Sci-Fi

Designed by Richard Borg of Memoir '44 and Battle Cry fame, Abaddon is a game of futuristic combat set in the depths of space.

Mankind has taken a galactic leap forward through space, time, and technology. Life as we know it struggles to endure on the Abaddon. Once the home of a mysterious, non-human civilization, the planet is now a desolate wasteland bearing one immensely precious resource: Feronium power crystals. The unimaginable energy contained within the crystals is coveted by two groups of humans: the Satellite City-States and the Commonwealth Alliance.

Combat is card- and dice-based with each scenario laid out on the customizable battlefield game board with each side using a varying number of units.

Abaddon contains a 28" x 19" battlefield game board with 32 highly-detailed mech figurines, 18 free-standing landscape terrain features, over 100 game-changing Wild Fire and Weapon System cards, dozens of tokens, battle dice and a Battle Manual containing over 15 mission scenarios.

Abaddon is a game for 2-4 players ages 14 and up, and can be played in 45 minutes.

Alien Frontiers is a game of resource management, worker placement, and area control set in a retro-future scifi universe.

The dice you receive at the start of the game represent the spaceships in your fleet. Docking your ships at the orbital facilities will earn resources, expand your fleet, raid your opponents, discover alien technology, trade commodities, and build colony domes to land on the planet.

Winning will require careful consideration as you assign your fleet, integrate the alien technology and territory bonuses into your expansion plans, and block the other players from building colonies of their own.

Alien Frontiers is a game for 2-4 players ages 13 and up, and can be played in 60-90 minutes.

Android is a board game of murder and conspiracy set in a dystopian future. Detectives travel between the city of New Angeles and moon colony Heinlein chasing down leads, calling favors, and uncovering the sinister conspiracy beneath it all. The detectives must balance their pursuit of the murderer against their personal lives and inner demons.

Android's innovative mechanics ensure that no two detectives play alike. Will you play as Louis Blaine, the crooked cop tormented by guilt and loss? Or will you take the role of Caprice Nisei, the psychic clone who struggles to retain her sanity while proving she's just as human as anyone else?

Whomever you choose to play, you've got just two weeks to solve the murder, uncover the conspiracy, and face your personal demons. Better get moving, detective.

Android is a game for 3-5 players ages 13 and up, and can be played in 2-4 hours.

Cylons Threaten Humanity's Last Hope of Survival

Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is an exciting game of mistrust, intrigue, and the struggle for survival which places each player in the role of one of ten of their favorite characters from the show. Each playable character has their own abilities and weaknesses, and all must work together in order for humanity to have any hope of survival. However, one or more players in every game is secretly a Cylon, and wants the humans to perish.

Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is a game for 3-6 players ages 10 and up, playable in 2-3 hours.

The Merchant of Venus boardgame is a revision of the 1980's classic - players take on the roles of space traders who move their ships through interconnected systems discovering new alien worlds to trade with. As players start to make money delivering commodities in a unique supply-and-demand system, their earnings can be used to purchase better ships and equipment.

Players discover new alien cultures and learn where they can get rich selling their goods in this board game of interstellar trade and exploration. Successful traders will quickly locate fast and reliable trade routes, timing their purchases and sales with the interest in the market.

Merchant of Venus is a game for 2-4 players, ages 14 and up.

Available to pre-order now - released February 2012.

A new edition of this classic game, Nexus Ops is set in the year 2315. Two to four players control factions of corporate troops and strange life forms on an alien moon, deploying troops from their home base to explore the landscape, mine resources, purchase troops, win battles, and fulfill missions, all in an attempt to gather enough power to claim the moon for themselves.

The game includes over 160 detailed plastic figures, 100 tokens and 17 hexagonal map tiles.

Nexus Ops is a game for 2-4 players, ages 14 and up, a game takes 45 - 90 minutes.

Available to pre-order now - released January 2012.

With the help of celebrity game designer Dr. Richard Garfield, Avalon Hill is re-launching RoboRally, Garfield's classic game of battling robots. RoboRally has been out of print since the late '90s. RoboRally is a fast-moving robot race. Each player tries to be the first to cross a series of checkpoints by manoeuvring a robot across the floor of the "Grid Widget Factory."

The course is laced with perils such as lasers, crushers, missile launchers, and conveyer belts. The 2005 edition of RoboRally includes new design and play mechanics that differ from the game's original 1994 release, but it's still completely compatible with the first edition.

RoboRally is a game for 2-8 players ages 12 and up, and can be played in 30+ minutes.