The game traces the development of early human species from 120,000 years ago through to the near-modern era. Players take the role of Peking Man, Archaic Homo Sapiens, Cro-Magnon, Neanderthal, or Homo Floresiensis, and each attempts to develop instincts and higher cortical brain functioning, such as language traits. The populations expand and collide, and...
BIOS: Origins is an expansion for BIOS: Megafauna and Origins: How we became human, which combines both games to make something distinct from either. From the publisher: "Use the map to expand your Bios Megafauna game to cover the entire world (instead of just America). Or use it to add luxuries (tobacco, silk, tourists, tea, diamonds, and much more) to...
The goals of this expansion are to flesh out some of the abstracted technologies within the original Origins (e.g. Obsidian, Iron, Roads) and to avoid the problems of a cycle of “nothing to do” turns that can happen in some games. The other consequence of this expansion is that geography plays a much larger role after Era I and well into Era IV (which...
Orion is a two player game in which the players first alternately place their spaceships on the intersections and when all ships have been placed, they move them along the grid lines. One ship is moved at a time by a player. A spaceship can move from one end of an intersection to the next one, with the exception of the main spaceship (white for one player...
Imperial-Orion is a print and play derivative of Imperial 2030 by Mac Gerdts. It takes the basic premise of Imperial, that the players are amoral financiers and twists it so that players are shadowy 'powers' in a grand space opera. The game takes its name from the Orion Nebula which is used as the backdrop to the central (neutral) region of human (known)...
During the medieval goings-on around Orléans, you must assemble a following of farmers, merchants, knights, monks, etc. to gain supremacy through trade, construction, and science in medieval France. In the city of Orléans and the area of the Loire, you can take trade trips to other cities to acquire coveted goods and build trading posts. You need followers...
Contained in Brettspiel Adventskalender 2015 for Day 10. Included are a Christmas Market tile and two 20 coin tokens (remove 40 coins from the bank before playing if you want to use these coins and are playing with limited money). In addition, a single six-sided die is needed. When you activate the Christmas Market, roll the six-sided die. The result...
Orlean: Zagroda is a new level I place tile for use with Orléans. It was originally a promo for the Orlean (Polish edition) and now it's part of Orléans: Promo Ortskarten N°1 with a name Hof / Farm / Ferme. Farm Receive the depicted goods from the supply corresponding to your position on the Farmers Track. If those goods are not available in the supply...