Board Game Posts

The year is 2876 on a far distant planet named Rennova. Humankind has emerged from their bunkers following the War of the Five Factions. Across the barren landscapes lie mountains of steel, fields of metal, and vast expanses of damaged robots.

To help rebuild Rennova to its once great glory, humans began constructing Salvaqers. With disagreements about how to restore the planet, war broke out again between opposing tribes.

In Two Robots, you take on the role of one of the five Salvagers. Your objective is to claim Rennova as your own. To do this, you can do one of two things. First, you may build two robots: one to keep up the fight and the other to maintain the factory to build more troops. …

Components

• 1 Paris Board
• 1 Event Board
• 4 Laboratory Boards
• 8 Shock Dice
• 144 Cards
• 1 Captain Meeple
• 1 First Player Creature Meeple
• 16 Scientist Meeples
• 12 Assistant Meeples
• 42 Francs
• 4 Ice Block Tokens
• 16 Leyden Jar Tokens
• 170 Material Cubes
• 30 Monster Body Part Tokens
• 4 Player Score Markers
• 6 Bonus Objective Markers
• 1 Bribe and Bump Track
• 4 Event Markers
• 12 Police Markers
• 4 Player Reference Cards
• 24 Alive Markers
• 12 Plastic Connector Sets

Object of the Game

Abomination brings to life the world of Mary Shelley's immortal Frankenstein. Set in Paris, the game takes place twenty years after the events of the novel. You are one of several esteemed scientists invited to dabble in the immoral world of monster building, to continue the dark work abandoned by Victor Frankenstein. …

On the following pages, you'll find a list of nineteen racing courses. The course descriptions will tell you which boards to use (each board is labeled with a number and a letter) and how to set up board elements. The courses are listed according to the following five difficulty levels.

1. Starter Course: Dizzy Highway

   If you're playing for the first time, start here!

2. Beginner

   Comfortable with the basic ROBO RALLY rules? Try these courses, where you'll need to interact with the board elements more than you did in Dizzy Highway. …

Your Town Center is flourishing, but as the city grows, the need for emergency medical care grows with it. Fortunately, you and your business partners have the wherewithal to build a clinic to help those in need of more than first aid.

You quickly get a pre-admissions facility built to help process and route the different cases into the appropriate queues. Unfortunately, just before groundbreaking, your differing views of the ideal clinic cause a schism between you, and you go your separate ways, with patients already lining up in pre-admissions. …

In the intergalactic commerce hub Chimera Station you don't just send your workers to their tasks ... You splice claws, tentacles and other parts onto them to give them an edge over the competition!

Gain resources and build modules to expand the board and open new opportunities. Construct the space station and take command to gain prestige and win!

The goal of Chimera Station is to earn the most prestige points by the end of the fifth round. The main ways to achieve that goal are building modules and taking command of the station at the Command Hub, but there are many other chances to gain points along the way. …

The game is played over several hands. In each hand, the players try to earn as much reward money as possible by participating in the capture of the Outlaws - and with as little help from the other players as possible.

The greater a player's part in the capture of an Outlaw, the greater will be his reward: a player may earn the entire reward, a large or small portion of it, or nothing at all! All this depends on his level of participation and that of the others. …

Components

• 2 double-sided boards
• 1 climate wheel
• 1 biology lab
• 5 clan markers (1 per player)
• 5 dinosaur boards (1 per player)
• 48 gene tokens
• 1 bag
• 88 MP tokens
• 40 dinosaurs (8 per player)
• 15 event cards
• 13 climate tokens
• 1 combat die
• Rulebook

Object of the Game

In EVO, you play a nomadic people in symbiosis with a primitive reptilian species. You travel the wild open spaces of Kumtagh with your mounts, you will use your knowledge of biology to help them adapt and succeed against both the hostile and changing climate and other competing species. …

Components

• 1 Patent Office Board
• 1 Double Sided Map
• 1 Management Board
• 1 Energy Track
• 4 Company Boards
• 4 Construction Wheels
• 12 Cardboard Punch Boards
• 202 Wooden Components
• 148 Tiles
• 35 Plastic Components
• 2 Rulebooks

Object of the Game

In Barrage each player is one of four CEOs representing four national companies aiming to prevail in the race to produce energy.

You will buy and use technologies to build dams and hydro-electric powerhouses and to connect them by building conduits. This allows you to use the water you have stored to produce energy and fulfill contracts. …

Components

• 1 Main board
• 4 Player boards
• 1 Building tiles display
• 1 Scientists board
• 1 Earth Contracts board
• 130 tiles
• 30 Crystals
• 3 Mission Tracker Cubes
• 48 Colonists
• 4 Rovers
• 20 Ships and 20 Progress Cubes
• 16 bots
• 56 markers
• 79 Cards
• Instructions

Overview

The game is played over several rounds, each consisting of two phases. The colonization phase and the shuttle phase.

During the colonization phase, each player takes a turn, during which they take actions. The actions a player is able to take depends on the side of the board they are on. …

Components

• 1 Secret Service Board
• 48 Machine Segment Pieces
• 6 Machine Sheets
• 12 Scientist miniatures
• 1 Central Board
• 20 Agent Gears
• 48 Da Vinci Codex Tokens
• 24 Mission Cards
• 4 Firepower Markers
• 30 Mayhem Tokens
• 85 Part Tokens
• 1 Monocle of Forgetfulness Token
• 20 Building Miniatures
• Instructions

Object of the Game

In Victorian Masterminds, you and your fellow villains are racing to collect the most Mayhem Points! Will you construct your nefarious Machine? Will you capture the great Buildings of Europe? Will you collect brilliant Scientists and Codex Tokens? …