June 1983 – world war III has begun. F-14 Tomcats and F-4 Phantoms roar off the carrier decks looking for Soviet Backfire and Badger bombers while underwater Victor and Sturgeon submarines duel. In the merchant lanes, loaded tankers make their way from the US to Japan, stalked by submarines and the Soviet fleet. Somewhere in Hawaii, a Soviet spy transmits...
Blueprint is the obscure boardgame version of the only somewhat less obscure video-game from the early 1980s. Movement is determined by flicking a disc along a track, and moving based upon it's final position. Players must collect the pieces to build a machine, while disposing of any bombs they happen upon. Once the machine is built, it fires one shot at a...
BN1: Escape From The Lanes is the first bagged mini-game from Bedsit Games. Designed to be quick to play, easy to set up and highly portable, it comes as a fold-over A3 sheet containing the board and the rules, contained inside a resealable polythene bag along with all the playing pieces, tokens and dice required. 2-4 players must race to get all 4 of...
Battle of Kosovo is a fast, simple and dynamic card game in which two players command Serbian and Ottoman units in the famous battle on Vidovdan in 1389. The units are represented by cards and players move them around the table to wage battle. It lasts about 30 minutes and can be played by those aged 10 and over. One player leads Lazar and the most famous...
Boar Hunt:The Dark Ages Game is a game that appears simple at first glance because there are only 9 spots on the board and 8 playing pieces which all remain on the board during the game after they've been placed. Boar Hunt has two teams of 3 Dark Ages "Hunters" and a "Wild Boar". One player plays the red set and the other plays the white set. The object of...
SF wargame in which a human colony ship and a robotic "DESTRUCTOR" cruiser have disabled one another in a firefight, and the player has 14 turns to infiltrate the cruiser with a crew of human soldiers and destroy either its Command Computer or all Repair robots. (If the player fails to accomplish this, the cruiser is presumed to have been successfully...
Ever tried organizing a group photo at a festival? With six people, two dead phones, one who's at the loo, and someone who’s definitely not okay? That’s Boaromia Festival. A co-op board game where you and your friends try to survive the most gloriously chaotic festival ever created, without leaving your house, or needing a tetanus shot. In Boaromia...
In Dschingis Bohn (Genghis Bean), Bohnaparte gets some serious competition. The Mongols overrun the Bohnreich and provide for new tactical challenges. Hanno Girke's new Bohnanza expansion is suitable for 3-5 players. The Bohnanza base game is needed. By combining Dschingis Bohn with Bohnaparte up to 7 players can fight over the Bohnreich. Dschingis Bohn is...
(from the designer:) On June 12, 1898. Filipino revolutionary forces under Emilio Aguinaldo declared proclaimed independence of the Philippine islands from the colonial rule of Spain. The declaration of independence however was not recognized by the United States of America and Spain since the Spanish government ceded the Philipines to the USA in the...
On 14 June 1800, the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was taken by surprise and attacked by the Austrian army under General Melas. Outnumbered and out-gunned, the French were defeated and forced to retreat. But later that same day, French reinforcements arrived under General Desaix, and in what amounted to a second battle the French counter-attacked...
Bondespelet ("The Farmer Game") or occasionally Nya Bondespelet ("The New Farmer Game") is a Swedish classic roll-and-move game about farmers and farming. You win by being the first farmer who buys the castle. The journey goes from a croft via a farm to a manor and ends with the castle (UK: Stately home). The game features a roll-and-move style of movement...