Simple but fun game based on playing from a hand of cards representing robots Each has special powers & affects the stack (stak) in different ways making it more tactical than a simple rock-paper-scissors exercise The game functions by giving each player a stack of cards as well as a hand Each turn players take a new card from the shared draw pile & may add a face-up card to the stack trash a card from the stack or from their hand When a card is played it will have "entry effect" that may operate on the stack ordering of the player or opponent Once all playingtrashing is finished for a turn the player may attack the card on top of an opponent&s stack with the top card of their own The battle itself is quite simple & just a matter of comparing power although assuming your bot survives its first battle it can go on to attack the newly revealed card underneath The real tactical consideration goes into the pre-attack stack manipulation phase There is an open turn structure which allows players to carry out actions in any order & any number of times This means they can react to the often unpredictable results of long entry effect chains or to cards that their opponents play defensively during your turn The game is also customisable you can adjust the complexity or game length by adding more Staks for each player or by changing basic game mechanics ...

Like each set before it the Red box brings 60 game cards with 16 brand new Bots each with a different function some manoeuvre cards when they enter play some destroy extra cards when they do damage some have passive enhancements etc etc Used in combination these different effects & abilities allow you to create weaknesses in your opponent&s card arrangement & then take advantage of it to destroy them! This new Red set has a strong focus on the number of face-up cards in a Stak & the arrangement of them & it mixes in perfectly with both of the existing card sets Sent wonderfully packaged this incredible Card Game will be sent swiftly & before you know it it will be sitting proudly on your desk & receiving admiring comments from all your family friends & colleagues! What you get Stak Bots Card Game
- Red Expansion Suitability For Between 1
- 4 players For ages 8 years & over

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The first expansion for Stak Bots the battling robots card game More Bots! More fun! More mayhem! Explore brand new Bot abilities & entry effects; add them to your original set & try playing one of several new game variations! This is an expansion for the original game but can be played on its own by using the online instructions for the original set ...

The general idea of the wooden game Staka is to stack & win & the game comes with five modes of play In Duel mode two players compete to stack figures before their opponent The first with five figures completed wins the game In Flash mode the players try to complete the figure against the clock which is represented by a die that opponents roll & add up In Crash mode it's the first to crash the construction that loses In Zen mode take your time put on your noise-cancelling headsets & try to complete the twenty challenges in the game In Art mode unleash your creativity & build new figures Details Players 1-4 Playing time 20-60 mins Ages 7 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In the highly acclaimed Stake Land hailed by some critics as "the American horror film of the year" the US has become a lost nation When an epidemic of vampirism strikes humans find themselves on the run Cities are tombs & survivors cling together in rural pockets fearful of nightfall When his family is slaughtered young Martin (Connor Paolo) is taken under the wing of a grizzled wayward hunter whose new prey are the undead Simply known as Mister (Nick Damici) he takes Martin under his wing on a journey through the locked-down towns of America&s heartland battling against not only feral vampires but also the fanatical savagery of the right wing religious cult known as The Brotherhood in search of the fabled safe haven New Eden ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play While on an FBI stakeout detective Chris Lecce (Richard Dreyfuss) falls hard for Maria (Madeleine Stowe) the woman he&s supposed to be watching Soon he&s inside her home enjoying a torrid love affair while his young partner Bill Reimers (Emilio Estevez) waits across the street looking through his binoculars & fuming But the woman&s ex-boyfriend (Aidan Quinn) a crazed escaped convict who is the real object of the stakeout is on his way back to see her & poses a very dangerous threat to the new couple Director John Badham&s entertaining blend of action & humor highlights the comic timing & chemistry between Dreyfuss & Estevez who deliver first-rate performances Actors Emilio Estevez Richard Dreyfuss Madeleine Stowe Aidan Quinn Dan Lauria Forest Whitaker Ian Tracey & Earl Billings Director John Badham Certificate 15 years & over Year 1987 Languages English ; Spanish Subtitles Danish ; English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; Norwegian ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 1 hour & 52 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play During World War II a group of GI&s are thrown together in the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17 For the most part they spend their time scheming ways to help each other escape But when two prisoners are killed in an escape attempt it becomes obvious that there is a spy among them William Holden was awarded an Oscar for his performance as a cynical sharp-tongued soldier who spends his time scheming up rackets & trading with the Germans for special privileges Actors William Holden Otto Preminger Don Taylor Neville Brand Peter Graves & Robert Strauss Director Billy Wilder Certificate PGYear 1953 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English ; French ; German ; Italian ; Spanish
- Dolby Digital (20) Mono Subtitles Arabic ; Bulgarian ; Croatian ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; English for the Hearing Impaired ; Finnish ; French ; German ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Hungarian ; Icelandic ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Portuguese ; Romanian ; Slovenian ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 2 hours (approx)
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Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material
- available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union
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Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin & his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator Marxist leader & Russian tsar Based on groundbreaking research Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals in captivating detail the fear & betrayal privilege & debauchery family life & murderous cruelty of this secret world Written with extraordinary narrative verve this magnificent feat of scholarly research has become a classic of modern history writing Showing how Stalin's triumphs & crimes were the product of his fanatical Marxism & his gifted but flawed character this is an intimate portrait of a man as complicated & human as he was brutal & chilling ...

A chilling reassessment of the Soviet Union's advances in biological warfare & the West's inadvertent contributions 240 pages Rimmington Anthony ...