IMT New Stock in/available 16th April 2008

[up here late because this week's advice/order solicitation sheet's not received until 12 noon 16th April 2008]

[my thanks to joy, who actually ran a copy off and posted it to me - ppint.]

"in" = has come into stock;

"due in" = advised available & ordered (or about to be) for stock;
"available" = advised available & orderable, but not ordered - yet!
[this is of course liable to change, upon receipt of your *g* - ppint.]

Board Games

• Aquaretto - NEW GAME - available 16th April 2008 ukL 30.99
  you each own a water-zoo, and earn points for the number of people you succeed in luring into yours; this takes building up both your zoo's facilities, and your collection of animals - but expanding both at the best rate can be tricky
  for 2-5 Players Ages 10-96; no estimate of playing time given
• Fruitirelli - NEW GAME - available 16th April 2008 ukL 27.99
  who will help the mother & father Hedgehog, Hare, Squirrel & Badger find and take the widely-scattered food home to their young families? and why do there always seem to be more trees in your way?
  for 2-4 Players Ages 4-96; no estimate of playing time given
• Hanging Gardens - NEW GAME - in 16th April 2008 ukL 24.99
  re-build your Hanging Garden of Babylon to the best of your ability and taste - and hope you succeed in being the one whose achievements most impress the Queen
  contents: 20 wooden Temples, 49 Point Tiles, 64 Building Cards, 1 Start Player Flower, the Game Board and the Rules Booklet
  designed by Din Li for 2-4 Players Ages 8-96; artwork by Harold Lieske; 30-45 Minutes Playing Time
• Stone Age - NEW GAME - in 16th April 2008 ukL 24.99
  collect wood from the forest, break & clear stone, build, plough fields, plant crops, pan for gold, and trade to build yours into the most successful village, and advance to become the greatest civilisation
  contents: 18 Tool, 28 Building, & 53 Supply Tiles; 106 Wooden Pieces (58 Resources, 40 Figures, & 8 Markers); 36 Civilization Cards, 1 Starter Player Figure, 7 d-6 Dice, 1 Leather Dice Cup, 4 Player Boards, the Game Board and the Rules Booklet
  designed by Michael Tummelhofer for 2-4 Players Ages 10-96; artwork by Michael Menzel; 60-90 Minutes Playing Time
• See the full listing of Board Games in (& some of those available) for IMT's current stock.
• See also the full listing of War Games for IMT's current stock, & some of those available to order, as the boundary between these categories is somewhat fuzzy.

Non-Collectable Card Games & Accessories

• Harrow Divination Deck & Card Game - NEW GAME - advised due in 2nd, may be in 9th^W 16th April 2008 ukL 9.99
  a stand-alone card game designed to be usable within the Pathfinder adventures (for d20/D&D 3.5 RPG), and to be featured throughout the second adventure path as the publisher keeps faith with 3.5 Edition DMs & Players;
  in skilled hands, Harrow can be used to foretell events, read fortunes, provide hints up to oracular levels; in inexpert hands, it may be used for social gambling - and in the hands of the unscrupulous (and sacriligeous), to fleece players' characters of their hard-won wealth, donkeys, horses, heirloom armour, spell-books, relics and even the very arms by which they make their livings
• Ticket to Ride: The Card Game - NEW GAME - due 23rd April 2008 ukL 13.99 (not yet arrived)
  collect Train Sets of Cards, in order to complete Destination Tickets - but beware Train-Robbers, who may steal Carriages and even Locomotives from you!
  a stand-alone card game based upon the very popular Ticket to Ride Boardgame
  Designed by Alan R. Moon for 2-4 Players Ages 8-96; Estimated Playing Time c. 30 Minutes
• otherwise, no new games/items/titles yet advised
• And see the full listing of (Non-Collectable) Card Games

Collectable Card Games & Accessories

• A Game of Thrones: Clash of Arms: Ancient Enemies - NEW Pack - available 16th April 2008 ukL 5.99
  2nd monthly installment expansion set of 40 fixed cards, including 20 new; n.b. not a playable deck in itself
• Torchwood TCG Pack - NEW TCG - available 16th April 2008 ukL 2.99
  minimum order (20 Packs) applies
  Captain Jack Harkness, former Time Agent from the 51st Century, and his team of experts, Gwen Cooper, Toshiko Sato, Ianto Jones & Dr. Owen Harper, take on Aliens, Monsters from different Dimensions, Creatures from the Dawn of Time and Rifts in the Fabric of the Universe
• Vampire the Eternal Struggle: Shadowed Court Collector's Deck - NEW EDITION - available 16th April 2008 ukL 5.99
  minimum order (4 Decks) applies
  reprint full set of the 100 vampires from the VteS Camarilla Expansion reusing the original artwork in the new, standard layout; new art for the Marcus Vitel card
• Yu-Gi-Oh: Gold Series Set 1 - NEW PACK - in 16th April 2008 ukL 12.99
  introducing the unique gold technology, and featuring many rare and highly sought cards, e.g. Jinzo, Don Zaloog, Mirror Force, & Crush Card Virus;
  25 cards per pack, selected semi-randomly out of 18 Gold Series (3:1) & 27 Common (22:1) Cards; 3 Gold Technology Cards in every pack (and in a superior production standards pack, fwtw).
  See also the full listing of Yu-Gi-Oh Collectable Card Game
• And see the full listing of Collectable Card Games

D&D and other Fantasy World Novels

• (non-named rpg world) Game Night - NEW TITLE by Jonny Nexus - in 9th April 2008 ukL 7.99
  A 10,000-year quest is about to be completed: prophecies will be fulfilled, ancient riddles answered, legendary evils worsted, and the true nature of the universe revealed. All that's lacking is the band of heroes to accomplish all this...
  Unfortunately, some of the Gods have taken a personal interest in the matter, and are guiding one of the characters towards the conclusion of this epic - that is, one each.
  So the Gods are doing what comes naturally - squabbling & back-stabbing one-another, accidentally blowing things up, petulantly refusing to play by the rules, and turning the All-Father's Great Creation into a mess of petty arguments, avoidable combat, fantasy cliches and unnecessary dice-rolls...
  "If you thought your games group couldn't be any worse, Game Night [shows] just how bad things can get when a bunch of unruly deities decide they want to play."
  "The funniest games-writer in the UK who isn't me." - James Wallis
• (non-rpg world) Northwest of Earth - NEW EDITION by C. L. Moore - RESTOCK due sometime in April 2008 ukL 6.99
  75th Anniversary Edition sub-titled The Complete Northwest Smith, with an introduction by C. J. Cherryh, collecting the thirteen classic "Northwest Smith" fantasy stories, in which he blazes a trail through the underbelly of the solar system's seedier side from the pleasure halls of ancient Mars to the crumbling temples of forgotten gods on the jungle planet, Venus from the magazines, classic sub-Burroughsian, sub-Howardian, tales of adventure from the long-crumbled pulp pages (mostly from Weird Tales); great fun, and plunderable for frpgs;
  and see also listing of other books in stock by "C. L. & Mr. C. L. Moore" (Henry Kuttner), and Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore (aka Lewis Padgett, Lawrence O'Donnell, etc, etc.) *g*) and also a listing of books in stock by Leigh Brackett (- as soon as i get around to doing this latter page)

Board, Role-Playing Games, War Games, Card Games & CCG Comics, Magazines, etc.

• Knights of the Dinner-Table #138: The Game Goes On - NEW ISSUE - in 16th April 2008 ukL 2.99
  ongoing comic adventures of various groups of role-players, adventures both rpg-nal & "real life"; general rpg & Hackmaster support material, news, reviews etc.
  see also the KoDT back issues listing (and links to the collections) of the comic strips
• And see the Magazines & Misc. page

Role-Playing Games

• Dark Heresy: Purge of the Unclean - NEW ADVENTURES - restock in 16th April 2008 ukL 20.00
  adventure trilogy: Rejoice for you are True, Shades on Twilight, & Baron Hopes
• Exalted: Manual of Exalted Powers: The Abyssals - NEW EDITION SOURCEBOOK - in 16th April 2008 hardcover ukL 16.99
  provided with the corrupted Essence of Solar Exalts by the Deathlords, the Abyssals are probably the greatest threat to Creation and its Exalted defenders in existence: frozen at the point of death and offered immense power in exchange for their enslavement to the Neverborn, these Knights of Death share but one mission, at their master's behest to drag the world and every living thing into the Void.
  will the Abyssals achieve their abhorrent aim - or will the faintest echo of their long lost history of heroisms serve to kindle a spark of resistance, sufficient for them to forsake their path to destruction, and to seek to redeem themselves and, just maybe, rejoin the ranks of the Solar Exalted?
  details the goals and powers of the Deathlords, rules for Necrotech, the occult science of building wonders upon the corpses of those slain for the purpose, and the abilities, Charms and generation of player & non-player Abyssal characters
• Exalted: Book of Celestial Directions 3: Yu-Shan - RE-STOCK SOURCEBOOK - restock in 16th April 2008 ukL 12.99
  the home of the gods, built by the Primordials as the refuge in which they might enjoy the Game of Divinity while their subordinates attended to the mundane tasks of Creation, Yu-Shan was taken by the gods as spoils of the Primordial War. Home to a massive bureaucracy rife with corruption, this continent-sized city has been under the sole control of the Sidereals since the Usurpation.
  Will the Return of the Solars upset the rule of the Sidereals, or will the Chosen of the Maidens succeed in finding a way to maintain their monopoly upon the resources of Heaven?
  and see the full listing of the Exalted Role-Playing Game (both 1st & 2nd editions)

forthcoming Role-Playing Games

pre-orders invited:

• Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: Keep on the Shadowfell - NEW ADVENTURE - due in c. 20th May 2008 ukL 19.99
  includes 4th Edn. Quick-Start Rules, pre-generated low-level characters suitable for starting this three-part adventure arc (part two due in July 2008)
  two softcover books & 3 poster maps in a folder; written by Bruce R. Cordell & Mike [illegible] [- Mike Mearls ?] lets you get the taste of 4th Ed. three weeks before the Players Handbook, Dungeonmasters Guide & Monster Manual are released:
• Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: Players Handbook - NEW EDITION CORE BOOK - due in 6th June 2008 ukL 19.99
• Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: Dungeon Masters Guide - NEW EDITION CORE BOOK - due in 6th June 2008 ukL 19.99
• Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: Monster Manual - NEW EDITION CORE BOOK - due in 6th June 2008 ukL 19.99
• Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: SLIP-CASED SET - SET of NEW EDITION CORE BOOKS - due in 6th June 2008 ukL 59.99
• Exalted: Dreams of The First Age - NEW EDITION SOURCE BOXED SET - due some time in April 2008 hardcover c. ukL 30.00 (?)
  (depending upon how accurate white wolf's web-site release date and how speedy the shipping prove to be)
  to be sure of getting your "Dreams Box" the week it's released, (come in and) pre-order it
• RuneQuest Monsters II - NEW TITLE - scheduled for April 2008 ukL nyk
• RuneQuest: Dara Happa Stirs - NEW CAMPAIGN/SOURCEBOOK - scheduled for April 2008 ukL 20.00
• RuneQuest: Land of the Samurai - NEW SOURCEBOOK - scheduled for April 2008 ukL nyk
  and some, any, all or none of the above three titles may be appearing next week, or the week after... according to the mungeese (& ken, re Hara Dappa Dips)
  again, to be sure of getting yours the week they're released, (come in and) pre-order them
  See the full listing of the RuneQuest Role-Playing Game (2nd, 3rd & 4th editions)
• And also the full listing of Role-Playing Games

War Game Accessories, Miniatures etc.

got to customer order

• AT-43: Kaptars 2 Attachment Box - NEW - available 16th April 2008 ukL 18.99
  turns a Kaptar unit into a deadly accurate tool; contains 4 minis, 6 reference cards
• Axis & Allies: North Africa 1940-43 Map Guide - NEW - available 16th April 2008 ukL 9.99
  large, double-sided battle maps (reverse is jungle terrain for Pacific Theatre campaigns) with detailed artwork; scenarios; terrain-specific rules; companion to Axis & Allies: North Africa 1940-43 Expansion
• Wings of War - available 9th April 2008 ukL 6.99 each
  6 more detailed miniatures for the game in First World War (1914-1918) aces & other famous pilots colours:
  Fokker DVII Goering, Shafer, Ernst Udet; Sopwith Snipe Baker, Barker, Ryrie
• Wings of War - available 9th April 2008 (correcting the wrong price originally advised) ukL 8.99 each
  6 more detailed miniatures for the game in First World War (1914-1918) aces & other famous pilots colours:
  Airco de Haviland DH4 Cadbury & Leck, Atkey, American Expeditionary Force; Roland CII Manfred? Lothar? von Richthofen, Seibert & Pleger, Luftstreitskraft

War Games

• Field Commander: Rommel - NEW - available 16th April 2008 ukL 24.99
  take command of the forces at Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's command in three separate campaign scenarios, the invasion of France 1940, the attempt to take the middle-eastern oilfields in North African desert, 1941, and the defence of Normandy, D-Day 1944
  solo game designed by Dan Verssen, first in this new series; the Allied troop movements, reinforcements and combat are determined by an easy-to-use game management system

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