3 July 2009

They finally did it! Vae Victis has produced a game with die-cut counters and English rules. Arnhem ’44 simulates the fighting of the 1st British Airborne and the 82nd US Airborne divisions to capture the bridges at Nijemegen and Arnhem. The counters are the usual great-looking Vae Vicits fare but die-cut and the map doesn’t come with staple-holes.

In Z-Man's Bridge Troll, you and your friends are hideous trolls who each guard a troll bridge. Long Shot has up to eight players buying horses, betting on horses and developing strategies as the race unfolds. Babel 13 adds several optional additions to Neuroshima Hex and two interesting new armies.

Lock 'n Load's Heroes of the Blitzkrieg takes the popular Lock 'n Load tactical game system to the beginning of World War II when Germany introduced France and the world to a new kind of warfare.

Congratulations to Dominion for being named the 2009 Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) and for winning Best Card Game at the Origins Awards. Congratulations to Pandemic for being a runner up for the 2009 Spiel des Jahres and winner of Best Board Game at Origins. And a tip of the hat to Awakening the Bear for getting Best Historical Board Game at Origins.

Europa Simulazioni's Guelphs And Ghibellines covers three important battles between 13th Century political rivals for control of what is now Italy.

Asmodee's Magnifico is a Risk-like game of conquest in Europe during the 16th Century using the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci. You Robot is one of the better party games of the last few years.

Reiver's Sumeria is an easy, quick-playing game that presents one tough choice after another.

In Ziggurat's World War IV it is 3126CE and players are kings out to conquer the world before they destroy it.

Bellica's Tomb for an Empire simulates the conflict that took place on the Iberian Peninsula from 1808 to 1814.

MMP's Warriors of God has been reprinted.

Become the heir of Robin Hood in Rio Grande's Sherwood Forest by getting the most loot to give to the poor. By Golly is a fast and fun children's memory game. Montego Bay puts players to work on the dock.

Z-Man's Ubongo has been reprinted. As the name implies, Ubongo Extreme is a harder version of Ubongo. Ubongo Duel is the two-player variation of Ubongo.

da Vinci's Bang! the Bullet and Bang! Dodge City have been reprinted.

In Steve Jackson's The Stars Are Right, you take the role of a cultist, summoning Lovecraftian horrors from beyond time and space. In Ninja Burger you will learn to deliver tasty burgers and fries anywhere.

In playroom's Livingstone, players collect gemstones and the favor of Queen Victoria.

GMT's Elusive Victory uses the award-winning (a Charlie for Best Modern Era War Game) Downtown system to cover the three major conflicts that occurred in the Middle East during the period of 1967-1973. The Kaiser's Pirates is a fast paced card game of gripping adventure on the high seas set during World War I. Dead of Winter is a Richard Berg game covering the Battle of Murfreesboro, using the ancient but greatly tweaked over the years Great Battles of the American Civil War system.

Fantasy Flight's Kingsburg: To Forge a Realm adds modular game variants that can be played individually, in various combinations, or all together. The new Wings of War Minis are World War II fighters like the Spitfire, BF 109, Zero, and Wildcat.

Abacus' Valdora is good pick-up-and-deliver game that is fast and easy but demands careful planning.

Khyber Pass's A Splendid Little War covers the Santiago Cuba Campaign of 1898. B-29 Superfortress is available again.

Pegasus' Top Race is a redo of Wolfgang Kramer's decade-old racing game.

Against the Odds #25 covers the Sino-Japanese battle that eerily resembles the Battle of Stalingrad four years later.

In Twilight Creations' Deadlands Board Game, players portray weird characters collecting ghost rock and trying to control as much of the town as they can.

In Alderac's Monkey Lab, players cooperate and compete to free imprisoned monkeys from a well-guarded testing facility.

Fantasy Flight's Wings of War Playmat East and West make and already great game even better. Descent: Quest Compendium presents in one hardbound volume sixteen of Descent's most cunning, deadly, and puzzling scenarios. The new World of Warcraft Character Packs are Brebo Bigshot, Shailara Witherblade, Thundershot, and Wennu Bloodsinger.

Rio Grande's second expansion for Race for the Galaxy, Rebel vs Imperium, delves into the growing conflict between the Rebel and Imperium forces. Dominion: Intrigue adds players, possibilities, and strategic depth to one of the best games of the past few years and can even be played as a stand-alone game.

Avalanche's France 1940 is a Panzer Grenadier game that uses 50 scenarios to cover the fall of France. Campaigns & Commanders II features British officers in three campaign games.

Asmodee's second Formula D Expansion add the tracks at Hockenheim, Germany and Valence, Spain to one of the most popular racing board games of all time. Dixit is a fun party/family game with card illustrations that are fantastic.

In Agricola, your meeples reproduce. In Deukalion, they fight.

Assa's Galaxy's Edge is an abstract space conquest game.

In The Gamers' GD '42, the Grossdeutschland is thrown into some of the heaviest fighting of the Soviet offensive to cut off and destroy Army Group Center.

Rio Grande's Alhambra: Big Box puts the basic game and all five expansions in one box. Kids of Carcassonne makes one of the great tile-laying Eurogames playable by kids as young as four. Best of all it's not a memory or dexterity game. Samurai - The Card Game turns one of Knizia's best board games into a card game.

The game in S&T #257 covers fighting on frozen ground where temperatures dropped to 30 below and nights lasted 16 hours and it wasn't the Russo-Finnish War.

DDH's June '44 is a division level game covering the battle for Normandy. August '44 is an expansion for June '44.

In Asmodee's Snow Tails, just when you think you've got your dogs set up just right, you're in a corner too fast or about to hit a tree. Ca$h 'n Gun$ Live takes one of the most original and fun party games ever outside. Dice Town is 30 minutes of poker and dice and bluffing and stealing.

Firefight's Panzer Korridor looks at what could have happend during the Battle for France. Rommel at El Alamein, Wadi Saluki, Fighting the Taliban and several other new Firefight games are in stock.

In Rio Grande's Maori, players are Maori discovering new islands on their way to New Zealand. Cuba: El Presidente makes a great game even better by adding more buildings, characters, interaction and rounds for more strategic depth

Fantasy Flight's Fire From the Sky is the second Wings of War game set in World War II.

In R&R's Masters of Venice, you are a merchant trying to buy low and sell high in the legendary city.

In Your Move's Succession, you're a nobody in the royal court trying to become a somebody. You get a lot of game for a few bucks with Space Station Assault.

In Ravensburger's Diamonds Club, players are gemstone dealers competing to build the most magnificent country estate.

Z-Man's Baby's First Mythos is a book that lets you teach children their ABCs and 123s—Mythos style!

In Decision's D-Day at Omaha Beach, you control the US 1st and 29th Divisions' landing on Omaha Beach. The new RAF: Lion vs Eagle is three games in one.

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

Avalanche’s Kokoda Trail is thirty Panzer Grenadier scenarios covering the fighting between Australian and Japanese troops in the mountains of new Guinea. Romanian Soil covers the fighting on the Eastern Front in Romania. Strait of Magellan is ten SWWAS scenarios covering the battles that might have taken place in the sea lanes around Tierra del Fuego.

Academy's Storms of Steel takes the increasingly popular but overwroughtly named Conflict of Heroes to the mother of all tank battles, to where the blitzkrieg was broken for the first time—Kursk.

GMT's Ship of the Line adds sixteen scenarios, 100 new ships and 30 new commanders to Flying Colors.

With Z-Man's Tales of the Arabian Nights you will bring to life stories that will challenge, amuse, astound and spellbind you for years to come.

Two new books: The D-Day Companion and The Quest for Annihilation.

Fantasy Flight's Innsmouth Horror introduces several new game concepts to Arkham Horror.

The wargame featured in World at War #6 is a strategic simulation of the World War II campaigns waged across China and Southeast Asia.

MMP's A Most Dangerous Time takes a look at the ruthless and brilliant daimyo who would probably have achieved his goal of bringing all of Japan "under a single sword" had he not been assassinated.

In RealmsMasters Game Forge's Chaos Isle Zombi Deck each player takes on the role of one of the characters while attempting to complete his mission before the other players complete theirs, all the while fending off 10 different Zombi enemies. The three expansions are Fresh Meat, Reinforcements, and The Lunatics.

GMT’s 1805: Sea of Glory is a block game covering the operations and battles at sea that kept Napoleon’s army off British soil. PQ-17 covers the effort to get convoys to and from north Russia in the face of appalling weather and determined Axis opposition.

Avalanche's Cassino '44 covers all the battles for Monte Cassino from the initial American assaults through the final Polish conquest. Army Group South Ukraine is ten Panzer Grenadier 1944 scanarios.

Worthington's MedWar Sicily is a redo of BSO's Bitter Victory, a very "playable" wargame for one to four players.

In Rio Grande's Finca, players harvest and deliver the fruits and nuts of a sunny island, where ancient armies went to recruit the best slingers in the world.

Le Franc Tireur's St. Nazaire: Operation Chariot covers the famous Commando Raid of 1942 (and more) with fifteen ASL scenarios. Le Franc Tireur #10 covers the Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front. Le Franc Tireur #11 focuses on the fight for France in 1940. From the Cellar #2 covers a wide variety of fighting in WWII Europe with ten ASL scenarios. All in color. All in English. From the Cellar #3 is ten scenarios covering the hard-fighting Waffen SS. From the Cellar #4 is twenty scenarios covering the Russian Civil War in Manchuria, Siberia and Outer Mongolia.

Minden's Panzer Digest #6 includes three wargames covering Pearl Harbor, the American Revolution, and the Monitor vs the Merrimack.

Clementoni's Islas Canarias is a game about the settlement of the Canary Islands.

Martians!!! is another Twilight Creations' game with great card art.

Sadly, Boulder Games is the only online retailer who refuses to fix the price for Through the Ages and Rails of Europe.

Days of Wonder's Tigers in the Snow adds a double-sided map, tiger tanks, and new scenarios to Memoir '44.

The game in Vae Victis #86 covers the beginning of the fighting between French-Irish forces and the British in Ireland in 1798.

Pywacket's Keesdrow Deluxe is one of the better word search games. Gemlok is a decent abstract strategy game with lots of dice-rolling, but it takes more than luck to win.

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In Steve Jackson’s Deluxe Illuminati, secret conspiracies are everywhere and your plot for world domination is one of them. Revolution! is a game of bluff, counter-bluff, and surprise.

None other than the designer of Speed of Heat calls Ad Astra's Birds of Prey "Air War done right..." Squadron Strike lets you custom-build spaceships then attack and destroy the inferior designs of your opponents. Saganami Island Tactical Simulator is for people who take their science fiction seriously.

Pacific Rim's Across the Pacific simulates the entire war in the Pacific. It provides a high level of detail and operational flavor while retaining the strategic scope of the ebb and flow of the war.

Asmodee's Bakong is a light, family game about collecting emeralds in the Cambodian jungle. Bombay has pink elephants that move from place to place and actually carry things!

The German edition of Black Stories Deluxe is on sale.

From the designer of classic block games like EastFront and Rommel in the Desert comes GMT's Hellenes.

Bounding Fire's Beyond the Beachhead 2 and Operation Cobra are ASL scenario packs covering fighting in the bocage.

DVG's Field Commander: Alexander takes a grand strategic look at the career of one of the world's greatest generals.

Asmodee's Ca$h 'n Gun$ Live is one of the best party games ever, taken outside.

No, the Swine Flu pandemic is not a promotional stunt for Z-Man's On the Brink.

The game in Battles #1, Strike the Anvil, simulates the fighting that resulted from the American and Free French landings on the Mediterranean coast of occupied France two months after the Normandy landings. In addition to the game, Battles magazine includes 120 pages of reviews, articles and scenarios.

In Bucephalus' Roman Taxi, players are chariot-driving cabbies racing around ancient Rome—but do you really want to buy a game produced by idiots who think the Parthenon is in Rome? In Michelangelo, players are apprentices to the great artist.

In Zombies 8, you start out in an mental ward. You work in a mental ward in Game Addicts's Looney Bin and in Numbskull's The Looney Bin.

Mini-meeples come to the walk the exotic animals path in Rio Grande's Zooloretto Exotic. Genoa is a reprint and upgrade of Traders of Genoa. Excape is similar to Can't Stop. Leader 1 is back in print and is a good game even for gamers who don't follow the Yellow Jersey.

Lookout's Le Havre is another winner from Uwe Rosenberg that he says was inspired by Caylus and Agricola. It has the tension of lots of difficult choices but flows along nicely.... Could it be even better than Agricola?

In Winning Move's Hab & Gut, players are late 19th Century industrial barons trying to win the game by being "rich and good".

Don't dismiss Giochix.it's One More Barrel as too light because of the cartoony box art. It is a resource management game and light wargame that offers lots of tough choices.

In White Wolf's horror strategy board game, Hunter: Deadly Prey, one player is a monster that the other players hunt. EVE Conquests is a game of planetary domination.

Grenier's Into the Trenches: Opening Engamements covers three early WWI battles.

The Gamers' Bastogne covers the defense of the crossroads at Bastogne by the 101st Airborne Division and other American units until the arrival of the US 4th Armored Division.

QWG's Cavum is a train game in disguise throwing one tough decision after another at you.

The good folks at Lock ‘n Load have a hit on their hands with their World at War series. It lets you explore the horribly fascinating what-if of the Cold War turning into the Hottest War ever. World at War: The Untold Stories is the newest addition to the series.

Playroom's Secrets of the Sea is the English edition of Die Schatztaucher.

Days of Wonder's Memoir '44: Mediterranean covers the back-and-forth slugfest of the tank war that took place in the north African desert during World War II. The Memoir '44: Campaign Book lets you link the outcome of one battle to the next. Memoir '44: Operation Overlord introduces the chain of command to the game. Memoir '44: Hedgerow Hell is the first of a series of battle maps.

Down in Flames: Aces High Extra Cards provides the cards you need for monster air battles.

Bucephalus' Dogfight is like the games Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley made used to make—simple and fun with neat bits.

GMT has the Allied invasion of Nazi Europe covered with two new games: Normandy '44 covers the D-Day landings and the battles that raged in Normandy for the next 21 days. The Battle for Normandy simulates the climactic campaign in Normandy from D-Day to the first week of August 1944 at primarily battalion level.

Avalanche's Coral Sea is a Second World War at Sea series game covering the first major battle between aircraft carriers. Pacific Crossroads is a Great War at Sea game covering what could have happened had the United States and Japan fought for the Pacific a decade or two earlier. Army of Lappland covers two campaigns for Finland, the 1941 and 1942 battles in front of Murmansk and the 1944 counter-offensive.

LudoArt's Planet Steam is a succesful port of a famous 1983 computer game to the boardgame.

In Fantasy Flight's Middle-Earth Quest, one player is Sauron trying to dominate Middle-earth and up to three other players are heroes trying to hold darkness at bay. In Ad Astra, players are human subraces exploring the galaxy for new exploitable planets. In Chaos in the Old World, players take on the roles of the malevolent Lords of Chaos.

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