Boulder Games Newsletter

5 January 2009

Happy New Year!

Fantasy Flight's Normandy Expansion for Tide of Iron covers D-Day and the fighting in the hedgerows. The Designer Series Book is a hardcover collection of twenty scenarios for Tide of Iron crafted by well-known wargame designers. Brood War adds a wide range of new units, planets, orders, technologies and more to StarCraft. The Reaper adds new characters, adventures, spells, quests, and the Grim Reaper to the new edition of Talisman.

DDD's Uruk - Cradle of Civilization is a very lite civilization building card game.

GMT's Unhappy King Charles uses the We the People system to simulate the convoluted power struggle of mid 17th Century England. Combat Commander: Pacific is a stand-alone game that takes the Combat Commander series to the Pacific. Combat Commander: Stalingrad is eleven scenarios set in the biggest urban battle of all time. Fields of Fire is a tactical solo game in the tradition of Ambush! that lets you re-fight the battles of the Ninth Infantry Regiment in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. C3i #21 is full of maps, counters, scenarios, and articles supporting some of the best wargames on the planet.

Crosscut's Galactic Emperor is a fast paced empire-building game of exploration and war in outer space.

Avalon Hill's Axis & Allies Anniversary Edition has a big board and adds Italy and the cruiser.

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Rio Grande's Chicago Express is a remake of Wabash Cannonball, a low-complexity, quick-playing train/stock manipulation game. Power of the Sultan is the fifth expansion for the 2003 Spiel Des Jahres (Game of the Year).

The game in Strategy & Tactics #254 simulates the clash between Rome and Carthage for control of the western Mediterranean world.

From Vlaada Chvatil, designer of Galaxy Trucker, comes another space game like none you've seen before—Space Alert.

Panzer Digest #5 consists of a forty-page magazine and two complete games.

Avalanche Press' Arctic Convoy takes the Second World War at Sea series to the Norwegian and Barents Seas. In Hannibal at Bay, players fight it out with legions, phalanxes, cavalry and elephants.

Fantasy Flight is bringing back Cosmic Encounter, a game that was a breakthrough for boardgaming in 1977 and now a game that has stood the test of time. Android is a game of murder and conspiracy set in a dystopian future. BattleStar Galactica puts players in the role of one of the their favorite characters from the show, all fighting for the survival of the human race—except one traitor. Talisman is the revised 4th editon of the 1983 cult classic. The Talisman Upgrade Pack turns the Black Industries Talisman into the new Fantasy Flight Talisman.

Z-Man's Endeavor is a game of exploration and shipping, colonization and war.

In Reiver's Carpe Astra, players bribe, slander, and do whatever else it takes to claim the Galactic throne.

Rio Grande's Fast Flowing Forest Fellers is a fast, fun filler from the green-haired alliterater. Gorilla is a small expansion for the award-winning Zooloretto and the folow-on game Aquaretto. Polar Bear is five expansions for Zooloretto. Quick-playing and addictive, one of Knizia's best games, Lost Cities, has been reprinted. The limited edition Alhambra Gold is the perfect gift for fans of the 2003 Game of the Year. For 3 bucks, we'll wrap it and put a bow on it! Princes of Machu Picchu has players collecting resources to hire priests and virgins.

GMT's Chandragupta, simulates the great battles of the Mauryan Empire — including Kalinga, the battle that changed Asoka the Great.

Compass' Spanish Eagles is the newest Eagles of the Empire series game. It covers the battles of Talavera 1809 and Abuera 1811. Spartacus covers the multiple threats the Roman Republic faced after Sulla retuned power to the Senate.

Fantasy Flight's Red November is a frantic game of survival on a gnomish submarine. Artumnis Moondream, Brandon Lightstone, Dongon Swiftblade, and Zowka Shattertusk are the new World of Warcraft Adventure Game character packs. Moto Grand Prix features modular circuits and bikes that can lean and wheelie.

Mayfair's new edition of Tigris & Euphrates features a two-sided board, new buildings and a new advanced scenario.

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Munchkin Quest is the long-awaited boardgame version of Steve Jackson's big hit—Munchkin.

On the heels of the hugely successful Pandemic comes another cooperative game that may be even better! Asmodee's Ghost Stories keeps the tension high as players have to work together to have a slim chance of surviving. We imported Formula De in the early 90's and it was a huge success! Strangely enough, some of the most enthusiastic players of Formula De were customers who usually bought only Advanced Squad Leader modules. Hurry Cup is a racing game that calls for quick reflexes.

For a laugh, read the publisher's box blurb for Blokus 3-D.

Bounding Fire's Into the Rubble is an ASL scenario pack covering fighting in city ruins and railroad yards from 1938 to 1945.

Avalanche's Campaigns & Commanders adds a bit of roleplaying to Panzer Grenadier.

Rio Grande's Lost Cities Board Game is sort of the English version of the 2008 Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year), Keltis. In Royal Palace, players place servants in the rooms of the palace and then collect gold and royal seals or perform actions based on the locations of the servants.

Amigo's Ziegen Kriegen is a trick-taking game about capturing as many goats as you can feed.

Eggertspiele's Power Soccer (English Edition) is a quick and simple dice game for 2 to 22.

Z-Man's Neuroshima Hex, winner of Best Polish Game of 2006, is a fast-playing, tactical wargame set in a post-apocalyptic world. Baby Blitz and Early Nights are expansions for Duel in the Dark. In Genji, your goal is to increase your reputation at court by secretly winning hearts by writing love poetry. Wasabi is a light and fast game where you compete against other players to assemble your sushi dishes.

The main game in Minden's Panzer Digest Naval Special is Dogger Bank II. Mediterranean Salvo is a stand-alone Salvo module.

In Asmodee's Draco Mundis each player controls a band of adventurers exploring a jungle. Okko Expansion adds the Yakuza mafia to the game.

In Bucephalus' Playbook Football, players pick a play from their cards then roll the dice to see what happens.

Rio Grande's Leader 1 does a great job of simulating the tactics and teamwork needed to win a cycling race. It's a good game even for gamers who don't follow the Yellow Jersey. The Catapult makes Carcassonne a dexterity game! Strozzi is the third Medici/Strozzi game. In Sylla, players take the role of Roman senators in their quest for glory. The Three Commandments is a party game that is also a brain-burner of a deduction game.

If you like Carcassonne, you'll probably like Elfinwerk's Lungarno. Comuni is set in the very interesting Twelfth Century when what is now Italy was a boot-full of city states called "comuni".

The game in World at War #3 is a redesign of SPI's Big Red One.

Academy's Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear is a tactical-level wargame that is the best synthesis of wargaming and Euro-gaming so far. The Swamp Mapboard is the first expansion for Awakening the Bear.

Fantasy Flight's Black Sheep is a Knizia game about corralling livestock. Tomb of Ice is the fourth expansion for Decent: Journeys in the Dark.

Worthington's French & Indian War adds that war to Hold the Line.

Devir's 2 de Mayo isn't a wargame, but is a historical simulation. It's a Euro-game with a stong, original theme.

The main game in Vae Victis #83 is Medina de Rio Seco 1808. It is a Jours de Gloire series game. A bonus solitaire game, Somosierra 1808, is of the same series.

Bandai's Miracle Five is and advanced version of Go-Moku.

The game in Against the Odds #24 is a simulation of one of the most desperate and bloody battles of the Franco-Prussian War.

In Playroom's Ilium, players dig for artifacts in ancient Troy.

Phalanx's Hey That's My Fish! is back with big, plastic, cool-looking penguins.

Bucephalus' Suicide Bomber Card Game is sort of like a tactical version of that old beer-and-pretzels game of mass destruction, Nuclear War. With the party game Rorschach, players pick the one inkblot card from those on a table that they think matches a question such as "Which of those blots is the hardest?".

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Valley Games' Municipium is Reiner Knizia's newest big box game. Supernova is the Oklahoma land rush in space—with war. Titan is an Avalon Hill classic that still has a loyal following—deservedly so because it is a great game! Hopefully, Valley Games has done justice to this new edition.

GMT's Kiev to Rostov is the long awaited fifth game in Vance von Borries' award-winning East Front series. Pursuit of Glory takes Ted Raicer's masterpiece, Paths of Glory, to the Near East. The thirteenth game in Mark Herman and Richard Berg's celebrated Great Battles of History series,

Mayday's Animeeples Set #1 is wooden sheep, pigs, and cows for Agricola and other games. The Yucatan Adventure Board holds Settlers of Catan (4th ed.) hexes in place.

The main game in the ATO 2008 Annual simulates the multiple operations to neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul without invading the island.

Ferti's Siam Deluxe is more than twice the size of the standard version.

Vainglorious' Cambria is a clever, quick-and-easy game with an interesting theme.

In Smartass' Battlefields of Olympus, armies clash to win the favor of the gods.

Rio Grande's Saint Petersburg Expansion adds two expansions to the original game. Mago Magino is a roll-and-move kids game with a push-your-luck mechanic that makes for hard choices. Zooloretto XXL adds just what is needed for those who cannot get enough Zooloretto. Power Grid China & Korea has been reprinted.

Sierra Madre's Kriegbot covers future wars fought by warbots on worlds far too hostile for humans.

Asmodee's Mr. Jack Expansion is a bit pricey but a well-done expansion for Mr. Jack. The new characters make the game much better and it wasn't that bad of a game to start with.

Rio Grande's Dominion is a fast-playing, addictive game that borrows the best elements of collectable card games (but, of course, isn't one). It's already creating a buzz and may be the game that unseats Agricola. The Gathering Storm finally shipped. This is an expansion for one of 2007's best games, Race for the Galaxy. Cult, War, and Creativity is a tiny, new expansion for Carcassonne that includes Jay Tummelson's war tiles.

Fiery Dragon's Konarmiya simulates the Russo-Polish War during the summer of 1920.

Critical Hit’s Total Axis Pack 2 is twelve new ASL scenarios covering action from Slovakia to China. Retro Pak 1 brings back some oldies that have been tweaked a bit.

Elfinwerk's award-winning game, Kingsburg, has been reprinted by Fantasy Flight. The first installment in Fantasy Flight's Epic Adventures for BattleLore introduces the biggest, badest Troll you've ever seen. Ingenious is back in print. The Black Goat of the Woods is the newest expansion for Arkham Horror.

Decision's Highway to the Reich is a reprint of SPI's monster tactical sim of Operation Market-Garden.

Gen 42's Army of Frogs is an easy, quick-playing tile-laying game.

Reiver's It's Alive! is a set collection and auction game for mad scientists wanting to create life.

Z-Man's Magnet is a game of coordinated action and secret identity. Chinatown is another edition of this great wheeling-and-dealing game. Agricola is the biggest hit of the last few years.

Strategy & Tactics #253 is the third edition of an old SPI game, greatly revamped by Ty Bomba using information about the Battle of Kursk that the Russians released in the late '90's.

Games for the World's The World Cup Game Expansion #4 covers the 1974, 1978, 1982, and 1994 World Cup Finals.

Late in 1983 the US and the Soviet Union may have come even closer to war than during the Cuban crisis. Schutze Games' First Strike covers this might-have-been war. Illusionary Fortress simulates the Japanese assault on the "back door" of Britain's great Asian fortress of Singapore in February 1942.

In the tradition of Formula De and Mississippi Queen, Cwali's big hit at Essen, Powerboats, is a fast and fun racing game.

Z-Man's Heads of State is a game of nobles rising to power and being replaced through assassination and duels.

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