New Releases Essen 2011

Antiquity is a strategy game for 2-4 players. It is set in an environment loosely modeled on Italy in the late Middle Ages. Players choose their own victory condition: they can focus on population growth, trade, conquest, or city building by choosing their patron saint. Each strategy requires a completely ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 150 to 180 minutes
GL Price: £89.99        (£87.74 after automatic discount!, RRP is £94.99)


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Europe in the early 1900s. Players take over the role of circus owners traveling to various European cities to give shows and impress their crowd. Before each show, players must enrich their circus by hiring performers and fulfilling their needs to help them give their best performances. They also ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 90 to 120 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £35.99        (RRP is £39.99)

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Kamisado is a game of pure skill and strategy! There are no dice, cards or any other chance element. It’s just you against your opponent! The aim in each round is to be the first to get an octagonal ‘dragon tower’ to the opposite side of the board, by moving the towers in straight lines, either forwards ...more...

No. of Players: 2
Duration: 20 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £18.99        (RRP is £19.99)


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In Paperclip Railways players layout a landscape in which they place railways stations and build track. The stations give bonuses to players scores and are connected by customisable lengths of track: the paperclips.

Players score for the stations they connect, for the number of clips in their ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 45 to 75 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £24.99        (RRP is £24.99)

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In SAKE & SAMURAI you are a fierce and thirsty samurai warrior, willing to do anything to get the last cup of Sake. The winner is the most drunk samurai (in game terms, the player who has collected the most Sake drink counters) at the end of the Sudden Death round.

Space Bastards is a science-fiction game in which players try to occupy several small planets with their five races of aliens, which have varied relationships between each other. Players try to manage and effectively use those aliens' relationships – whether to eat opponents, create new alien babies, ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £16.49        (RRP is £19.99)

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In this game players lay octagonal tiles with the aim of creating continuous pipes of colour to gain points. There are multiple play scenarios to choose from to play an easy game or a more advanced game.

Uskoci were a historical pirate band in the 16th century who lived and prospered by being a nuisance for much more powerful opponents, but never on such a scale to provoke full-scale retaliation. Uskoci: The card game of Croatian pirates takes that idea of heart as players need to demonstrate both ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 6
Duration: 30 minutes
Min. Age: 6
GL Price: £10.49        (RRP is £11.99)

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It's the year 1885. The government has opened more space in the Midwest for settlement by homesteaders. Near the small town of Walnut Grove, you build a little house on the prairie. Over the next few years, you try to improve your farm to be able to survive the hard winters. Who will be the most ...more...

No. of Players: 1 - 4
Duration: 30 to 60 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £34.99        (RRP is £39.99)


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It is the year 011 of a uchronic 19th Century.

In the mystic city of Turin, the discovery of a lost book reveals a terrifying prophecy that announces the end of the world: Fenrir, the son of Loki destined to kill Odin and cause the Ragnarök, is about to wake!

The battle for the final ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 6
Duration: 90 to 120 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £40.99        (RRP is £49.99)

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The New Era is a stand alone expansion for 51. State. It contains more than 80 new cards and new, fifth faction – The Hegemony – violent band of criminals. New rules of direct interaction allow players to Invade each other and sign Deals with opponents’ locations. New options and decisions have opened ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 60 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £24.99        (RRP is £29.99)


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In Cherokee, players try to occupy the most and highest positions in the hierarchy with their clan members. On a turn, a player chases away one member in the pyramid of cards, which represents the hierarchy of the tribe. This gap is then filled with one successor from below, with that gap being filled ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 30 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £7.49        (RRP is £8.99)

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In City Tycoon players assume the role of businessmen investing their own capital in expansion of the city. Their main purpose is to increase the standard of living, and thus the happiness of its citizens. They have within reach a whole range of projects that the city council wants to achieve, but ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 60 minutes
Min. Age: 14
GL Price: £28.99        (RRP is £34.99)

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Colonial: Europe's Empires Overseas is a board game about colonial times, from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution.

In Colonial players are the rulers of mighty European states and send their ministers to explore the earth, establish missions, ascertain scientific supremacy, and trade ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 6
Duration: 120 to 180 minutes
Min. Age: 14
GL Price: £49.99        (RRP is £59.99)

Colonial Board Game: Europes Empires Overseas is out of stock and no longer available.

Dragon Rage is a two-player fantasy game that depicts the attacks on the walled fortress-city of Esirien. One player controls the "invaders", a pair of dragons, while the other controls the "city forces" defending the ramparts and interior, including knights, infantry, archers, militia, the hero-lord ...more...

No. of Players: 2
Duration: 90 minutes
Min. Age: 13
GL Price: £42.99        (RRP is £49.99)

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In Dragon's Gold, each player controls a team of dragon hunters (two knights, a thief, and a wizard). Like all dragon hunters, they have only one goal: gold, silver, jewels and magic objects. As for actually killing a dragon? It's a piece of cake. But the most difficult part comes after the dragon ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 6
Duration: 45 minutes
Min. Age: 8
GL Price: £19.99        (RRP is £23.99)

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Dungeon Petz is a standalone game set in the Dungeon Lords universe. The game consists of several rounds in which players use unusual worker placement mechanisms to prepare themselves for the uneasy task of raising creature cubs and pleasing their different needs, represented by cards, in order to ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £40.99        (RRP is £49.99)

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The volcano on your island has sprung back to life, unleashing rivers of molten lava in every direction. Build walls of various materials and play action cards to hold back the lava and save your village from destruction.

Your village is about to burn up — can you take the heat?

In his last will, your rich uncle stated that all of his millions will go to the nephew who can enjoy money the most. How to find out which nephew should be rich? You will each be given a large amount of money and whoever can spend it first will be the rightful heir. Visit the most exclusive theatres ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 60 minutes
Min. Age: 11
GL Price: £32.99        (RRP is £39.99)

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In Lost Temple, the players are explorers looking for a mysterious lost temple. To find it, they must cross the jungle and get help from the indigenous people. The first player to reach the temple on the last space of the track wins the game.

In MIL (1049) you can harvest your lands for resources, recruit soldiers and have descendants. But that's just the first generation! If you have a male heir, he can be married to another player's daughter – the one with the biggest dowry, of course! A strategical key point, though, keep in mind that ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 60 to 120 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £38.99        (RRP is £44.99)

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Panic Station is a paranoia-driven partly cooperative game in which you control two characters in the Extermination Corps sent out by the government to investigate the presence of fiendish alien life forms.

Pictomania is a drawing game in which everyone is both drawing and guessing at the same time, giving a chance for those who excel only at one or the other skill to crush the dreams of other players.

Pictomania lasts five rounds, and at the start of each round, you set up six randomly drawn ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 6
Duration: 20 to 30 minutes
Min. Age: 9
GL Price: £22.99        (RRP is £26.99)

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Rattus: Africanus, a new expansion for the 2010 release Rattus, introduces a caravan and diplomats to add more strategic possibilities to the game. What's more, with the introduction of region cards, players will have more control on possible outbreaks of the Black Death.

In Singapore players are rich merchants who are trading to develop that small outpost into a metropolis. Players own one building at the start of the game, and each round they take ownership of a new lot – with the player who has the fewest points determining who gets which land – and erect a new ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 4
Duration: 90 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £29.99        (RRP is £36.99)

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The search for the energy crystals continues without respite all around the universe! The merchant Guild is ready to pay outrageous amounts of money and all the Seekers roam around to find them. Breaking News! The Forgotten Planet’s surface, on the edge of galaxy, is full of them. In few days, a ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 75 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £28.99        (RRP is £34.99)

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Drako is an asymmetrical game for two players, with one player leading a team of three dwarves who are experienced dragon hunters and the other playing a red dragon that has spread terror amongst local peasants. The dwarves have managed to trap the dragon in a shady valley at the foot of the mountain ...more...

No. of Players: 2
Duration: 30 minutes
Min. Age: 8
GL Price: £20.49        (RRP is £24.99)

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Pret-a-Porter is an economic strategy game set in a world of fashion. Players run clothes companies and fight for dominance during fashion shows. It is – perhaps – one of the most cruel and ruthless of all our games. Money can be a dangerous weapon.

Get Nuts is a fast-playing tactical card game for 3-6 players that puts you in the role of a determined squirrel, trying to get hold of a stack of nuts to get through the cold winter. But other enemy rodents will do anything they can to stop you from climbing that tree and snatching those precious ...more...

No. of Players: 3 - 6
Duration: 30 to 45 minutes
Min. Age: 8
GL Price: £12.49        (RRP is £14.99)

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K2: Broad Peak is an expansion for the mountain-climbing game K2 that includes a double-sided game board, tokens and new rules. The game board features the twelfth-highest mountain in the world, formerly known as "K3" and now typically called "Broad Peak" due to the length of its summit.

Outpost takes place on the most distant planet in the known Universe. Each player takes on the role of a Colony Commander as they manage resources and build colony upgrades to construct the greatest Outpost on this remote world.

The ancient Galactic Realm, ruled from the Core Worlds of the galaxy, is waning. Now, the barbaric kingdoms that lie beyond the galactic frontier are amassing their strength, choosing this pivotal moment to strike at the heart of the fading republic, establishing new empires built upon the ashes ...more...

No. of Players: 2 - 5
Duration: 60 to 120 minutes
Min. Age: 10
GL Price: £28.99        (RRP is £34.99)

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Revolver is a non-collectable card game set in the Old West. Consisting of two balanced 62 card decks, the game pits two players against each other in a life or death struggle. One player takes the role of Colonel Ned McReady and his lawmen, and his opponent assumes control of the notorious and deadly ...more...

No. of Players: 2
Duration: 45 minutes
Min. Age: 12
GL Price: £15.99        (RRP is £19.99)

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