Diplomacy (engl.)

Four diseases have broken out in the world and it is up to a team of specialists in various fields to find cures for these diseases before mankind is wiped out. Players must work together, playing to their characters’ strengths and planning their strategy of eradication before the diseases overwhelm the world with ever-increasing outbreaks. But the diseases are outbreaking fast and time is running out: the team must try to stem the tide of infection in diseased areas while also towards cures. A truly cooperative game where you all win or you all lose. This new edition has been entirely redesigned and includes two new roles: The Contingency Planner and the Quarantine Specialist. **This is the 2013 edition**

In the not so distant future, mankind has finally decided to spread beyond the boundaries of our world. The United Nations is giving out subsidies to any corporation who will invest time and money into the terraforming of the great red planet. Great prestige and opportunities await the company which makes the biggest impact on making Mars habitable. In Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, each player will take on the role of a corporation working to build oceans, raise the temperature, and increase the oxygen level in Mars’ atmosphere. This is accomplished during simultaneous play, through phases chosen by each of the players. Each player will have a hand full of project cards which they will build and utilize in order to race their fellow entrepreneurs and gain the highest Terraforming Rating. Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition is a standalone, card game version of the best selling game Terraforming Mars. It features all the same complexity of strategy and decision making in half the playtime, and is easily enjoyed by both new players and Terraforming Mars veterans alike. How quickly can you terraform Mars?

In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things. The players acquire unique project cards (from over two hundred different ones) by buying them to their hand. The projects (cards) can represent anything from introducing plant life or animals, hurling asteroids at the surface, building cities, to mining the moons of Jupiter and establish greenhouse gas industries to heat up the atmosphere. The cards can give you immediate bonuses, as well as increasing your production of different resources. Many cards also have requirements and they become playable when the temperature, oxygen, or ocean coverage increases enough. Buying cards is costly, so there is a balance between buying cards (3 megacredits per card) and actually playing them (which can cost anything between 0 to 41 megacredits, depending on the project). Standard Projects are always available to complement your cards. Your basic income, as well as your basic score, is based on your Terraform Rating (starting at 20), which increases every time you raise one of the three global parameters. However, your income is complemented with your production, and you also get VPs from many other sources. Each player keeps track of their production and resources on their player boards, and the game uses six types of resources: MegaCredits, Steel, Titanium, Plants, Energy, and Heat. On the game board, you compete for the best places for your city tiles, ocean tiles, and greenery tiles. You also compete for different Milestones and Awards worth many VPs. Each round is called a generation (guess why) and consists of the following phases: 1) Player order shifts clockwise. 2) Research phase: All players buy cards from four privately drawn. 3) Action phase: Players take turns doing 1-2 actions from these options: Playing a card, claiming a Milestone, funding an Award, using a Standard project, converting plant into greenery tiles (and raising oxygen), converting heat into a temperature raise, and using the action of a card in play. The turn continues around the table until all players pass. 4) Production phase: Players get resources according to their terraform rating and production parameters. When the three global parameters (temperature, oxygen, ocean) have all reached their goal, the terraforming is complete, and the game ends after that generation. Count your Terraform Rating and other VPs to determine the winning corporation! Contents: 1 Rules Booklet 1 Game Board 5 Player Boards 17 Corporation Cards 208 Project Cards 8 Reference Cards 200 Player Markers (transparent plastic cubes, 5 colours) 200 Resource Markers (opaque plastic cubes in gold, silver, and copper in different sizes) 3 Game Board Markers (big white plastic cubes) 9 Ocean Tiles 60 Greenery/City Tiles 11 Special Tiles 1 First Player Tile

In many ways 7 Wonders: Duel resembles its parent game 7 Wonders as over three ages players acquire cards that provide resources or advance their military or scientific development in order to develop a civilization and complete wonders. What's different about 7 Wonders: Duel is that, as the title suggests, the game is solely for two players, with the players not drafting card simultaneously from hands of cards, but from a display of face-down and face-up cards arranged at the start of a round. A player can take a card only if it's not covered by any others, so timing comes into play as well as bonus moves that allow you to take a second card immediately. As in the original game, each card that you acquire can be built, discarded for coins, or used to construct a wonder. Each player starts with four wonder cards, and the construction of a wonder provides its owner with a special ability. Only seven wonders can be built, though, so one player will end up short. Players can purchase resources at any time from the bank, or they can gain cards during the game that provide them with resources for future building; as you acquire resources, the cost for those particular resources increases for your opponent, representing your dominance in this area. A player can win 7 Wonders: Duel in one of three ways. Each time that you acquire a military card, you advance the military marker toward your opponent's capital, giving you a bonus at certain positions. If you reach the opponent's capital, you win the game immediately. Similarly, if you acquire any six of seven different scientific symbols, you achieve scientific dominance and win immediately. If neither of these situations occurs, then the player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Dies ist die englische Ausgabe von MicroMacro – Crime City.

Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile is a one to six player strategy board game where players will guide the course of history in an ancient land. They might attempt to bolster the power of the Chancellor or scheme to bring the kingdom to ruin. The consequences of one game will ripple through those that follow, changing what resources and actions future players may have at their disposal and even altering the game's core victory condition.

Raise your banner above the vast wasteland before you. As the Great Houses of the Landsraad marshal their forces and their spies, whom will you influence, and whom will you betray? A tyrannical Emperor. The secretive Bene Gesserit. The shrewd Spacing Guild. The ferocious Fremen of the Deep Desert. The power of the Imperium can be yours, but war is not the only way to claim it. Dune: Imperium blends deck-building and worker placement in a deeply thematic new strategy game where the fate of the Empire hangs on your decisions. Will you seek political allies or rely upon military might? Economic strength or subtle intrigues? A council seat... or a sharpened blade? The cards are dealt. The choice is yours. The Imperium awaits.

The boardgame which has won the most awards worldwide gets a new look! After having won 30 awards worldwide, sold over a million copies throughout the world, having created 7 expansions, a 2-player version, and two mobile applications, the most award-winning game in the world comes back with a new edition! With such an awesome journey so far, it was time for this gaming monument to freshen up! That’s why, we now have the pleasure to show you in exclusivity the new box as well as all the changes you’ll find in this new edition! • A larger box which finally matches the other formats of this line! • New cover art updating the 7 Wonders box to match today’s style. • A new golden logo because that’s classy!  • Larger Wonders for an easier read and a better placement of the cards. • A day side and a night side for each Won-der, allowing players to dive in even deeper in the wonderful ancient world 7 Wonders offers us. • New icons for chaining allowing an easier read and improved understanding of the game. • A clearer placement of the icons, allowing cards to be clearer, and a better understan-ding of the cards. • A re-writing of the rules in order to make them even easier to understand.

The House on the Hill still sits abandoned, and fearless group of explorers has been drawn to the house to discover its dark secrets. Immerse yourself in the narrative gameplay as you take on the role of one of those explorers. The Betrayal at House on the Hill 3rd Edition cooperative board game includes 50 chilling haunts and dozens of danger-filled rooms that will terrify even the strongest among you. At first you'll work together, but beware…one explorer will betray the others and then the haunt begins. This edition of the popular haunted house traitor game features content and gaming elements that help new players jump right in. So gather friends for a game night of monsters, miniatures, and modular board pieces in this immersive, story-driven hidden traitor game.

Reisen Sie mit Senji zurück ins mittelalterliche Japan: Der Kaiser sucht nach einem neuen Armeeführer, dem Shogun. Jeder Spieler stellt einen Fürsten der einflussreichen Familien Japans dar, die um dieses Amt ringen. Dabei führen verschiedene Wege zum Sieg: militärische, diplomatische und wirtschaftliche. Aber nur einer kann im Laufe der Jahreszeiten genug Ehre ansammeln, um Shogun zu werden – und der Kaiser prüft sehr genau, auch wenn er alt und schwach ist. Bilden Sie Allianzen, aber erkennen Sie den rechten Zeitpunkt, um diese wieder zu lösen. Rekrutieren Sie Soldaten, aber sichern Sie sich die militärische Unterstützung anderer Spieler, bevor Sie angreifen. Produzieren Sie Handelsgüter, aber tauschen Sie mit Handelsverträgen wertvolle Karten Ihrer Mitspieler. Heuern Sie ehrenvolle Samurai an, aber seien Sie bereit, diese für einen guten Zweck zu opfern – Ihren Sieg. Bei Senji gewinnt niemand aus eigener Kraft, sondern nur durch geschickte Diplomatie. Allianzen, Handel, Gastfreundschaft, aber auch Krieg, Verrat und Mord – alle Mittel sind Recht bei Senji, im Zeitalter der streitenden Reiche.