Maximize the impact of your TIE bombers & TIE defenders with the Imperial Veterans Expansion Pack for X-Wing™! Two new TIE miniatures come with alternate paint schemes – one gray TIE bomber with the Gamma Squadron&s signature white stripe & one TIE defender with the bold red paint scheme shared by Countess Ryad & the Glaive Squadron in addition eight veteran pilots & thirteen upgrades dramatically expand your ships’ capabilities & versatility while a new mission Disable the Relays highlights many of their new tricks & tactics! Please Note This is not a complete game experience A copy of the X-Wing Miniatures Game Core Set or The Force Awakens Core Set is required to play ...

At the height of the Galactic Civil War the Imperial-class Star Destroyer was the commanding cornerstone of the Imperial Navy Measuring 1600 meters in length a single Imperial-class Star Destroyer would boast a crew of more than 37000 & carried a standard complement of four Tie Fighter squadrons one Tie interceptor squadron & one squadron of Tie Bombers It could also carry an entire legion of stormtroopers along with AT-ATs AT-STs & other landing crafts Most importantly each Imperial-class Star Destroyer sported armament powerful enough to bring wayward systems to heel under Imperial control The Imperial-class Star Destroyer Expansion pack brings this behemoth battleship to your games of Armada with one pre-painted miniature two ship cards three command dials eighteen upgrades & all requisite tokens Moreover even as it affords you the opportunities to snare your foes with a tractor beam & fly your fleet to battle under the command of Darth Vader the Imperial-Class Star Destroyer Expansion Pack introduces a new type of defense token to your Imperial fleet the Contain Defense token Featured on both the Imperial I-Class & Imperial II-Class Star Destroyers the Contain token can cancel the standard critical effect of a shot that passes through your shields to your hull ...

Science fiction giant Keith Laumer delivers a fast-paced wry adventure of time travel & twisted realities in three classic interwoven tales! American Brion Bayard is abducted on the streets of Stockholm & thrust into what he believes is a truck He relieved to find his captors very apologetic & very British
- that is until they begin speaking about nations of which Bayard has never heard His captors were from Earth yes But not his Earth Turns out that there are countess parallel Earths each different where history has taken every possible turn
- & there are even more uninhabitable worlds destroyed by the misuse of cross-time travel Bayard discovers that the Earth he has now been thrust into the Earth of the Imperium is at war with a dangerously aggressive parallel Earth that has taken a wrong turn somewhere in time & whose ruler is a parallel version of Bayard himself! Now Bayard mission is clear to prevent his alternate self from destroying the new plane of reality that he now calls home the Imperium

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When Tiro the confidential secretary of a Roman senator opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history The stranger is a Sicilian a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor Verres The senator is Cicero a brilliant young lawyer & spellbinding orator determined to attain imperium
- supreme power in the state This is the starting-point of Robert Harris's most accomplished novel to date Compellingly written in Tiro's voice it takes us inside the violent treacherous world of Roman politics to describe how one man
- clever compassionate devious vulnerable
- fought to reach the top ' Sometimes it is foolish to articulate an ambition too early
- exposing it prematurely to the laughter & scepticism of the world can destroy it before it is even properly born But sometimes the opposite occurs & the very act of mentioning a thing makes it suddenly seem possible even plausible That was how it was that night When Cicero pronounced the word "consul" he planted it in the ground like a standard for us all to admire & for a moment we glimpsed the brilliant starry future through his eyes & saw that he was right that if he took down Verres he had a chance; that he might
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- with luck
- go all the way to the summit'






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Following his stunning RSC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies Mike Poulton turns his pen to the ...

Imperium Romanum is the long awaited sequel to the million-seller strategy game Glory of the Roman Empire Imperium Romanum is set in the time-honoured Roman Empire & players will marvel in the incredible attention to detail when working on a strategy to build a well organised prosperous & commanding settlement As governor of a Roman province the fortune very much lies in the players own hands Imperium Romanum is packed with a variety of new features to enhance the gameplay such as a complete overhaul of the graphic engine a mass of authentic historical buildings such as the world famous Circus Maximus or Gladiator schools History mode which presents a timeline where missions are based on real events & locations Interactive mission mode
- the player activates the goals when he wants Improved battle system where the player commands his armies New trade mechanics Introduction of currency in the game (denarii) New resource "settlers" which allows different ways of city growth Player construct able bridges fortifications wooden & stone walls towers & gates Siege machines Second barbarian type & redoing of the models & animations of the previous barbarians New units (ie Equites
- Roman horsemen) Crime as a factor in your city&s development New historically accurate buildings
- Circus Maximus Insula Theatre School Gladiator Schools Stables Columns Docks (sea trade) Natural disasters
- floods earthquakes volcanoes droughts New interface design Improved economy & overview dialogues Minimum Requirements Windows XP Vista with Direct X 916 G Hz Processor 512MB RAM2GB HDD Space 128MB Graphics Card DVD-ROM Drive



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A psychic dictator an inhuman robot a mad scientist a murderous alien & a superpowered terrorist are about to try & take over the world & you&re going to be rooting for them every step of the way! Toyo Harada is the most dangerous human being on the planet Imbued with incredible powers of the mind he has spent his life guiding humanity from the shadows But today he is a wanted man His powers are public knowledge his allies have turned to enemies & he is hunted by every government on the planet Instead of surrendering Harada has one last unthinkable gambit to play to achieve more faster & with less he will build a coalition of the powerful the unscrupulous & the insane No longer content to demand a better future he will recruit a violent legion from the darkest corners of the Earth to fight for it The battle for utopia begins now! Start reading here as New York Times best-selling creator Joshua Dysart
- writer of the Harvey Award-nominated series Harbinger
- & superstar artist Doug Braithwaite (UNITY Justice) begin the daring new superhero saga of the year Collecting Imperium 1-4

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The telepathic mastermind The alien assassin The mercenary super-soldier The mad scientist & the killer robot with a soul Toyo Harada has collected the monsters that will make his vision of world peace a reality Now he pursues the most difficult & desirable asset of all
- the spaceman with all the powers of a god
- the outcast who can rewrite reality with a thought
- the man who is no longer a man
- the all-powerful being who is simply called Divinity From New York Times best-selling writer Joshua Dysart (HARBINGER) & veteran artist Scot Eaton (X-Men Legacy Battle Scars) Toyo Harada&s mission to shape the future of humanity
- by any means necessary
- continues right here! Collecting IMPERIUM 5-8





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SPY VS SUPERHUMAN! AS “THE VINE IMPERATIVE” BOILS OVER! Toyo Harada’s war to save humanity by taking over the world roars on against the only enemy this planet cannot contain…a sinister network of undercover alien spies! A deadly chess game between Harada & the alien visitors called the Vine has been unfolding for decades The Vine once even created the living weapon called LV-99 to assassinate their enemy but failed Today as Harada executes his agenda upon Earth – & with LV-99 on his side this time – the Vine’s cold war finally turns infernally hot Jump on board the series that Bloody Disgusting calls “the height of sophisticated comic book stories” here with a powerful new story arc from New York Times best-selling writer Joshua Dysart (HARBINGER WARS) & red-hot artist CAFU (UNITY)! Collecting IMPERIUM 9–12 ...

The world’s most powerful team of mercenaries is on the defense…as an elite international kill squad led by Livewire & HARD Corps’ Major Charlie Palmer descends to destroy Imperium’s stronghold! Toyo Harada will save the world…if he doesn’t doom it first The revolutionary disruption that Harada & his team have launched – by deposing tyrants housing refugees & feeding the poor – has come at the expense of the world’s wealthiest nations When the planet’s leaders have had enough it will be decided Toyo Harada must die Now a crack unit of operatives will stand against Harada on the global stage…with his own former pupil Livewire taking him head-on The war starts here as New York Times best-selling writer Joshua Dysart (HARBINGER WARS) & Harvey Award nominated artist Khari Evans (HARBINGER The Immortal Iron Fist) unite for an explosive new chapter…pitting the Valiant Universe’s notorious team of monsters & revolutionaries against the very system they’ve sworn to overthrow! ...