Free Print and Play Board Games: August 2012

Monday, August 6, 2012

(08/06/2012) Resources Of The Week

This post seeks to highlight the most significant resource of the week for all board games. All links refer to BGG (www.boardgamegeek.com)

Panzer Grenadier: Eastern Front: Eric's Unambiguous PG Maps 1-10

Enigma: Enigma - English Rules

Al Rashid: Al Rashid - English Manual v1.0

Santiago: Santiago - Home-made tiles

Mage Knight: Board Game: Mage Knight - New scenario

World Of Warcraft: World of Warcraft - Solo and cooperative play v1.0

Dungeons & Dragons: The Legend of Drizzt Board Game: D&D - Ally Card Template

Beer & Vikings: Spirits&Warriors: BEER&VIKINGS complete rulebook

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game: Orcs of Emyn Muil - Custom Scenerio

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game: Complete Player Card List & Combos

Zooloretto: How to play Zooloretto with all big and small Expansions

#11 - Chunky Fighters

Chunky Fighters is a print-and-play dice game where humorous characters fight it out in an all or nothing brawl. Players choose their fighters and roll them to determine hit points and weapons. Each fighter is made of four dice: head, body, legs, and weapon and a unique special ability card. Combat involves rolling damage and hit location dice. As fighters take damage, rotate their body parts show the remaining hit points until finally destroyed.

Info:

Designer
Nick Hayes

Artist
Nick Hayes

Year Published
2009

# of Players
2 - 99

Playing Time
10 minutes

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#10 - (Your Name Here) and the Argonauts

(Your Name Here) and the Argonauts is single player game of adventures and legends set in Grecian mythology. You will take on the role of a hero set out to recover treasure, slay monsters, and find a place for yourself in the retelling of Greek myths. The game is played with a set of (initially) 30 cards that represent the monsters, treasures, and gods will become the tale of your adventure. This deck, and your character, will change and grow as you play more games, which is meant to reflect how tales become more embellished and outlandish each time they are told.

Info:

Designer
Mike Arlington

Artist
Mike Arlington

Year Published
2012

# of Players
1

Playing Time
20 minutes

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Sunday, August 5, 2012

#9 - My Band

Battle your friends to see who can put together the most compatible band members, managers, promoters, agents and more. It's always been a dream to organize that band... so let's do it!

Info:

Artist
Kevin Everingham

Year Published
2008

# of Players
2 - 4

Playing Time
60 minutes

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#8 - Post Captain

Post Captain is a solitaire PNP game of sailing, sea chases, and espionage during the Napoleonic Wars. You take on the role of a young captain who has just been given command of his first ship. The game's missions revolve around the the tangled web of political intrigue surrounding Napoleon's plan to invade England.

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Artist
John Paul Messerly

Year Published
2012

# of Players
1

Playing Time
45 minutes

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#7 - Ultimate Chibi Defenders: Wedding Edition

The fearsome dragon in charge of the Wedding Hoard has rallied the (uninvited) guests to its cause of getting the first bite of cake! The Wedding party must join forces to fight off this threat before the entire day is ruined by the dessert motivated forces of evil! Ultimate Chibi Defenders: Wedding Edition is a lite cooperative game of tactical cake defense.

Info:

Artist
Fábio Fontes

Year Published
2012

# of Players
1 - 4

Playing Time
20 minutes

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#6 - 18BE Pocket

18BE Pocket is a train game over the early belgian railroad network. Belgium was the first european continental country to have an operating railway, linking Brussels to Mechelen in 1835.

Info:

Artist
Eric Hanuise

Year Published
2009

# of Players
3 - 6

Playing Time
120 minutes

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Thursday, August 2, 2012

#5 - Walls Of Light

Walls of Light is a light strategy game for 2-3 players. Each player places their colored winks to complete the cathedrals windows. Colored winks can be combined to make new colors. When a craftsman completes a window, he earns points for the number of different colors within that window. All craftsman then earn points for their colored panes in the completed window. The colored dice are used to determine which of the six windows the master craftsman may work on this turn, and in what way they may place their colored pane. Strategy is enhanced with the stained glass cards which allow dice to be rerolled, the switching of colors, the adding of extra colors on your turn, etc.

Info:

Artist
Jesse Catron

Year Published
2011

# of Players
2 - 3

Playing Time
30 minutes

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#4 - Dice Of The Living Dead

Dice of the Living Dead is a solo dice game that’s free to print and play. All you’ll need is a print of the game sheet, a pencil, and at least 8 normal dice.Every turn you roll dice trying to find the right balance between moving fast and still having time to fend of zeds. But just as every roll of the dice can help you, it also holds certain risks.

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Artist
Mads L. Brynnum

Year Published
2009

# of Players
1

Playing Time
15 minutes

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#3 - Dungeon In A Tin

Dungeon in a Tin is a solo or cooperative dungeon-hack. Players descend into a dungeon randomly laid-out from a stack of tiles, fighting through the orc and goblin hordes to rescue the kidnapped maiden and collect treasure and glory.Each player takes turns to move through the dungeon one tile at a time, laying new tiles as unexplored areas are entered; every time a player enters a room, special monster dice are rolled to determine the enemies faced and the potential loot to be found. When a monster attacks, a die is rolled to determine the style of their attack; the player then chooses a card from his hand to counter with, each card being strong against some kinds of attack and weak against others.

Info:

Artist
Jake Staines

Year Published
2011

# of Players
1 − 4

Playing Time
20 minutes

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

#2 - Conquest Of The Skies

Conquest of the Skies is a light 4X in which 2-3 players compete to gather sufficient quantities of ore before anyone else. Players will explore the abandoned archipelago, research and develop new technologies, manoeuvre airships and giant warships into combat, harvest the meagre supplies of food to keep their people alive and try to be the first to obtain enough telonite ore, by fair means or foul.

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Artist
Ilya Baranovsky

Year Published
2012

# of Players
2 − 3

Playing Time
60 minutes

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#1 - Inspector Moss 2: House Arrest

Inspector Moss must investigate the mysterious death of millionaire baker, John Dough, who has been found battered at his stately country manor during a social gathering in the bachelor’s home. With an injunction in place to keep the guests from leaving, Moss has only a short window of opportunity to investigate and question the suspects. Can he eliminate the innocent and arrest the culprit before the injunction expires?

Info:

Artist
Jonathan Warren

Year Published
2011

# of Players
1

Playing Time
30 minutes

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