Area Control / Area Influence

Basilica, a game for 2 players, presents the duel of two medieval master masons who are ordered to build a medieval cathedral together. Players are planning cathedral layout and overseeing work at the construction site in tandem, in the same time trying to gain advantage over the opposite player.

The temple is built by laying square tiles adjacent to the board or already built tiles. Tiles form the plan of the cathedral. These tiles, distinguished by four colors, represent different elements of the cathedral. The pool of tiles available to players is random. Later, the players place pawns on the tiles – these pawns are the teams of builders: foremen, masons and carpenters, who will make the design a reality.

The players strive to achieve two goals: to lay their cathedral tiles so as to create the largest possible areas representing a single color, and to have more pawns in these areas than their opponent.

Every tile bears also one special action that could be played instead of adding a tile to the cathedral. Using these actions player may move pawns from tile to tile, promote them (increasing their value) or manipulate the tiles. Execution of specific order excludes the tile from being used as part of cathedral, so choice between expanding the edifice and making some action is strategic. Planning and optimal use of available resources is important, as both participants share the same selection of tiles. Thus, tiles and actions shown on them not used by the player in her or his turn become immediately available to his opponent.

Some tiles trigger movement of a special King pawn, which moves along the scoring track. Every few moves, the King pawn comes to a space indicating a royal visit to the cathedral. During each royal visit, the progress of work is assessed and Victory Points are assigned to the players. The number of VPs each player is awarded depends on the size and number of the areas controlled by their pawns at the moment of scoring. The more areas the player controls, and the bigger these are, the greater the reward for the player. At the end of the game, the winner is the player who has claimed more Victory Points.

Description from the publisher:

The shifting Warp Storms that surround the long lost Herakon Cluster have finally abated, leaving the ancient treasures and planets within this sector open to the rest of the galaxy. Now, the great factions of the galaxy mobilize their fleets and race to establish a foothold. The reward for successful domination surpasses all other concerns, and the price for conquering this sector will be paid in lives.

Forbidden Stars challenges you and up to three other players to take command of a mighty fighting force: the Ultramarines chapter of Space Marines, the Eldar of Craftworld Iyanden, the Evil Sunz Ork clan, or the World Eaters Warband of the Chaos Space Marines. Each faction offers unique armies and play styles, but your goal remains the same – to claim the key objectives selected for your faction. These objective tokens are scattered throughout the Herakon Cluster, but your opponents are sure to defend your objectives against you. You need to build massive armies and command them in unending war to best your enemies and claim your objectives. The fight for the Herakon Cluster is brutal and bloody, and you will either stride triumphant over the bodies of your fallen foes, or they will do the same to you.

Prestige is a strategic placement game, in which two players compete to reach the power needed to bring their kings on the throne. The city of Nova is divided into four districts, each of which hosts a different power. It’s up to you to manage your family, by placing each member in a strategic position and choosing how and where to gain either political, religious, economic or military supremacy.

A game of high strategy that will bring a growing challenge to the two contenders.

"Not all battles are won with weapons".
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PRESTIGE

The city of Nova, capital of a great kingdom, is now lost in big turmoil. The king is dead and the power vacuum is spreading. Two important families are going to take the field, ready to do anything for supremacy. A silent war is about to begin. The two queens, ruling their families, will lead their followers in the attempt to conquer Nova in strong and subtle ways through palaces, markets, strongholds and temples. Who will set up their own king on the throne?

Prestige is a strategic placement game, in which two players compete to reach the power needed to bring their kings on the throne. The city of Nova is divided into four districts, each of which hosts a different power. It’s up to you to manage your family, by placing each member in a strategic position and choosing how and where to gain  either political, religious, economic or military supremacy.

A game of high strategy that will bring a growing challenge to the two contenders.

Not all battles are won with weapons.

OBJECTIVE OF THE GAME
The players must install members of their own House in Key Areas of the four ruling districts in the city of Nova in order to exercise always more and more influence and gain Supremacy over the other House to finally put their own King on the throne.

COMPONENTS
House White
1 King
1 Queen
1 Bishop
1 Knight
1 Rook
3 Pawns

House Black
1 King
1 Queen
1 Bishop
1 Knight
1 Rook
3 Pawns

36 Influence Tokens in different colours:
9 blue Tokens (Religious Power)
9 yellow Tokens (Political Power)
9 green Tokens (Economic Power)
9 red Tokens (Military Power)

1 Game Board is divided into the four ruling districts of the city of Nova, with four different Key Areas and a Secret Key Area in each district.

2 House Boards

Setting up the game
Open and place the Game Board at the centre of the table. Randomly pick up the first player. The first player will get all white pieces and will guide the White House. The other player will get all black pieces and will guide the Black House. Each player gets the House Board of his/her own House.
Both players place their own King on the square marked with 0 (zero) on the Game Board.
The player using Black gets one Influence Token of his/her choice.

Prestige is played over a series of turns. Each player’s turn has four consecutive steps.
1. Acquisition
2. Ability Use
3. Placement
4. Promotion

END OF THE GAME
If at the end of your turn you reach or gain more than 22 Supremacy Points, the opponent will play his/her last turn. The game ends at the end of that turn. At the end of the game each player gets Bonus Supremacy Points according to the following conditions:

Bold and Strong: +2 Supremacy Points if all of your Pawns are on the Board in any position at the end of the game.

Conformation: +3 Supremacy Points if you have at least one piece in three different districts in any position at the end of the game.

The player with more Supremacy Points is the winner. In case of a tie the player with more Influence tokens wins the game. In case of a further tie, the Black Player wins.

Includes 3 play modes:
A Risk re-implementation based on the popular Mass Effect series of video games.

Includes 3 play modes:

Basic Training – Standard RISK game play,
Galaxy at War – fast-paced and strategic, individual and team play.
War Assets – quick card and dice game play.

Game comes complete with over 250 game pieces. Custom components include 2 Alliance Armies, 2 Reaper Armies, 1 Cerberus Army, 2 Harbinger pieces. 81 Faction Cards representing the 3 factions, 18 War Assets planet scanning cards (which can also be played as a standalone mini-game), Custom game board, 5 six-sided dice and 4 eight-sided dice.

Re-implements:

Risk: Star Wars Original Trilogy Edition

In Alliances, you will play a superpower nation seeking world domination along with its ally. The game is mainly based on trick-taking mechanisms, with each trick representing a local struggle to control a country in the world. The world is composed of a vast number of countries, each one represented by a tile on the table. Each country also has its own defensive attributes: a certain military strength, economic strength and political strength which need to be overcome. In order to win, your alliance has to dominate the world by gaining control over the most countries.

Alliances includes three different games in one box:

For 2 players, a confrontational trick taking game.
For 3 players, a game in which each player in turn plays a superpower empire while the other two players fight him off as rebels.
For 4 players, a game in which you and your ally will team up to fight your rival alliance to control the world!