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Wir sind das Volk!: Combined Edition (Import)

2024-04-23T12:05:01-04:00

Vendor: Histogame
Type: Board Games
Price: 90.95

Designer	Richard Sivél Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Histogame
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-200 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	407570/wir-sind-das-volk-combined-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/407570/wir-sind-das-volk-combined-edition/forums/63

Note: This game includes English and German.

1949: Germany, still in ruins from WWII, is split in two, as the Iron Curtain of the Cold War descends. East Germany and West Germany become bitter rivals, each wanting to show its system is superior. Which will reconstruct quicker? Which will make its people happier?

This combined edition brings two games in one box: The award winning "Wir sind das Volk!" and the 4-player expansion "2+2".

In "Wir sind das Volk!" you take the role of East or West Germany. Use your action cards wisely. Build up your economy and increase the living standards of your people. Precise planning is the key to victory. But be careful! Even the best plans may be derailed by events like the 1973 Oil Crisis or the Monday demos. Mass protests, that may seal your fate, are always on the horizon.

With "2+2" the USA and thee Soviet Union enter the game. Players form two partnerships — but there can only be ONE winner! Therefore every decision is a nail-biter: What is more important right now? Your side's interests or your own?

In "2+2", the range of strategic choices is significantly widened, turning it to a completely different game: While you are building up "your" Germany (as in the base game) you also seek to manipulate your partner's choices, or even to sabotage their plans. In addition, the super powers struggle for global dominance and compete in the arms and space race. But most importantly, always remember the need for world peace, otherwise there might be no tomorrow.

Game contents:

– 2 gameboards
– 87 wooden pieces
– 148 playing cards
– 3 sheets of die-cut markers
– 2 set off rules

description from the back of the box

Polynesia: Expansion Map (Import)

2024-03-20T14:41:40-04:00

Vendor: Ludonova
Type: Board Games
Price: 12.60

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Ludonova
Players	2-4
Playing Time	60-75 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Polynesia
Additional Info	322826/polynesia-expansion-map http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/322826/polynesia-expansion-map/forums/63

Note: This game includes English and Spanish.

This expansion map provides a different configuration of routes for the base game, Polynesia.

Polynesia (Includes Expansion Map) (Import)

2023-03-03T17:01:51-05:00

Vendor: Ludonova
Type: Board Games
Price: 69.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Ludonova
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-75 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	301084/polynesia http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/301084/polynesia/forums/63

Note: This game includes English and Spanish.

The frequent tremors, the looming clouds over the crater, and the ever-increasing smell of sulfur make it clear that it is time to escape. Direct your tribe through the waters of the Pacific in search of a new home, safe from the impending eruption of the volcano. Explore new sea routes that lead to unvisited islands, collect resources on those islands to offer to other tribes in exchange for their knowledge, and continue sailing in search of a safe place — all this being done to save as many of your tribe members as possible and lead them to new lands where they can prosper. The most successful individual through this difficult mission will be appointed the supreme chief of the Polynesian tribal group.

In Polynesia, players must save their tribe members from the dangers of the volcano by taking them to the islands that will give them the most points. At the same time, players must try to reach the objectives set by the tide cards, which will vary from one game to another. To succeed, players must collect resources in the form of fish and shells that will allow them to explore new sea routes, use the routes of other players, and sail from one island to another.

Polynesia is played in rounds, and each round is divided into two phases. In the action phase, each player has three turns in which they can perform one of three actions: sail, explore, or populate and fish. In the maintenance phase, the volcano activity is checked for activity, and each player can collect resources depending on the islands where they have tribe members.

—description from the publisher

Brian Boru: High King of Ireland

2021-12-27T09:06:23-05:00

Vendor: Osprey Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 67.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Osprey Games
Players	3-5
Playing Time	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	337765/brian-boru-high-king-ireland http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/337765/brian-boru-high-king-ireland/forums/63

In Brian Boru: High King of Ireland, you strive to unite Ireland under your domain, securing control through might, cunning, and matrimony. Join forces to fend off Viking invaders, build monasteries to extend your influence, and gather support in towns and villages throughout the land. To become High King of all Ireland, you need to navigate a web of shifting alliances, outmaneuver your enemies, and grab history by the reins.

The success of the historical Brian Boru rested on three pillars: his victories against the Vikings, the favor he managed to garner with the Church, and the alliances he forged through political marriages. This became the foundation of the game, with each pillar becoming a suit in the trick-taking that forms the core of the mechanisms. Win a trick and you gain influence in a town, which, in turn, gains you majorities in the regions; if you lose the trick, however (deliberately or otherwise), you instead take an action corresponding to the suit of the card.

Polynesia

2021-01-15T15:25:52-05:00

Vendor: Ludonova
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Ludonova
Players	2-4
Playing Time	60-75 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion	Polynesia: Expansion Map
Additional Info	301084/polynesia http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/301084/polynesia/forums/63

The frequent tremors, the looming clouds over the crater, and the ever-increasing smell of sulfur make it clear that it is time to escape. Direct your tribe through the waters of the Pacific in search of a new home, safe from the impending eruption of the volcano. Explore new sea routes that lead to unvisited islands, collect resources on those islands to offer to other tribes in exchange for their knowledge, and continue sailing in search of a safe place — all this being done to save as many of your tribe members as possible and lead them to new lands where they can prosper. The most successful individual through this difficult mission will be appointed the supreme chief of the Polynesian tribal group.

In Polynesia, players must save their tribe members from the dangers of the volcano by taking them to the islands that will give them the most points. At the same time, players must try to reach the objectives set by the tide cards, which will vary from one game to another. To succeed, players must collect resources in the form of fish and shells that will allow them to explore new sea routes, use the routes of other players, and sail from one island to another.

Polynesia is played in rounds, and each round is divided into two phases. In the action phase, each player has three turns in which they can perform one of three actions: sail, explore, or populate and fish. In the maintenance phase, the volcano activity is checked for activity, and each player can collect resources depending on the islands where they have tribe members.

—description from the publisher

Village Green

2020-08-10T11:42:57-04:00

Vendor: Osprey Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Osprey Games
Players	1-5
Playing Time	30 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	300583/village-green http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/300583/village-green/forums/63

It's the first day of spring, and there's only one thing on everyone's mind — the Village Green of the Year competition! In just a few months, the judges of this prestigious contest will be visiting, and the village council have finally put you in charge of the preparations. With your newfound authority, you can show those snobs from Lower Aynesmore just what a properly orchestrated floral arrangement looks like!

In Village Green, you are rival gardeners, tasked by your respective communities with arranging flowers, planting trees, commissioning statues, and building ponds. You must place each element carefully as time is tight and the stakes couldn't be higher! Split your days between acquiring and installing new features for your green and nominating it for one of the competition's many awards. Will your village green become the local laughing stock, or make the neighboring villages green with envy?

—description from the publisher

The King Is Dead (Second Edition)

2020-04-22T22:29:32-04:00

Vendor: Osprey Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 56.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Osprey Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	319966/king-dead-second-edition https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/319966/king-dead-second-edition/forums/63

The King Is Dead is a board game of politics and power struggles set in Britain in the chaotic period following the death of King Arthur. For the good of the country, a leader must unite the Scots, Welsh, and Romano-British — not by conquest but by diplomacy.

Players are members of King Arthur's court. Whether a loyal knight, a scheming lord, or an ambitious noblewoman, you all have one thing in common: power. As prospective leaders, each player uses their power to benefit the factions, gaining influence among their ranks. The player with the greatest influence over the most powerful faction is crowned the new ruler of Britain.

Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth

2019-01-14T15:50:11-05:00

Vendor: Osprey Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 38.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Osprey Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	30-50 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	240957/judge-dredd-cursed-earth http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/240957/judge-dredd-cursed-earth/forums/63

For years he's been the law in Mega City One, but now it's time for Judge Dredd to bring justice to the rest of America. It's time for him to venture into the Cursed Earth.

Featuring competitive, co-operative and solo player modes and brand-new, specially commissioned artwork, Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth is an immersive sci-fi western in which players must lead a team of judges against dinosaurs, mutants, and the Cursed Earth itself in search of an object of immense power before it falls into the wrong hands. As they scour the wastelands, the team will encounter a host of iconic 2000AD characters that will push their resources and abilities to their limits. On an impossible journey through radioactive hell, can even the judges survive the Cursed Earth?

—description from the publisher

The Lost Expedition: The Fountain of Youth & Other Adventures

2018-03-21T01:37:39-04:00

Vendor: Osprey Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Osprey Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	30-50 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion for	The Lost Expedition

The Lost Expedition: The Fountain of Youth & Other Adventures expands the base game with four new, modular additions.

In The Fountain of Youth & Other Adventures, Francisco de Orellana and his band of conquistadors traveled deep into the Amazon and were never seen again. Centuries later, unbelievable reports of men clad in ancient armor armed with sword and arquebus have surfaced. If the rumors are true, de Orellana found the Fountain of Youth and guards it dearly...

Other reports have emerged from the area of a mysterious mountain deep in the jungle, pulling planes crashing down from the sky. There are whispers, too, of a dark curse that the locals call only the Mark. For those foolhardy enough to still journey into the depths of the continent, they best not travel alone.

Wir sind das Volk!: 2+2 (Import)

2017-10-06T16:59:59-04:00

Vendor: Histogame
Type: Board Games
Price: 43.95

Designers	Richard Sivél Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Histogame
Players	4
Playtime	180-200 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Wir sind das Volk!
Additional Info	234017/wir-sind-das-volk-22 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/234017/wir-sind-das-volk-22/forums/63

Note: This game includes English and German. For a preview, English rule can be found here.

Description from the box:

2+2 is a four-player expansion to the award-winning Wir sind das Volk! that broadens the original game to the global Cold War from 1945 to 1989. Players form two partnerships: the USA and West Germany versus the USSR and East Germany. However, there can be only ONE winner! This fact makes every decision a nail-biter: What is more important right now? Your side's interests or your own?

The forty new action cards add events like the Cuban Missile Crisis and the SALT treaties. The range of strategic choices is significantly wider, making 2+2 a completely different game. As a superpower, you want to gain global dominance, win the space race, and increase your living standards to demonstrate the superiority of your system. Never let the other side get too far ahead in the arms race. Subtly manipulate your partner's choices, but don't hesitate to sabotage their plans outright if necessary. Most importantly, always remember the need for world peace, for otherwise there might be no tomorrow...

The Lost Expedition

2017-07-05T14:29:14-04:00

Vendor: Osprey Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Osprey Games
Players	1-5
Playtime	30-50 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansions	The Lost Expedition: The Fountain of Youth & Other Adventures
Additional Info	216459/lost-expedition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/216459/lost-expedition/forums/63

Description from the publisher:

Legendary explorer Percy Fawcett marched deep into the Amazon in search of El Dorado. He was never seen again. Your team has gone in search of him, but now you hope to escape the jungle with the greatest treasure of all: your life.

Make the best of your food, your ammunition, and your health in The Lost Expedition as you plunge deep into the jungle. Choose your path carefully to ensure you're ready for the pitfalls that may occur. Play solo or cooperatively to survive the expedition, or play in teams to see which group can escape the jungle first.

North American Railways (New Edition)

2016-12-14T03:01:00-05:00

Vendor: Flying Lemur Game Studio
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Flying Lemur Game Studio
Players	3-5
Playtime	45-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	191438/north-american-railways https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/191438/north-american-railways/forums/63

In the card game North American Railways, 3-5 players build railroads in the United States. They become directors of up to five different companies and try to acquire a majority of shares. In the end, the player with the most cash wins.

North American Railways is mechanically simple but very tough to play well.

Content
30 shares (six cards each in the five colors of the railway companies),
5 starting cities,
36 cities,
10 marker tokens (two each in the five colors of the railway companies),
Play money (in the denominations of $100,$200,$500 and $1000),
1 start player token,
2 rules booklets (English and German)

North American Railways (Spielworxx Edition)

2016-12-14T03:01:00-05:00

Vendor: Spielworxx
Type: Board Games
Price: 14.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Spielworxx
Players	3-5
Playtime	45-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	191438/north-american-railways https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/191438/north-american-railways/forums/63

Let Them Eat Cake

2016-09-08T06:28:00-04:00

Vendor: Osprey Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 23.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Osprey Games
Players	3-6
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	193695/let-them-eat-cake https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/193695/let-them-eat-cake/forums/63

"Liberty! Equality! Eclairs!" The glorious revolution has done away with tyranny! Now you and your friends make up the Revolutionary Committee, overseeing justice throughout the land. Still, now that the queen's gone, it would be a shame to let all that cake go to waste...

Become the first among equals by amassing honour! Become happy by amassing cake! Send your friends' pawns to the guillotine! First to forty cakes wins!

Let Them Eat Cake is a game of committees, coercion, and cake. Elect your friends to positions of power in the hope that they look on your patronage favorably — or denounce them as enemies of the revolution. Alliances and betrayal are all fair game as you try to amass as much cake as you can before the revolution collapses.

Each player starts the game with a set of voting cards, three pawns, three medals of honour, and some cake. Each round consists of a series of elections, from the Head of Committee to the Food Inspector. Each vote, after negotiating, bribing, and pleading, is simply a matter of each player secretly choosing a voting card of the player they wish to vote for. Each player’s votes are multiplied by the number of pawns they have, and whoever is the Head of Committee will break any ties. Importantly, once you’ve used a voting card, you cannot reuse it until you’ve played all your cards, demanding shifting allegiances throughout the game.

The first vote of the round determines the Head of Committee, the official tie-breaker. Soon thereafter players determine the Enemy of the Revolution, who must place one of their pawns on the guillotine, immediately and potentially permanently reducing their voting power. Next, players elect a Guillotine Operator, who decides whether or not the pawn on the guillotine is executed or spared. Once settled, a Secretary is elected to divvy out cake and generals to the players, one card per player. But before these cards are taken, the players elect a Food Inspector who may, at the cost of a medal, declare all cake unsafe.

Throughout the game, players will accumulate medals, generals, and cake. Fewest medals make you the Enemy of the Revolution, but the player with the most Generals is immune to such accusations! Any player can spend their Generals to force a re-election or simply choose the winner of a vote. The game ends when one player reaches 40 or more cakes, a player has their last pawn executed, or the deck runs out. The player with the most cake wins!

Old Town Robbery

2015-11-03T00:51:00-05:00

Vendor: Clicker Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 7.95

Designer	Günter Cornett Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Clicker Spiele
Players	2-7
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	165813/old-town-robbery https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1600391/old-town-robbery/reviews

Old Town Robbery is a communication-based memory game for families with easy rules.

In the first part of the game, the robber wanders through the city, and the players construct a story based on the places he visits. In the second part, players take turns playing the sheriff who is trying to retrace the steps of the robber, visiting the same places as the robber has before. The story element helps players do just that, and they earn points by correctly guessing the next building.

Filipino Fruit Market

2015-05-18T13:26:00-04:00

Vendor: Bambus Spieleverlag
Type: Board Games
Price: 28.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Bambus Spieleverlag
Players	3-5
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	57759/filipino-fruit-market http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/494171/filipino-fruit-market/reviews

Scheduled for Essen 2009

This game contains two original trick-taking games set in Philippine markets.

Game #1 (Tindahan) is a cross between a majority game and a trick taking game. In each trick players have to decide if they want to play a card (to win a trick or to get rid of cards - remaining cards count negative in the End) or fight for a majority at a fruit stall.

In Game #2 (Bastos!) every player has a suit in which he can never win tricks but which allows him to change the values for the cards won in tricks.

Wir sind das Volk! (Import)

2014-10-31T22:35:00-04:00

Vendor: Histogame
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.95

Designers	Richard Sivél Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Histogame
Players	2
Playtime	150 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honors	2015 Jogo do Ano Nominee 2015 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Two-players Winner 2015 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Two-players Nominee 2015 Goblin Magnifico Winner 2015 Goblin Magnifico Nominee 2014 Golden Geek Best Wargame Nominee 2014 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee
Expansion	Wir sind das Volk!: 2+2
Additional Info	165401/wir-sind-das-volk http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1548125/wir-sind-das-volk/reviews

Note: This game includes English and German. For a preview, English rule can be found here.

1949: Germany, still in ruins from WWII, is split in two, as the Iron Curtain of the Cold War descends. East Germany and West Germany become bitter rivals, each wanting to show its system is superior. Which will reconstruct quicker? Which will make its people happier? Socialism vs Capitalism; collectivism vs individualism - which will triumph?

Wir sind das Volk! ("We are the people!" — the main slogan of the East German demonstrators in 1989) recreates the history of the divided Germany, from the Berlin Airlift to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Flowing from how the 84 individually designed action cards are played, each game is different. There are many possible strategies. Will East Germany build the Wall or stem the exodus of its citizens another way?

East vs West: as a player, you take the role of East or West Germany. Use your action cards wisely. Build up your economy and increase the living standards of your people. Don’t fall behind, or you will face widespread unrest. Also win the contest for international prestige. Precise planning is the key to victory. But be careful! Even the best plans may be derailed by events like the 1973 Oil Crisis or the Monday demos. Mass protests, that may seal your fate, are always on the horizon.

Taschkent (Import)

2014-05-11T15:39:44-04:00

Vendor: Mücke Spiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	Mücke Spiele
Players	2-4
Playtime	60 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	127434/taschkent http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1271669/taschkent/reviews

Note: This game includes English and German. For a preview, English rule can be found here.

In Taschkent 2-4 players travel through the Silk road in order to exchange goods for gold or other valuables at the various trading posts.

During the variable action phase, the players can built huts as storage. Alternatively, inside the caravan they can get money, goods, action cards, or materials needed for the trading. During the trading phase, the players can exchange the collected goods for money or other valuables that will bring victory points.

Singapore

2013-10-21T23:38:00-04:00

Vendor: White Goblin Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer	Peer Sylvester
Publisher	White Goblin Games
Players	3-4
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	103235/singapore http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1054471/singapore/reviews

Sir Stamford Raffles has established a post at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula and is inviting merchants to take ownership of certain plots of land as long as they develop those locations.

In Singapore players are rich merchants who are trading to develop that small outpost into a metropolis. Players own one building at the start of the game, and each round they take ownership of a new lot – with the player who has the fewest points determining who gets which land – and erect a new building. Each building has one or more streets connecting it to adjacent locations, and after building you can move 1-2 workers along the streets to take actions in up to three buildings; these buildings provide a small amount of resources or allow trades of resources/VPs/money for some better combination of resources/VPs/money.

A number of the buildings are black market locations that tend to be more powerful than legit businesses, but carry the possibility of stinging you in the end. Each time you build or use a black market building, you draw a chip from a bag. If the chip is black, keep it; if white, the player who has the most black chips and opium is fined and loses half his opium stash. Opium can be quite profitable, but will the cops catch you with dirty hands before you unload the goods?

In the end, the player with the most victory points wins so find the right balance of aboveboard business and criminal doings.