In Bidders!, a.k.a. ビッダーズ, the players are the leaders of craftsmen guilds and try to balance profits and support of the people. The King has money, and bidding on his projects can be profitable, but your popular support will fall. The Prince is well supported, but has a limited budget. At the end of the game, the player with the lowest support is...
The game is about building castles and villas. The bigger the better. The bigger your building is, the more people who can live inside and the more valuable they get. But watch out - the more you build, the more space you need - so it can be possible that your small building will be 'eaten' by an opponent's big castle or villa. Your landlords will lose...
Bireme & Galley covers naval combat from ancient times up until just before ships started mounting cannon (the subtitle is "Naval Warfare, Egypt to Lepanto"). The 99-page rulebook includes 31 pages describing the various kinds of warships in common use in ancient and medieval times (with many drawings), 12 pages of ship data tables, and the remainder the...
Bite Club is a hidden‑role, team‑based card game where nobody knows exactly who to trust until it’s almost too late. Each player receives a secret role card at the start of the night: Vampire, Hunter, or Ren the Devotee, and one role card is always removed so you can never be completely sure who is actually in the game. Over a series of quick rounds...
Битката за Балканите. Ерата на Калоян is set around the year 1204. Every player controls one of five medieval Kingdoms of the period in the Balkans - Bulgaria, Nicaea, Epirus, The Latin Empire and Venice, in the struggle for sovereignty, territory and power. The Kingdoms have three types of armies – regular, elite and a king army (except Venice, since it...
In this fantasy miniatures game players each create an army with the same number of points (with each miniature having a different point value), then take turns moving and attacking until all of the opponent's forces are dead or captured. Players can use special magic and ability cards to provide advantage for their armies. Unique game mechanic also allows...
According to the introduction of the rules: "Imagine a castle in the middle ages with four armies facing one another, ready to battle. You command one of those armies. You send your soldiers off to attack the enemy and capture prisoners at the same time remaining vigilant so that your own troops don't fall into a trap." In this abstract strategy game, you...
In this cheerfully demented offering, participants each play the part of a disease trying to inflict misery on the European populace. Each disease has mortality (lethalness) and virulence (contagiousness) factors, and the key to causing maximum suffering is striking the right balance between the two. It's no good being a fast-acting disease if your...
Black Death is the game of plagues for 2 to 6 players. Each player is a different strain of disease in 14th century Europe, and whoever racks up the highest body count wins. The map is based on the trade routes and major population centers of Europe at the time, the events are based on historical events, and the rules are interspersed with grim quotes from...
Dating is hard in the 14th century, and as a matchmaker, business is slim. The plague has most folks too afraid to leave their homes, let alone go out looking for romance. Literacy is very low, so the letters you receive from clients are oftten difficult to make out. To make matters worse, you're not the only match-maker in town. To come out on top of your...
THE BLACK PRINCE features four battles from the Hundred Years War (Crecy, Poitiers, Navarette and Verneuil). Three of these battles include Edward, Prince of Wales, otherwise known as the “Black Prince.” These battles, Crecy, Poitiers, and Navarette are coupled with the later battle, Verneull, the “Second Agincourt,” to present four of the most important...