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New Game Stuff (5/24/2013)

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May 242013

Multiple centuries in the future, the Sedition Wars rage on.

In the Battle for Alabaster, two players compete in a head-to-head miniature game unlike any other. Designed to be an extremely fast-paced system for players who wish to avoid hour long miniature battles, Sedition Wars comes with all the essential miniatures for two armies. An easy to learn rule system involving one-roll, reactive gameplay, Sedition Wars is a horror sci-fi miniature game for all ages.

Roses are red, violets are blue, rhymes are hard…lets talk about Cyrano.

Based on the real life Cyrano de Bergerac, this card based game has players creating sweet poetic serenades to woo the local females. Each round begins with the placement of a theme card, deciding the tone and focus of the poem, as well as two rhyme cards. Players then compete to create four line poems, using the communal rhyme cards to complete lines. A secret voting round then decides the point payout based on how people voted. So start thinking of those rhyming couplets. Maybe even in iambic pentameter.

Just when you thought all the zombies had holes blown in their heads and tire treads over their chests, City of Horror rears its head.

Rule one of the zombie apocalypse is not in fact cardio, like Zombieland would have you believe, but watch your back. The reason this is so important to City of Horrors is that players have incentive to screw over their opponents. Each player controls various human characters, sending them around the board to complete necessary survival actions. But beware zombies who are ready to storm the buildings at any time and people who are ready to push you in front of them to save their own hide. A cutthroat game of survival, City of Horror is the newest zombie adventure on the block.

Every good RPG system requires a GM’s toolkit nowadays, so the Warmachine RPG, Iron Kingdoms, receives one this weekend. Coming with a game screen, ten initiative cards, ten life spiral cards, an encounter sheet, and a character sheet, this toolkit is essential for any self-respecting game master.

The force is strong with the newest Star Wars LCG Force Pack, A Dark Time introduces sixty new cards into the game, many featuring the evils of the Sith and the Empire.

New Game Stuff (5/3/2013)

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May 032013

Life is full of tough questions. Paper or plastic? With or without cheese? Red pill or blue pill?

Pig or dog?

The correct answer to the latter question is actually both. And, luckily, when you buy a copy of Pick-a-Dog and Pick-a-Pig you get both. When combined with each other, these games go from 2-5 players to 6-8 players, blending matching and dexterity games together no matter which version you play. A grid of cards sits in the center of the table, each with five attributes noted on them. Players also have a single card in their hand. Once the game has begun, everyone tries to grab a card with at least four similar attributes, adding it to their hand and continuing from there. The game stops when one player has no more cards to grab. As one can imagine this game plays well with family members or friends plus a bottle of scotch.

Is your tower protected?

Not exactly a new game, but one we’ve just gotten back in stock, Batt’l Kha’os is a tile laying game with some fighty bits thrown in. Players attempt to take control of various tower tiles laid across the table by placing their own army tiles around it. Each tile intersection point is then totaled up for the amount of humans vs. orcs and whoever has the most takes the corner. Once all four corners around a tower are calculated, whoever has the most corners (orcs or humans) takes control of the tower. Though it leaves some letters out of its title, Batt’l Kha’os combines the best of Carcassonne and Pocket Battles.

Nathan Fillion has charmed television, comics, and cinema, but now he’s setting his sights on the world of board gaming. Castle: The Detective Card Game transformers the comedy and mystery of the hit television series into a clue solving card game. Players take control of a key character from the show in order to piece together the clues and figure out who the murderer is. Players can choose to compete in episode mode, finding only one killer to win the game, or season mode, playing through a range of episodes and murderers to see who has solved the most by the end.

In the middle of all this complicated gaming hooha, let me throw in a quick shout-out to the newest Data Pack for the Netrunner LCG from Fantasy Flight. Humanity’s Shadow includes the standard assortment of sixty new cards to be incorporated into the base game. Download them into your hand right now.

Tear down your quarantine signs, put aside your rifles, and lay down your machetes, and come out of your reinforced basements because it’s time for the first Zombicide expansion to arrive. Although, as this expansion, Walk of the Dead (see what they did there?), contains twenty-four additional zombie miniatures, you may still want to guard your brain. There are also twelve spawn cards include so that these figures can be introduced into the game. Stay close, lock and load, and make sure to wear a helmet.

Ahoy, maties, it be Catan: Pirates and Explorers!

The newest expansion for the hit Catan game series, Pirates and Explorers, like Cities and Knights, Seafarers, and Traders and Barbarians before it, adds new mechanics to the already popular ones from Settlers of Catan. Bridging the gap between Catan and Seafarers, Pirates and Explorers starts players out on one island, searching for resources and settlers to build and pilot a sailing vessel to another island. Once there, players discover a range of new resources to continue building and growing. This version of the game comes packed with five original scenarios to keep the gameplay fresh and original.

And, because of time and all that stuff, the last three items tonight will be presented in image only. They do say pictures speak louder than words, right?

Okay, maybe a few words.

There’s Ugg-Tect, a cooperative game where players have to act like cavemen while instructing each other on how to build a prehistoric building. There are also inflatable clubs included.

Two RPG softcovers also release this weekend.

One, for Call of Cthulhu (Atomic-Age Cthulhu), providing a 50s era setting for Cthulhuian mystery and murder with a nuclear backdrop.

And, two, the newest addition to the Only War Warhammer 40K RPG, Hammer of the Emperor.

New Game Stuff (4/19/2013)

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Apr 192013

Restock is the magic word for this week’s New Game Stuff.

Above all else is the return or revenge or attack of the X-Wing miniatures game. After having been out of print for a limited time, all of the wave two ships are back in stock. That’s the Tie Infiltrator, the Millennium Falcon, the A-Wing, and the Slave I. And they’re just in time, too, because this Sunday brings the first Star Wars X-Wing League Play day up at the store. So choose whether you support the Rebel Alliance or the Empire then come knock some ships out of the stars in some head-to-head battle. Sign-up will begin at noon and play will commence shortly after.

After selling out swiftly last week, Dixit Quest has returned from whatever magical land this game hails from. For those who’ve been awaiting the return of Dixit 2, this is your chance. Dixit Quest is an eighty-four card expansion for the base Dixit game, adding a gallery’s worth of psychedelic, gorgeous artwork to this Apple-to-Apples-esque party game. If you’re not familiar with Dixit, then allow me to inform you. Play revolves around players taking turns offering descriptive words, sounds, or phrases, then everyone who didn’t lays down a full-art card which they feel best encompasses the description. From there, everyone chooses the card they think the person who offered the descriptor laid down. Points are awarded based on who is correct and incorrect. An extremely well illustrated game, Dixit is fun for the whole family.

Magazines are supposed to have gone the way of the dodo, but here’s a brand new one in the tradition of Dungeon and Dragon Magazine called Gygax Magazine. As they say in the forward, the name of the publication was chosen out of respect to the originator of the RPG and as a statement of the traditional approach the magazine is going to take to its content. The first issue of this nostalgic treat features stories about “The Future of Tabletop Gaming,” “The Cosmology of Role-Playing Games,” and “DMing for Your Toddler.” A system-neutral play setting is also included, being Gnatdamp a tiny hamlet in the middle of a swamp, full of rowdy cutthroats. Come reminisce with issue #1 of Gygax Magazine.

And, finally, a moment of Warhammer 40K zen featuring (the late arriving; thanks Games Workshop) the XV88 Tau Broadside Battlesuit. Soak it up.

New Game Stuff (1/18/2013)

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Jan 182013

Antike Duellum sends two players back in time for an epic head-to-head battle!

Taking the rules of the original Antike board game, Antike Duellum modifiers the mechanics for a two player war game of ancient Rome. Coming with two separate scenarios (Rome vs. Carthage and Persia vs. Greece), the base game lasts between sixty to ninety minutes. Play your cards right, literally, as carefully playing event cards (25 of which are brand new for this version of the game) changes the pace of the game and entirely decides the outcome. With an easy to learn rule system, you’ll never be saying, “It’s all Greek to me.”

Uggh errgg mrrgg grrrgg.

That would be caveman for Cavemen, the Quest for Fire. This simple little Rio Grande card game has two to five players taking on the role of a prehistoric hunter who’s mission is to kill dinosaurs and gain influence in the tribe. To do this, players draft cards into a common card pool which decides the possible actions for that turn. If you hold the special conch token, however, you get to choose your action first and take an extra action at the end of everyone else’s turn. So, I say againg, uggh errgg mrrgg grrrgg.

The popular miniature adventure game Mage Knight gains a new expansion in The Lost Legion. If you are brave enough to overcome the deadly obstacles in the way of purchasing this expansion (which, basically, is to just have the money to buy it) then you too can acquire all its riches. Within the box is an entirely new Mage Knight (Wolfhawk), spells, artifacts, skills, locations, scenarios, enemies, and friends. As usual, each piece and accessory is detailed and designed to the high standards of WizKids.

For the second time tonight dinosaurs have to be mentioned.

Yes, it’s a good night.

In the lost city of Uchronia dinosaurs never died out. Now players take turns placing and drawing resource cards in order to build up the ancient city, using their prehistoric lizard pals to assist them. Building cards are drawn from the center of the table and used by players to continue constructing their palaces and become the patriarch of the city.

New Game Stuff (1/11/2013)

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Jan 112013

A fool and his money are soon parted, as they say, however you’re no fool if you pick up a copy of A Fool’s Fortune.

In the tradition of Rummy and other set-building card games, A Fool’s Fortune from Rio Grande Games elicits a tarot vibe as it has players deciding the fate of their opponents and themselves. As you and up to two friends select and play cards, attempting to build a perfect set, you’ll run across special fortune and character cards with special abilities. Play them right, and you may just win A Fool’s Fortune.

Monkeys combined with just about anything usually results in both comedy and destruction. Taking advantage of that equation is the new Spin Monkeys board game from Rio Grande. A slew of bumper cars have been dropped into the jungle, only to be found by a pack(?) of simians. With that in place, players attempt to spin their monkeys around the board, using rotation cards, trying to gather fruit and attack other monkeys. If you hit another monkey, then you get to choose where they spin next. As you might imagine, humor and destruction follow.

It’s been zero days since an incident at the Monster Factory. Let’s all try and keep it that way, hmm?

From the creator of Kingdom Builder and Dominion comes Monster Factory. This family friendly tile laying game of monster creation. Simple to learn, gameplay revolves around players placing specialized, illustrated tiles, each with a piece of monster body on it, in hopes of completing the largest monster. However, if your monster is left unfinished by the end of the round, you lose.

Continuing to live up to its name, Innovation: Figures in the Sand is the newest expansion to the popular card game and it continues to advance the gameplay mechanics of the series. Instead of the cards in this expansion being representations of inventions or concepts, this time around the cards are famous historical figures. That means Albert Einstein or Napoleon Bonapart could come to your rescue or, if you’re unlucky, to your opponent’s. Dogma powers here are replaced with Karma, an ability that alters the course of the game by changing rules. For instance, an instruction to give cards to another player may become an instruction place them in the center of the table. Decree cards have also been added to the game, accomplishing the same effect as achievements, but with the caveat that they can be stolen.

Let me ease your worries, Village, the new tactical board game from TMG, has absolutely nothing to do with M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village.

No, instead players take part in a strategy heavy, turn-based game of tactics that covers the length of the village residents lives. As you play, you will carefully choose where and how your peasant characters make a living and earn their keep. Will they be a part of the government? A clergy member? A farmer? It’s up to you, but realize that no matter what profession you choose, they all are accountable to the ticking clock of life. With time not on your side, you’ll have to strategically balance your time and actions for the most benefit. Or find yourself in a shallow grave.

Greek gods can never just sit down and have a calm, relaxing cup of tea together.

Since that’s the way of things, Athena and Hades are the two combatants in the new Mythic Battles miniature board game. Each god controls a sizable army of soldiers, monsters, and demigods, pitting them against each other on a field of battle. Before the fight commences, though, each player gets to assemble their army however they choose. Once that’s done, players activate their forces with battle cards, then roll dice to complete the interaction. This combination of cards, dice, and miniatures creates a new system called Building Battle Board gaming that is exclusive to Mythic Battles.

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