Join the world of espionage in the board game version of the Homeland TV series. Brought to you by Gale Force Nine – who also produced the Firefly and Spartacus board games. This is a semi-cooperative game with all the elements of intrigue, deception and hidden agendas as you would expect. You play as CIA […]
Set in the midst of the Galactic Civil War in Star Wars, Imperial Assault follows on from the destruction of the Death Star over Yavin 4 (end of the first Stars Wars film). It’s a miniatures game, where you continue the fight between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire over 2 separate games – […]
Time to go gold digging in Carcassonne Gold Rush, the 2nd edition in the “Around the World” series following the South Seas edition. In this world it allows you re-live the time of the Gold Rush in the USA back in the 19th Century. At this time the first railway routes appeared, whilst many explorers […]
The popular Pandemic board game is now available as a dice based version – The Cure. It follows the same storyline of 4 diseases threatening the world and it’s up to you and your team to save humanity by finding a cure for them before they get out of hand. The exception this time is […]
We are delighted to welcome Luke Hector as a guest blog writer this month. Never judge a book by its cover. That’s a phrase that many of us live by and one that should be applied to board games on a regular basis. A decent box cover will help sell a game and a dull […]
Test your dexterity in the Coconuts board game by assuming a role of a monkey and throw coconuts to be the No.1 ape! You may have seen this game at the recent Games Expo, where we had people crowding round our stall with both children and adults enjoying the game. It was so popular that […]
Agricola is a very popular worker placement board game, where players play as farmers managing their farms to improve their family’s qualify of life. This is achieved by building up your home, improving fields and breeding animals. The gameplay can be complicated to start with but once you’ve learnt how to play it, it can […]
Inspired by the hit Starz TV Spartacus series comes the board game – Spartacus: A Game of Blood & Treachery, brought to you by the same board game producers as Firefly, Gale Force Nine. For fans of this TV series you’ll know you’ll be in for an exciting game of twisted schemes and bloody combat! […]
From the game designer of Agricola is Caverna: The Cave Farmers – a worker placement game. Players are leaders of their dwarf family living in a small cave in the mountains. It’s each player’s responsibility to cultivate the forest nearby the caves, whilst digging deeper into the mountains for ore and water sources. Thus it’ll […]
Ticket To Ride celebrates 10 years since this award winning train adventure board game was introduced in 2004 with their very special 10th Anniversary Edition. Whereby they’ve gone American style and gone big with a much larger US board map (50% larger!) with new illustrations and design. The new map dimensions are 38” by 25.5”. […]