variable player powers

Warhammer 40,000: Heroes of Black Reach

The "Heroes System Tactical Scale" from Heroes of Normandie is moving to the very stars into the universe of Warhammer 40,000!

On the hive-world of Black Reach, an Ork Waaagh! breaks, jeopardizing this sector of the galaxy! In Warhammer 40,000: Heroes of Black Reach, you need to help the Ultramarines in their merciless fight against the Warlord Zanzag and relive the grim adventures of Captain Cato Sicarius and Sergeant Scout Marines Torias Telion!

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Contents
1 Rules booklet
1 Campaign booklet with 8 scenarios
6 double-sided Terrain Boards
Terrain elements

Ultramarine units
Sergeant Telion
Company Chaplain Brother Orad and his options
Librarian Brother Servius and his Psychic Powers
Brother Milius (Techmarine)
1 Tactical Squad (Vorolanus) with its Rhino and options
1 Scout Squad (Elias) with its Land Speeder Storm and options
1 Predator Tank
1 Razorback Tank
1 Landraider Redeemer
1 Dreadnought (Brother Agnathio)
1 Storm Talon Gunship
Order Tokens, Ultramarines 50-card deck, Wargear and Upgrade Options, Command Options, Vehicle Equipment and Customisations

Ork units
Goff Warboss Uzdrakh
Snake Bites Weirdboy Gorkargk and Psychic Powers
Evil Sunz Big Mek, Malagrah
Evil Sunz Mek Grugnoz and his Grot Oilers
Evil Sunz Tankbustas
Flying Rampage: Goff Stormboyz with their Boyz, Boss Mob and options
The Green Raiders: Goff Boyz Mob, with their Trukk, Shootas, Sluggas, Rokkit Launcha, Big Shoota and Options
1 Goff Deff Dread
1 Goff Battlewagon
1 Trukk
1 Warbuggy
1 Mek Gunz
2 Killa Kans
Order tokens, Orks 50-card deck, Wargear and Upgrade Options, Command Options, Vehicle Equipment and Customisations

Critter Kitchen

It's Restaurant Week in Bistro Bay! Restaurants are competing in food challenges, while also planning an epic meal to impress a celebrity critic. As one of 1-5 players in Critter Kitchen, you'll send your chefs into the city to gather ingredients to create amazing meals and demonstrate that your restaurant is the best in town.

Each round, new random ingredients are placed in locations throughout the city. Players simultaneously and secretly plan which locations to send their three chefs to, hoping to collect the best ingredients. Some chefs are fast, but can gather only one item, while others can carry three items but arrive late. Rumors are also available at locations and provide guidance on what the critic desires.

Challenges revealed in rounds 1-6 offer the players opportunities to earn stars for crafting dishes with specific ingredient requirements. After round 7, the players must create an epic meal to impress the celebrity critic and cater to their appetites. A multitude of different critics, rumors, and restaurateurs mean every game is fresh!

—description from the publisher

Rebel Princess: Deluxe Edition

Snow White, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, and many other legendary princesses are celebrating a five-day party. The prince charmings of the land, who have not been invited, have infiltrated the ball to propose marriage. As an independent princess, you have to avoid marriage proposals and remain single. Avoid the most proposals and become the Rebel Princess!

Rebel Princess takes place over five rounds, representing the five days of a party, and each round has a special rule that makes each game totally different. The general mechanisms are those of trick-taking games, in which each player plays a numbered card into each trick, following one of the four suits in the game. The player with the highest number of the suit that started the trick takes all the cards of that trick — but that's not necessarily good as players want to avoid taking cards with prince charmings, who each bring one marriage proposal, aside from the enchanted frog who brings five proposals. The player with the fewest marriage proposals after five rounds wins.

Importantly, each player assumes the role of a different princess and has a special ability that they can use once per round.

Compared to the original edition, Rebel Princess Deluxe Edition features:

Two new Princesses and six new Round cards
Princess cards upgraded to thick punchboard tiles
Round cards upgraded to Tarot-sized cards with rules text on each card
Balance tweaks to existing rules, rounds, and princesses
A new "Rebel of the Ball" mechanism to allow players to catch up if they are falling too far behind

Santorini: Pantheon Edition

NOTE: Pantheon Edition includes all material from the Golden Fleece expansion, as well as every promo card and many new cards. A lot of cards are revamped, reworked and rebalanced.

Santorini is an accessible strategy game, simple enough for an elementary school classroom while aiming to provide gameplay depth and content for hardcore gamers to explore, The rules are simple. Each turn consists of 2 steps:

1. Move - Move one of your builders onto an unoccupied neighboring space that is a similar level, up one level, or down any number of levels.

2. Build - Construct a building level adjacent to the builder you moved. When building on top of the third level, place a dome instead, removing that space from play.

Winning the game - If one of your builders moves from a lower level to the third level, you win. Or, if your opponent cannot move, you win.

Variable player powers - Santorini features variable player powers layered over an otherwise abstract game, with many thematic god and hero powers that fundamentally change the way the game is played.

Minos: Dawn of the Bronze Age

In the ancient realm of Crete, amidst the sun-drenched shores and labyrinthine corridors of Knossos, the fate of the Minoan civilization is yet to be determined. As a member of one of the four illustrious Minoan clans, your destiny beckons you to vie for the prestigious title of Minos, the ultimate leader of your people.

But keep in mind - unlike the tumultuous conquests of other civilizations, the Minoans are renowned for their pursuit of peace and prosperity. In this captivating journey, the essence of your quest lies not in the clash of swords, but in the art of governance and the cultivation of your clan’s unique identity.

As leaders of Minoan clans players are in charge of the first European civilization. Build cities, monuments and other structures, open new trade routes, expand and fight off outsiders out of your land, plan your actions with your clan council, research and issue decrees so your actions will be more powerful than your opponents! You have only 4 rounds to prove you are worthy of the legendary Minos title.

Draft and assign the dice to the programming board. With lower value dice you can secure stronger actions but the higher value dice will help you climb on the tracks and gain their benefits. During the action phase each player takes their dice in order from highest to lowest and performing the pre-planned actions. Players also build their tableau - each card has an instant effect and a triggered reward connected to the specific action or die value they can use to make the action more powerful. Moreover, twice in the game players get Victory Points for their civilization progress in the region.

—description from the publisher