All elections are turning points, but the presidential election of 1960 holds a special place in American history. The 1950s had been a period of unparalleled economic growth and US global power. Richard Nixon served as President Eisenhower's Vice President through most of the period. Nixon's humble origins gave him a common touch that appealed to the small town, idyllic America encompassed by the spirit of the 1950s. John F. Kennedy, was Nixon's mirror image: charming, Harvard educated and the scion of an American political dynasty. Kennedy challenged Americans to confront the uncertainties and tumult that were already emerging in 1960. He set his vision not in the past, but on new frontiers.

In 1960: The Making of the President, you take on the role of one of these great protagonists vying to lead America through an era of turbulent change. The candidates must contend with all the great issues of the day, from the Cold War to civil rights to voters' pocket books. This is an election that will turn on positioning and momentum. The contest is fought on an electoral map of the United States as it stood in 1960. Using a card-driven game system, all the major events which shaped the campaign are represented: Nixon's lazy shave, President Eisenhower's late endorsement, and the 'Catholic question' are all specific event cards. The famous televised debates are also an important component of gameplay.

Alexander moves with army back and forth across Asia Minor, conquering the land as he passes. To bring peace to these newly conquered lands and to reward his generals, he gives them control of the new lands. The generals establish administration over the lands and levy taxes on the people living there. Naturally, each general tries to acquire the most productive lands for himself. With more productive lands, the general can levy higher taxes, show his worth to Alexander, and win the game!

In Granada, one of the most impressive building projects of the Middle Ages has begun: the construction of Alhambra. A palace, fortress, and a small city -- all-in-one -- Alhambra is made up of the world's most beautiful gardens, pavilions, chambers and towers.

The most prominent builders in all of Europe and Arabia want to demonstrate their skills. Employ the most talented teams of builders to construct your Alhambra. Hire stonemasons from the north and gardeners from the south, who all want a fair wage and insist on being paid with their native currency. With their help, towers can be constructed, gardens designed, pavilions and mezzanines erected, and manors and royal chambers built. Compete against your opponents to build the greatest and most impressive Alhambra.

Alhambra: Calif's Treasure Chamber, the fourth Expansion to "Alhambra"

Together with the three other extensions, you now have a choice of 16 different modules. The new modules are:

This expansion contains four different modules, which can be combined individually or all together with the basic game. Diamonds adds diamond cards to the game, which can be used to buy anything -- but can't be combined with any other currency. Characters has character cards which are auctioned off when revealed and which have a variety of powers. Camps adds camps which are placed outside the city walls and which score points for the adjacent line of buildings inside the city. City Gates contains city gates which can be placed in your city to allow a path to go through an internal wall to make certain illegal placements legal.

The city walls of the Alhambra have been built – now the gardens are starting to bloom.

The players lay gardens against the picturesque background of palaces, chambers and arcades.

Place your trees skilfully so that you surround the most valuable buildings and win the most points.

But take care! With every turn, you are planting your opponent´s trees as well as your own.

The THIEVES allow players to take cash cards of a certain currency from the display when it is not their turn. Afterwards, however, the thief is discarded.

The FLYING TRADER awakens the palace of Alhambra to life and draws new inhabitants into the palace building. These inhabitants bring additional points when scoring, but not each inhabitant is willing to enter every palace.

The WALLS enable the players to extend the building of their city walls or close holes in already built walls. In addition, players may use wood for speedy wall building, when they choose.

MAKING CHANGE brings small coins in the game. When a player overpays for building, he player gets change back in the smaller coins, which he may use when paying for purchases later in the game.

This expansion contains four different modules, which can be combined individually or all together with the basic game. The Favor of the Vizier allows players to take a turn out of order. The Exchange Office contains cards which allow buildings to be purchased using 2 different currencies. The Bonus Cards include secret tiles which can be revealed to count as an additional building of the type shown. The Building Huts has extra tiles which can be built as an additional action choice (in addition to buying and placing buildings, rearranging one's Alhambra, and taking money) and which count as 0-3 of a given building type, depending on adjacent tiles.

The whole of Egypt is in uproar – Akhnaton, who has just acceded to the throne, wants to ban the old deity Amon from the temples of the land. Aton is to be worshipped as the new God.

But the priests of the land are not willing to give up their temples without resistance so the 4 largest temples are fiercely disputed.

The players are adversaries and fight out this battle of the Gods between them. Both have the same starting position, but who will be able to make better use of his abilities and help his God to victory?

In the 16th century Jakob Fugger built an impressive trading empire centered in Augsburg. He earned so much money, that he was able to loan large amounts to royals in need of cash. As the royals were often unable to repay the loans, Jakob was more than willing to accept the special privileges the could offer instead - privileges that allowed him to become even richer and more powerful!

Players take on the role of Jakob and compete to earn the most prestige by loaning money for privilege.

Players travel in circles from region to region building castles to control the regions. A fast-paced game of castles, politics, and changing fortunes.

1289. To strengthen the borders of the Kingdom of France, King Philip the Fair decided to have a new castle built. For the time being, Caylus is but a humble village, but soon, workers and craftsmen will be flocking by the cartload, attracted by the great prospects. Around the building site, a city is slowly rising up…

The players embody master builders. By building the King’s castle and developing the city around it, they earn prestige points and gain the King’s favor. When the castle is finished, the player who has earned the most prestige wins the game.

This is the 2nd Edition of the game and includes some improved components, although the game is still the same.

As the streets and blocks of a medieval city are built up with the various guilds? buildings, players will want to speculate on the more successful guilds, and also invest in their buildings themselves.

The game is set in late pre-history, a time of transition - when our distant ancestors, who had struggled and barely survived for ages in very small nomadic groups, began to feel their lives would be more secure and less arduous if they formed larger groups. This led to the formation of the first villages. The players compete to be involved in the most and most valuable villages.

Confucius is set in imperial China during the Ming dynasty, which lasted from the mid 14th to the mid 17th century. It was a period of restoration and reconstruction after the peasant rebellions that had overthrown the previous Mongol rulers of China. The government was re-established by the Emperor Hongwu under a new legal code stressing family relations and based on Confucian ideas. Using a vast standing army, areas of China under Mongol control and many adjoining territories were brought into the Empire through military conquest. The Empire also expanded its knowledge of the world through Zheng He’s great oceanic voyages that may have reached as far as the Americas.

In Confucius each player represents a Chinese family trying to extend its power in the government, the army and the navy through the subtle application of political and social influence, rather than through direct conflict. Money, the manipulation of government officials and the strategic giving of gifts so that rivals are obliged to help your family; these will be your weapons.

Cuba prior to the revolution: Under turbulent circumstances, the villages of the island strive for independent wealth and influence.Who can buy and sell his products and goods on the domestic market profitably or take in the most on the trading ships?Who can send the right delegate to parliament in order to influence the government legislative process, or erect distilleries, hotels and banks at the right moment to the benefit of his village?Whoever has accumulated the most victory points at the end of the game, wins. Players earn victory points by shipping merchandise from the harbor, but also by erecting and using buildings, and by abiding by the law.

The initiates have waited for this day for centuries, and now that the grail appeared, they are well prepared. Following an ancient plan, the grail shall be brought to its designated place. But do the other initiates have the same goal as you? Whom can you trust?

Assassins, Templars, Rosicrucians and Illuminates start the hunt for the grail. The pawns on the gameboard belong to nobody, each player may move each of them. Throughout the game, however, each player may try to gain control over the pawns by secretly exerting influence on them. The winner of the game is not the one who brings home the grail, but the one who controls the bearer of the grail; in other words: The one who proves to have the highest influence ...

Clockwise, the players move one of the pawns on the gameboard, or invest hidden influence points. Displeasing moves by other players may be rejected if you reveal to have a higher influence on that pawn than the player who made the move. Furthermore, displeasing pawns can be removed from the game by uncovering them. But in order to do so, you have to control the pawn which blows the other pawn's cover, and the amount of influence you can spend during the game is limited.

Die Macher is a game about 7 sequential regional elections. As a player, you are the leader of a major political party with certain policies that make up your political platform but you will have to decide which regions to focus on as you can't win them all. Changing your platform may help to gain votes in one region but likely cause you to lose votes in another. As each election date approaches, more information is revealed from the polls which show how your party is doing in each region and you must react accordingly. The most important tool for all this is money, but cash is very limited and an election campaign is very expensive. Be careful not to spend all your money on one election as you will not have enough to outbid your opponents on the results of a public opinion poll that could be devastating to your campaign!

Victory points are earned by winning regional elections, having control over the media, having a strong party membership and winning the national election. The player with the most victory points wins.

Venice flourished in the late middle ages as a merchant center. The old families competed for political power and influence in this city state. Those that move swiftly and cleverly may attain the highest office in Venice, the office of the Doge.

The king shall return...

But before he does, the realm falls into anarchy and chaos. The lords of the kingdom struggle to improve their place and standing. New borders are drawn, and expanded through strength of arms and subtle maneuver. Each duke seeks to establish a claim over the most valuable parts of the kingdom before the king finally returns... In the dark of the Middle Ages, control of the land was the key to wealth and power. Can you control enough territory to become the most prestigious duke before the king’s return?

Review the rules for this game in the interactive tutorial at Professor Easy

The players are the Grandes in old Spain. Each wants to increase his influence at the court and in the regions. Each turn, the players choose from 5 actions, different on each turn. But first choice goes to the player who plays the highest priority card and you have only 13 for the game. Choose your actions and priorities wisely to become the most powerful Grande and win the game!

This Decennial version also contains the expansions previously known as Intrigue & the King, Grand Inquisitor & the Colonies, and Grandissimo.

In Intrigue & the King, each player has 18 or 28 cards that replace the action cards from the basic game. Before the game begins, each player chooses 13 cards to be his action/priority deck for the game. The players use these cards instead of the action a nd priority cards in determining turn order and special actions. Grand Inquisitor & the Colonies adds four new regions, the Grand Inquisitor, and new action cards to support these additions. The new action cards are in two new stack, giving players seven options on each turn instead of the five from the basic game. By combining the two, you can play The King & the Colonies. In this game, you use the action/priority cards from Intrigue & the King, and the new regions, the Grand Inquisitor, and the new action cards supporting them from Grand Inquisitor & the Colonies.

Grandissimo adds a ship, jail, Portugal, the Grand Inquisitor, the Queen, the Jester, and new action cards in two new stacks to support these additions.

Between the glories of Rome and the rise of national states stood an age in which each land was defined by the virtue and failings of its monarch. Empires of the Middle Ages is a multi-player game of diplomacy in which up to six may act as dynasts and attempt to build their historic kingdoms into vast empires. Empires of the Middle Ages is played on a map of medieval Europe on which the players record the power of their kingdoms. Playing cards resolve the basic actions of the game, while random event cards add period flavor, such as plagues, crusades and heresy. Six scenarios are included, from a solitaire game to a grand scenario covering the entire Middle Ages.

"In the year 1265 A.D., England's most powerful Barons clashed over the precious lands of the manor of Evesham. The outcome of this battle depends on your strategy. Will you make use of the charm of your Milady, attack with the First Knight, pay for Mercnaries? No one knows what moves you will make. But, be careful of the fog and keep away from the plague. Play your shillings and strike the enemy where he least expects it. But if you become the strongest Baron, King Henry III will also join the struggle, and winning will be even harder."

Players play cards to move their units around the board, attempting to fight each other and capture key cities, while avoiding the plague.

Contents: 4 map boards, 80 cards, 62 thick tokens, VP chart.

Flanders in 1302 – the country has just gained its independence with the help of the guilds when these start fighting amongst themselves to gain power in the most important towns of the region.

No matter whether dyers, fullers, weavers or clothcutters, they all want to make their influence felt. Gain supremacy in Ypres, Bruges, Ghent, Leuven, and even in neighbouring Liège and Utrecht with the help of the Church and the neutral guild of the sword-smiths.

"You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun." -Al Capone

Throughout the 1920's and 1930's, rival gangsters compete in a life or death struggle for control of the gleaming city on the shores of Lake Michigan. Each district is hotly contested, because in the end there can be only one "King of Chicago!"

You play a mob boss. You compete with your fellow bosses. Through careful placement of your "boys," you control important locations throughout the city. But time is limited! Only three days remain for you to exert influence in the neighborhoods. Use these days wisely, because the gangster with the most influence at the end is proclaimed the boss of bosses!

Beware! Your opponents seek the same raw glory. Take care, because if a gangster is invited down to the river for breakfast, he might not be around for supper!

Gather up your boys, hop in the sedan, and see if you have the skill, the cunning, and the ruthlessness to become Chicago's top Gangster!

The Glory of Rome is fading. You’re a Roman statesman struggling to survive in this era of cultural decline and political chaos. While foreign invaders and domestic incompetents devour the last resources of the Empire, you’ll try to build your career out of the rubble. You will administer your Farms, Cities, and Legions, trying to score points by deciding which of them will be improved, and which will be destroyed. In the end, the points you’ve scored may be all you have left.

A board game of magical invention ...

Grand Tribunal is a board game for three to five players, inspired by the Ars Magica roleplaying game. In Grand Tribunal, players use Vis tokens to activate cards representing magic item types, spell categories, and resources, which they then assemble into powerful magic items. Each round, players place their votes for the item types and spell categories they're most likely to be able to play. Three times during the game -- at the periodic Tribunals -- players are presented with 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-place awards for creating magic items with item types and spell categories that match those with the most votes. The player at the end of the game with the most points based on those awards wins!

"Therefore, it is necessary for the Prince to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves. Those who rely simply on the lion do not understand what they are about. Therefore a wise lord cannot, nor ought he to, keep faith when such observance may be turned against him, and when the reasons that caused him to pledge it exist no longer." (Nicolo Machiavelli, Il Principe, Chap XVIII)

To be a Prince in the Italian Renaissance is a brave and incessant struggle to conquer countrysides and fortify towns, and to win the confidence and favors of nobles and common people. By building up Cathedrals and Universities, enlarging Markets, adorning your cities, you conquer not only the Regions, but also the Men: and this can help you to become the real Prince!

Europe in the age of imperialism. Internationally operating investors aim for the highest political influence in Europe. By giving credits they gain influence over the six imperial nations Great Britain, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Italy and France. These nations desperately need money to build up their economy and to buy troops and fleets. With their growing power in Europe, they collect more taxes and pay their rising interests to their investors. Because the six imperial nations are under changing influence of different investors, strategic alliances and conflicts arise between them. Sometimes this leads even to war!

The players represent internationally operating investors who stay in the background. The turns in the game are executed by the six imperial nations, not by the investors themselves, who only impose their financial influence onto various nations. Only the investor who gets the best return on his investments, who gains influence over the most powerful imperial nations, and who can influence the European diplomacy to his benefit, may win the game.

Imperial is a challenging strategy game without any luck of cards or dice.

Each player is a Javanese ruler, who wants to develop Java. The players irrigate the land and cultivate new rice fields. They found villages and develop cities from the villages, for which they earn fame. The player with the most fame is the winner.

The classic is back, better than ever! JUNTA, the board game of intrigue, diplomacy, and skullduggery, has been a classic for over 20 years, and now it's been completely revised, revamped, and updated with all-new artwork. As ruling families of the mythical (and legendary!) la Repulica de los Bananas, players connive, cajole, threaten, and ally their way to the fattest bank account. For two to seven players, JUNTA was highly praised by New York Magazine, the Washington Post, and GAMES magazine when it was first released. The box set contains a map, counters, play money, cards, rulebook, and dice.

Intrigue at the Emperor's Court

In Justinian players compete for the sympathy of emperor Justinian I. To reach their goals and strengthen their position at his imperial court, they invest in Justinian’s counselors by pushing them up the ladder of popularity, or down when they are not serving the player’s needs. There are four combinations of counselors that may be valued during the game. At the end of each round one of these combinations is the basis for scoring. The higher the reputation of a counselor, the more victory points a player may get. Watch out though: in the game only three out of four issues are counted!

This offer combines the Khronos Board Game from Matagot and The Upgrade Kit comprises 10 Adventurer Pieces, a Time Travel Figure and a pack of 55 cards to bring the game up to date with the latest version. Note that the upgraded rules are not included but can be downloaded from the internet.

In this game, you play a powerful lord and his faithful companion engaged in a fight for influence throughout time. The game proceeds simultaneously over three different periods. You start the game in the Middle Ages, on the first of the three game boards (that of the commanderies). With 4 action cards in hand per turn, you have seven turns in which to develop your domains by building various types of military, civil and religious buildings. Depending on their size, certain buildings are moved in time, which means that they are transferred to the same place on the priories board (Renaissance period) and on the brotherhoods board (modern period), in ruins for military and religious buildings (castles, abbeys…)

The Upgrade Kit comprises 10 Adventurer Pieces, a Time Travel Figure and a pack of 55 cards. Note that the upgraded rules are not included but can be downloaded from the internet.

In the era of prohibition, ruthless men held the city of Chicago in an iron grip. Making millions of dollars on all sorts of illegal activities these men were the scum of the streets, showing absolutely no regard for ethics, common decency or other people’s feelings. They were engaged in anything from prostitution, rum running, bootlegging, tax evasion, theft, fencing, and extortion to downright murder. No scheme was too low and no act too vile if it meant an extra buck in the pockets of these evil, cunning men.

After 3 years in the making Tusbas proudly presents King of Chicago – an action-packed board game for 3-6 players that like spending an evening in the shoes of a gangster boss and talking trash, manipulating and beating some good friends. Playing time is from 1 to 3 hours.

Bullets rain in at driveby shootings, suffer raids from your rivals or corrupt police as you fight your way from being a small fish to becoming capo di tuti capi....

The last English King (as opposed to King of England) died in 1066. This game is about what happened next. The men who occupied the throne for the next 400 years were a particularly unpleasant bunch, whose main thought was of personal aggrandisement. Having deprived the English of the right of self-government, the more energetic of them set about trying to do a similar job on their neighbours. In Kings & Castles the players take the part of these men as they pursue their ambitions at home and abroad. The treatment is broad-brush and fairly abstract: there is a map and the counters carry pictures of castles and soldiers, but you don't have to start worrying about dice and combat results; this is not a wargame.

Players take turns to conquer as many regions as possible with their own and opponents forces - an intriguing mechanic - then decide whether to tax the hard workong peasants or not. Plenty of decision making and room for tactics with a different player/king sequence every time you play.

In Kingsburg players are Lords sent from the King to administrate frontier territories.

The game takes place over five years, a total of 20 turns. In every year there are 3 production seasons for collecting resources, building structures, and training troops. Every fourth turn is the winter, in which all the players must fight an invading army. Each player must face the invaders, so this is not a cooperative game.

The resources to build structures and train troops are collected by influencing the advisers in the King's Council. Players place their influence dice on members of the Council. The player with the lowest influence dice sum will be the first one to choose where to spend his/her influence, this acts as a way of balancing poor dice rolling. Even with a very unlucky roll, a clever player can still come out from the Council with a good number of resources and/or soldiers.

Each adviser on the King's Council will award different resources or allocate soldiers, victory points, and other advantages to the player that was able to influence him/her for the current turn.

At the end of five years the player that better developed his assigned territory and most pleased the King through the Council is the winner.

Many alternate strategies are possible to win: will you go for the military way, disregarding economic and prestige buildings, or will you aim to complete the big Cathedral to please the King? Will you use the Merchant's Guild to gain more influence in the Council or will you go for balanced development?

Each player is an Italian prince and begins the game with two cities. During the game, each player's goal is to increase the size of the territory he controls by expanding his starting cities and establishing and growing new ones. The players must manage food for their people, as well as health, culture, and education. The player who best manages these things, will win the game.

The year is 1430, a time of unrest and upheaval in the Holy Roman Empire. Echoes of the Papal Schism are still heard in all the lands, the Turks advance in the Balkans, and the Hussite Wars ravage Bohemia.

Even while battling the Hussites, Upper Lusatia prospers. It has been nearly 100 years since the founding of the League of Six – a group of wealthy Lusatian towns that banded together to defend their commercial interests and preserve stability and order in the region.

You have been sent to this embattled land in the role of tax collector. As a young, ambitious aristocrat, you hope to stand out so that you will be given a position in the court of Sigismund, King of the Romans, King of Hungary, and King of Bohemia, the man who will eventually, God willing, be crowned the Holy Roman Emperor.

The tax collector who brings in the most revenue for the king, while simultaneously gaining the support of the civic leaders, has the best chance to fi nd himself by the side of King Sigismund, sharing in the intrigues that will shape Europe. Your path to power lies along the roads that connect the League of Six.

A boardgame of Machiavellian intrigue in the latter half of the 15th century. Through the establishment of trade routes and the paying of tributes, players assuming historical roles grow rich as they are emboldened to fight to protect their monopolies or expand their influence.

Slip on the role of clever court attendant and try your luck in the court of Louis XIV.

Influence his next decrees. Relax in his radiance on his countless cushions. Bribe ministers and buy generals. Spin intrigue and spread your net in the empire of the Sun King. Every plan is right - if it works! A careful plan and provident use of information gained in the court can help you fulfill your mission -and win the game!

The maharaja has called and you, a distinguished Indian prince, are obeying his call! Build magnificient houses and palaces in his name!

Maharaja is a clever boardgame for two to five players. During the game the players take different roles and travel from city to city in India. Their architects build palaces and houses for the maharadja. Of course, building a palace is expensive. Therefore it is important to earn enough money in the cities.

The first player building seven palaces is the winner.

Besides the basic game the rules booklet contains two advanced versions for players who seek even more depth in their game play.

Can you help build the Aztec capitol? The Players create the districts, canals, build bridges and buildings. Players score points for creating districts and for having the largest buildings in the districts.

By the mid-14th century, the Chinese people had succeeded in freeing themselves from Mongolian domination. With Tai-tsu’s accession to the throne as emperor, a new and independent China emerged. In this game, eachplayer takes on the role of an imperial prince who, with the aid of his royal family members, attempts to acquiremore and more wealth and influence for the Chinese people of the Ming Dynasty.

Néfertiti is set in ancient Egypt, when lords wanted to get favors from the pharaoh, Akhénaton. Hence each player must gain prestige points by sending servitors to the most remote places of Egypt to find the most magnificent presents.

Assume the role of head of an noble Italian dynasty. Build magnificent buildings, cultivate beautiful parks, and invite famous artists to work in your court. As patrons of culture, the players increase their fame, trying to become the Prince of Florence!

In Quo Vadis you play a mighty patrician family in the power struggle that will determine the destiny of Rome. Work your way through committees gaining prestige in order to get to the Senate. However, there is only room for five senators at the top.

Lead your dynasty through 2000 years of history in ancient Egypt. Gather as much fame and honor as possible. Place the most pharaohs. Establish unequalled monuments and use the fertility of the Nile. But don't neglect your people and their culture. And pay homage to the gods -- lead by the sun god Ra -- otherwise the fame of your dynasty is quickly lost.