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Amazing Space Venture Board Game Picture For Amazing Space Venture Board Game from SherCo Games Price: £23.99
RRP: £29.99

You are an astronaut in the future competing to discover the most valuable planets and biggest star systems in this exciting and delightful game that combines three familiar game mechanics into one elegant retro-60's gaming experience. Strategic tile-placement, point-to-point movement, and clever use of cards enable you to build your own constantly expanding universe on a large-as-space-itself 23-1/2" x 33" game board.

Create and probe new galaxies, position and maneuver space ships and UFOs, build space stations, meet other space explorers, and discover distant planets with strange environments and mysterious life forms. At any time, space pirates, black holes, supernovas, space monsters, and other special action events can help or hinder your efforts to become Lord of the Universe.

Advanced strategy rules, plus variants (solitaire, role play, 9th planet, and team play) are included.



Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 60 - 90 (minutes)
Age: 12

Astroplane Board Game Picture For Astroplane Board Game from Astroplane Price: £14.49
RRP: £16.99

ASTROPLANE® is a fun, intriguing, challenging game of strategy, logic and competition. Although it's based on astrophysics theory... it's easy to learn and fun at any level of expertise.

Formulating strategies to outwit opponents, players maneuver their astroplane spaceships thru Hyperspace, Wormholes, and other astrophysical phenomena with the goal of controlling travel thru a Black Hole at the center of a galaxy.

You don't need to be a Rocket Scientist to play!



Players: 2 - 4
Duration: 20 - 45 (minutes)
Age: 10

BattleStations Expansion: Galactic Civil War Picture For BattleStations Expansion: Galactic Civil War from Gorilla Games Price: £17.49
RRP: £19.99

The first expansion supplement for Battlestations.

Take your adventures to the next level with a complete rebellion campaign and some new modules!

New equipment, a new species, new special abilities and new actions (like sideslip, Piloting skill check vs. speed + Size to have your ship maintain its facing, but move forward into the port or starboard hex on its next move).

GCW includes 6 double-sided modules, 30 double-sided Fighter/mine markers, a 96 page rulebook and a complete Civil War campaign.



Players: 2 - 8
Duration: 120 - 240 (minutes)
Age: 12

BattleStations Expansion: Pax Galacticum Picture For BattleStations Expansion: Pax Galacticum from Gorilla Games Price: £17.99
RRP: £19.99

Adventure beyond combat in the second exciting supplement for Battlestations!

Challenges of skill, rescue missions and puzzling space anomalies will add intrigue and depth to your adventures.

New Combat skill actions and equipment allow an easy translation for 'marines' to become brave rescue workers!

(The adventures, equipment and bonus modules are completely compatible with the basic game.)



Players: 2 - 8
Duration: 120 - 240 (minutes)
Age: 12

BattleStations: The Planet of Dr Moreau Picture For BattleStations: The Planet of Dr Moreau from Gorilla Games Price: £8.49
RRP: £9.99

From out of a silent corner of the sky, marauding raiders strike with bestial fury and human cunning. The trail leads back to the planet of Dr. Moreau.

This is the first RPG Mini-Campaign for Battlestations! and contains:

  • 12 new anthropomorphic species
  • 2 complete campaigns with 5 missions each
  • The Beastmen – roleplaying campaign
  • The Seeker – traditional Battlestations campaign
  • Maps for Dr. Moreau's island compound
  • New Special Abilities and Treasures!

  • Escape Velocity: Nova Board Game Picture For Escape Velocity: Nova Board Game from DGA Games Price: £16.49
    RRP: £17.99

    The boxed set contains everything you need to play a 2-player game including the full color 20 x 20 inch game board, 5 colored playing pawns, an 8-page rule sheet, 16 hostile government markers, and 120 Nova Cards that represent ships, missions, outfits, planets, trade routes, and events that truly bring to life the Escape Velocity: Nova universe.



    Players: 2

    EVE: Conquests Board Game Price: £28.99
    RRP: £34.99

    EVE is a hard-core sci-fi setting—ruthless, cruel and cold. Set twenty thousand years in the future, the game world presents a human race straining at the boundaries of its own nature. Massive empires have risen to envelop vast areas of space, aiming to shape the universe according to their vision of humanity’s future.

    EVE: Conquests is a strategy board game for 2-4 players set in the EVE Universe. Players assume the role of the four major factions in EVE and set out to prove their superiority by means of galactic domination. Their conquests require them to play the political landscape in EVE which often leads them to war on those who defy them. Garnering the influence necessary requires tact and strategic management of resource in all spheres of operations.



    Players: 2 - 4


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    Galactic Destiny Board Game Picture For Galactic Destiny Board Game from Golden Laurel Entertainment Price: £33.49
    RRP: £36.99

    Galactic Destiny is the newest in Science Fiction Universes. 3 - 6 players represent the Senators & Fleets of their cosmic constituency.

    Players face-off against each other to win the Galaxy to their own ideology.

  • Win through Politics.
  • Win through War.
  • Win through Intrigue & Manipulation...
  • ... Oh, yes. And there's Demons. The evil Ke'Ras threaten to possess the galaxy & even your Senators, whenever you act corruptly, backstab, or cheat your friends

    Enjoy the Infestation !



    Players: 3 - 6
    Age: 12

  • Galactic Emperor Board Game Picture For Galactic Emperor Board Game from Cross Cut Games Price: £29.99
    RRP: £34.99

    Galactic Emperor is a fast paced empire-building board game of exploration, conflict and struggle for dominance. The last Galactic Emperor has met with a sudden and quite fatal accident. Now there is a power vacuum in the galaxy, and you’re one of the Planetary Dukes who wants to fill it. Each player controls a space sector with a home planet, and for a time, shares the power of the galactic throne. During the fight for control, the central Omega Sun is heading toward collapse… a cataclysm that will only accelerate the chaos!

    The game plays over several rounds, and within each round, the roles players choose determine what happens next. There are 7 different types of roles: Explorer, Steward, Merchant, Engineer, Warlord, Regent, and Scientist. All players get a turn to act during each role. Players discover planets, gain resources, build ships, and attack space fleets in a desperate effort to grind foes into cosmic dust!

    The player with the most victory points at the end of the game wins, becoming the ultimate Galactic Emperor!



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    Galactic Expansion Board Game Picture For Galactic Expansion Board Game from Digital Alchemy Price: £4.99
    RRP: £5.99

    Lead your Empire into the vastness of space conquering all who stand before you in Galactic Expansion an expandable board game for two or more players.

    Empires lead massive star fleets into battle, research new technologies, sabotage enemy installations, incite rebellions on alien worlds and more, expanding their might until none oppose them.

    Can you lead your empire to victory?



    Galaxy Trucker Board Game Picture For Galaxy Trucker Board Game from Czech Game Editions Price: £26.99
    RRP: £29.99

    Corporation Incorporated, the galactic leader in sewer system construction, is looking for can-do guys and gals to haul materials to remote regions of the galaxy. Must be willing to fend off meteors, smugglers, and pirates.

    Experience working with aliens a plus.

    Earn copious cosmic credits with bonuses for speedy delivery.

    Become a Galaxy Trucker. It's loads of fun!

    The game consists of three rounds. In each round, the players begin by rummaging through the Warehouse, trying to grab the best components and build the best space ship. Once the ships are under way, the players try to avoid snares and obstacles, while grasping financial opportunities, each hoping to be the first to finish with an undamaged ship.

    It's possible that you will end up with an insurmountable debt and finish your days panhandling on the streets of Deneb III, but if Lady Luck should smile upon you, you just might find yourself among the 10 billion richest people in the Galaxy!



    Players: 2 - 4
    Duration: 60 (minutes)
    Age: 10
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    Mission: Red Planet Board Game Picture For Mission: Red Planet Board Game from Asmodee Price: £27.49
    RRP: £29.99

    ARE YOU READY FOR MARS?

    1889. The Paris World Fair is the latest place to be, and the masses marvel at the latest technical achievements which are on exhibit there. Meanwhile, the big industrial trusts, supported by their governments, are planning their next step - the conquest of Mars and the mining of the fantastic ores found in its subsoil...

    Mission: RED PLANET is a majority control game, a character selection games, and an exploration game, with a balanced mix of bluffing and strategy.

    In order to charter shuttles to Mars and take control of the regions where the most interesting minerals will be found, you'll have to make the best use of your nine characters' powers.



    Players: 3 - 5
    Duration: 60 (minutes)
    Age: 10
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    Pandemic Board Game Picture For Pandemic Board Game from Z-Man Games Price: £18.99
    RRP: £21.99

    Four diseases have broken out in the world and it is up to a team of specialists in various fields to find cures for these diseases before mankind is wiped out.

    Players must work together, playing to their characters' strengths and planning their strategy of eradication before the diseases overwhelm the world with ever-increasing outbreaks. For example, the Operation Specialist can build research stations, which are needed to find cures for the diseases. The Scientist needs only 4 cards of a particular disease to cure it instead of the normal 5.

    But the diseases are outbreaking fast and time is running out: the team must try to stem the tide of infection in diseased areas while also towards cures.

    A truly cooperative game where you all win or you all lose.



    Players: 2 - 4
    Duration: 45 - 60 (minutes)
    Age: 10
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    Risk 2210 AD Board Game Picture For Risk 2210 AD Board Game from Hasbro Games Price: £25.99
    RRP: £29.99

    The only change to this popular board game is the new resized box. Less than half the size of the original, this new version contains all the same game components as it's predecessor.



    Players: 2 - 5
    Duration: 300 - 360 (minutes)
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    Smugglers of the Galaxy Board Game Picture For Smugglers of the Galaxy Board Game from Playus Maximus Price: £20.99
    RRP: £22.99

    Smugglers of the Galaxy is a new Adventure board game where the players take on the role of traders, smugglers, pirates and bounty hunters and travel freely about the galaxy evading pirates, monsters, and other space dangers as they trade interplanetary goods to enhance their space freighters.



    Players: 2 - 6
    Duration: 120 - 180 (minutes)


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    Space Blast Board Game Picture For Space Blast Board Game from Neko Corp Price: £15.99
    RRP: £16.99

    Space Blast is a fast paced gamed based on the selection of 0 to 3 actions simultaneously by all players.

    The board represent deep space with hexagons where up to 6 ships will evoluate while firing missiles or laying mines.



    Players: 3 - 6
    Duration: 20 - 30 (minutes)
    Age: 12
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    Space Dealer Board Game Picture For Space Dealer Board Game from Eggert Spiele Price: £21.49
    RRP: £24.99

    An interplanetary real-time game!

    The players equip their planet, explore and use technologies, and produce goods. With their spaceships, they fly to the other players' planets in order to satisfy their demands by delivering required goods. While they are doing all these things, time is running as all players play simultaneously, and each player has only two sand timers to coordinate all actions. As soon as a sand timer, standing on a specific spot, has run out, the appropriate action takes effect.



    Players: 3 - 4
    Duration: 30 (minutes)
    Age: 10
    Rating:Games Lore Rating For Space Dealer Board Game from Eggert Spiele

    Starcraft The Board Game Picture For Starcraft The Board Game from Fantasy Flight Games Price: £42.95
    RRP: £49.99

    Three powerful alien races battle for control of the galaxy. Whether you choose to lead the versatile Terran, mysterious Protoss, or voracious Zerg, in Starcraft: The Board Game you’ll command an army like no other in the universe!

    Once again, Fantasy Flight Games brings one of the world’s best-loved computer games to your tabletop. Players take control of the Protoss, Terran, or Zerg and battle across multiple worlds. True to the Starcraft legacy, each of the three races features a unique and distinctive play style, and the inclusion of two distinct factions for each race allows for up to six players to compete for galactic dominance at a time.

    Including a total of over 180 plastic figures and dozens of unit types, Starcraft: The Board Game features an innovative modular board of varying sizes which guarantees a new experience each and every game. An exciting card driven combat system allows players to modify and upgrade their faction with a wealth of powerful technologies. Players can unleash a Zergling rush, use powerful Protoss shields to halt an enemy invasion, or even send cloaked Ghosts out to guide nuclear missiles to their target.



    Players: 2 - 6
    Duration: 180 - 240 (minutes)
    Details for Starcraft The Board Game from Fantasy Flight Games
    Star Wars Risk: Original Trilogy Edition Board Game Picture For Star Wars Risk: Original Trilogy Edition Board Game from Hasbro Games Price: £24.49
    RRP: £24.99

    The classic RISK board game, which allowed players to take over the world by invading opponents' territories with armies until a single player was left covering the map, has been translated into the warring factions of the Star Wars universe as they existed during the timeframe spanning Episodes IV -- VI.

    Star Wars RISK includes 42 planets (territories) grouped into 6 systems (continents). Each faction has two pieces, representing one unit and three units. The Rebellion has a Rebel soldier and a snowspeeder, the Empire a stormtrooper and an AT-ST, and the Hutts a Gamorrean Guard and a rancor.



    Sucking Vacuum Board Game: 2nd Edition Picture For Sucking Vacuum Board Game: 2nd Edition from Alien Menace Games Price: £13.99
    RRP: £14.99

    Ultimate Sucking Vacuum, a completely revised version. The new full color boxed edition will boasts many improvements over the previous mini-game version including completely revised rules, full color components, and three completely different game variants.

    Sucking Vacuum is an easy to learn fast action strategy game for 3 to 6 players who assume the role of an astronaut searching for equipment and struggling to escape the doomed International Space Station. Players must make their way through a randomly assembled space station map while fighting off the attacks of other players who are trying to escape themselves. The map, counters, dice, and everything else needed is right inside the box.

    Additionally, the game will have two completely new game types including the Alien Incursion variant which has been extremely popular at local conventions. The original Sucking Vacuum was a game of desperation. The revised edition takes it to the next level, and Alien Incursion blows walls out.



    Players: 3 - 6
    Duration: 30 - 45 (minutes)
    Age: 13


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    Twilight Imperium Board Game: 3rd Edition Picture For Twilight Imperium Board Game: 3rd Edition from Fantasy Flight Games Price: £42.49
    RRP: £49.99

    Twilight Imperium Third Edition is an epic empire-building game of intersteller conflict, trade, and struggle for power. Players take the roles of ancient galactic civilizations, each seeking to sieze the imperial throne via warfare, diplomacy, and technological progression. With new oversize geomorphic board tiles, finely detailed plastic miniatures, hundreds of cards, and a massive plurality of options, TI3 will arrive before an audience that has been starving for epic space conflict since TI2 went out of print in the spring of 2003.

    Shipping in a massive (12” x 24”) epic-size box, this new giant-size edition of TI feature more than 200 masterfully sculpted oversize plastic miniatures - the typical TI units (Ground Forces, Cruisers, Dreadnaughts, Carriers, Fighters, PDS, and Space Docks) as well as two new units (the massive War Sun and the Destroyer). TI3 contains new oversize board tiles, more than 400 cards, every known civilization of the Twilight Imperium universe, almost every expansion rule and component ever published for TI, a gorgeous graphical overhaul, and an impressive full-color rules set.



    Players: 3 - 6
    Duration: 180 - 300 (minutes)
    Age: 12
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    Twilight Imperium Board Game: Shattered Empire Picture For Twilight Imperium Board Game: Shattered Empire from Fantasy Flight Games Price: £29.99
    RRP: £34.99

    Twilight Imperium: Shattered Empire is an expansion for Twilight Imperium Third Edition. It enhances gameplay with a variety of new options and enables you to play with seven or eight players in an epic struggle for true galactic dominance!



    Players: 4 - 8
    Duration: 180 - 300 (minutes)
    Age: 12
    Details for Twilight Imperium Board Game: Shattered Empire from Fantasy Flight Games
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