Fief France 1429 is a game of dynastic ambition in which players assume the roles of nobles in the 15th century kingdom of France Each player strives to become the most powerful ruling force in the kingdom by gaining control of Fief & Bishopric territories In turn they acquire Royal & Ecclesiastical (church) titles which give their families influence to elect the next Pope & King Players strengthen their positions by negotiating marriage alliances between their families setting the stage for love treachery & deception! Fief is a classic French-language game & is being re-introduced by Academy Games in English with updated rules new units a new & larger consolidated map & more This edition also

Includes:: additional components which enhances game play The game board represents a portion of the Kingdom of France in the Middle Ages Villages have square outlines that are connected by roads that allow Lord & Troop movement The villages are grouped into eight colored background areas that represent individual Fiefs which are domains given to Lords to preside over Fiefs have different colored backgrounds & Bishoprics have heavy bordered outlines that include several different Fiefs Each village also belongs to one of five church Bishoprics; each Bishopric is outlined with a heavy border line & is numbered between 1-5 along the edge of the board inside a Bishop&s Mitre Each player controls up to four family members comprised of male & female nobles These family members will rise in power by gaining Royal & Ecclesiastic Titles In Fief France 1429 a player may attempt to gain control of all the villages in a Fief to gain the Royal Title of Baron Earl or Duke For each Fief a player controls he gains 1 VP These Titled Lords may now take part in the election for the next King They may even be a candidate to become King thus bringing 1 VP & more power to the family! Other members of your family may follow the calling of the Church to gain the Ecclesiastical Titles of Bishop & then Cardinal These titles allow you to Tithe Bishoprics taking the Church&s (ie "your") fair share of income from other Fief Lords! The highest goal your clerical family member can attain is to be elected Pope bringing 1 VP & special privileges to your family! You win the game as soon as you have 3 VPs This is easier said than done & you may need to form alliances with other players through diplomacy & marriage to obtain your goal When one of your family members marries a noble of another family the two of you become allied You now win the game together with 4 VPs & cannot win alone unless your marriage is annulled by the Pope or your spouse is "mysteriously" murdered or dies of some other foul means! In addition to being wary of your fellow players you may draw event cards that can quickly change your destiny Bounty Event cards are beneficial to the Player & include " Good Harvest" " Good Weather" & " Added Taxes" cards But some cards are Disaster Cards that can randomly effect all players in specific Bishoprics These include " The Plague" " Heavy Rain" " Famine" & " Peasant Uprisings"! Income can be increased by players imposing church tithes on their opponent&s villages or taxing their own Fiefs Players may purchase new Fief titles improve their village incomes with mills & fortify their cities Players will also need to protect their land & castles Men at Arms & Knights can be purchased as well as Siege Engines If you feel that other players are not running their Fiefs as well as you can you may try to invade their territories! But you must risk one of your family members to lead the troops into possible battle where they might be killed or taken prisoner If two opposing armies are in the same village square a Battle may be initiated The players assess the size & strength of their armies which determine the number of Battle Dice each may roll Each "f" rolled is a hit Men at Arms are defeated with one hit while Knights require three hits to be removed from the battle The Kickstarter Edition of Fief France 1429 included the Fief France 1429 Expansions Pack & offered 3-D buildings & metal coins as &add ons& These items are all still available directly from Academy Games

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Let Arne & Carlos guide you on a journey into the colourful & imaginative bird kingdom! Inspired by nature both at home & abroad from their garden in Tonsasen comes the characteristic bullfinch chickadee & wagtail to name a few
- but the fun doesn't stop there Knit cold weather birds with Norwegian traditional patterns & keep them warm with bird-sized wool caps & scarves make brilliant birds-of-paradise decorated with embroidery sequins & feathers or spread your wings a little further with birds featuring vintage Mexican embroidery motifs These delightful birds can be used as decorations year-round but they may tend to migrate towards the Christmas tree when the time approaches With clear instructions helpful diagrams & full-colour photographs it's time for every knitter's imagination to take flight
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Oneironautics from the Greek words oneira meaning dream & nautis meaning sailor An oneironaut is someone who has learned to travel consciously in the dream world If you have ever whilst sleeping been aware that you were dreaming & even for a moment used that awareness to control the course of your dream then you have experienced lucid dreaming Until now books on lucid dreaming have had a distinctly 'woo-woo' slant-emphasising spiritual or supernatural aspects or concentrating on psychological self-discovery The writers of A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming
- three award winning writers & filmmakers who began lucid dreaming in their teens
- have searched for the best techniques out there made some improvements & then boiled them down to their simplest most practical forms to make this ability available to everyone With dozens of real life dream accounts by lucid dreamers & forty beautiful dreamlike illustrations this is the book on dreaming for a new generation

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This fully revised & updated edition of A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia is the only comprehensive guide to identifying all 382 species of mammals known in Australia This book provides concise & accurate details of the appearance diagnostic features distribution habitat & key behavioural characteristics of all mammals known to have occurred in Australia or its waters since the time of European settlement Each double-page spread provides all the information needed to identify an animal a full-colour illustration of the entire animal a smaller diagram of diagnostic features a distribution map & species description & measurements including details of how to differentiate between similar species Identification keys are provided for groups that are difficult to identify to species level including keys to the genera of small marsupials rodents & bats & all marine mammals likely to be washed on to an Australian beach whales dolphins porpoises seals & the Dugong ...

Thailand is probably the most popular destination for tourists in Asia & birders have long travelled there to observe its wealth of wildlife This comprehensive guide to the birds of Thailand is an indispensable field reference for birdwatchers residents & visitors to the country alike It covers all 950 species that have been recorded in Thailand with 166 magnificent colour plates covering most plumage variations Each plate is accompanied by concise text for each species & distinctive subspecies detailing identification voice habitat & behaviour In addition there is a distribution map for every species based on the very latest information ...

The ever-popular subject of trees is covered in this fantastic field guide which

Includes:: more than 150 species

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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 Ben Wheatley&s A FIELD IN ENGLAND is a psychedelic genre-bending trip set in Civil War era England A group of deserters are taken captive by a pair of treasure-hunting alchemists & are forced to help them search the mushroom-laden fields Paranoia hallucinations & madness ensues when the men make the mistake of harvesting the innocent-looking mushrooms for a much needed meal Age Rating 15 ...

Erwin Rommel was a complex man a born leader brilliant soldier a devoted husband & proud father; intelligent instinctive brave compassionate vain egotistical & arrogant In France in 1940 then for two years in North Africa then finally back in France again in Normandy in 1944 he proved himself a master of armored warfare running rings around a succession of Allied generals who never got his measure & could only resort to overwhelming numbers to bring about his defeat & yet for all his military genius Rommel was also naive a man who could admire Adolf Hitler at the same time that he despised the Nazis dazzled by a Fuhrer whose successes blinded him to the true nature of the Third Reich Above all he was the quintessential German patriot who ultimately would refuse to abandon his moral compass so that on one pivotal day in June 1944 he came to understand that he had mistakenly served an evil man & evil cause He would still fight for Germany even as he abandoned his oath of allegiance to the Fuhrer when he came to realize that Hitler had morphed into nothing more than an agent of death & destruction In the end Erwin Rommel was forced to die by his own hand not because as some would claim he had dabbled in a tyrannicidal conspiracy but because he had committed a far greater crime
- he dared to tell Adolf Hitler the truth In Field Marshal historian Daniel Allen Butler not only describes the swirling innovative campaigns in which Rommel won his military reputation but assesses the temper of the man who in the final reckoning fought only for his country with no dark depths beyond
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