Albion from Rio Grande March 22nd

Posted in Board Games, Posterous on March 18th, 2010 by The Staff @ CAVGames
Street Date March 22nd

RIO413
Albion
$44.95 SRP

Being almost at the top of its power, the Roman Empire plans to conquer the British Isles, also known as Albion in those times.

To be successful in the game, the players have to cleverly choose their settlements, castles and fortifications as well as carefully plan the development of these. They have to balance the different resources, their defense and the number of nobles and legionnaires. In fact, all of those are necessary, but the different choices have to be carefully timed.

The game is won by the player who accomplishes to fully develop three settlements.

2-4 Players
Ages 12+
60 Minutes

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Alchemy! Dominion Expansion from Rio

Posted in Board Games, Posterous on February 25th, 2010 by The Staff @ CAVGames
Scheduled for Release in May

RIO418
Dominion: Alchemy
SRP: $29.95

 

This is the 3rd addition to Dominion. It adds new Kingdom cards to Dominion and as it is an expansion, you will need Dominion, or Dominion: Intrigue to play the game.

Number of players: 2-4
Age of players: 8+
Length: 20-30 minutes

There are strange things going on in your basement laboratories. They keep calling up for more barrels of quicksilver, or bits of your hair. Well it’s all in the name of progress. They’re looking for a way to turn lead into gold, or at least into something better than lead. That lead had just been too good of a bargain to pass up; you didn’t think, where will I put all this lead, what am I going to do with this lead anyway. Well that will all be sorted out. They’re also looking for a universal solvent. If they manage that one, you will take whatever they use to hold it in and build a castle out of it. A castle that can’t be dissolved! Now that’s progress.

Dominion: Alchemy is an expansion, and can’t be played by itself; to play with it, you need Dominion, or a standalone expansion to Dominion (Dominion: Intrigue). Those provide the Basic cards you need to play (Treasure, Victory, and Curse cards), as well as the full rules for setup and gameplay. Dominion: Alchemy can also be combined with any other Dominion expansions you have.

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MACAO by Rio Grand Games now in stock

Posted in Board Games, Posterous on February 2nd, 2010 by The Staff @ CAVGames
MACAO an ALEA boardgames
2-4 players
60-100 minutes
Ages 12+

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Priests of RA board game in stock

Posted in Board Games, Posterous on December 29th, 2009 by Jeff

Reiner’s newest board game a follow up to RA

Priests of RA

Priests of RA

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FINCA by Rio is back

Posted in Board Games, Posterous on December 29th, 2009 by Jeff

This was a runner up at Essen. Worth a look as a new gateway Eurogame

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Vasco Da Gama now in stock

Posted in Board Games, Posterous on December 29th, 2009 by Jeff

Vasco Da Gama now in stock at Cavalry Games

Vasco Da Gama

 

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Rio Grande Games due in October 2009

Posted in Board Games, Posterous on October 5th, 2009 by Jeff
   
RIOA18
Click Clack
$59.95 SRP

 

 RIOA19
Enuk – the Eskimo
$34.95 SRP
The young boar Freddy has a great work to do today: He has to guard the stock for his family. But the squirrels of the Hazelnut Gang also have an eye on the nuts and all the other well tasting findings of the wood. Who is first to snatch 7 of the delicacies away from Freddy?

 

Type:  Dexterity
Number of players: 2-4
Age of players: 5
Length: 20 minute

 Today Enuk is allowed to join his elder brothers on the tramp – the small eskimo is really excited. He is looking forward to seeing all the polar bears, the seals and the fishes and to feed the reindeers. But the most exciting thing to do is to build the igloo. But the day is coming to an end soon …

Who is able to collect the most animals and build the igloo at the same time?

 

Number of players:  2-5
Age of players: 5
Length: 20 minutes
   
RIO369
Wool Rules
$19.95 SRP

 

 RIO334
Carcassonne: The River 1 Exp
$6.00 SRP
A mutton-minding dice game to get the best cards. Since Jacques, the sheep-shearing commissioner of the herd, has been given a present of new scissors, the “Snips 2010″, the sheep fear him more than ever. He constantly wants to get to their wool. For this reason, the head ram, Roger, announces that from today on, all sheep may defend their coats. Who performs well can keep

 

Number of players:  2-6
Age of players: 10
Length: 30 minutes

 This is the original river expansion for Carcassonne. It was included for a time in the basic game, but has been removed to make it available separately for those who want it.

It is 12 tiles, each with a portion of the river. It replaces the starting tile for the basic game in game play.

 
   
RIOA31
Giro d’Italia
$69.95 SRP

 

 RIOA30
Giro d’Italia Card Game
$19.95 SRP
In this simple yet fascinating cycling race simulation you decide the placement and energy management of your riders, facing all the elements of the Giro or a “classic”: sprints, breakaways, falls, cracks, punctures, bonus time, made and broken alliances, final sprints.

 

What is your specialty? Will you be best on plains and sprints? Will you fly in solitude on the mountain top? Or will you display a charismatic leader talent? At the end of the track, only the finest strategist and the humblest hard-worker will win, entering with Giro d’Italia games in the legend of the greatest Cyclists of all time. Three are the differences between Leader 1 and Giro d’Italia, the game. The latter has the real time rule, special cards to be played once during the race and an Appendix with pictures showing how to build all the stages of the 2009 Giro d’Italia.

 In this simple yet fascinating card game version of the great Giro d’Italia cycling race simulation you decide the placement and energy management of your riders, facing all the elements of the Giro or a “classic”: sprints, breakaways, falls, cracks, punctures, bonus time, made and broken alliances, final sprints. It is a shorter game with room for fewer players, but it does capture much of the larger game.

 

What is your specialty? Will you be best on plains and sprints? Will you fly in solitude on the mountain top? Or will you display a charismatic leader talent? At the end of the track, only the finest strategist and the humblest hard-worker will win, entering with Giro d’Italia games in the legend of the greatest Cyclists of all time.

 

Three are the differences between Leader 1 and Giro d’Italia, the game. The latter has the real time rule, special cards to be played once during the race and an Appendix with pictures showing how to build all the stages of the 2009 Giro d’Italia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Powergrid Factory Manager Expansion Announced

Posted in Board Games on September 24th, 2009 by Jeff

RIO402  Factory Manager $44.95 SRP
Power Grid Expansion From Rio Grande Games

November 2009

Each player owns a factory and tries to earn the most money during the game. To be successful, each player must use his workers to buy the best machines and robots at the market and to run the machines most effectively in his factory. Because of increasing energy prices, the players must be careful to check the energy consumption of their factories and to avoid using only energy-consuming machines. Otherwise, their profit will suddenly vanish, the worst fear of a good businessman.

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Rio Grande Games will release Tobago in US

Posted in Board Games on September 24th, 2009 by Jeff

Rio Grande #Games will release Bruce Allen’s #Tobago (Zoch/Gigamic) in the U.S.

#Tobago is an adventure game, in which the players possess different parts of treasure maps. During the game more and more information about the locations of the treasures is revealed, and the possible locations are narrowed down. When a player identifies the location of one of the treasures she tries to reach it as fast as possible to secure the findings.

The game features a deduction element as well as a modular game board.

Text on #game box back:

This is where the adventure begins!
Chests full of gold are buried in the jungle – rumors have it that one of them is hidden next to a hut near the island’s largest mountain. Another is hidden where the roar of an untamed river can be heard, it is said. Through the fronds of a palm tree, the proud gaze of a mysteriously scrunching statue casts its spell on the unwary treasure hunter …

Welcome to #Tobago!
The attractive, top-quality game pieces on the lovingly illustrated game board give the impression of a true mysterious treasure island. Each player contributes valuable clues, which determine where the treasures are located. The excitement mounts as the adventurers strive to be the first to arrive at the treasure sites. The 3-piece game board with its innovative design can be set up with 32 different scenarios, each providing fun and a new challenge.

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