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1st
& Goal
1st
& Goal Expansion Packs
Bonbons
Sol
Battle
Connection: War of the Indines
Sicily
Commands
& Colors: Ancients - Expansion No. 6
Commands
& Colors: Napoleonics - The Spanish Army
Richard
III (restock)
Mansions
of Madness (restock)
Wars
of the Roses (restock)
Ascension
(restock)
Ascension:
Return of the Fallen (restock)
Urban
Sprawl (restock)
Ruse
& Bruise (restock)
Metropolys
(restock)
Shipyard
(restock)
Civilization:
Fame & Fortune Expansion (restock)
The
Dwarf King (restock)
Seven
Dragons (restock)
Ticket
to Ride: Europe (restock)
Carcassonne:
Inns & Cathedrals (restock)
Friday
(restock)
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Santiago
de Cuba
Village
Friday
Power
Grid Expansion: The Robots
Shadow
Hunters (restock -- NEW
VERSION, now includes expansion)
Dominant
Species (restock)
El
Grande (restock)
Star
Fluxx (restock)
Ticket
to Ride: Asia (restock)
Ticket
to Ride: India & Switzerland (restock)
Descent:
Sea of Blood Expansion (restock)
The
Legend of Drizzt (restock)
This Week
Another interesting bunch of new arrivals this week:
1st & Goal is an excellent American Football game, using both cards (for the plays) and dice (for the outcomes of the plays). Separate decks for the offense and defence, and yardage dice to determine the outcomes, as well as a play die, a referee die, and a penalty die means that they have managed to squeeze a lot of the rules of the real game into this box.
Bonbons is a great-looking take on the classic Memory game, with players trying to remember where they saw tiles in the centre of the table to complete the sweets that they have in front of them. Steal your opponents' sweets as well, if you can remember where you saw them!
Sol is an interesting little two player tile-laying/area-majority game with players trying to control suns by having control of the most orbiting planets, and equally trying to control those planets by controlling the most moons.
Battle Connection: War of the Indines is a pretty good attempt to make a 2D fighting video game into a card game. Choose from a silly amount of different characters, pit them against each other, and use their special abilities wherever possible. Also playable with four players in tag team, 2 v 2, or tournament modes.
Sicily is the second game in the Fast Action Battles series of games. this one features the Allied invasion of Sicily, with the Axis player choosing where to deploy his troops before the Allies choose which beaches to invade!
Commands & Colors: Ancients - Expansion No. 6 contains the Spartan Army to add to this excellent game of ancient battles. This box contains no less than 26 new scenarios, taking you from 669 BC to 331 BC and the rise of Macedon.
And Commands & Colors: Napoleonics - The Spanish Army is exactly that - the first expansion for this Napoleonic version of C&C adds the Spanish to the mix, and includes 18 new scenarios of battles that took place between July 1808 and September 1813.
And this week's restocks:
Mansions of Madness, Richard III, Wars of the Roses, Ascension, Ascension: Return of the Fallen, Urban Sprawl, Ruse & Bruise, Metropolys, Shipyard, The Dwarf King, Civilization: Fame & Fortune, Seven Dragons, Ticket to Ride: Europe, Carcassonne: Inns & Cathedrals, and Friday are all back in stock.
Last Week
A handful of new arrivals last week:
Santiago de Cuba is a clever and quick game themed on Eggert's well known Cuba. This time, the game is all about managing your goods and money well, in order to move the car around the board, get help from the locals that you most need, and also visit the buildings that will help you load goods onto the ships for points. Fast-playing and some tough decisions.
Village is another new one from Eggert. This game revolves around the village life of your little family, and the career paths they choose to take before they die. And as time passes in the game, they will pass on ... But that's the way to score points, so it's all good in the end!
Friday is a great little solitaire card game, all about survival on a desert island. The payer must try and help Robinson, as he slowly completes tasks to improve his abilities and get rid of some of his failings. Do it well enough, and he'll have a chance at the end of the game when the pirates come!
Power Grid Expansion: The Robots is a very clever little expansion for the excellent Power Grid, specifically designed for two player games, but it will work with any number of players really. The robot for your game will have five attributes, each randomly chosen from nine different ones, so the possible combinations are huge. The different parts of the robot will tell you how he will behave at "first city" stage, as well as during each phase of the game, and then he will also have a special ability in his feet!
And Shadow Hunters is technically a re-stock, but this is a new for 2012 version that now includes the expansion as a part of the base game. So you will always have twice as many characters to choose from when dealing out the hidden identities.
And last week's restocks:
Dominant Species, Ticket to Ride: Asia, Ticket to Ride: India & Switzerland, El Grande, Star Fluxx, The Legend of Drizzt, and Descent: Sea of Blood Expansion are all back in stock.
Coming Soon
Next week looks pretty quiet, although Giza should appear.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please click suggestions@shiregames.co.uk and let us know!
