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Chilly new releases for MLK Day

Its a chilly Monday and we do have a few things in store that might entice you to wander in…

Golden Books – The Prefect Party
a little book about a D&D party of adventurers and their attempt to work together and be… the Perfect Party.

Arc Dream Games – Delta Green Meridian
a new scenario for the Delta Green RPG. Joplin, Missouri – federal agents are in town investigating a small homeless shelter that isn’t seeming to have its finances in order. Now a casual investigation uncovers something quite unexpected.

Mongoose Publishing – Paranoia : Citizen in Name Only.
a complete mission for Paranoia pitting the party against… itself. Narrative flips between rival teams, plans for attack and defense clash as the FCCCP Pope begins his takeover.

Goodman Games – new adventure books
River of Lies
– a 3rd level adventure set in Purple Planet Beware the Ghost River of Varnasu. Will it’s deluge claim you for it’s own or grant you everlasting life? Only the survivors will be able to tell the story.

DCC#107 – Forgotten Dangers
An adventure compilation of first, second and third level adventures filled with unpredictable sorcery and unexpected foes. 6 different adventures.

Die Robot! – A Purple Planet Adventure
Purple Planet funnel adventure along with a new class… the Robot. For MCC and DCC

Gaming Honors – Oh Happy Danger : a Purple Planet adventure for DCC. A 2nd level Shakespearian adventure helping a head in a jar and his damsel meet and be together through all the drama, melodrama and action one expects.

Studio 9 Games – 101 Hex Encounters on the Purple Planet
over 100 encounters to bring your Purple Planet adventures to life as the party goes places unknown. Also includes several mini adventure locations.

High Dive Games – Random Acts of Violet (DCC/MCC/XCC Purple Planet setting & adventure)
a first level adventure and a setting area with low level encounters to help the party prepare for the ‘main event’.

Kazumi Chan – Rouge 2nd Edition
a new release of the inclusive OSR RPG. All the information you need to start and run an Old School Rules roleplaying game with a new narrative feel.

Archmage Arispen – Deck of Many Encounters
24 unique dungeon encounters from dicing with Goblins to dealing with animated cleaning tools. All sorts of adventure with spur of the moment encounters.

Shadowland Games – Raven RPG
A Gothic horror and cursed magic RPG. A city threatened by the Mist, ruled by a sinister magic order that protects the inhabitants from the vile Other Side and guards ancestral secrets. Includes a full gameplay guide, Magic, NPCs and organizations, details about the City of Raven, hints and tips, a starter adventure and sheets you need to play.

Shadowland Games – Raven Tarot

New DM Dave’s Sourcebooks
Ultimate Guide to Writing 5e Adventures
How to create compelling storylines, memorable characters, challenging encounters, and detailed maps while world building, fleshing out maps and more. 60 pages of information

Just Passing Through – No Prep Guidebook : Temples and Religious Sites
20 areas with maps and background and encounter notes.

Atomic Mass Games – Star Wars Legion
LM-432 Crab Droids 2 Crab Droids, tokens and Insert sheet
Aqua Droids – 4 Aqua Droids, tokens and rulesheet

CMON – new Song of Ice & Fire miniatures
Brotherhood without Banners – Sworn Knights unit – 4 minis, tray and game cards

Brotherhood without Banners Heroes 1
-Lady Stoneheart, Edric Dayne, Gendry, Thoros of Myr, Anguy the Archer and Hot Pie.

House Martell – Skyreach Bowmen – 12 miniatures, tray and unit card.

Compass Games – Breaking the Chains 2.0 : War in the South China Seas
Hypothetical combat in Chinese coastal waters in the 2020s. With Area Denial weapons, missile laden ships, paratroops, aircraft carriers and more China asserts it’s control over the ‘Near Seas’ region in conflict with US and First Island Coalition Powers. Includes rules, around 500 counters, maps, political tension track and more. Three scenarios from conflict over Taiwan, a Chinese first strike and a naval exercise turned conflict. Game time varies by scenario.

Stellar Factory – Werewolf
a party game for 7-35 players. Social deduction game of Werewolves, werewolf hunters and devious play.

Stellar Factory – Strawberry Sunset
2-4 players work to plant strawberries before sunset while reworking their gardens. Ages7+ Plays in around 15 minutes.

Stellar Factory – Royal Game of Ur
2 player game of strategy from 2600BC. Revised rules make gameplay faster while a printed cloth map and drawstring bag make it portable.

Tuesday Round Up Dec 24th –

So here we are, closing in on Christmas for 2024.
Games Plus will be CLOSED on December 25th to give all the staff a day off. We will reopen on Thursday, Dec 26th at 10am.

And when we do will will have a number of interesting things to pick up with your gift cash…

Upper Deck – Legendary : Weapon X
This set includes 4 playable heroes, 3 new mastermind groups, 2 villain groups and 100 new cards. 

Pandasaurus Games – Castle Combo
a 2-5 player game – acquire and administer gold, recruit characters, use abilities and build the best 9 card tableau. Ages 10 and up. Plays in around half an hour.

Black Oak Games – Knot Dice
a puzzle, a game, a set of dice and more.
there are three different sets available. The first are simple Knot Dice -18 different six sided dice, each with fragments of a Celtic knotwork pattern. Designed to create different game play opportunities from solo puzzles to cooperative design creation. Also includes a ‘Squared’ expansion adding more knotwork fragments. 

The second is the Animal Dice – there are 4 different animal sets. Boar & Hare, Wolfhound &  Eagle, Cat & Salmon and Horse & Raven. Each of the animal sets come with 9 different dice, each with bits of knotwork to create puzzle patterns or, as they also have pips, can be used as standard six sided dice.  

The final set are Tetrahedron Sets, with eight and four sided dice featuring knotwork and pips for use as dice or to adds to the pattern making possibilities.

Nolzurs 50th Anniversary D&D miniatures
a new series of miniatures based off the 50th anniversary versions of the miniatures. This release includes 2 Elves, 2 Mimics, 2 Kobolds, 2 Goblins, 2 Dwarves and 2 Skeleton Knights.

Atlas Games – Unhappy Birthday at Castle Slogar
a solo gamebook for Gloom. Full of interactive puzzles and a map of the castle, you must solve the current issue to progress to the next room. A website with hints is provided which also has additional material.

Strange Machine Games – Robotech : Homefront
Fighting for Humanties survival on Earth this RPLG adds more depth and possibility to the AD6 system, adds Invid and Robpotech Masters,. new scenarios and new fiction.

Strange Machine Games – Robotech : the Hannibal Campaign     
Includes new fiction, new scenarios and new art. Includes deck plans for the UES Carthage, a Pulsar class light cruiser that will act as a base for the players adventure.  

Mongoose Press – Traveller : The Trailing Frontier
Two sectors of space for Traveller. Once a safe province, soon to be a battleground between Humaniti and the K’kree. Half the region lies within the Third Imperium, the other half minor states and independent worlds. Any beyond that, militant herbivores who are dedicated to destroying all meat eating races. The Gateway Sector is on the edge of the Imperium and has yet to be tamed. Fortune hunters, entrepreneurs, merchants, pirates and rascals abound. Includes buckets of information and poster maps of the Ley and Gateway Sectors.  

Catalyst Games – Battletech Mercenaries
Everything you need to delve into Mercenary action ion the Battletech universe. Rulebook, Primer, laminated worksheets, Alpha Strike cards, novella, game cards, dice, maps, 8 Mechs and 4 vehicles and more. 

Warlord Games – Bolt Action Starter Set
Includes 64 page rule book, 12 German Grenadiers, 12 US Rangers, terrain, game mat, order dice, game dice, dice bag and more. For 2 players to start playing Bolt Action World War 2 28mm skirmish gaming.

GMT – Wolfpack (North Atlantic Convoys 41-43)
1-4 players work to have their u-boat patrol the North Atlantic and disrupt Allied shipping. 

Board & Dice Games – Minos : Dawn of the Bronze Age
1-4 players work to build civilizations in the Bronze Age. Build, battle and trade in this new board game.

Rio Grande Games – Power Grid : Outpost
2-6 players work to power the colonies on the newest planets of humanity  

Rio Grande Games – Free Ride USA
1-5 player game of 50’s railway building

Pre-Thanksgiving Round Up

A quick pre-thanksgiving round-up of new products for your viewing pleasure! And…
Don’t Forget :
We will CLOSED THURSDAY, Nov 28 for Thanksgiving
We will be open Friday Nov 29 at 10am with our regular hours.
Also we will begin the traditional Holiday Certificates from Friday the 29th until Christmas Eve and will be having our Black Friday Sale as well. What’s on sale? Come on in and find out. There will be select games and accessories on sale as we have in the past few years.

On to the new releases…
Osprey Publishing – Silver Bayonet : Italy Shades of Calabria
Calabria has suffered an earthquake killing tens of thousands of people. The clergy preaches against the French and occupying Allies. Major nation vie for supremacy in the Mediterranean and enemies of Italy send aid and agents to cause their share of chaos. Including both co-op/solo and competitive scenarios this supplement puts you in the powder keg that is Calabria.

Wise Wizard Games – Star Trek Star Realms
a complete starship combat deck-building game for 2-4 players. Romulan, Klingon, Federation and Dominion ships are at your command in this game. Play head to head or up to 4 players in multi-player modes allowing versus and cooperative experiences. Ages 14 and up. Plays in around half an hour.

Modiphious Entertainment – Star Trek Lower Decks : Buffer Time Card Game
2-6 scrappy underdogs work together in this push-your-luck card game trying to complete assignments while squeezing in time for R&R. Can you manage to have fun during duty hours without the bridge crew finding out? Ages 10 and up. Plays in around half an hour.

Chaosium – Call of Cthulhu : Cthulhu by Gaslight Investigators Guide
Mysteries and Frights in the Victorian Age. This sourcebook contains all sorts of historical background for the 1880 to 1900s period, character creation rules to cover the period, investigator equipment, all set in Victoria’s Age – be it in England, the colonies, the banks of the Eastern United States or the lands of Asia.

Fantasy Flight Games/Edge Studios – Arkham Horror the Role Playing Game
This stand alone RPG is based off the Arkham Horror LCG setting and contains all the rules you need to play. Character creation, information on the city of Arkham, adversaries, the Ancient Ones and even a complete adventure to get you started. Set in the 20s this game uses the Dynamic Pool System for it’s engine.

Gamegenic – Token Silo XL
a new way to organize and use your tokens, cards and accessories in game. Includes a covered case with a clip lock top to keep everything in place along with 15 trays of differing sizes for your stuff. includes 8 small trays, 2 mini-american sleeved card sized trays (holding up to 40 sleeved or 75 unsleeved cards), 2 standard card sized trays (holding up to 40 sleeved or 75 unsleeved cards), an extra long tray (approximately 30cm long), and 2 ‘double trays’. The top clips to the underside of the tray so it’s easy to keep track of. Modular to allow you to take other trays from the Silo system and sub them in, change colors fro other sets and more.

Forged Products – Character Shrine : Premium Character and Dice Case

Forged Products Encounter Maps
5 different doubled sided hard card map sets. 1” gridded, 26 long and 20 wide. Each is also laminated to use wet or dry erase markers. Desert Sand/Snowy Tundra, City Streets/Open Waters, Wooded Forest/Dungeon Floor, Basic Dirt/Plain White sets are available. Comes in a slip case set featuring all 4 or as individual maps.
It’s a pre-Thanksgiving Round up!

Osprey Publishing – new books
Air Campaign #50 – Philippines 1944
Elite #257 – The Rif War : Morocco’s Berber Uprising 1921-1926
Men at Arms #558 – Joan of Arc’s Army French Armies 1415-1423
Men at Arms #560 – Ground Forces in the Korean War 1950-53 NKPA & Chinese Volunteers
Combat #79 – 8th Army Soldier vs Italian Soldier El Alamein 1942
Campaign #404 – Romania 1944
Campaign #406 – Borneo 1945

PWorks Games – Combat Book 2
a spiral bound book with 32 single or double map maps in 50 full color pages. Each page is laminated to allow dry erase markers to be used (and removed). Plain terrain, ship interior, facilities, docking bays and more. All in full color, each with a 1” grid overlay. Each page is 15 by 11 with half square borders folding out to about 16×22.

HOLIDAY HOURS end of 2024

Hey everyone.
It may seem like a bit of a surprise but we here at Games Plus do take some time off. And with the upcoming holiday season, we figured we’d let you know what’s happening.

We will be CLOSED on Thursday, November 28 for Thanksgiving

We will be closing early (probably about 5pm) on Wednesday, Dec 24th and CLOSED on Thursday, December 25th.

We may be closing early on Tuesday, December 31st, but we will update you on that as we get closer.

Quick Update Nov 19th

Rich here with a little bit of an update.
First off – HALO : Flashpoint miniatures game is here. Spartan edition, Recon (smaller) edition, scenery and dice boosters. So if you are interested in this release – now is the time.

Star Realms Rise of Empires – a new game for the Star Realms franchise. But this is a legacy version – so game play will lead you down different result paths. And there is even an ‘infinite replay’ kit so you can reuse the set. But Wait! We have a few of the Kickstarter versions so there are special stretch goal promo cards and a bonus Scenario 11B you can get with it – while supplies last.

And…
We also have Dungeon and Dragons Mini Dice Cups.
There are several different designs, each with a mini-polyhedral sets and a resin sleeve. 8 different sleeves (Grung, Mind Flayer, Beholder, Elminster, Drizzt, Mimic, Minsc & Boo and Red Dragon) Each sleeve can be monochromatic color, full color or metal plated. Dice cups are shot glass sized. 24 different glasses to collect.

But wait…
We are also hosting the HMGS Toys for Tots Games on Wednesday Nov 27th (starting at 6pm) and Friday Nov 29th (starting at Noon). Open to anyone who wishes to play – we ask you just need to bring a childs toy (unwrapped) of $15 or more to add to our donation.

The Big Auction Weekend begins!

So, most importantly
For those coming to the auction parking might be… tight. But you have some options :

In case you did not know, the parking lot directly behind the store is open for anyone to park after 6pm Monday to Friday and all day on Saturday and Sunday.

If you still have no luck finding somewhere to place your automobile, there is the WEST COMMUTER PARKING LOT on the other side (the north side for you compass direction folks) of the railroad tracks from Games Plus. Just keep in mind the West Lot has a Farmer’s Market going on Sunday morning and early afternoon.

Then, on to the Auction itself :
Friday Night (10/4) – Role Playing Games
Its all RPG related items. Rules, modules, magazines, accessories, sourcebooks and more. Doors open at 5:30pm to preview the items, the auction begins at 6:30pm and goes till, well, everything goes.

Saturday (10/5) – Boardgames
The doors open at 9:00am to preview the vast horde of games and accessories – the auctioning begins at 10:00am. What’s going?
Boardgames, expansions, supplements, accessories and magazines for everything Euro, Family or other table top boardgaming. Catan, Pandemic, Tsuro, Carcassonne, Scythe, Wingspan… If it’s a boardgame that isn’t specifically about military actions – it goes up today.

Sunday (10/6) – Miniatures Auction
The final day of the auction week is devoted to miniatures, miniatures games, expansions, magazines, supplements, paints, tools, terrain and all those things you need to be part of the Miniature Gaming Hobby. This one works a little different than the rest. The doors open for previews at the crack of dawn (well, 8:30am, but it feels like it) and auction action begins at 9:30am. Historical items are the focus for the first two hours (until about 11:30) then we switch to a mix of all the different miniature gaming genre. Warhammer, Warmachine, Flames of War, Team Yankee, Reaper, GHQ, CinC, Ral Partha, Grenadier – all those and many more.

There you go!
A quick recap of the rest of the Auction Weekend.
See you there.
-Rich

Saturday Auction is FULL!

But just the Saturday Auction

So intake for Saturday’s Auction (the non-conflict board game auction is full. Packed to the gills. Bursting at the seams. 10 pounds of boardgames in a 5 pound sack, Over 1500 pieces already, we are at our limit for what we can do in a day..

Are we still taking items in for the other days? Heck Yes!

Heck yes, indeed.


Historical Board Games (i.e. Avalon Hill, GMT, Victory games, SPI, Compass, DVG and the like) are certainly in demand. Role Playing Games, supplements, modules and other supporting items are wanted too. And what about Miniatures? Oh, heck Yes. We love miniatures and have plenty of room for them. CCGs, TCGs, TMGs and the like? Yup. Magic the Gathering, Legend of the 5 Rings, Pokemon, Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings and all those others – we are waiting for you to drop off your items to help make this a well rounded event!

GENCON!

We will be at GenCon 2024 in the following days.
Come see us at booth 1405. Say Hi to Rich, Jeff, Alli and the rest of the convention crew.

What will we have there? All sorts of different products… 3d printed buildings and portals, used boardgames, vintage historical games, RPG items from the 70s, 80s and 90s and beyond, mystery dice sets and a whole lot more!

Come on down and see us in the exhibitor hall at GenCon.
Booth 1405.

Or, if you aren’t able – please come to the store and enjoy some browsing, gaming and shopping while everyone else is in Indy!