Alexandria Board Gaming

We will be playing two games of Obsession with up to 8 players. All experience levels welcome. Expect the game teach to start promptly within the first 10 minutes.

In Obsession you are the head of a respected but troubled family estate in mid-19th century Victorian England. After several lean decades, family fortunes are looking up! Your goal is to improve your estate so as to be in better standing with the truly influential families in Derbyshire. In Obsession you will build a deck of Victorian gentry (British social upper class), renovate your estate by acquiring building tiles from a centralized builders' market, and manipulate an extensive service staff of butlers, housekeepers, underbutlers, maids, valets, and footmen utilizing a novel worker placement mechanic. Successfully hosting prestigious social activities such as Fox Hunts, Music Recitals, Billiards, Political Debates, and Grand Balls increases a player's wealth, reputation, and connections among the elite.

We will be playing Orléans with up to 5 players per game. All experience levels welcome. Expect the game teach to start promptly within the first 10 minutes.

During the medieval goings-on around Orléans, you must assemble a following of farmers, merchants, knights, monks, etc. to gain supremacy through trade, construction, and science in medieval France. In Orléans, you will recruit followers and put them to work to make use of their abilities. Farmers and Boatmen supply you with money and goods; Knights expand your scope of action and secure your mercantile expeditions; Craftsmen build trading stations and tools to facilitate work; Scholars make progress in science; Traders open up new locations for you to use your followers; and last but not least, it cannot hurt to get active in monasteries since with Monks on your side you are much less likely to fall prey to fate. You will always want to take more actions than possible, and there are many paths to victory. The challenge is to combine all elements as best as possible with regard to your strategy.

We will be playing Anachrony with up to 4 players per game. All experience levels welcome. Expect the game teach to start promptly within the first 10 minutes.

Anachrony is set after a catastrophic explosion has nearly wiped out the human race and made the planet mostly uninhabitable. The game is played over a dynamic timeline as an even more terrible cataclysm is looming on the horizon: an asteroid bearing the mysterious substance called Neutronium is heading towards Earth. Players may power up Time Rifts to reach back to earlier turns to supply their past "self" with resources. At its core Anachrony is a worker placement game requiring the use of your various specialists and sometimes even Exosuits to protect your specialists.

We will be playing The Old King's Crown with up to 4 players per game. All experience levels welcome. Expect the game teach to start promptly within the first 10 minutes.

The Old King's Crown is a game of card-driven conquest, where you play as heirs to a vacant throne, vying for control of an ancient, overgrown kingdom. As leader of your faction you will be staking claims with Heralds openly as well as positioning your forces in secret, hoping to claim the locations that fit your designs. However, keep an eye on your rivals, as they too have agents and agendas, poised to undo your best laid plans. In The Old King's Crown, players simultaneously play cards from their hand, facedown to regions of the board. When revealed and resolved, winning these clashes will result in different rewards that further their position and grant them influence. The player with the most influence by the end of a set number of rounds will be declared the winner.