Category: Ω Board Games

Undaunted: North Africa

| T3d-1978
Undaunted: North Africa

Undaunted: North Africa

The Undaunted series continues with this two-player deck-building game of tactical combat, pitting the raiders of Britain’s Long Range Desert Group against Italian forces in the North African Theater of World War II.

The North African campaign has begun. Take control of the British Army’s Long Range Desert Group and operate behind enemy lines or command the formidable Italian forces opposing them. In “Undaunted: North Africa”, a sequel to Undaunted: Normandy, players once again lead their sides through a varied series of missions. As casualties mount, wounded soldiers leave the players’ decks, forcing them to adapt in the face of changing tactical circumstances. Use your cards to strengthen your forces, deploy vehicles to advance rapidly across the battlefield, and seize the initiative as you determine the outcome of the North African Theater.

Game Mechanics:

  • Deck Building
  • Dice Rolling
  • Open Drafting

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • 45 – 60 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.28

Undaunted: Normandy

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Undaunted: Normandy

Undaunted: Normandy

June, 1944: Through the D-Day landings, the Allies have seized a foothold on the beaches of Normandy. Now you must lead your troops forward as you push deeper into France and drive the German forces back. You will face intense resistance, machine gun fire, and mortar bombardment, but a great commander can turn the situation to their advantage!

Undaunted: Normandy is a deck-building game that places you and your opponent in command of American or German forces, fighting through a series of missions critical to the outcome of World War II. Use your cards to seize the initiative, bolster your forces, or control your troops on the battlefield. Strong leadership can turn the tide of battle in your favor, but reckless decisions could prove catastrophic as every casualty you take removes a card from your deck. Take charge amidst the chaos of battle, hold fast in the face of opposition, and remain undaunted.

Game Mechanics:

  • Deck Building
  • Dice Rolling
  • Hand Management
  • Open Drafting
  • Wargame

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • 45 – 60 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.55

Tyrants of the Underdark

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Tyrants of the Underdark

Tyrants of the Underdark

Tyrants of the Underdark is a territory control game with a deck-building element.

Each player leads a house of Drow in a section of the Underdark below the Sword Coast. The Drow house is represented by a deck of cards, with each card being a minion in that player’s deck. Each minion belongs to one of five aspects of Drow society, and those aspects correspond to different strategies in the game, e.g., malice minions excel at assassinating opponents’ troops, while ambition minions are best at recruiting additional minions and promoting minions to your “inner circle”, which is a special zone that increases their value at the end of the game.

When you set up the game, you create an 80-card deck by shuffling two 40-card half-decks together, with the half-decks being Drow, Dragons, Demons, and Elementals.

A central marketplace has new minions that can be recruited through influence, one of two resources in the game; purchased cards are placed in your discard pile, then shuffled together with other cards in your deck when needed. The other resource is power, which allows you to place troops on the game board, expand your forces across the map of the Underdark, manipulate happenings in the city, and assassinate enemy troops.

Players gain points by controlling sites, recruiting valuable minions, promoting minions to your inner circle, and assassinating troops, and whoever ends the game with the most points wins.

Game Mechanics:

  • Area Control
  • Deck Building

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 4 Players
  • ~60 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.55

Turing Machine

| T3d-1978
Turing Machine

Turing Machine

“Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.”

– Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.

Turing Machine is a fascinating and competitive deduction game. It offers a unique experience of questioning a proto-computer that works without electricity or any sort of technology, paving the way for a new generation of deduction games.

The Goal? Find the secret code before the other players, by cleverly questioning the machine. With Turing Machine, you’ll use an analog computer with unique components made of never-before-seen perforated cards.
The game offers more than seven million problems from simple to mind-staggeringly complex combinations, making the gameplay practically endless!

Including the original competitive mode, you can combine your brain power as a team or try to beat the game itself while playing solo.

Are you ready for an intense cerebral gaming experience?

Game Mechanics:

  • Deduction

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 4 Players
  • ~20 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.44

Tsuro: Phoenix Rising

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Tsuro: Phoenix Rising

Tsuro: Phoenix Rising

Long ago, a vengeful god stole the stars from the night sky. To illuminate the night, hopeful people sent glowing paper lanterns floating toward the heavens. Out of nowhere, clever magical phoenixes appeared, soaring through the sky. As they flew from lantern to lantern, their enchanted touch changed the lanterns into new stars! The phoenix who can create a constellation of seven new stars will be the champion of a world looking for light!

Tsuro: Phoenix Rising is a new entry in the classic Tsuro series. The game shares a bond with the foundations of the venerable original: play tiles, move pawns, and stay in play, but it introduces a revolutionary board that allows for the double-sided tiles to flip and rotate throughout the game, creating diverging paths and opening up new strategies.

Featuring gorgeous phoenix miniatures, beautiful lantern tokens, and unique gameplay elements such as life tokens that allow your phoenix to be reborn from the ashes once per game, Tsuro: Phoenix Rising is a new chapter in the legacy of Tsuro!

Game Mechanics:

  • Abstract Strategy
  • Hand Management
  • Network Building
  • Set Collection
  • Tile Placement

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 8 Players
  • 20 – 50 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.50

Troyes Dice

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Troyes Dice

Troyes Dice

Troyes Dice invites you to discover (or rediscover) the history of the city of Troyes during the Middle Ages when society was organized around three orders: the nobles, civilians, and religion. The responsibility of the first order is to protect the land and ensure justice; the responsibility of middle order is the hard work of providing food and goods essential to the life of the entire city; and for the last, the mission is to ensure the awakening of spiritual and cultural development!

Troyes Dice is a roll-and-write strategy game in which you play a rich Champagne family. It’s up to you to seize the best opportunities offered by the dice to leave your mark in the history of the city! Will you get the most fame by fighting events, developing markets, erecting the cathedral, or participating in the construction of prestigious buildings? At the end of the game, the player with the most victory points wins!

Game Mechanics:

  • Dice Rolling
  • Paper and Pencil

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 10 Players
  • 20 – 30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.31

Trollfest

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Trollfest

Trollfest

For the first time, your band which so far had mostly played in shady goblin and vampire venues has been invited to take part in the great TrollFest, where you will be the opening act for such big names like the Rolling Gnomes and Snow White and the Dwarves.

In TrollFest, each player manages a rock band in a fantasy universe, recruits the most talented and charismatic musicians, holds concerts in the main city, hires dragons for transport and light shows, and ends up trying to give the best act at the festival.

After an initial card draft of band members and action cards, players take turns moving around the map, performing shows and improving their band composition to score points. Once one player has completed their tour (by performing in a certain number of cities), the game ends and players score additional points based on their final band configuration.

TrollFest is a light, fun and thematic 3 to 6 player boardgame for friends and family.

Game Mechanics:

  • Closed Drafting
  • Set Collection

Game Specifications:

  • 3 – 6 Players
  • ~45 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.00

Tribes of the Wind

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Tribes of the Wind

Tribes of the Wind

In a post-apocalyptic world, the tribes of the wind are going to rebuild the world on the polluted ruins from the past.

Players will have to plant forests, build new villages and temples, and decontaminate surrounding areas.

They will be able to play cards from their hand. But be careful! The effect or even the possibility of playing the card may vary depending on… the back of your surrounding opponents’ cards.

Players may also send their wind riders to explore the area, plant forests, or build villages and temples using all the gathered resources.

As the game progresses, you strive to complete objectives that will allow you to unlock your guide’s special abilities, and to improve your tribe’s powers.

When someone builds their 5th village, the end of the game is triggered. The player with the most points, depending on pollution, villages, temples, layout of their forests, and other various objectives, wins!

Game Mechanics:

  • Action Points
  • Civilization
  • Closed Drafting
  • Grid Coverage
  • Hand Management
  • Racing
  • Tile Placement

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 5 Players
  • 40 – 90 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.48

Treasure Hunter

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Treasure Hunter

Treasure Hunter

Get as much valuable treasure and coins as you can as everything counts at the end of this five-round game! Watch out for treasure that isn’t treasure at all, and draft your team of treasure hunters wisely. Only two treasures are available in each of the three seasons, so get it while you can!

In Treasure Hunter, treasures are placed on the game board first. Then all players are given a hand of nine cards from which to draft, drawing one card and passing to the left or the right depending on which round is being played. At the end of drafting, all players will have a hand of nine cards and a little knowledge of what the other players may have in their hands as well.

All players must play any and all cards from their drafted hand of nine for each season they have cards for, whether they want one of the two treasures or not.

Game Mechanics:

  • Closed Drafting
  • Hand Management
  • Open Drafting

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 6 Players
  • ~40 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.88

Transformers: A Rising Darkness

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Transformers: A Rising Darkness

Transformers: A Rising Darkness

Become a mighty Decepticon and race to defeat the Autobots in this standalone expansion to the Transformers Deck-Building Game!

This expansion is compatible with the core game and will offer 2 primary modes of play: Competitive mode (the Decepticons squabble amongst each other while they face the Autobots) and Cooperative mode (the Decepticons join their forces to defeat the Autobots). This expansion also introduces rules for Team vs Team games, featuring Decepticon players against Autobot players when combined with the Core Set.

Game Mechanics:

  • Deck Building
  • Grid Movement
  • Team Based

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 5 Players
  • 45 – 90 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.00