New from GMT Games! Comancheria!

Release Date: December 2016

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Comancheria

$60.00 SRP
SDI 

Comanchería – The Rise and Fall of the Comanche Empire is Joel Toppen's second game design which tells the story of the First Nations people of North America. Like Navajo Wars, Comanchería is a SOLITAIRE game in which the player plays the role of the Numunuu, the Comanche people.

Using mechanics similar to Navajo Wars, Comanchería challenges the player to conquer and control the southern plains of North America. It won't be easy, however! Aggressive northern tribes like the Osage, Pawnee, Cheyenne, and Arapahoes will challenge your dominance of the hunting grounds. The colony of New Mexico has expansionist ambitions from the west. To the south lies Mexico and its new colony of Texas. And to the east lies the greatest threat of all: the United States of America.

Heavily outnumbered by the colonial powers, you will need to use your superior mobility and tactical prowess to conquer and then maintain your empire against a relentless tide of hostile encroachment. Along the way you will witness historical events like the opening of the Santa Fé Trail, the Indian Removal Act, the founding of the Texas Republic, and the American Civil War from an entirely fresh perspective: through the eyes of the Lords of the Southern Plains!

Contains:

• 22" x 34" Mounted mapboard
• 44 Hexagonal counters
• 16 Round counters
• 180 5/8" Square counters
• 110 cards
• Rulebook
• Playbook
• 1 x 3-fold chart
• 1 x 6-sided dice 

New from Nocturnal Media! Gladiator: Quest for the Rudis!

Coming Soon!

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Gladiator: Quest for the Rudis

$59.99 SRP

Gladiator: Quest for the Rudis is a tactical level combat card game based on the blood sport that reached its peak of popularity between 75 BC and 63 BC. Gladiators were mostly condemned slaves sentenced to train, and eventually die, in the arena for the entertainment of the Romans. However, Roman citizens and even Roman emperors opted to fight as ‘gladiators,’ be it for gold or glory. But it was only those slaves whose fates were to live life as gladiators who quested for the rudis. The rudis was nothing more than a symbolic wooden sword, and yet it represented the ultimate prize to a slave-gladiator; it meant fame and possibly fortune but most of all it meant...freedom.

Gladiator: Quest for the Rudis places you on the sandy floor of the arena, in the role of a slave gladiator with deadly attacks and deft defenses at your disposal. Play as a light gladiator, protected only by cloth padding and a piece of leather, but with maneuverability to strike at an unprotected flank or back; or don the manica, ocrea and helmet of the heavy gladiator, wearing metal armor and carrying a large rectangular shield, a 22-pound scutum, making you a stalking, nearly impregnable, death dealer. Grimace as the curved blade of your opponent’s sica slashes the chest of your mighty murmillo after the defense that you selected fails to avoid the attack selected by your opponent! You choose the attacks, select your defense and counters as you control one of the sixteen individually rated gladiators in the game. Will you claim the rudis and your freedom or be doomed to die before the crowds of Rome?

2-6 players

Ages 12+

Components:

16 Gladiators (4 murmillo, 4 secutor, 4 retiarius, 4 thraex)

130 Unique Attack and Defense cards

100 Arena Action cards

30 Fate cards

10 Summa Rudis (Chief Referee) cards

20” x 20” Arena game board

64 One-Inch high quality counters

32-page Full Color rule book