In Rival Kings two royal families compete for the country & its people High-ranking personalities prevent the members of the opposing family from using their subjects for their own purposes & from erecting valuable buildings — but everything comes at a price Who will lead his family to fame & honor? Text from publisher The position of the leader of the empire is vacant But who has what it takes to become the new king? In order to increase their power the contenders for the throne rally the country & its people around themselves Who will make the best use of the influence of important personalities & engage his competitors in conflicts without suffering damage himself? Rival Kings is a stalwart card game from HUCH! & friends At the beginning of each cycle each player chooses one Character card & places it face down in front of him Once all players have done so they turn them over simultaneously The Character cards determine the order of play the number of possible actions & potential conflicts Low-ranking characters have more actions at their disposal but they may act only after the higher-ranking characters In addition each character may come into conflict with certain other characters When this happens the higher-ranking character may take one action from the inferior character & carry it out immediately; this action is then no longer available to the lower ranked during his turn After the Character cards have been played & potential conflicts have been resolved the action phase begins Now depending on the action a player can take money get rid of Conflict markers recruit subjects or buy a building Players try to secure good combinations of buildings & subjects for themselves in order to get a high score in the end Besides this the subjects recruited during the game provide different advantages that can have a crucial impact on the course of the game However only one subject is active per player – if a new Subject card is added it covers the player&s previously laid-out bonus The game ends as soon as one of the card piles has been depleted The player who has collected the best combinations & has as few Conflict markers as possible lying in front of him has the best chance of assuming the throne Players 2-4 Playing time 20-30 Ages 8 ...

Tracklist Do Your Worst Sugar On The Bone Back In The Woods Look Away Feral Roots Too Bad Stood By Me Imperial Joy All Directions End Of Forever Shooting Stars ...

Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O' Hara a mega-star of great glamour & integrity with a radiant feckless wife a handsome son & two ravishing teenage daughters Living rather too closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black divorced & as dissolute as ever & now the Tory Minister for Sport Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realise that the Managing Director Lord Baddingham is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook a gorgeous but domineering woman executive to produce Declan's programme Declan & Cameron detest each other provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise reputations ripen & decline true love blossoms & burns marriages are made & shattered & sex raises its (delicious) head at almost every throw as in bed & boardroom the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Gritty French crime drama set in 1970s Lyon based on the novel by Bruno & Michel Papet Gabriel (Francois Cluzet) & Francois (Guillaume Canet) are two brothers from a tough neighbourhood who have each grown up on different sides of the law Gabriel is soon to be released from jail after serving ten years for murder & his police inspector brother Francois is doing all he can to draw a line under their rivalrous past & help Gabriel reinstate himself in the outside world But despite their good intentions real life & the demons of the past catch up with the brothers leading them to an impasse that even the strong bond of blood may not be able to overcome ...

Please Note You will need The Rivals for Catan in order to play this expansion 3-Theme 125-Card Expansion for the two player card game First theme The Era of Explorers Set sail from Catan! Explore! Discover new lands! Your Explorer Harbor serves as a starting point for your exploration of 9 adjacent sea cards Pirates islanders & Shipwrecks await across the waters Embark on missions & try to be the best explorer Ship tokens chart your position Victory awaits the most skilled & intrepid sailor! Second theme The Era of Sages Influence events! The wisdom—currency—of the many & varied sages gives you the opportunity to influence the strength & frequency of events Fend off famines Deflect attacks Promote peace Connect with nature & balance prudence power foresight & vigilance in a your noble struggle Third theme The Era of Prosperity Be a good prince Govern wisely Build schools a Hospital even promote the arts Raise your people’s spirits & spur expansion But beware… Discontent dooms prosperity! ...

The Rivals for Catan Age of Darkness a 90-card expansion for The Rivals for Catan

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The Rivals for Catan Age of Darkness a 90-card expansion for The Rivals for Catan

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Based on the best-selling anthologies of Victorian & Edwardian detective fiction The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes showcases the world-famous consulting detective&s fictional rivals in the fog-shrouded crime capital of London Set in the three decades before the Great War each story dealt with an individual & perplexing case (and a different detective) This top-flight BAFTA-winning series attracted an incredible array of talent including John Thaw Derek Jacobi Joss Ackland Jean Marsh Michael Sheard & Richard Beckinsale This set contains 13 high-quality episodes comprising the complete second series Actors John Thaw Derek Jacobi Joss Ackland Jean Marsh Michael Sheard Judy Geeson & Richard Beckinsale Certificate 12 years & over Year 1973 Screen Fullscreen 133 Languages English
- Mono Duration 10 hours & 50 minutes (approx)
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Tracklist The Serpent Far Beyond Edge Of Time Shadow Man Finnish Woods Fortune Teller I Remember Leap Of Faith Sweet Child ...

' After many years I had excised myself from the life I had led in town just as one might cut a figure out of a landscape or group photo Abashed by the harm I had wreaked on the picture left behind & unsure where the cut-out might end up next I lived a provisional existence I did so in a place where I knew none of my neighbours where the street names views smells & faces were all unfamiliar to me in a cheaply appointed flat where I would be able to lay my life aside' In RIVER a woman moves to a London suburb for reasons that are unclear She takes long solitary walks by the River Lea observing & describing her surroundings & the unusual characters she encounters Over the course of these wanderings she amasses a collection of found objects & photographs & is drawn into reminiscences of the different rivers which haunted the various stages of her life from the Rhine where she grew up to the Saint Lawrence the Hooghly & the banks of the Oder Written in language that is as precise as it is limpid RIVER is a remarkable novel full of poignant images & poetic observations an ode to nature edgelands & the transience of all things human ...