https://www.booyakajuice.com/collections/all.atom booyakajuice 2018-04-05T23:43:07-04:00 booyakajuice https://www.booyakajuice.com/products/578762735667 2018-04-05T23:43:07-04:00 2018-04-05T23:43:07-04:00 Bitskrieg Board Games Hollandspiele

Vendor: Hollandspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 58.95

Designer Scott Muldoon
Publisher Hollandspiele
Players 2
Playtime 15-30 mins
Suggested Age 6 and up

Bitskrieg is a tank battle game, designed to be simple enough to be played with children or grandchildren, while still providing enough tactical challenge to interest wargaming adults. With fewer than forty counters and a single page of rules, Bitskrieg packs a lot of punch in a tiny package.

Terrain is arranged randomly on an eight-by-eight square grid, and players choose sides. You choose your force of five tanks from four different types, each with their own strengths and weaknesses: light, medium, and heavy tanks, and tank destroyers. Place your two flags and the battle is on! You win by destroying all enemy tanks or by capturing both enemy flags.

Play in Bitskrieg alternates with each player activating one tank to move or fire, or using their turn to refresh all their previously-activated tanks. Fire involves simple counting of range and rolling a die to hit, then rolling a die for penetration after a successful hit to destroy the target.

Optional advanced rules include flanking, ramming, bounding fire, stun, terrain types, and more. Bitskrieg handicaps easily, so if luck is not enough for your young one to turn the tables on you, you can customize the experience to find the right balance.

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Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 72.95

Designer Scott Muldoon
William Terdoslavich
Publisher GMT Games
Players 2-5
Playtime 90-360 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up
Expansions Cataclysm Mounted Maps + 3" Box

Cataclysm: A Second World War

Cataclysm is a two to five player game simulating political and military conflict in the 1930s and 40s. The premise is that a second World War could have broken out at any time, not just September 1939, given the numerous political crises that signaled the march of fascism against the contemporary international order.

Each player commands one or more powers representing an ideology: Fascism (Germany/Italy/Japan), Communism (USSR) or Democracy (UK/France/US). The status quo resides with Democracy, while Communism and Fascism use political or military force to revise the world order to their liking... but once all three ideologies are fighting, another World War is on!

Cataclysm is designed to be playable in one long sitting (five or six hours), but with scenarios as short as 60 minutes. Components will include one 22" x 34" map, 456 counters (9/16"), 160 wood cubes, and about 20 pages of rules. The several scenarios include start points in 1933, 1939, 1941, and 1943, covering one or both theatres, plus an "intro" scenario covering just the Crisis in the West from 1937-40, and "alternate history" options like a fascist France or war between the Soviets and the West after the fall of Germany. There will be an extensive playbook with play-throughs, examples, design notes, strategy notes, and a bibliography.

The game scale is army groups, fleets, and air forces, and two years per turn (with a variable number of actions). Design goals include a minimum of maneuver elements, a minimum of arbitrary constraints, and a maximum of interaction. Players must do more forward planning than is typical of strategic WWII games, but also must remain flexible to respond to events. There is no sequence of play, everything (including production) is mediated through a chit-pull mechanism. Every game is an outlier.

Cataclysm was submitted for publication to GMT Games in March 2013, and went up for P500 pre-order in October 2014. The designers are William Terdoslavich and Scott Muldoon, with development by Kevin Bernatz.

"I WOULD EAT A KITTEN FOR THIS GAME" --Kuhrusty

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Vendor: Victory Point Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 37.95

Designer Scott Muldoon
Alan Emrich
Publisher Victory Point Games
Players 3-8
Playtime 45 mins
Suggested Age 13 and up
Reimplements Tenka

In Tenka: Shogun Edition, you will work to fill your Court with all of the tools necessary to rule Japan’s various provinces. Power can come from winning over Priests, lesser Lords, and Knights, or you can push for bringing Japan’s unique aspects to your side. No matter the direction you choose, you’ll be racing against time to restore order before Chaos breaks out.

Only one can seize enough Provinces or retrieve the Imperial Regalia (the three Sacred Treasures of Japan) to control the realm. Will it be you?

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Vendor: Victory Point Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 21.95

Designer Scott Muldoon
Publisher Victory Point Games
Players 3-4
Playtime 35 mins
Suggested Age 8 and up


All under heaven,
The pitch and place of battle;
Ruling all Japan.

- Ian Wakeham

In Tenka, each player takes the role of a local baron in the chaos of medieval Japan. The Emperor is powerless and the office of his sworn protector, the Shogun, is an empty shell. The realm is in turmoil as rival Daimyos struggle for control.

Two to four players compete in this fast-playing card game of consolidation and conquest, where each turn and every card play is a decision whether to PLACE a card in your court for a modest but long-lasting effect, or to PITCH a card for a stronger but single use.

Nobunaga realized his ambition and united almost a third of Japan under his rule; only one player can seize enough Provinces, or have all three Regalia, to control the realm. Play Tenka to find out if it will be you!

Game Data:

  • Number of Players: 3 to 4
  • Ages: 10 and up
  • Playing Time: Approx. 45 minutes
  • Complexity: 3 on a 9 scale
  • Solitaire Suitability: 2 on a 9 scale
  • Scale: Each game covers one period of unrest in Feudal Japan lasting until a great warlord emerges victorious

What's In The Box?:

  • One 16-page, full color Rules booklet
  • 80 beautifully illustrated cards
  • 1 acryllic, laser-cut pagoda Control Marker
  • 1 Game Mat
  • 6 Player Mats
  • One bright red, 9 1/4" x 5 7/8" Standard cardboard VPG game box
  • One beautiful box cover sleeve
  • One "Wipes-A-Lot" napkin
  • One charcoal dessicant packetX
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