Is this the ideal game for me ? It is the ideal game to make your first step into the world of board games! A Game for the whole family with challenging levels for both beginners and advanced players. Meet them heroes of KOSMOGONIA 2086 based on Greek mythology and ancient story! A new world of super heroes is being created and is ready to conquer the...
Oracle of the Dead is an expansion of Kosmogonia 2086 - Kronos Epilogue for 3-5 players. This expansion introduces as a new player the King of the Underworld, who claims victory asymmetrically from his opponents. Hades tries to outpower Kronos and take his place as the game's ultimate villain in the final showdown. Also added to the game is Acheron, a new...
Players control krakens trying to reclaim stolen treasure from the ships of vile pirates. Each round, players assign krakens to ships, strengthen them with more tentacles (whose power is secret from the other players) or play cunning kraken tricks on their opponents. Eventually the krakens fight each other to decide who will face a pirate crew and attempt...
The pirates were sailing away from their latest raid, partying as only pirates can and counting their booty. Little did they know that one of the looted chests belonged to an old pirate sorcerer, who had sealed within it the powerful SINISTER TWISTER. It turned out to be a devastating problem not only for them, but also for the kraken fleet that was about...
A game of political intrigue set in the Soviet Politburo of the early 20th century, with a satirical edge. With politicians like Eduard Boremtodev, Nikolai Shootemdedsky and Natasha Nogoodnik vying for control of the party, you know the battle will be an entertaining one. At the start of the game, a number of politician cards are laid out to fill the...
Kremlin: Destalinization is a 1953 variant for Kremlin posted in The General Vol.31,No.2, that included 5 new intrigue cards reflecting the political situation of the 1950's. This expansion was meant to be played with the basic Kremlin game and the "Revolution" expansion. The cards and scenario in this set allow for picking up after Stalin leaves the...
Maneuver politicians in Soviet Russia's Politburo for control of most glorious party. Kremlin is a game for 3-6 players, playable in multiple ways–with fictional politicians, with Bolshevik leaders in the early years of the USSR, or with modern politicians from the modern Soviet era. A Spiel des Jahres Recommended Pick in 1987, Kremlin is considered a...
Full title was "Das Krieges-Spiel, oder Versuch, dem Kampf zweier gegeneinander Krieg fuhrenden Armeen in einem Brett-Spiele nachzuahmen". The game is played on a hexagon-shaped board divided into triangular areas, divided down the center by a border river. Two players each set up 52 different circular paper markers representing different military units...
Invented in 1899 by Henry Michael Temple, this chess variant is played by 2 players but requires a third person to act as an umpire. Essentially, players only know the positions of their own pieces and have to make inferences based on what the umpire tells them (for example, that a move is impossible, or a capture has been made on a specific square)....
A 1983 translation into English and reprint of the original Prussian Kriegspiel map wargame. The book includes all the tables and charts needed to play as well as cardboard units to be cut out and a terrain map for a small battle. Leeson's translation includes some elements from later developments in the game, until about 1870, when the "Rigid Kriegspiel"...
This small volume contains twelve scenarios to accompany the von Reisswitz Kriegsspiel Rules and the Meckel Map. In addition to the basic scenarios initial orders are also provided for the Red side in each case. The idea behind supplying orders for one side is that it might allow a gamer who, through circumstance or design, is gaming solo. The importance...
Kriegsspiel is a modern revision of the original Kriegsspiel rules. The game retains the basic elements of Kriegsspiel that make the game so remarkable, such as double-blind play, umpired, simultaneous resolution of orders, delayed order implementation, dispatch transmission, and emphasis on fog of war. The game is simple and easy to learn, and features...