15 May 2008

GMT's Blackbeard: The Golden Age of Piracy is a redo of Richard Berg's Avalon Hill Game of the late 1980's. Alan Moon's favorite game, Twilight Struggle, is back in print. And, so is their hugely popular Combat Commander: Europe. In addition to being packed full of articles supporting GMT games, C3i #20 includes a complete James Dunnigan game.

Z-Man's Middle Kingdom is a fast-playing card game set in Zhou Dynasty China. Chinatown is another edition of this great wheeling-and-dealing game. Wasabi is a light and fast game where you compete against other players to assemble your sushi dishes. In Ideology players try to spread their ideology over as much of the world as they can.

The main game in Vae Victis #80 covers conflicts in Africa between 1960 and 1980. A solo game covers Kolwezi 1978.

In Ragnar Brother's Monastery, players labor-away (and pray) for the blessings they need to win the game.

Sierra Madre's The Age of Reason takes their big hit, Origins, into the modern age.

The game in Against the Odds #22 covers Germany's U-boat attack on America from January to June 1942.

We're shipping Mayfair's Catan Dice Game before the ship date of 15 May. We're almost sold out but should have more soon.

Warfrog's Brass is yet another game with a fixed price.

Columbia's War of 1812 has been around longer than us! It's still one of the best of the block games and one of the best introductory wargames.

In Dragon Lairds you are the head of a dragon clan trying to become the king of all of Dragon Land.

CrossCut's Galactic Emperor is a fast-paced empire-building board game of exploration, conflict and struggle for dominance of the Galaxy.

Rio Grande's Aquaretto is a stand-alone expansion for last year's Game of the Year. Rugby World gives you a shot at grounding the ball on the other side of your opponent's end of the field. Tzaar may be the best of the Gipf series. Change Horses is a bluffing game with an interesting goal. Yet another horse racing game, Giro Galoppo is fun for kids, but may be even more short, sweet, nasty fun for adults. Hanging Gardens is a clever card-laying, puzzle game that doesn’t burn your brain. In Viva Topo, mice push their luck to score big cheese without becoming cat-meat. In Stone Age, players use neolithic meeples to aquire the resources to expand their villages. Power Grid and Tichu have been reprinted.

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Steve Jackson's Lord of the Fries is the third edition of one of the best of the Cheapass games.

Khyber Pass' first box game, B-29 Superfortress, is being touted as being to strategic bombing what ASL is to ground combat.

Avalanche's Island of Death simulates what almost happend on Malta during World War II. Arctic Front Deluxe is the revised edition of the original 2002 game. March on Leningrad is ten Panzer Grenadier scenarios covering the German drive to capture Leningrad in 1941. Siege of Leningrad is ten Panzer Grenadier scenarios covering the German assaults on Leningrad's defenses and the Soviet attempts to re-open communications during the siege.

Minden's Panzerschreck Anthology collects some of the best of the past decade of Panzerschreck and includes new games and articles.

Wow! Something new for ADG's WiF — World in Flames Annual 2008.

Firefight's Rampage covers Mamontov's cavalry offensive of August 1919.

The two games in Strategy & Tactics #249 cover two of Napoleon's less famous campaigns.

In Z-Man's Agricola, players are peasant farmers in central Europe at the end of the 17th Century, trying to get the fields plowed, wood chopped, fences mended, bread baked, cattle herded, rooms added, and children conceived. Neuland is back with a well-deserved facelift. One of the biggest hits of last year, The Making of the President, has been reprinted. Another hit for Z-Man, Pandemic, is also being reprinted.

Critical Hit's ATS Warfighting Guide #2 is 52 pages of Advance Tobruk System material aimed at making the ATSer a system expert. Spanish Fury sets its ASL scenarios in the 1941 fighting between Axis satellite troops and a resurgent Red Army. Red Christmas puts the ASLer in the middle of the German and Italian attempt to stand their ground against a combined-arms Red Army assault. The scenarios in Escape from Chosin drops the ASLer into the cold, bleak hills of Toktong Pass, Korea in 1950 as the Marines withdraw from Chosin Reservoir. The second edition of D-Day: The Great Crusade updates and adds to the original game. The D-Day Expansion adds a more detailed invasion sequence to the game.

Fantasy Flight's Wings of War Miniatures Set II are in stock.

Minden's three new games all use the Battleship Captain system. Tsushima is a pre-dreadnought game with the main scenario covering the Battle of Tsushima in 1905. Grand Fleet covers the dreadnought era before and during World War I. Battlewagons is set in the World War II era.

Flying Frog brings you more B movie and fighting zombies fun with their Growing Hunger expansion for Last Night on Earth. Last Night On Earth CD includes the original soundtrack plus 5 new songs and 2 card games.

Field Commander Rommel is the first game from a new company named for the master of solo card wargame.

Rio Grande's Eketorp has players trying to obtain the materials needed to build the strongest Viking fort. In Airships, players grow their companies to create the most impressive fleet of blimps. Fruttirellii is a kids game about forest animals collecting food for their families. The Gathering Storm is the first expansion for Race for the Galaxy. Mago Magino is a good kids game with nice components. All Roads Lead to Rome is two expansions for Thurn & Taxis. Fearsome Floors and Shogun have been reprinted.

The first game in a new series of company level games from MMP, Devil’s Cauldron, is a simulation of the fighting at the northern two drop zones of Operation Market Garden.

Games for the World's The World Cup Game, Expansion #1, Expansion #2 and Expansion #3 are all in stock and, unlike retailers selling the basic game for $59.95, we don't fix prices. Remember, only YOU can stop price-fixing!

Pizza Box Baseball is fast-paced, card-based baseball action in a Pizza Box. Pizza Box Football 2007 Expansion brings the 2006-2007 season to the popular Pizza Box Football.

In Twilight Creations' Innsmouth Escape, one player is the Human trying to escape and the other players are Deep Ones trying to capture the Human.

Now, with Steve Jackson's Demented Dungeons, Munchkin really is a dungeon crawl.

GMT's Manoeuvre is a fast-playing, abstract wargame inspired by the armies and tactics of the Napoleonic Era. Continuing with wargames with the emphasis on the second syllable, Pacific Typhoon takes Avalon Hill's Atlantic Storm to the Pacific.

Compass Games' Price of Freedom is a low-complexity (for a wargame), card-driven, strategic-level simulation of the American Civil War.

Fiery Dragon's C.S.A. uses the system from an award-winning desktop published game to simulate the ACW. Ben Madison's insightful and thought-provoking commentary deserves a much wider readership than it will get as two pages at the end of a boardgame rulebook.

In Jolly Roger's Surf's Up, Dude!, players catch waves and ride them to rack up points and impress beach babes.

The main game in Vae Victis #79 covers the French in Mexico 1862-1867. The bonus game covers Roake's Drift 1879.

Z-Man's limited edition Bag of Expansions in one of every expansion for Duel in the Dark. Pandemic is a cooperative game where all the players win or all the players lose.

Love Pigs is one of the better party games of the past few years.

In Zoch's Altamira, you’re just a guy trying to make a living in 11,765 BCE. Didi Dotter is a delightful game for kids..

Parker's Origo is a Wolfgang Kramer game covering the expansion of the barbarians as the Roman Empire falls apart.

Sierra Madre comes up with another wonderfully strange game for the gamer of above average intelligence. In Origins: How We Became Human, players are Pleistocene hominids growing their brains and competing with other hominids.

BACK IN STOCK

Tichu.... Ticket to Ride: USA 1910.... Critical Hit 5-2.... Death of the 1st Panzer.... Combat Commander Mediterranean.... Command & Colors, FAB: The Bulge, Some back issues of C3i Magazine and other GMT....

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