. Try to establish a new order. Try to control others. Create a new country, ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 45 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £25.99        (RRP is £29.99)

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Basilica, a game for 2 players, presents the duel of two medieval master masons who are ordered to build a medieval cathedral together. Players are planning cathedral layout and overseeing work at the construction site in tandem, in the same time trying to gain advantage over the opposite player.

Experimental Mix card included while stock lasts.

D3 is a treasure diving game of sneaky planning, risk-taking and mayhem fun. The game is played over 4 nerve-wrecking diving expeditions.

For each expedition, players have to plan the amount of oxygen they want to share, the depth they ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 5
Duration: 45 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £24.99        (RRP is £34.99)

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The new 2 player card game from 2F-Spiele - a game you cannot refuse!

Story: Two Mafia-bosses try to recruit the most and also best members for their gangs.

Prepare yourself for a fierce duel. Cleverly use the features of the four different families, snatch the most valuable gangsters ...more...

No. of Players: 2
Duration: 30 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £8.49        (RRP is £9.99)

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The new big box game from 2F-Spiele!

Anno 1516:

As a young sovereign you are cultivating your small Fürstenfeld to supply goods to the local breweries. But you still miss your greatest dream: your personal palace. Your status will finally rise high enough to leave the vexed farming behind ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 60 minutes
Min. Age: 13
GL Price: £36.99        (RRP is £49.99)

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Different clans attempts to steadily increase their landholdings, which they can activate for specific benefits: resources that can be used to gain new territory or transformed into victory points; or new clan members to oversee territorial expansion; or any of the 13 special locations, which offer ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 45 to 70 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £24.99        (RRP is £29.99)


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Players represent wealthy families in one of the most thriving European cities of the 16th century: Antverpia (=Antwerp in Belgium). They gain wealth by shipping sugar, cloth and beer overseas, construct new buildings, and help building the 6 most important churches of the city by granting donations ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 75 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £10.99        (RRP is £12.99)


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Samoa. The island is a popular vacation resort, and every week tourists of several nationalities are brought here by plane. The hotel owners’ only care is to give these tourists the stay of their life – and to rid them of as much money as possible.

From the clay pit to the robot factory, you must steer your burgeoning industrial empire through five different eras in this exciting auction game. Experience the discovery of steam power, electricity and the first machines – then put them to work for you. Build factories, then secure rail lines ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 4
Duration: 75 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £40.99        (RRP is £49.99)

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K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth as well as the second deadliest. It's known as the Savage Mountain, as it kills one person for every four who have reached the summit...

And K2 has never been climbed in winter.

Golden Yurt bonus included while stocks last.

1244 - The Mongol Empire rules from Eastern Europe clear across Asia to the Pacific Ocean. It was (and still is) the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world. The Great Khan rules from the capital Karakorum over the empire and he sends ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 60 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £30.99        (, RRP is )

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The Regency of the Moon Priestess is nigh. Her successor will be chosen among the memebers of the mightiest Order of the Moon Cult - that is why they are competing to gain the most influence.

To achieve this task, each player is the leader of such an Order and sends out his Novices. These travel ...more...

No. of Players: 1 - 4
Duration: 30 to 120 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £35.99        (RRP is )

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In the year 1368 our ruler Casimir the Great, on the right of his royal sovereignty, established the Statute of the Cracow Salt Mine. It is clearly written that anyone to whom the King awards the title of Royal Steward will manage the Wieliczka Salt Mine, called Magnum Sal. His Majesty the King will ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 60 to 120 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £21.99        (RRP is £24.99)

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1625. Fresh out of Gascony, D’Artagnan, a young man whose ambition is to become a musketeer for the King – Mousquetaire du Roy – becomes acquainted with Athos, Aramis, Porthos and the beautiful Constance, linen maid to the Queen. Soon he finds himself at the heart of an adventure where France’s destiny ...more...

No. of Players: 1 - 5
Duration: 60 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £32.99        (RRP is £39.99)

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This game is part of the rondel series. It's inspired by the Portuguese Age of Discoveries in the 15th-16th century. Players take actions such as contracting men, acquiring ships and buildings, sailing the seas, establishing colonies in discovered lands, trading goods on the market, and getting privileges.

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No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 60 to 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £40.99        (RRP is £49.99)

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After drawing your rally-track (by connecting sides of 1,2,3 or 4 boards that are each double-sided, one side with asphalt, and the other side with snow) you begin the race.

The movement system is simple : each die rolled, you advance one space. So you have 5 dice for each of the speeds and ...more...

No. of Players: 1 - 4
Duration: 45 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 9
GL Price: £29.99        (RRP is £39.99)

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In 1536 Pedro de Mendoza founded the city of Buenos Aires along the river Rio de la Plata. After 5 years the settlers were forced to leave the city, exhausted by the difficulties and by the continuous attacks of the indigenous Querandies. The city was destroyed by the natives some weeks after.

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No. of Players: 3 - 5
Duration: 120 to 180 minutes
Min. Age: 13
GL Price: £33.99        (RRP is £39.99)

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Do you think your team of space pioneers is already experienced enough? Even the most dangerous of enemies don’t scare you anymore? There’s a new program of reconnaissance flights to extremely dangerous sectors. To survive you’ll need to pass a special training that allows you to do more actions ...more...

No. of Players: 1 - 5
Duration: 30 minutes
Min. Age: 13
GL Price: £20.49        (RRP is £24.99)

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