Simultaneous plotted movement plus instantaneous travel to any system in the galaxy makes this a very wide-open game. Clean, simple rules for two players only. Solitaire suitability is zilch, and there are only counter sets for two players. Unfortunately poor production quality, especially the counters, detracts from the game. Counters are generic...
In February 1942, the German Navy prepared a top-secret mission, known as Operation Cerberus, to move the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (known to British sailors as the “Wicked Sisters”) and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen from Brest in western France to Norway. Without special training operations or any other moves that might alert the British, they...
This is an expansion for the SWWAS series that adds 15 scenarios using the hypothetical Dutch Fleet from Spice Islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea. From the APL website... "In the 17th century, Dutch leaders put their faith in their powerful navy and skilled admirals, winning repeated victories as their spread their commercial empire around the...
"Strike South" is a "Second World War at Sea"-series game based on the Japanese efforts in early World War 2 to seize the rich assets of the Dutch East Indies. There are 140 “long” playing pieces, depicting the major fleet units of both sides: battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers and fleet destroyers. There are also 280 square playing pieces, half the...
Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces began their “Strike South” against the American, British and Dutch colonies in South-East Asia. The combined American-British-Dutch-Australian fleet resisted as best they could, but would be crushed in February 1942 in the Battle of the Java Sea. Java Sea is a Second World War at Sea series game...
In the mid-1930’s, Thai military dictator Plaek Phibunsongkhram commissioned a modest naval building program. The Royal Thai Navy quickly received modern coast-defense ships, submarines and torpedo boats from Japanese and Italian shipyards. In 1940, Thailand challenged Vichy France over the provinces lost to French Indo-China in 1893, leading to a Thai...
秘密のオークションハウス (Secret Auction House) is an auction game from Japan with some hidden elements. Players bid simultaneously with money cards in a series of auctions. But matching bids cancel each other (butting) in the manner of What the Heck?. So the auction can be won by a player with a low bid. All bid cards are discarded, until the player exhausts their...
In SEED, you will work your little plot of land, trying to grow as many seeds as you can so they can be protected from extinction for future generations. Each turn, one card tells the players where they can take actions on their field represented by a 4x4 grid. Players can Dig, Sow, Irrigate, Harvest (placing or replacing the corresponding action pieces)...
SEGUNDOS…fuera! is a game where you are one of the boxers facing up tonite fight. The goal is to beat your opponent. You can get it by K.O. or by judges scoring at the end of the fight (going to the scorecards). The game consists of 12 rounds as in a boxing match. You have a number of attacking and defense cards (value from 1 to 5) that can be managed each...
Be Quick was Published for Kids and adults from 4 - x Years to win this game you have to collect the most wooden picture squares at the end of the game. How to collect? there are 3 different dice 1 for color 1 for size of the picture 1 for volume full or empty One player roll all dice, all players have to look for the right picture square (there is one for...
星竜の冠 (Seiryuu no Kanmuri, "Crown of the Star Dragon") is the third game from Polygonotes. You play adventurers chasing after the precious scales of the Star Dragon; the game is semi-cooperative, with a pure coop mode for 2-3 players and a more competitive mode with the potential for betrayal for 3-4 players. Each turn has three phases. In the preparation...