Tag: Melding and Splaying

Campsite

| T3d-1978

Campsite has players competing for the best camping spot. Play cards on top of each other to link elements like forests, mountains, and camping trails together to score the most points.

A clever card-based “tile” laying game that focus on maximizing your limited space!

Luck and strategy combine in the great outdoors (no actual camping required). Includes 72 cards 42 tokens, scorepad, and pencil.

Game Mechanics:

  • Connections
  • Map Addition
  • Melding and Splaying
  • Tile Placement

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 6 Players
  • 20 – 60 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.00

Café

| T3d-1978

During the reign of King John V, Portugal was a major European power. From Brazil, the king ordered Sergeant Melo Palheta to travel to French Guiana to formally establish the Utrecht Treaty of 1713 and to secretly bring coffee seeds to Brazil. The Sergeant was successful and by 1800 Brazil was one of the largest coffee producers in the world.

In the early 20th century, coffee from Brazil, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola and Timor is largely appreciated in Portugal and inspires the appearance of prestige coffee shops in emblematic locations that attract the elite. Through dedication, hard work and skill, the Portuguese 20th century witnesses the birth of one of the biggest coffee industries in the world.

In Café, 1 to 4 players represent coffee companies that from plantation, drying, roasting and distribution try to create and control the best supply chain of coffee.

Game Mechanics:

  • Layering
  • Melding and Splaying
  • Solo / Solitaire Game
  • Tile Placement

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 4 Players
  • 20 – 45 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 2.05

Battle Line: Medieval

| T3d-1978

This new re-themed version of Battle Line is a two-player strategy card game built around the theme of Medieval warfare. This re-themed version of Battle Line features 60 beautiful new cards by illustrator Roland MacDonald, as well as 10 full-color tactics “wildcards” that give players extra flexibility and choices and help make each new battle wildly different from the last.

Battle Line takes about 30 minutes to play. To win, you must create powerful formations along your side of the line of battle that are superior to those of your enemy. Victory goes to the player who wins 5 of the 9 battle flags (an envelopment) or three adjacent flags (a breakthrough). Based on Reiner Knizia’s original design published in Germany as Shotten-Totten, Battle Line enhances and expands that game system to give players even more tactical options and gut-wrenching decisions.

Battle Line places you in command of your army’s strategies. How will you muster your formations? Will you use your powerful KingsGuard to vanquish your enemy, or perhaps send the King of England or France to the front to win a critical flag? Or perhaps you”ll rely on your spies to determine the enemy”s strengths and weaknesses before committing your best forces. You’ll always have plenty of choices. With every card play, you’ll determine the strength and direction of your attack while plotting to fend off your enemy’s advances.

In Battle Line, you and your opponent lead the combined arms of the greatest units of the era. Will you, like the great Kings of yore, reign supreme? Play Battle Line, and find out.

Game Mechanics:

  • Card Play Conflict Resolution
  • Hand Management
  • Melding and Splaying

Game Specifications:

  • 2 Players
  • ~30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.85