Board Game Posts

Recognizing the overwhelming threat that natural disasters pose to humanity, the nations of the world have taken action and created the Crisis Response Unit: an elite team of doctors and specialists.

With a specially equipped plane allowing you to prepare life-saving supplies in flight, you are uniquely capable of providing first-response relief to cities around the world.

Pandemic: Rapid Response is a race against time. You must take your turns as quickly as possible, rolling dice and using them to create supplies and make deliveries to cities in need. …

Four deadly diseases threaten to infect the world! Players must work together to prevent disease outbreaks while finding their cures. You'll need more than luck to save the day.

Can you save humanity?

Components

• 48 Infection dice
• 1 Infection bag
• 7 Player pawns
• 7 Role cards
• 37 Player dice
• 6 Region tiles
• 1 Treatment Center
• 1 Outbreaks syringe
• 1 Infection rate syringe
• 1 CDC tile
• 10 Event cards
• 1 Cured Diseases card
• 5 Player aid cards
• Instructions

Setup

1 Place the Treatment Center in the middle of the table. Place the Region tiles around it as shown (1 to 6, clockwise). …

Components

• 12 Boxes
• 36 Player markers:
• 1 Bookkeeping board
• 1 Day marker
• 1 Start Player marker
• 30 Factory Part cards
• 4 Factory boards
• 30 Conveyor tiles
• 18 '£50' coins
• 40 Coal tokens:
• 54 Corner Shop Order cards
• 5 Department Store Order cards
• 26 Factory Manager cards
• 4 Store Room & Coal Bunker cards
• 4 Player Reference cards
• Instructions

Setup

Bookkeeping Board

Place the Bookkeeping board in the middle of the table.

1 Place the Day marker on the 'Monday' space of the week track.

2 Put the £50 coins in the marked space.

3 Sort the Factory Parts into two decks (A and B) and shuffle each deck separately. Place the B deck face down on the marked space, and stack the A deck face down on top of the B deck. …

Despite the best efforts of you and your fellow Librarians, a fire threatens the sum of all human knowledge. You must save as many precious tomes from the flames as you can before the consuming inferno collapses the Library forever.

Components

• 39 Tool Cards
• 26 Library Cards
• 8 Reference Cards
• 6 Turn Order Cards
• 22 Book Tokens
• 17 Fire Tokens
• 1 Library Bag
• 1 Scoring Track
• 6 Librarian Figures
• Instructions

Object of the Game

Fire in the Library is a press-your-luck game about saving books from being burned. Push the odds and channel your courage, earning Knowledge Points and Bravery Points which are needed to win the game. The player with the highest combined point total when the game ends is the winner! …

This is a horror hide-and-seek game. One player plays the "Hako Onna" (the Woman in the Box), and the rest of the players are "Visitors", who try to escape from the mansion - but if you accidentally stumble upon the Hako Onna, you're dead. …

Ragusa: a maritime republic and Mediterranean port that sees thousands of ships pass through its walled harbor.

Here, in the midst of the 15th century, Ragusa is at its peak - it is the sole rival to Venice as a trading gateway between the Eastern and Western civilizations, a neutral zone where merchants from all corners of the globe come to show their wares.

But Ragusa is nothing - and was nothing - without you: the builders. By strategically building lumber mills, vineyards, towers and warehouses around and within the city, you built - and must continue to build - the foundations of wealth and commerce that will be this city's legacy... …

Components

• 1 Game Board
• 6 Location Tiles
• 5 Player Screens
• 92 Ritual Cards
• 1 Sacrifice Bag
• 15 Ritual Clips
• 68 To'o Mission Tokens
• 10 Player Discs
• 1 Game Round Marker
• 4 Price Markers
• 5 Ritual Cubes
• 72 Forest Cards
• 1 Die
• 1 Starting Player Token
• 25 Pearls
• 50 Mana Tokens
• 36 Starting Cards
• Instructions

Object of the Game

In Raiatea, players act as members of the Arioi, a secret Polynesian religious society. Over the course of the game, the Arioi will build colossal To'o statues in attempt to win the favour of their god, Oro. …

Covert is a game where players take on the roles of spies working covertly to accomplish missions.

Over several rounds, players will collect the equipment needed and deploy their agents all across Europe in an effort to complete these missions. Utilize your assets. Make your move. Don't let anyone stand in your way.

Components

• 1 Board
• 20 Dice
• 12 Agent Pawns
• 60 Intel Cubes
• 48 Agency Cards
• 60 Mission Cards
• 6 Character Cards
• 4 Player Screens
• 4 Turn Order Tokens
• 4 Reroll Tokens
• 12 Cipher Tokens
• 40 Code Cards
• 16 Special Operations Tokens
• 1 Bag
• Instructions

Setup

1. Place the board in the middle of the table. …

Components

• 1 AI player board
• 8 Double-sided Faction boards
• 13 Double-sided board tiles
• 72 Plastic Ships in 6 colors
• 180 Tokens
• 220 Cards
• 6 Plastic Research Drones in 6 colors
• Rulebook

Object of the Game

Warpgate is a strategic board game in which you represent one of the factions, competing for control of the galaxy. Unlock Technologies, establish trade routes, and conquer planets to lead your faction towards triumph.

The player with the most victory points (VP) at the end of the game wins.

Setup

1. Each player picks a faction board at random (or allow players to choose) and then chooses which side of the faction board to play with. The two sides are marked "A" and "B" in the bottom right corner of the faction board. …

Components

• 1 Map Board
• 1 Set of Rules
• 21 Location Tiles
• 8 Special Tiles
• 60 military counters
• 36 Influence Tiles
• 150 influence cubes
• 45 Leader/statue Counters
• 15 Defeat Counters
• 4 Dice
• 4 Battle Tokens
• Instructions

Overview

In ' Perikles' each player represents a Greek family with political influence spread across the six main cities of Greece. Players will use their influence to gain control of these cities, which in turn allows them to use their military forces to win glory on the battlefield.

The game can be played by three, four or five players. There are three turns in all, with each turn consisting of four main phases. …