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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2023
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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2023

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2023

Dear Customers,

this is our monthly newsletter for March 2023.

We warmly welcome our new member Sunny Games with Der Geheimgang, Die Familie Stapel, Kleiner Bär, Max der Kater, Nocturnally and ZooMemo.

And we are happy to welcome a second new member this month: Gaiagames with Summsalabim.
There is a 5+1 promotion for the game until 10 April 2023.

New and now available:

  • Terra Mystica Big Box EN and La Famiglia from Feuerland Spiele
  • Summsalabim from Gaiagames
  • Dan Dan Dan from Heldbergs
  • Bios Mesofauna, Bios Mesofauna / Megaufauna neoprene board, Dawn on Titan, Stationfall, Stationfall 3D Minis und Stationfall Neoprene Mat von Ion Game Design
Available again:
  • High Frontier 4 All, High Frontier 4 All: Module 1 and High Frontier 4 All: Module 2 from Ion Game Design
  • Moon Adventure and Deep Sea Adventure from Oink Games
  • DiceWar Roots of Mali from Suncoregames
New for pre-order:
  • Toko Island from Helvetiq
  • Colour Square from SPIAL DAS!
  • Der Geheimgang, Die Familie Stapel, Kleiner Bär, Max der Kater, Nocturnally and ZooMemo from Sunny Games
Outlook for April:

Expected to be available in April:
  • Toko Island from Helvetiq
  • Colour Square from SPIAL DAS!
You can place a pre-order here.

TERRA MYSTICA BIG BOX EN
TERRA MYSTICA BIG BOX EN

This box gives you the full experience of playing Terra Mystica. Contains 2 double sided boards (so 4 different maps) and 20 factions (including the addtional terrains of Volcanos and Ice) for almost endless possible combinations. The "Merchants of the Seas" expansion also introduces ships and an additional big building, the Warft, giving you new options to trade with the other factions. Also contains the Automa expansion for solo play or as an additional opponent for a 2 player game.

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LA FAMIGLIA
LA FAMIGLIA

In La Famiglia, you play against each other in 2 teams (2 vs. 2) to take control of Sicily. During the planing phase, bring new fighters into the game, increase your influence and place secret orders. Then during the combat phase, execute these orders to dominate as many regions as possible. The rich components include more than 600 wooden parts, 10 sorting boxes, double-layered family boards and a large game board.

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DAN DAN DAN
DAN DAN DAN

The hilarious shoot-‘em-up card game for 2 to 4 players aged 14 and up.

Say good-bye to your old, boring identity and find yourself as member of the Tekiya (テキ屋)! They form Japan‘s more or less honourable group of food stall operators and hucksters. Once they‘ve paved the way for the notorious Yakuza, but no need to retire: the Tekiya are still around and active today and have never been complete Pariahs. They are like the weird uncle who has quite a dubious record but is still invited to every family party just because he belongs. And it is their world we enter for this magnificent game!

The history of the yakuza, tekiya and their colourful members goes back to the early 17th century. It is a wild story, crammed with smuggling, black market trade, prostitution, protection money and things of that kind. The nowadays heavily diminished yakuza society includes two clans: the Bakuto and Tekiya. While the former specialise in dubious Gambling and armed stock market dealings, the Tekiya devote themselves to nicer fields such as food, snacks and carny life.

The Tekiya families run their businesses in the ground of shrines or temples or in temple towns during festivals, markets, and fairs all over japan. Their stalls are called yatai (屋台) and must be described as delightfully colourful, quirky and heavily individual with a variety of delicious snacks and fun little games of chance for the whole family. Here you'll find the classics of Japanese fast food, such as takoyaki (たこ焼き), okonomiyaki (お好み焼き), frankfurters (フランクフルト) and wonderfully brightly coloured kakigori (かき氷). Popular games include shooting galleries called Shateki (射的), or Super Ball Sukui (スーパーボールすくい), where you go fishing for balls - and trade them for goldfish.

This finally brings us to the game.

…Ichien san of the kakigori stall claims to make the best shaved ice, while all the other guys merely hawk inferior crap. Man, that means trouble! Anyone who publicly puts himself above the others is breaking law and order. No Tekiya will ignore that.
But should you make a snitch out of yourself at the Oyabun and in the worst case lose your finger, Yubitsume style? No way! Breaking taboos is something you only do among yourselves – in an ominous corner of the park. And then, then, then it‘s dan ... dan ... dan (ダンダンダン)!! Which in our simple translation means „Bang, bang, bang!“. Here’s the good thing: Whoever survives the shootout of the gun toting brawlers will have a few more food stalls in the near future.

Quickly and in turn, you turn over cards from your own stack and place them face up in the centre of the table. There, a full arsenal
of handguns accumulates. Every time a loaded gun is pointed at two of you with its grip and barrel, a shootout takes place. If you are shot – or make a mistake beforehand – you are punished and must take all the cards from the centre of the table. You grease the police with the top card, the rest go face down under your stack. Then you continue the game by turning over a new card. And on it goes... The first player who has no cards left, wins the game.

In addition, various abstruse special cards fuel future game rounds and keep the game challenging. What more could you wish for?

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BIOS:MESOFAUNA
BIOS:MESOFAUNA

Bios:Mesofauna 2nd edition starts with the invasion of the land about 450 million years ago and is an Alternate 2nd Game in the Bios Trilogy. It follows the same sort of Achterbahn environment, same climate change, same or similar creeples, same VP, same tiles, same card colors, same cratons and drift, same basic and Achterbahn games, same catastrophes, same greenhouse, cloudiness, and oxygen. Same terrestrial settings. All of these are production and development advantages. The setting is the same, only the animals are smaller.

How to play?

Start with an archetype species, and evolve into up to 6 more swimming, flying, burrowing, armored, or parasite species.
Build a portrait of each species that gives you victory points according to its pheromones and population.
Use a diceless contest mechanic to see which carnivore, herbivore, or parasite is the fittest to survive in a particular pollinator, herbivore, or carnivore niche

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BIOS:MESOFAUNA/BIOS:MEGAFAUNA NEOPRENE BOARD
BIOS:MESOFAUNA/BIOS:MEGAFAUNA NEOPRENE BOARD

A DOUBLE SIDED neoprene mat, 2 mm thick with Sewn edges and hi-res print on both sides.

Side 1: For 4 different versions; for Bios:Mesofauna, all three rulesets (Cocoon, Caterpillar and Butterfly) and for the combined game of Bios:Mesofauna+Bios:Megafauna.

Side 2: For Bios:Megafauna, both versions (Tooth&Claw and Achterbahn)
The mat also works for the solo versions of both Bios:Mesofauna and Bios:Megafauna.

Size: 1370 x 620mm = 0.85 m2, thickness 2 mm

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DAWN ON TITAN
DAWN ON TITAN

Explore the moons of Saturn. Exploit the galactic resources. Expand your influence in the far reaches of space!

In a not very distant future, corporations fight over control of space. As you wage war against your fierce competition by exploring and exploiting the moons and asteroids in the outer parts of the solar system, you will need to maneuver your fleet of spaceships through violent electrical currents to collect the resources you need to build mines and factories. Will you use the gravity of the planets to strike your enemy, or will you upgrade your spaceship's capacity and weaponry in your factories to aid you in your quest to be the master of venture in deep dark space? There are multiple paths to victory… whatever path you choose, you must carefully plan your moves to outwit your opponents!

Ion Game Design presents Dawn on Titan, a short, light wargame with asymmetrical winning conditions and a modular board that increases replayability, suitable for the whole family!

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STATIONFALL
STATIONFALL

Stationfall is a game of blackmail and betrayal, of murder and mayhem, and of unknown danger and desperate survival.

Stationfall takes place on a corporate space station full of illegal science whose orbit has inexplicably terminally decayed. The station’s motley assortment of humans and robots are suddenly thrust into a life and death struggle for escape and survival. Some of the characters on board are secretly players, who know of the impending disaster and are trying to accomplish their varied victory conditions before the station is incinerated.

In Stationfall, each particular character’s victory condition is publicly known, however which character a particular player is (if any) is secret. Players can suborn any character in the game, adding their skills and gear to their conspiracy. During the game, players must decide if and when to reveal their identity to gain their special ability and full control over their personal character. Until that time, a player’s identity and goals can only be deduced by the actions of their conspirators on board.

Stationfall is a diceless tactical intrigue game being published in 2021.

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STATIONFALL 3D MINIS
STATIONFALL 3D MINIS

Set of 27 3D characters for Stationfall. 40 mm.

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STATIONFALL NEOPRENE MAT
STATIONFALL NEOPRENE MAT

Stationfall neoprene mat 840x840 mm, 33x33 in.

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HIGH FRONTIER 4 ALL
HIGH FRONTIER 4 ALL

This is the 4th edition of Phil Eklund's signature game High Frontier. It all started with Rocket Flight. This game had the ambition to let "Each player start as a space faring company in the year 2020 trying to make a profit in trade and technology development." We are now at 2020 and High Frontier 4 All will turn High Frontier into:

  • a more accessible game, using introductory games that introduce the mechanics step by step as well as tutorials and a lot of illustrated examples and strategy tips
  • a game system, open for additions and modules. This will enable the active and brilliant community around High Frontier to evolve it continuously and for us to honor them by publishing modules that Phil deem worthy
The game comes in a Core box, which contains the previous edition's basic and advanced rules. The rules have been given a complete overhaul in order to make them watertight and accessible. The Core box also includes Module 0 -Politics.

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HIGH FRONTIER 4 ALL - MODULE 1
HIGH FRONTIER 4 ALL - MODULE 1

This terawatt module for High Frontier 4 All introduces two new patent decks: Freighters (1B) and GW Thrusters (1C). Freighters are a new type of patent card allowing the transport of valuable factory goods back to LEO. GW thrusters are more powerful and efficient versions of the MW thrusters of the core game, allowing your Spacecraft to reach the outer planets more easily. This module also optionally introduces Futures, special game goals to earn victory points.

This is an expanision require that you have the core game High Frontier 4 All.

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HIGH FRONTIER 4 ALL - MODULE 2
HIGH FRONTIER 4 ALL - MODULE 2

This colonization module introduces orbital space colonies called Bernals and space pioneers called Colonists. These two types of cards extend the core game to go beyond industrializing and exploiting the resources of the solar system to colonizing and settling the solar system. Bernals upgrade your Colonies to give you extra VP, according to the Hydration of nearby Factories. They also award Colonists, which you can take to Sites to perform extra Operations there.

This is an expansion require that you have the core game High Frontier 4 All.

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MOON ADVENTURE
MOON ADVENTURE

OXYGEN LEVELS FALLING!
You are trapped on the moon due to a massive magnetic storm originating from the sun and all of the supplies have been scattered about the surface. You and your fellow astronauts are desperately trying to recover the scattered supplies, all while your oxygen levels are falling. Moon Adventure is a cooperative board game where everyone must work together to complete the mission. Trust in your wits and your friends to make it back alive!

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DEEP SEA ADVENTURE
DEEP SEA ADVENTURE

Playing "Deep Sea Adventure", you have to dive deeper using the dices.
The goal of the game is to collect more treasures than your opponents and bring them back to the submarine.
A group of adventurers got together on a submarine to try and gather the treasures that sleep at the bottom of the sea.
Everyone geared up in diver suits, but having a very old submarine means sharing the same oxygen tank.
If one of them dives too deep, the other divers' lives will be on the line!
Will the adventurers make it back to the submarine safely?

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DICEWAR - ROOTS OF MALI
DICEWAR - ROOTS OF MALI

"Roots of Mali" is the 1st expansion in the DiceWar game series. This faction quickly overgrows the entire playing field with its forest creatures. The creatures are uniquely dynamic and rapidly growing. Once the enemy stands in the middle of the forest, danger threatens from every direction.

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At the Spiel direkt eG you will find a unique range of games of exceptional publishers.
Just have a look.

Best regards
the team of the Spiel direkt eG
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