IMT New Stock due in/available 30th September 2009

• Absolute Balderdash! - 20th Anniversary Edition - NEW Re-STOCK available 30th September 2009 (new stocked in 4th August 2005) ukL 29.99 (out of stock)
  [now (since 2007) got to specific customer order]
  A bluffing game, in which everyone tries to con the other players into believing their false answers to the questions read out from the cards upon the subjects of Words, People, Initials, Films, & Laws; the made-up answers are shuffled together with the correct one, and read out, with players whose fabrications are chosen scoring a move on the board.
  Learning to balance unlikelinesses in your misleading meanings with the thought that the most likely-sounding ones're most often untrue is essential - as is keeping a straight face whilst you give your own answers!
  For 2-8 Players ages 12-96; no estimated playing time given, but allow 30-90 minutes (though the game may be payed for longer)
  Contains 2,475 Questions upon 495 Cards; 8 Player Pieces, Rules Leaflet, Game Board & Definition Pad.
• Articulate! - NEW Re-STOCK available 30th September 2009 (new-stocked game in 4th August 2005) ukL 29.99
  [29th August 2009: this is possibly out of stock now, as a five-six minute search didn't result in its whereabouts being discovered - pp.]
  A game in which people playing in teams try to describe as many words as possible in thirty seconds to the other players on their team - without using the phrases "rhymes with" or "sounds like" (or their equivalents).
  For 4-20+ Players ages 12-96; no estimated playing time given, but allow 30-60 minutes (though the game may be payed for longer)
  Contains 3,000 Entries upon 500 Cards; 4 Playing Pieces, Quarter-Folding Circular Game Board, Spinner Arrow, Sand Timer, & the Rules.
  • Articulate! Extra Pack #1 - NEW Re-STOCK available 30th September 2009 (New expansion available 16th May 2007) ukL 17.99
    500 New Cards - 3,000 New Challenges to help drive you and your friends crazy, trying to describe and get across without using the phrases "sounds like", "rhymes with", and the like
    n.b. Expansion for Articulate!, above, and not playable without its rules; for 2-6 Players Ages 8-96
• Deadlands: The Battle for Slaughter Gulch - NEW GAME available 30th September 2009 ukL 34.99
  once thought a safe refuge from the wilder hazards of the weird west, the smell of fear has been added to the everyday dust and grit of the main street of the small town of Slaughter Gulch since Ghost Rock was struck nearby; you've come to lay claim to your share of this priceless find - but others have had the same idea. can you outwit them, and their attempts to take over Slaughter Gulch, and its promise of limitless wealth?
  or will your fortune prove to be just another unmarked grave on boot hill?
  for 2-6 Players Ages 13-96; playing-time estimate not furnished by uk wholesalers
  and see also the associated "Weird West" role-playing games: the 1870s-1890s [classic wild-west era] -set Deadlands: the Weird West rpg and and the present-to-near future-set Deadlands: Hell on Earth rpg
• Killer Bunnies: Journey to Jupiter: Laser Red Booster Deck - NEW EXPANSION available 30th September 2008 ukL 18.99
  more powerful ships & Beyea Aliens, and 3 additional Space Sectors for your Red Bunnies to explore
  n.b. expansion, not playable without the main game:
• Killer Bunnies: Journey to Jupiter - NEW GAME available 19th November 2008 ukL 29.99
  venture out to the dark depths of space to find the Magic Carrot and bring it back to Jupiter before one of your opponents manages to
  for 2-6 Players Ages 12-96; no estimated playing time advised
• Pandemic: On the Brink - NEW EXPANSION in 30th September 2009 ukL 22.99
  adds the option of a fifth player, and introduces 6 new Player Roles, and a revised OpEx Role Card, and a Bio-Terrorist Challenge option, pitting one player (identity unknown to any but them) against the rest, 8 new Special Events, plus three Challenge Kits, including the Bio-Terrorist challenge mentioned, the Virulent Strain, which makes one disease particularly deadly; and Mutation, in which a lurking disease suddenly erupts in unpredictable ways, acting differently to the original four (and the wholesalers've bothered to include the advice that it's purple);
  and adds the new, Legendary Level of play (plus 6 petri dishes in which to store your diseases & 12 pawns, and a bio-terrorist location-pad for his, her or its actions to be recorded in, 4 Blank Cards to be custom-created at your leisure, and the expansion's Rulebook.
  n.b. game expansion not playable without the main game: increases its stats to 2-5 Players ages 10-96, and is liable to increase playing-time to c. 60 Minutes
  designed by Matt Leacock and Tom Lehmann; graphic design by Joshua Cappel, cover art by Regis Moulun
• Pandemic - NEW Re-STOCK GAME in 3rd December, New game in 4th June 2008 ukL 27.99
  four virulent diseases have broken out in the world, and you must work together, planning and agreeing upon the strategy, and playing to one another's strengths, to eradicate them before they overwhelm humanity
  for 2-4 Players Ages 10-96; c. 45 Minutes Playing Time
• A Touch of Evil: Something Wicked - NEW EXPANSION available 30th September 2009 ukL 29.99
  a new gameboard, 4 new Characters, 4 new Villains, 130 new Game Cards, new Rules including for Solo Play
  contains 80 (20 Hero & 60 Monster) Plastic Miniatures, 20 Hero Sheets, 10 Plastic Door Stands, 10 Door, 39 Treasure, 49 Prop, 6 miscellaneous & 1 Town Markers, 12 Training, 4 Hero Turn, 16 Hero Order, 24 Fatigue, 24 Conquest, 32 Threat, 52 Coin & 55 each Wound & Effect & 1 Compass Rose Tokens, 180 Game Cards, 1 Breath Template, 1 Quest Guide, 12 Custom Dice, 1 Rulebook and 61 Map Pieces - so the Dungeon is designed afresh, every game.
  n.b. expansion for the main game, and not playable without it
  increases its stats to being for 1-12 Players Ages 12-96; 2-4 Hours Playing Time
• A Touch of Evil: Hero Pack 1 - NEW ACCESSORY available 30th September 2009 ukL 19.99
  adds 4 new heroes, each with its plastic miniature and hero sheet, new Villain, The Necromancer, plus 10 new game cards
• A Touch of Evil: Soundtrack CD Special Edition - NEW ACCESSORY available 30th September 2009 ukL 9.99
  adds five new atmospheric music tracks to the original thirteen, plus two exclusive game cards
• A Touch of Evil - NEW Re-STOCK available 24th June 2009 NEW GAME available 8th October 2008 ukL 34.99
  howling fills the night as the full moon rises over the small, secluded village of Shadowbrook, where gruesome murders have become a nightly occurrance, and superstition, dread and terror haunt the streets; some evil creature has made the village its abode.
  but all is not yet lost, not if there're heroic monster-hunters prepared to take on the task of tracking this monster to its lair, killing it, and reversing the tide of evil that threatens to engulf Shadowbrook...
  nor Player Numbers, nor Age-range (presumably 12-96), nor estimate of playing-time notified by wholesaler
• Twister - NEW Re-STOCK in 30th September 2009, new edition game in 2004 ukL 12.99
  from start positions standing on two edge spots out of the twenty-four coloured spots on the mat, take it in turns to call (two player game) or spin moves such as "Left Hand, Red", that all players must obey as fast as possible (or, which the next player in turn must attempt); if an elbow or knee touches the mat, or someone falls over, the offender is out.
  only one foot or hand may occupy any one coloured mat spot at a time; if all spots of the colour spun are occupied, spin again...
  contains the Twister Mat, Spinner (requires assembly before first play of game) and the Rules, which are on the bottom of the Box tray
  for 2 or more Players (with sufficient numbers, play in teams) Ages 6-96; c. 10 Minutes Playing-Time
• See also the full listing of Board Games in (& some of those available to order.
• (and see the full listing of War Games for IMT's current stock, & some of those available) for IMT's current stock, as the boundary between these categories is somewhat fuzzy.)

• Martian Fluxx - NEW GAME in 30th September 2009 ukL 12.99
  in which variation you are Martians trying to destroy the Pathetic Humans
  for 2-5 Players Ages 8-96; no estimate of playing-time supplied by wholesaler, but prob'ly 10-40 Minutes;
  possibly inter-playable with any and/or all of:
• Fluxx 3rd Edition ukL 9.99
  Special Offer: Two Decks of Fluxx 3rd Edition [rrp ukL 19.98] for ukL 15.99
  "Extra-Special Offer": Three Decks of Fluxx 3rd Edition [rrp ukL 29.97] for ukL 19.99
  a card game in which the rules change, potentially with every card played...
  for 2-6 Players (and more players, with more decks); Ages 8-96; 20-30 Minutes per game (which tend to follow on rapidly, one after the other, so long as time & refreshments hold out:
  [i've seen over a dozen friends enjoy playing Fluxx together at a wedding reception, using three decks amalgamated for the occasion :-)) (/me *waves* at cc, rruthi, jester aka angie b, and other afpers) - pp.]
  84 cards & the (starting) Rules and game principles (or lack thereof); inter-playable with:
• Eco Fluxx New game in 13th October 2005 ukL 9.99
  The Nature Game with the Ever-Changing Rules - designed by Alison Looney, based upon Fluxx, just above, and fully compatable with both it, Monty Python Fluxx and Zombie Fluxx;
  for 2-6 Players, Ages 8-108; 20-30 Minutes per game: 84 cards & instructions.
• Monty Python FLUXX - NEW Re-Promotion of GAME with NEW FREEBIE: (Game New in 22nd October 2008) ukL 13.99
  100 Game Cards and the Rules & general Game Principles
  for 2-6 Players, Ages 8-96; each game c. 10-40 Minutes Playing Time
  now with Monty Python Fluxx Castle Expansion - NEW in 29th April 2009 ukL 0.00! (with main game)
  seven extra cards to help (or hinder) you in your quest to help King Arthur and his knights find the Holy Grail; Bring a Shrubbery to the Knights who say "Ni!"; Lob the Holy Hand Grenade at the Killer Rabbit with Nasty Big Teeth! - but whatever you do, do it quick, before the game's goal (and even the rules) changes again!
  Monty Python FLUXX is based upon Fluxx and fully compatable with it, Eco Fluxx, and Zombie Fluxx:
• Zombie Fluxx New game in 17th October 2007 ukL 13.99
  Fluxx now with added Zombie Uprising!
  gives Keepers Shotguns, Chainsaws, Sandwiches, Coffee, and a few Friends to help you win, and introduces The Creeper, a new type of card: this hangs around in front of you, preventing you from winning;
  and if your Friends become Zombies, you'll have to kill them, as well...
  based upon Fluxx and fully compatable with it, Eco Fluxx and Monty Python Fluxx, above; all of these also compatible with the - alas o/p - Stoner Fluxx
  100 Game Cards and the Rules; designed by Andrew Looney for 2-6 Players Ages 8-96; c. 10-40 Minutes Playing Time (longer with more players, which will require more cards - whether from further copies of this set, or packs of the other Fluxx games
• Scary Tales: Deck 1: Little Red Riding Hood vs. Pinnochio - NEW GAME available 30th September 2009 ukL 10.99
• Scary Tales: Deck 2: The Giant vs. Snow White - NEW GAME available 30th September 2009 ukL 10.99
  first two releases in a new game set in fairy tale land, after the old King has died, leaving no unchallenged heir; players take the part of one fairytale character or another, battling one another to obtain ancient relics and prove themselves worthy of the throne
  designed by Reiner Knizia for 2 Players Ages 10-96; no estimate of playing-time supplied by wholesaler
• And See the range of Card Games stocked & availables page, including all the games advised available to order over the past four-five years as well as those currently in stock

• Magic the Gathering: Zendikar Fat Pack - NEW FAT PACK in 2nd October 2009 ukL 29.99
  each contains a player's guide, 8 booster packs, a land pack, a learn to play insert and an excerpt from Path of the Planeswalker [and probably a 20-sided spin-down life counter] in a Zendikar art-decorated card box
  - come in and order yours, if you want to be sure of one the week they're released
• Magic the Gathering: Zendikar Booster - NEW BOOSTER in 2nd October 2009 ukL 3.49
  15-cards per booster; 5 boosters rrp ukL 17.44 for ukL 16.50
  fully-prepaid display box of 36 boosters rrp ukL 125.64 for ukL 107.00
  Zendikar is a 249-Card expansion
• Magic the Gathering: Zendikar - NEW INTRO PACK available 2nd October 2009 ukL .99
  minimum order (6 Intro Packs) applies
  each contains a premium card, a booster pack, a 40-card pack [possibly basic land??], a learn to play insert and a strategy guide
• Magic the Gathering: Zendikar 9-Pocket Portfolio - NEW ACCESSORY scheduled available 2nd October 2009 ukL 5.99
• Magic the Gathering: Planechase Duel Deck Box - NEW ACCESSORY available 2nd October 2009 ukL 9.99
• Magic the Gathering: Zendikar Sideload Deck Box - NEW ACCESSORY available 2nd October 2009 ukL 2.49
  minimum order (4 deck boxes) applies
• Magic the Gathering: Zendikar Topload Deck Box - NEW ACCESSORY available 2nd October 2009 ukL 2.49
  minimum order (4 deck boxes) applies
• Magic the Gathering: Zendikar Chandra Deck Protectors - NEW ACCESSORY available 2nd October 2009 ukL 5.99
  minimum order (3 packs) applies
• Magic the Gathering: Zendikar Chandra Face Deck Protectors - NEW ACCESSORY available 2nd October 2009 ukL 5.99
  minimum order (3 packs) applies
• Magic the Gathering: Zendikar Island Deck Protectors - NEW ACCESSORY available 2nd October 2009 ukL 5.99
  minimum order (3 packs) applies
• Magic the Gathering: Zendikar Sorin Deck Protectors - NEW ACCESSORY available 2nd October 2009 ukL 5.99
  minimum order (3 packs) applies

• Catan Dice Game Deluxe - NEW Edition GAME available 30th September 2009 ukL 18.99
  6 plastic six-sided Catan Dice, full-colour, double-sided score sheets with choice of two maps for play, and lidded leather dice cup that will contain all the game's parts once it's removed from its transparent plastic blister pack and, presumably, the rules
  for 1-4 Players Ages 7-96; 15-30 Minutes Playing Time per game
  [game is already stocked in its original cardboard-boxed edition:
• Catan Dice Game NEW GAME in 7th May 2008 ukL 9.99
  discover, explore & settle Catan anywhere, at any time, rolling & risking your way to victory
  contains 6 embossed & coloured, six-sided wooden Catan Dice (i.e. with Game Symbols, not simply spot/numbered d6es), Tear-off Pad of Catan Dice Game Scoring Maps, and the Rules
  for 1-4 Players, Ages 7-96; 15-30 Minutes Playing-Time per game
  (See Also the full listing of the Settlers of Catan Board Game & expansions)

• Radio-Controlled R2D2 - NEW available 30th September 2009 ukL 24.99
  remote-controlled forwards, reverse, turn, spin swivelling head & play sound fx; size/height not advised by uk wholesaler

• Knights of the Dinner-Table #154: The Boys are Back in Town - NEW ISSUE in 30th September 2009 ukL 3.99
  see the full listing of this wonderfully funny monthly comic depicting the trials and tribulations, the triumphs and the tragedies, and the social lives of a group of role-players, their games-master, weird pete the FLGS-keeper and squirrelly; plus the doings of The Black Hand Gang (and the two groups' occasional interactions); plus news, views, reviews, and readers' letters; plus generic and Hackmaster RPG-specific support material; "and more..."
  plus links to the listings of the Bundles of Trouble collections of earlier issues of "KoDT", and of Tales from the Vault, the collections of the pre-comic strips published in the late, lamented Shadis, and other places including Dragon
• And see the Magazines & Misc. Page for current stock and other available titles (plus more "etc.")

• Baby's First Mythos - NEW Re-STOCK in 1st October 2009 First Thus: New Edition in 13th January 2005 (now in chewy hardcover) ukL 7.99
  [september 2009: back in stock after aaaages unobtainable]
  New Edition - most appropriately between (colour-printed) board covers - Now With Added X" (and schadenfreudistic afterword)
  "From the twisted minds of C.J. Henderson & Erica Henderson Comes the funniest Lovecraft book ever!" An Illustrated Cthuloid abcdary [the "correct" term for "alphabets", or so i am told], and Not Really a Cthuddly at all - but the pictures, the pictures...
• no new/reissue novel advised for distribution this week;
  see the full listing of Cthulhu Mythos and allied fiction; the Dragonlance Novels page,
  the Eberron Novels page,
  the full listing of the Forgotten Realms Novels page, etc.

• Primal Power - FORTHCOMING SOURCEBOOK scheduled for October or November 2009 hardcover c. ukL 20 (not yet published)
  drop in to order yours, to be sure of it the week it's released

• Battletech: Handbook: Major Periphery States - NEW SOURCEBOOK available 30th September 2009 ukL 23.99
  collects the details of the history, politics and cultures in a single volume (the uk wholesaler refrains from mentioning which these may be)
  and see the Battletech Game (and sourcebooks, adventures, etc)
• Castles & Crusades: Heart of Glass - NEW ADVENTURE available 30th September 2009 ukL 11.99
  pits your party against thieves, assassins and other denizens of the night
  for character levels 3-5
• Castles & Crusades: Lure of Delusion - NEW ADVENTURE available 30th September 2009 ukL 6.99
  in which children carried off into the forest by persons - or creatures - unknown must be rescued
  character levels not advised by uk wholesalers
  see the Castles & Crusades RPG (and sourcebooks, adventures, etc)
• Hero: War of Worldcraft - NEW ADVENTURE available 30th September 2009 ukL 6.99
  a strange sleeping-sickness virus is attacking the players of the world's most popular MMORPG...
  n.b. an introductory adventure requiring the forthcoming Hero System 6th Edition RPG
• d20 Savage Worlds: The Day After Ragnarok - NEW SETTING SOURCEBOOK available 30th September 2009 ukL 17.99
  Earth, after the Day of Reckoning for the Norse Gods; a grim world setting by Ken Hite
  see the Savage Worlds
• Serenity: Big Damn Heroes - NEW SOURCEBOOK available 30th September 2009 ukL 26.99
  new character options, new rules, including updated rules for character generation and ship combat (separately, i think - pp.), more universe/world background details, new npcs & stats, and further details of chinese words' pronunciation
  and see Serenity RPG, sourcebooks, adventures, etc.
• Starblazer Adventures: Storyteller Screen - NEW ACCESSORY available 30th September 2009 ukL 10.00
  [so at least the core rulebook for the rpg should also be available; e-ask me to enquire, should you be interested - ppint.]
• Trail of Cthulhu: Rough Magicks - NEW SOURCEBOOK available 30th September 2009 ukL 6.99
  written by Kenneth Hite;
  and see the Trail of Cthulhu RPG (and its sourcebooks, adventures, etc)
• Victoriana: The Marylebone Mummy - NEW ADVENTURE available 30th September 2009 ukL 10.00
  in which an innocent-seeming dinner invitation turns into a night of horror
• Victoriana: Faulkner's Millinery & Miscellanea - NEW SOURCEBOOK available 30th September 2009 ukL 20.00
  the essential guide for 1867, packed with detailed information on steam-powered mechanical devices, plus clothing, equipment and weapons
  and see Victoriana RPG (and sourcebooks, adventures, etc)
• generic/dice accessory: Stone Finish Dice-Rolling Tower - NEW ACCESSORY available 230th July 2009 ukL 16.99
  faux stone-effect, in tray, with three internal baffles and crenellations!!! to ensure everyone's dice-rolls truly are as random as they're meant to be...
  - and'll also make it a bit less of a bore, re-collecting and repeatedly rolling really mind-numbing numbers of dice in such games as require this of players, mentioning nor Axes, nor Allies, nor Dice Pools, nor Story-telling... - ? - ppint.
  [no dimensions advised by wholesalers - pp.]
• and see also the full listing of Role-Playing Games

• Lock'n'Load: Band of Heroes 2nd Edition - NEW EDITION GAME available 30th September 2009 ukL 44.99
  "brings the award-winning tactical combat system to the hedgerows of Normandy" [fighting through the bocage in 1944, in WW II]
  2nd Edn. features haloless maps, v3 rules, and corrected errata
  almost certainly for 2 Players, neither age range nor estimate of playing-time given
  • LnL: BoHeroes: Noville NEW EXPANSION available 11th March 2009 ukL 34.99
    set around the eponymous small belgian town
  • LnL: BoHeroes: Swift & Bold - EXPANSION available 19th September 2007 ukL 19.99
    adds British Paratroopers
• Kriegbot - NEW? GAME available 30th September 2009 ukL 22.99
  ["NEW?" because i've already been offered an expansion for the game]
  build robots from parts, and then battle upon a tactical terrain map
  for 2-6 Players Ages 10-96; no estimated playing-time advised by uk wholesalers
  • Kriegbot Expansion - NEW EXPANSION available 16th September 2009 ukL 6.99
    new weapons systems, units, rules and scenarios in a ziplock bag for the Kriegbot battle game, which main game is presumably also available
    n.b. expansion, not playable without the main game
• USNDeluxe - NEW IN 30th September 2009, new game in 2004 ukL 49.99 (ordered for a specific customer)
  update & expansion of the classic SPI game, USN (United States Navy), covering all of the World War II Pacific Theatre of Operations from Pearl Harbour through V-J Day and the end of the war.
  this edition includes two 34" x 22" (c. 70 x 55 cm) maps extending from Hawaii to India and from Australia to the Arctic, 840 naval, ground & air unit counters, improved & expanded rulebook with new scenarios as well as the historic and alternative history campaign games, Player Aid Cards, the Rules Booklet, 1 D6 die and bags for storing the parts;
  the interactive tactical system encourages the building of purpose-tailored integrated combined arms task forces for each mission
  for 1 or 2-Players; medium complexity for two, high complexity for solitaire play
• War for Edadh: The Anguth Expansion Deck - NEW EXPANSION available 30th September 2009 ukL 7.99
• War for Edadh: The Huaos Ozaa Expansion Deck - NEW EXPANSION available 30th September 2009 ukL 7.99
  new forces enter the war...
  for 2-4 Players Ages 10-96; no playing-time advised by uk wholesalers
  n.b. these are expansions, not playable without the main game:
• War for Edadh: The Beginning NEW GAME available 29th April 2009 ukL 17.99
  game cards represent the troops, their leaders, & standards, and the terrain and all other aspects of the game, including the tactical Conflict Resolution system, the new game's core mechanic
  no information provided by wholesalers as to player numbers (but presumably 2-4), age-range (but presumably 10-96); nor playing-time
• Anima Tactics: Light Faction: Arkeid - NEW MINIATURE available 30th September 2009 ukL 11.99
  [n.b. rrp correction by uk wholesalers - originally advised as rrp ukL 7.99]
• Anima Tactics: Dark Faction: Momiji - NEW MINIATURE available 30th September 2009 ukL 7.99
• See the full listing of War Games for IMT's current stock, & some of those available to order.
• (and see also the full listing of Board Games in (& some of those available) for IMT's current stock, as the boundary between these categories is somewhat fuzzy.)

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