Two Player Game

Call to Arms is the first purchasable expansion to the popular BattleLore game system. This expansion allows for the personalized deployment of your troops. Individual games will no longer be subject to predetermined scenarios and troop placement.

Instead, players may choose various pre-defined battle maps (or create their own!). Then from an innovative Deployment deck, players may set-up their armies as they please. The new deployment deck will allow you to react to the land, establish reserves, and gain the initiative by out-scouting your opponent.

The expansion also introduces a more organized deployment system through the Feudal Levy system: new tokens are included that correspond to the three colour types of troops.

The organized version also includes further customization with the Specialist concept. Players may choose two specialist cards during set-up. Benefits range from upgrading all archers to long bows, increasing unit size based on your Warrior's Level, and additional movements, to name a few.

Starting with BattleLore: Horrific Horde, additional Deployment cards are included in some supplements.

Set-up now includes the following actions:

Ready your deployment deck and draw deployment cards
Set-up your units based on the cards drawn
Determine initiative
Deploy your Reserve units
Establish your War Council
Select and play 2 Specialist cards

The expansion also includes new terrain hexes.

Contents:

20-page booklet with rules and 6 scenarios
6 Deployment card sets (A, B, C for either side, 7 cards each)
10 Specialist cards (Archers Stakes, Bow Upgrade, Forced Enrollment, Vantage Point, Illusionary Troops, Infiltration, King’s Allies, Prayer, Dwarven Mercenaries, Goblinoid Mercenaries)
6 Terrain Summary cards (Archers Stakes (2), Cliffs (2), Marshes (2))
2 Weapons Summary cards (Long Bow (2))
8 terrain hexes
4 Cliff (two-sided) / Marsh
2 Cliff (three-sided) / Marsh
2 Cliff (single sided) / Marsh

3 obstacle rectangles
2 Ramparts / Archers Stakes
1 Stone Bridge / Archers Stakes

12 Feudal Levy tokens (4 of each colour)
6 banners
1 Green Standard Archer
1 Blue Standard Regular Infantry
1 Green Standard Cavalry
2 Green Pennant Crossbowman
1 Red Pennant Heavy Infantry

Expands:

Battlelore

Another specialist pack expansion for BattleLore focusing on the Scottish Wars.

Contents:

42 new figures:
6 Iron Dwarves Cattle Riders
8 Iron Dwarves Clan Chiefs
16 Iron Dwarves Spear Bearers (previously introduced in the BattleLore: Dwarven Battalion Specialist Pack)
12 Mounted Knights

24 Banners (12 for each camp)
2×2 Cavalry
2×2 Clan Chiefs
2×4 Spear Bearers
2×4 Mounted Knights

8-page Rules Booklet, including Medieval Lore rules and 5 new adventures:
Stirling Bridge
Falkirk
Bannockburn
Dupplin Moor
Neville's Cross

7 Specialist cards (Mounted Knights (2), Iron Dwarves Cattle Riders, Clan Chiefs (2 different), Spear Bearers (2))
3 Unit Summary Cards (Mounted Knights, Iron Dwarves Cattle Riders, Clan Chiefs)
2 Weapon Summary Card (Knight’s Lance, Spear)

Expands:

BattleLore

Attila the Hun was an infamous barbarian warlord whose army of nomadic horsemen terrorized the people of Europe and Western Asia for nearly twenty years.

Attila, on the other hand, is a light and fast-paced game in which one player controls Attila and two of his warriors while the other player controls three Roman soldiers, one of them being Roman general Flavius Aetius.

To set up, players create a playing area from the four game board tiles (such as a 4x5 rectangle), then place their figures on empty spaces. On a turn, you move one of your tokens in a knight's move (as in chess); you can traverse occupied squares and empty space as long as you land on a free space. Then you place a scorched earth tile on any empty space. Players alternate turns, and whoever first can't move a token loses the game!

Coin Age is a microgame for two players that's played with a single card and pocket change. Players take turns placing coins on a map to control spaces, outmaneuver their opponent, and score victory points.

Coin Age uses an innovative "coin slap" mechanism to determine available actions. On a player's turn, he takes one of each of his remaining types of coins in hand (one quarter, one nickel, one penny, and one dime), shakes them up, then slaps them on the table. Based on the number of coins that match his "side", he can then either place coins on the map, move previously placed coins to an adjacent space, or remove them altogether. When placing coins, players may also place their coins on top of the opponent's coins if their size/rank is smaller, so while a quarter will give you the most victory points at the end of the game, it has the highest probability of being covered by your opponent.

Coin Age is a quick-playing area control game with lots of player interaction and a bit of push-your-luck gameplay.

Game description from the publisher:

The Rivals for Catan: Age of Enlightenment contains three expansion sets (125 Cards Total) for The Rivals for Catan (released in Germany as Die Fürsten von Catan). These theme sets – "The Era of Explorers", "The Era of Sages", and "The Era of Prosperity" – offer new variety for the base game and bring new elements into play.

• In The Era of Explorers, players set sail from Catan to explore the world and discover new lands. Your explorer harbor serves as the starting point for your exploration of nine adjacent sea cards. Pirates, islanders, and shipwrecks await across the waters. Embark on missions and try to be the best explorer. Ship tokens chart your position. Victory awaits the most skilled and intrepid sailor!

• In The Era of Sages, the wisdom of many and varied sages – a currency in its own way – gives you the opportunity to influence the strength and frequency of events. Fend off famines, deflect attacks, and promote peace. Connect with nature and balance prudence, power, foresight, and vigilance in your struggle for Catan!

• In The Era of Prosperity, you strive to be a good prince and govern wisely, in order to build schools and a hospital – and even promote the arts. Raise your people's spirits and spur expansion. But beware as discontent dooms prosperity!