Game Events: Week of June 9th – 15th

Come and join in on the fun at this week’s Game Events. It’s a great way to meet other board game enthusiasts and it’s free and fun! Here is this week’s schedule:


Date: Weds. June 12th
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store


Weds. Featured Games
To learn more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s picture.


OddVille
What’s Your Game
Princes of Florence
Rio Grande Games

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Date: Fri. June 14th
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store


Friday’s Featured Games
To learn more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s picture.



Undermining
Z-Man Games
Trajan
Huch! & friends

No experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.
Also, while you are here any of the games in our Store Demo Game Library are available for play.




Come Play ~ ~ ~ It’s Free ~ ~ ~ It’s Fun!


Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.


We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.


Game Events: Week of June 2nd – 8th

Come and join in on the fun at this week’s Game Events. It’s a great way to meet other board game enthusiasts and it’s free and fun! This week there will be no Weds Game Night only a Friday Game Night.  




Date: Weds. June 5th
Place: Off The Charts Games Store
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Date: Fri. June 7th
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store


Friday Featured Games
To learn more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s picture.


Sunrise City
Clever Mojo
Puerto Rico
Rio Grande Games

No experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.
Also, while you are here any of the games in our Store Demo Game Library are available for play.




Come Play ~ ~ ~ It’s Free ~ ~ ~ It’s Fun!




Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.


Game Arrivals: May 26th – June 1st

This week’s arrivals includes a couple of games that are new to the store.



P.I.
Treefrog Games



Adding to our mystery games selection is P.I. by game designer Martin Wallace.  This is a deduction where each player is competing to be the best detective in the city.


A full game is made up of 3 mini games.  In each mini game players must attempt to solve their case by finding the suspect, the crime they committed, and the location where they are now hiding.  The twist is that players are attempting to solve the case held by the player to their right, with the fastest investigators earning more points than the slower ones.

















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Make ‘n’ Break Junior
Ravensburger

We’ve also added Make ‘n’ Break Junior to our young kids games selection.  This game earned the Parent’ Choice Gold Award and Creative Toy Awards 2011 Game of the Year Award.


On your blocks, get set, go!  Each player has their own wooden building blocks and races to be the first one to complete the building shown on the card.  Be careful that your blocks don’t wobble.  The game builds upon fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and concentration abilities.





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Seasons –
Enchanted KingdomsAsmodee

Newly released from Asmodee comes Seasons: Enchanted Kingdoms, the 1st expansion pack for Seasons.  Some of what in included in this expansion are:

20 New Power cards at 2 each.  New familiars include; the energy thief Rattus Nightshade, and the terrible Argos Guardian, who will force all players to discard energies or a power card when he arrives.

10 Enchantment cards that change the rules of the Twelve Seasons Tournament, and so to win you will need to adapt.

12 Special ability tokens, each unique and that fit nicely into the hole on a player’s board.

1 First Player token






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Star Wars – The Card Game
A Dark Time
Fantasy Flight


New out from Fantasy Flight is Star Wars: A Dark Time for Star Wars The Card Game.  This expansion pack includes objective sets 48-52.











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Restocks:

  • Labyrinth
  • Las Vegas
  • Lords of Waterdeep
  • Village


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Come
and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street
in Historic Downtown Gresham.
We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war
games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry
quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble
Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the
greater Portland and Vancouver area.


Table Top Season 2 Episode 5: Forbidden Island



It’s time for another board game episode in Season 2 of Table Top, a biweekly series hosted by Star Trek’s Wil Wheaton on Felicia Day’s Channel Geek and Sundry. Today, Wil and his guests travel to a mysterious island not found on any map.  The game today is Forbidden Island, a cooperative play game.


Forbidden Island
Gamewright

Take a seat and watch as Wil and his guests; Bobak Ferdowski (NASA flight engineer), Jason Finn (drummer and singer for The Presidents of the United States of America), and John Scalzi (sci-fi and fantasy writer) dare to venture to Forbidden Island.  Can they recover the island’s trophies and then safely get away before the island kills them?  Can the combined talents of Bobak, Jason, and John overcome Wil’s losing track record?  You’re about to find out.







We not only have Forbidden Island available in stock but have a game copy in our Store Demo Game Library for you to come in and try out.




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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Events: Week of May 26th – June 1st

Come and join in on the fun at this week’s Game Events. It’s a great way to meet other board game enthusiasts and it’s free and fun! This week there will be no Friday Game Night only a Weds Game Night.  
Date: Weds. May 29th
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Weds. Featured Games
To learn more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s picture.

Ticket to Ride
Days of Wonder
Lords of Vegas
Mayfair Games

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Date: Fri. May 31st
Place: Off The Charts Games Store
         No Game Night Tonight



No experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.
Also, while you are here any of the games in our Store Demo Game Library are available for play.


Come Play ~ ~ ~ It’s Free ~ ~ ~ It’s Fun!


Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

Game Profile: Arena Roma II

Name  Arena Roma II

Byline  Join the revolt in Rome!


Mechanics Action Point Allowance, Card Drafting, Dice Rolling, Hand
Management
Theme Roman Empire
Publication Queen Games, 2009
Ages 8+
Time 30
Players 2
Description

Arena Roma II is a stand-alone 2 player war card game from game designer Stefan
Feld.
The struggle for
predominance in Rome hasn’t been decided yet – the die has not yet been
cast!  In Arena Roma II players use character cards and building cards
to populate their side of an icon bar.  Each of the cards brings a unique ability to
attack, to defend, or to generate victory points.  The object of the game is to either run your
opponent completely out of victory points or to have more victory points than
your opponent when the bank of victory point tokens is exhausted.  One way to make sure your opponent is low on
victory points is to destroy one of their characters or buildings.  The first phase of each turn forces a player
to give back a victory point for each vacant space on their side of the icon
bar.  Three dice are rolled on each turn
to determine which characters or buildings can be activated.  Additionally, the dice can be used to obtain gold
that is necessary to cover the cost to play characters and buildings or used to
draw additional cards into your hand for strategic placement later.
The secret to success is
learning when and where to place characters and buildings to inflict as much
damage as possible on your opponent while amassing victory points for yourself.

A
copy of Arena Roma II is
available in our Store Demo Game Library for you to come in and try out while
you are here.


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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.


Game Arrivals: May 19th – 25th

More new games arrived in this week.  Here’s some of this week’s arrivals:

Ascension – Rise of Vigil
Stone Blade Entertainment

New power stirs in Vigil!  Just out from Stone Blade Entertainment is this new stand-alone Ascension expansion by game designer Justin Gary.  Ascension: Rise of Vigil can be played as a stand-alone game for 2-4 players or combined with any other Ascension deck-building games increasing the number of players to 6.  




Rise
of Vigil introduces treasure cards to the game system,
with all treasure cards in this set being “Energy Shard”. When a
treasure card is drawn from the shared deck, you place it in the empty space in
the shared pool, then continue to draw until you reveal a hero, monster or
construct to cover the treasure. When you acquire or defeat that top card, you
also gain the treasure, which is added to your deck like hero and construct
cards. When you play a treasure from your hand, you immediately draw another
card from your deck; more importantly, you can use the energy on these cards to
activate special powers on certain heroes, constructs and monsters…


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Navegador
Rio Grande Games

Navegador is a challenging strategy game for 2-5 players with a little luck, because no one knows exactly what to expect when discovering new sea regions. 


Players represent wealthy trade dynasties which take part in building up the Portuguese colonial empire. The first aim is to explore the unknown sea regions and found colonies. Use the sugar, gold, and spice resources in the colonies to finance the building ships, factories, shipyards, and churches. Use a rondel to plan actions and build the best combinations of assets to win.










Watch this video to get a feel for  Navegador




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Restocks:
  • Escape: Illusions
  • Rivals for Catan
  • Talisman: Frostmarch
  • Talisman: Sacred Pool
  • Ticket To Ride: Asia Map Collection
  • Dixit: Odyssey



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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.


We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Events: Week of May 19th – 25th

Come and join in on the fun at this week’s Game Events. It’s a great way to meet other board game enthusiasts and it’s free and fun! Here is this week’s schedule:


Date: Weds. May 22nd
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store

Weds. Featured Games
To learn more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s picture.

Alhambra
Queen Games
Tobago
Rio Grande Games

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Date: Fri. May 25th
Time: 6 pm
Place: Off The Charts Games Store



Friday’s Featured Games
To learn more about each featured board game click on the game name below it’s picture.


Kingsburg
Fantasy Flight
Caylus
RIo Grande Games

No experience is necessary! We are happy to teach you the rules and get you started.
Also, while you are here any of the games in our Store Demo Game Library are available for play.



Come Play ~ ~ ~ It’s Free ~ ~ ~ It’s Fun!



Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Coming Soon: Munchkin Pathfinder

Great news for Munchkin and Pathfinder Role-playing fans. Steve Jackson Games is giving the Munchkin treatment to Pathfinder.  The game combines the features of the Pathfinder setting with the cheeky humor of Munchkin.


Here is an excerpt from Steve Jackson Games’ Daily Illuminator news page:

…”We’re honored to be working with Paizo on Munchkin Pathfinder, ” said Andrew Hackard, Munchkin Brand Manager for Steve Jackson Games.  “Pathfinder is a wonderfully rich world to play in.”

We all love Munchkin here at Paizo Publishing, so this match was a no brainer,” Lisa Stevens, CEO of Paizo Publishing stated matter of factly.  “But of course,” she whispered conspiratorially, “I really just wanted to see John Kovalic draw our iconic sorceress, Seoni!”

Potential Cover Art


…Munchkin Pathfinder will be a 168-card set, designed by Steve Jackson and Andrew Hackard and illustrated by John Kovalic.  It will be playable as a standalone game or with any other Munchkin set… Fall 2013

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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.

We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.

Game Profile: Antike Duellum

Ancient history comes alive in this 2 player war game.


Mechanics Area Control/Influence, Area Movement, Hand Management
Theme Ancient Civilization
Publication Rio Grande Games, 2012
Ages 13+
Time 60-90
Players 2

Description

Two mighty, ancient empires sail
the seas, found new cities, erect glorious temples, and develop new
technologies.  However territories and
resources are limited and soon peaceful coexistence threatens to change to military
conflict.  Who can best manage their state
affairs?  Who can benefit their people
most when engaging the vagaries of fate? 
And who has the strategic genius to lead their legions and fleets to
victory?  The answer lies in your hands.

Antike Duellum is a 2 player war game with a strong economic element.  A double sided board provides 2 scenarios: Rome
versus Carthage and Greece versus Persia. 
The game also incorporates a rondel for action selection.

In the struggle for
supremacy players will choose their actions based on the 8 spots provided on a
rondel.  These actions include a) resource
production of marble, iron, and gold, b) construction of city walls and temples,
c) troop movement, d) armament of military units, e) military recruitment, and f)
purchase of scientific know-how.  Resources
are expended for actions involving military recruiting and armament, erecting city
walls and temples, and acquiring scientific know-how.  Building walls in your cities increases a city’s
defenses while temples will increase a city’s resource production.  Advantages for gaining scientific know-how includes
increasing your military land and sea movements, additional resource
production,  added strength in your
cities defenses, and the ability to trade resources with the bank.  Victory points are
acquired by building additional cities, building temples, acquiring scientific
know-how, the destruction of opposing temples, and the amassing of a large fleet
of galleys.

Antike Duellum moves quickly through the opening rounds as
players build cities and military strength. 
It doesn’t take long for things to get interesting as military units don’t
have far to go to get in each other’s way. 
Players will need to build a tight economic engine with the cities, plan
their moves on the rondel well and leverage every turn to gain tactical
advantages across the board to be successful. 
The first player to outmaneuver their opponent on the way to 9 victory
points will be the winner.

A copy of Antike Duellum is available in our Store Demo Game Library for you to come in and try out while you are here.


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Come and visit us at 30 NW 2nd Street in Historic Downtown Gresham. We have a full range of family games, strategy games, Euro-style games, war games, card games, dice games and more. Also for the puzzle enthusiasts we carry quality puzzles from Ravensburger, TDC, White Mountain, and Cobble Hill.


We proudly serve Gresham and the greater Portland and Vancouver area.