Raids! New from IELLO!

Order by Date: May 15, 2018  B&M Release: June 14, 2018  Street Date: June 28, 2018 IEL51514 Raids $39.99 SRP In Raids, players sail from island to island to collect vikings and viking-related paraphernalia, using them fight one another for good spaces and fight monsters for points. The game lasts four rounds, and at the start of each round tiles are laid out at the various locations on the path that all players must follow. On a turn, a player moves to either an empty spot on the path to claim one of the tiles located there or to an occupied spot. In the latter case, the attacking player must sacrifice a viking, then the defending player must sacrifice two vikings or vacate the space; if they sac two vikings, then the attacker must remove three or leave. Eventually, someone must leave. You can collect runes with an eye toward having lots of the same type or collect goods to sell at the end of the round. You might gather axes to give you better odds against monsters. You can collect more vikings for your crew. At the end of each round, players score majority bonuses depending on the tiles that were revealed before the round started. After four rounds, whoever has the most points wins! 2-4 players Ages 10+ 40 minute play time Contents: 4 longship markers 4 longship boards 40 viking pawns 20 coins World board 9 harbor tiles 64 voyage tiles Rulebook

A’Writhe: A Game of Eldritch Contortions & Endless Pass! New from WizKids!

Order by Date: January 23, 2018 Release Date: April 2018 WZK73285 A’Writhe: A Game of Eldritch Contortions Players gather in teams of two: one is the cultist and the other a Great Old One. The cultist is assisting the Great Old One and attempting to summon them to our plane. To do this, the cultist instructs their deity, with great veneration, to place an appendage on top of an Arkham landmark to complete a specific pattern. The problem is that it is nigh impossible to have one Great Old One form this pattern by itself – that is why if another deity is touching any parts of your pattern you can use that appendage to complete your own pattern! Up to three teams of two can play in this contortionist battle of positioning. 2-6 players Ages 14+ 30 minute play time Contents: 20 Mats Pattern Cards Great Old One Roles Rule Book WZK73286 Endless Pass The Endless Pass is where players fight the scaly Endless to gain glory. The Pass is also filled with weapons and runes to aid in defeating Endless, as well as healing yourself. Combined with your action cards like Attack, Defend, Evade, Steal, and Hide you have more ways to defeat, evade, or defend against the Endless. However, whatever Endless are not defeated, continue to plague the other Vikings as they walk the Pass! You may also battle the other Vikings. After all, you are fighting for glory and a place in Valhalla. The last Viking standing or the first to acquire 10 Glory, while surviving the turn, will win the game. If none of the players survive, then the player with most Glory will be declared the Conqueror in Valhalla. Eternal glory and Valhalla await! 2-6 players Ages 14+ 30 minute play time Contents 155 Action Cards 6 Glory and Health Tokens 6 Double-Sided Viking Sheets Rule Book

New October Products from Stronghold Games!

Release Date: October 2016

SG4005
Jórvík

$59.95 SRP

For several decades during the Viking age, parts of England were occupied by the Norsemen. Under their influence, one of the larger cities turned into a flourishing center of trade and craftsmanship. The Vikings called the city and its surrounding kingdom "Jórvík", which is today known as the city of York. In Jórvík, players assume the roles of Viking jarls. They gather prestige points by trading goods, holding big feasts, funding pillages, commissioning craftsmen, and hiring soldiers to defend the city against recurring invasions. They do so by acquiring cards from the card display through a simple yet brilliant worker placement and bidding mechanism, building up their trading empires. The player with the most prestige points wins.

Jórvík is a re-design "Die Speicherstadt" (2010). Jórvík includes two versions: A base game that is equivalent to "Die Speicherstadt", and an advanced game that adds in the mechanics of the original expansion "Kaispeicher". Jórvík is designed by Stefan Feld.

SG8024
Great Western Trail

$69.95 SRP

In Great Western Trail, you are rival cattlemen in 19th century America, herding cattle in a circular trail around the state of Texas. Your cattle are then shipped by train, earning you money and victory points. Hire capable staff, such as cowboys to improve your herd, craftsmen to build your cattle posts, or engineers for the railroad line. Upon each arrival at the destination station, have your most valuable cattle in tow. The winner is the player who manages their herd best and exhibits good timing in mastering the opportunities and pitfalls of the Great Western Trail. This game is designed by Alexander Pfister.

SG8025
Fuji Flush

$14.95 SRP

Be the first player to get rid of all of your cards! Join forces with fellow players to beat the cards played by other players... or independently play the highest card to outdo all your opponents together, flushing their cards down the drain! Fuji Flush is a fast, fun, easy-to-learn card game for 3-8 players that will have both families and gamers shouting as their cards are sent down the drain!

SG8026
Fabled Fruit

$44.95 SRP

Once upon a time there was a marvelous forest full of gorgeous fruits. These fruits could be squeezed and mixed into the most delicious juices. You live in this forest and are in search of the most savory fruits. Friendly forest dwellers will help you in different ways. You are greedy and thirsty. Who will be the first to satisfy their appetite for Fabled Fruits? This is a "Fable Game", a new and unique concept in game experiences, where the game play changes over time. The game starts in an initial, simple state, but as you explore deeper into the game system, the mechanisms and game play will evolve over time. Unlike in a Legacy game, however, the game is never permanently changed. This Fable Game will remain just as playable on the 20th play as it was on the first play.

New August Products Blue Orange Games!

BLG04300

Vikings on Board

$39.99 SRP

Prepare your clan of Vikings for the season of exploration!

Your objective is to set sail on board the ships best equipped for a successful voyage. Before you embark, you will need to win the favor of the strongest Vikings by offering them barrels of your finest drink in their honor. But pay close attention: clever tricks and heartless malice are common among the clans. Your rivals will do their best to modify the composition and equipment of each ship, as well as the value of its merchandise. Do you have what it takes to become the most influential clan of the fjord?

Vikings on Board is a family strategy game in which players try to outperform their opponents by using their Vikings to claim the actions that most benefits their own voyage. After seven ships have set sail, the player with the most points wins the game.

2-4 players

Ages 8+

Contains:

1 Illustrated Rules

1 Game Board

4 Scoring Circle (1 of each color)

3 Market Value Tokens

15 Supply Tokens (5 Hide, 5 Grain, 5 Metal)

16 gambling barrels (4 of each color)

39 Ship Pieces

17 Vikings

Pinpoint

$14.99 SRP

Develop your eagle eye abilities with this new twist on a classic “find the differences” game! Each card has 5 images on it - one Original image and four with variations.  Players use process of elimination to locate the Original by pointing out differences in the other four pictures. This brain teasing game will delight kids of all ages as they race to spot the differences in the printed pictures.

1-6 players

Ages 7+

Contains:

72 Cards

6 Colored Dice

1 Illustrated Rules

New from Cool Mini or Not! Blood Rage!

Street Date: October 1^st!

CMNBLR001

Blood Rage Core Box

$79.99 SRP

“Life is Battle; Battle is Glory; Glory is All.”

In Blood Rage, each player controls their own Viking clan’s warriors, leader, and ship. Ragnarök has come, and it’s the end of the world! It’s the Vikings’ last chance to go down in a blaze of glory and secure their place in Valhalla at Odin’s side! For a Viking there are many pathways to glory. You can invade and pillage the land for its rewards, crush your opponents in epic battles, fulfill quests, increase your clan's stats, or even die gloriously either in battle or from Ragnarök, the ultimate inescapable doom.

Most player strategies are guided by the cards drafted at the beginning of each of the three game rounds (or Ages). These “Gods’ Gifts” grant you numerous boons for your clan including: increased Viking strength and devious battle strategies, upgrades to your clan, or even the aid of legendary creatures from Norse mythology. They may also include various quests, from dominating specific provinces, to having lots of your Vikings sent to Valhalla. Most of these cards are aligned with one of the Norse gods, hinting at the kind of strategy they support. For example, Thor gives more glory for victory in battle, Heimdall grants you foresight and surprises, Tyr strengthens you in battle, while the trickster Loki actually rewards you for losing battles, or punishes the winner.

Players must choose their strategies carefully during the draft phase, but also be ready to adapt and react to their opponents’ strategies as the action phase unfolds. Battles are decided not only by the strength of the figures involved, but also by cards played in secret. By observing your opponent’s actions and allegiances to specific gods, you may predict what card they are likely to play, and plan accordingly. Winning battles is not always the best course of action, as the right card can get you even more rewards by being crushed. The only losing strategy in Blood Rage is to shy away from battle and a glorious death!

Miniatures are supplied unpainted.

Contains:

46 Highly detailed miniatures

52 Colored plastic bases

99 Cards

4 Clan sheets

36 Cardboard tokens

4 Plastic glory markers

1 Game board

2 Support sheets

1 Rule book

CMNBLR002

Blood Rage: 5th Player Expansion

$29.99 SRP

This expansion introduces the option of playing Blood Rage with 5 players and introduces the mighty Ram clan into Blood Rage! The game board supports this by simply not having any province destroyed by Ragnarök before the beginning of the game. However, more players need more cards, so this expansion box comes with 24 Gods’ Gifts cards (8 for each Age deck). All of these cards have the 5+ players pre-requisite listed on them. While most of them are extra copies of cards from the base game, there are a few new ones, like the “Widespread!” Quest, where you need to dominate any two provinces.

Ram clan contains:

8 Warrior figures (in two different sculpts)

1 Leader Figure

1 Ship figure

1 Clan Sheet

1 Plastic Glory Marker

4 Cardboard Clan tokens

11 Small colored bases

2 Large colored bases

Street Date: November 1^st!

CMNBLR003

Blood Rage: Gods of Asgard Expansion

$19.99 SRP

Gods of Asgard adds gods to the game play and brings Blood Rage to a whole new level! Only two gods will be part of each game session and these are randomly drawn and placed next to the board so all players can see their powers. At the end of the initial setup, players will shuffle the Ragnarök tokens that are not on the board or on the Age Track and draw two of them. The names of the two provinces listed on the tokens and players will place each god figure in one of them (these Ragnarök tokens are then put aside).

Each god’s ability is always in effect, changing the rules of the province they are in and the rest of the provinces are not affected. After a player attempts to pillage a province containing a god figure, whether he succeeds in the pillaging or not, he must then move the god to a different un-pillaged province that does not contain a god figure. So the two gods can never occupy the same province, and they never go to a pillaged or destroyed province.

At the beginning of the 2nd and 3rd Ages, the two gods are again placed in random provinces, determined by drawing two unused Ragnarök tokens.

The combination of the two gods used in each game creates a unique texture to that session. They affect draft choices and influence the flow of the battles. Will your try to benefit from a god’s power again and again by moving him where you want and always pillaging his province? Or will you do your best to neutralize him by pillaging around his province? Perhaps you’ll want to attempt a hopeless pillage on his province just to move him onto another province where he will hinder another player’s plans. They add a whole new layer to the game, without adding hardly any complexity to the rules.

The miniatures each come with a tarot-sized God card.

CMNBLR004

Blood Rage: Mystics of Midgard Expansion

$24.99 SRP

Known by many names and possessing different powers granted by their connection to the gods, these warrior-shamans will be a boon to any clan able to recruit them!

Mystics are special units (neither Warrior nor Monster) that players can only employ once they’ve given their clan one of the Mystic Clan Upgrades. Each of these Clan upgrades adds one Mystic figure to your clan’s reserves and can recruit a maximum of two, which you can then use to Invade and battle normally. All Mystics have STR 2 and the special ability that allows them to Invade at no Rage cost.

Besides adding Mystics to your reserves, each of these Clan Upgrades grants your Mystics a special ability. If you collect several different upgrades, each of your Mystics will possess all the abilities you accumulated, making them incredibly resourceful and strategic additions to your clan!