February 11, 2022 Rules of Play

This Week's New Releases!

The Adventure Zone

2 - 5 players | 60 - 90 minutes | £40

The Adventure Zone is a wildly popular podcast and series of graphic novels from The McElroy Family. TAZ: Bureau of Balance captures the humor and joy of this world and expands it, allowing you to create your own unique adventures with your family and friends.

TAZ: Bureau of Balance is a cooperative storytelling game for 2-5 players. It uses a dynamically generated dungeon created by combining multiple decks of cards; as challenges are overcome, new challenges are revealed. The mechanics are easy to learn and players are encouraged to describe their heroic deeds. No experience is required, and any group of friends can have a hilarious adventure in about an hour!

Love Letter Princess Princess Ever After

Love Letter: Princess Princess Ever After

2 - 5 players | 20 minutes | £20

Find the perfect ally to secretly carry your letter to Princess Isadora and win her heart in Love Letter: Princess Princess Ever After, a quick game of risk and deduction based on the award-winning Love Letter card game! Entrust your message to the nearly invincible ogre, the lightning fast unicorn, or her close friends, Princess Sadie and Princess Amira!

Cantaloop: Book 2

1 - 4 players | 360 - 720 minutes | £22

The point-and-click adventure game genre was born in 1976 on the PC. In this type of game, the player assumes the role of a character in an interactive story driven by puzzle solving and exploration. This game is a direct adaption of these mechanics to the cardboard medium that requires no electronics to play. In other words, you are holding a classic point-and-click adventure game in book format. You will talk to characters, combine items to solve puzzles, and explore a unique world to get ahead in the story.

Dune Imperium: Rise of Ix Expansion

Rise of Ix - Dune: Imperium Expansion

1 - 4 players | 60 - 120 minutes | £40

Conflict spreads across the Imperium in Dune: Imperium – Rise of Ix, the first expansion to the award-winning board game.

• Enter the fray as one of three new Great Houses with unique leader abilities.
• Acquire technological innovations from the planet Ix for a lasting strategic advantage.
• Deploy fearsome dreadnoughts to rule the skies above Arrakis.
• Dispatch subtle infiltrators to outmaneuver your opponents.
• Dominate the Imperium in the new Epic game mode for a more intense, high-stakes challenge.

Red Flag Over Paris

Red Flag Over Paris - 1871: The Rise and Fall of the Paris Commune

1 - 2 players | 20 - 40 minutes | £42

Red Flag Over Paris, the spiritual successor to Mark Herman's Fort Sumter, is a short, yet challenging, two-player card-driven game depicting the two months of intense confrontation between the Communards and the government in Versailles during the 1871 Paris Commune. You will play as one of these factions and fight for control over Paris. But, you will also need to win the hearts and minds of the French population.

G.I. Joe Deck Building Game

G.I. JOE Deck-Building Game

1 - 4 players | 30 - 70 minutes | £45

In G.I. JOE Deck-Building Game, you and your fellow players will lead teams of G.I. JOE soldiers on missions to stop Cobra's dastardly plans! Each player starts the game with a meager deck that will grow more powerful as you recruit veterans from the G.I. JOE team, requisition gear, and field new vehicles. This fully co-operative game pits you against increasingly dangerous missions to save the world.

Fantastic Factories: Manufactions & Subterfuge Expansions

1 - 5 players | 45 - 60 minutes | £25/£15

Manufactions is an expansion to Fantastic Factories that introduces all new blueprints, contractors, vitamin resources, and corporate factions that grant players unique powers.

Subterfuge is an expansion to Fantastic Factories that adds new blueprints as well as direct player interaction in the form of contractors that you can hire to steal resources, cards, or even dice! Subterfuge also introduces the sabotage mechanic which can be used to disable your opponent's factories.

MTG: Kamigawa Neon Dynasty Bundle

£40

Neon Dynasty is set in the current era on Kamigawa, more than 1200 years after conclusion of the original Kamigawa block in 3326 AR. The plane's feudal past has met futuristic modernity, with ninjas and samurai now carrying a cyberpunk aesthetic. Bundle includes the following:

8 Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Set Boosters
20 foil lands
20 nonfoil lands
1 foil Promo card
1 oversized Spindown life counter

MTG: Kamigawa Neon Dynasty Commander Deck

£30

Vehicles and modified creatures headline the two Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Commander decks. Kotori, Pilot Prodigy commands Buckle Up, a white-blue deck full of Vehicles in the fast lane to victory. Chishiro, the Shattered Blade commands Upgrades Unleashed, a red-green deck with creatures just begging to be upgraded and set loose on the battlefield. Both decks contain 15 new-to-Magic Commander cards from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty plus a foil-etched display commander.

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