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Haversack Guardians

2023-06-30T07:24:36-04:00

Vendor: Catch Up Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 50.95

Designer	Frédéric Guérard
Publisher	Catch Up Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	355876/les-gardiens-de-havresac http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/355876/les-gardiens-de-havresac/forums/63

The Kingdom of Havresac has been stricken with a terrible curse, and only your team of guardians can liberate it. Gather glory, gold and victory points to become the most bravest defender of the kingdom.

All members of your team of guardians are kept in your bag, each with their own special role and ability. On each round, successively draw your guardians from your bag and use them on your own kingdom board in order to rebuild villages, fight off monsters, free fairies in time, open treasure chests… Each guardian you play allows the next to go further out in the kingdom in order to reach the places you aim, if you plan adequately. Your heroic acts grant you points for the final victory, but also gold to recruit new guardians, building up your bag and refining your strategy.

—description from the publisher

It's a Wonderful World: Leisure & Decadence

2022-12-27T10:45:02-05:00

Vendor: La Boîte de Jeu
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Benoit Bannier Frédéric Guérard
Publisher	La Boîte de Jeu
Players	1-5
Playtime	30-60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	It's a Wonderful World
Additional Info	334767/its-wonderful-world-leisure-decadence http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/334767/its-wonderful-world-leisure-decadence/forums/63

A second campaign expansion for It's A Wonderful World... six scenarios and hidden content to add to the base game is included.

This is not a legacy game - though there are surprises the first time it is played. The cards can be reset and the campaign played again.

Originally part of the Corruption & Ascension Kickstarter, it is available directly from the publisher.

Contents
150 cards
11 Scenario leaflets
6 Scenario enveloppes
4 secret boxes, including 27 secret components

It's a Wonderful Kingdom

2022-07-04T07:10:28-04:00

Vendor: Lucky Duck Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 38.95

Designer	Frédéric Guérard
Publisher	Lucky Duck Games
Players	1-2
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Honors	2021 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee
Additional Info	327711/its-wonderful-kingdom http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/327711/its-wonderful-kingdom/forums/63

It's a Wonderful Kingdom is a standalone solo or 2-player game in a Low-Fantasy universe. Inspired by the core mechanics of its predecessor "It's a Wonderful World", this new game offers more interaction, a bluff mechanism and new challenges.

The game is played using modules, each different and offering mechanical twists. Each game, players will choose one of the different modules to compete against each other. The game is divided into 4 rounds. Each round having 3 phases.

Split & Trap
Players take turns placing their cards on two piles at the center of the table.
One player picks 2 cards from his hand and place it either on the same pile, or split it among the two piles. The other player chooses a pile. This step is repeated alternatively until the players have placed all the cards from their hands.
Furthermore, each player has 2 Trap tokens which can be used to place face down cards.

Planification
Each player chooses, for the cards he has collected, which ones to build and which ones to recycle in order to accelerate the development.

Sequential Production
Each player produces the resources of his Kingdom in a sequential way. The resources being produced in a certain order, it is necessary to anticipate the sequences to optimize the production and development.

At the end of the 4th round, the player with the most victory points wins the game.

—description from the publisher

It's a Wonderful World: War or Peace

2020-12-27T00:09:23-05:00

Vendor: Lucky Duck Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 23.95

Designers	Benoit Bannier Frédéric Guérard
Publisher	Lucky Duck Games
Players	1-5
Playing Time	30-60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	It's a Wonderful World
Additional Info	298752/its-wonderful-world-war-or-peace http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/298752/its-wonderful-world-war-or-peace/forums/63

This expension is a campaign allowing players to live an adventure scripted in 5 scenarios which brings, collectively during the game, players to make choices that will tip the story towards Peace or World War.

At the start of a game, players open an envelope containing the story, the special rules of the scenario and the extra cards for this scenario. Then, at the end of the game, each player receives different rewards depending on whether he won or lost and according to his own choices during the game (depending on the scenario).

Thus, each one builds his Heritage over the 5 scenarios. The winner of the campaign is the one who wins the last scenario.

The campaign offers 6 scenarios in all because there is a branch, depending on the choice of players in scenario 4.

During the campaign and after the campaign, the players will unlock cards which can come to enrich the basic game definitively. The Heritage campaigns therefore offer players to live a story and gradually unlock a mini-extension to the base game offering a new mechanic, a bit like a Legacy, but totally replayable because there is no alteration of equipment.

The campaign is also playable solo.

Included in the Kickstarter Heritage edition of the game.

It's a Wonderful World: Corruption & Ascension

2020-12-27T00:09:22-05:00

Vendor: La Boîte de Jeu
Type: Board Games
Price: 33.95

Designer	Frédéric Guérard
Publisher	La Boîte de Jeu
Players	1-7
Playing Time	45 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	It's a Wonderful World It's a Wonderful World: Heritage Edition
Additional Info	298851/its-wonderful-world-ascension http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/298851/its-wonderful-world-ascension/forums/63

This new deck of cards complement the existing cards of It’s a Wonderful World. From now on, each turn, you will play a mixture of classic Development cards and Ascension cards. Ascension cards introduce new ways to play, most notably through pair scoring and corruption.

This new deck also allows you to play with up to 7 players.

Meeple Land

2020-09-29T11:18:29-04:00

Vendor: Blue Orange Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer	Cyrille Allard Frédéric Guérard
Publisher	Blue Orange Games
Players	2-4
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	300683/meeple-land http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/300683/meeple-land/forums/63

Build the most renowned amusement park of all time in Meeple Land! Buy the most beautiful attractions, offer the best services, and accommodate as many meeples as possible with buses and advertising. Meet the expectations of the meeples, and success will be yours! Do not neglect any of your meeples, however, for the unsatisfied ones will tarnish your reputation...

—description from the publisher

GrandBois

2020-04-22T22:26:07-04:00

Vendor: The Flying Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designer	Frédéric Guérard
Publisher	The Flying Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	283584/grandbois http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283584/grandbois/forums/63

You and your clan must fight for control over the Forest of GrandBois by having the most presence and the most well-placed lookout tower.

After secretly drawing a clan in GrandBois, each player picks a forest tile, which depicts four forest squares that have 1-4 clan members of one of five colors, just forest, or a bear. They then add this tile to the rest of the forest, covering at least one-quarter of an existing tile. You can cover existing squares only if the covering squares have more clan members on them (or a bear as the bear beats them all).

You also have a tower you can place on an empty square of a tile that you just placed, scoring points for having clan members on adjacent tiles — but the sooner you place your tower, the sooner your opponents will have a big clue on which clan actually belongs to you!

It's a Wonderful World

2019-12-03T00:09:01-05:00

Vendor: La Boîte de Jeu
Type: Board Games
Price: 46.95

Designer	Frédéric Guérard
Publisher	La Boîte de Jeu
Players	1-5
Playtime	30-60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansions	It's a Wonderful World: War or Peace It's a Wonderful World: Corruption & Ascension It's a Wonderful World: Leisure & Decadence
Honors	2020 Vuoden Peli Strategy Game of the Year Winner 2020 JUG Adult Game of the Year Finalist 2020 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Expert Nominee 2019 Tric Trac Nominee 2019 Tric Trac d'Or 2019 Swiss Gamers Award Nominee 2019 Meeples' Choice Nominee 2019 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee 2019 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee
Additional Info	271324/its-wonderful-world http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/271324/its-wonderful-world/forums/63

In It's a Wonderful World, you are leading an expanding Empire. You must choose the path that will get you to develop faster and better than you competitors.

The game lasts 4 rounds. Each round, you draft cards that you use to produce Resources and develop your Empire.

After having chosen your cards, you can recycle some of them to acquire Resources immediately, or slate them for Construction to produce Resources each round and/or gain Victory Points. At the end of the 4th round, the player with the most Victory Points wins.

Titanium Wars: Confrontation

2014-10-12T23:09:00-04:00

Vendor: IELLO
Type: Board Games
Price: 5.95

Designer	Frédéric Guérard
Publisher	IELLO
Players	2-4
Playtime	75 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expands	Titanium Wars
Additional Info	148699/titanium-wars-confrontation http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1441420/titanium-wars-confrontation/reviews

Titanium Wars: Confrontation, an expansion for Titanium Wars, adds the following to the base game:

41 new Arsenal cards: 25 units, 8 improvements, 8 buildings
6 new Planets / Events
4 new Leaders
1 mercenary card (for 1 vs. 1 mode)
New (replacement) Tactic cards (50)
New (replacement) summary cards (4)
The Versus Mode: 1 vs. 1 or team vs. team

Titanium Wars

2013-11-03T21:38:00-05:00

Vendor: IELLO
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	Frédéric Guérard
Publisher	IELLO
Players	3-4
Playtime	75 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion	Titanium Wars: Confrontation
Additional Info	135888/titanium-wars http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1350023/titanium-wars/reviews

When venturing in Limbo at the edge of the galaxy, scouts found a new form of energy: Titanium. First experiments showed it could push back the frontiers of technology, and even open new horizons for human capabilities. This news was more than enough to stir up the greed of humankind's greatest factions. Each has sent fleets to take over nearby planets where Titanium is abundant – and even seems to be in constant expansion. From that point on, armed conflicts were bound to happen, and this war will be settled only by controlling the Titanium deposits...

As leaders of these great factions in Titanium Wars, players will purchase buildings to master new technologies and increase their earnings, build their own fleet of custom battleships to defeat their opponents, and expand their space empire. They will have to prove bold, insightful and tactful if they want any chance to win this fierce war.