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Days of Wonder Announces ‘Five Tribes’ Board Game
Monday, June 30th, 2014
Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
Days of Wonder has announced, according to hobby news website ICv2.com, a September release for Five Tribes, a new Euro-style big box board game designed by Bruno Cathala (Senji, Dice Town). Five Tribes builds on the long tradition of German games with wooden Meeples and provides a unique twist on the standard “worker placement” economic board game. A bit more of a “gamer’s game” than the typical Days of Wonder fare, Five Tribes has clear, easy-to-understand rules, but requires a clever and calculated strategy to win.
Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
In this “worker displacement” game players score points by carefully maneuvering the Five Tribes of Meeples over the tiles that make up the ancient Sultanate of Naqula. They need to look ahead to what moves will not only position them to score, but also put their opponents at a disadvantage. It’s when, how, and where players “dis-place” the five tribes of Assassins, Elders, Builders, Merchants, and Viziers that determines victory or defeat.
‘Five Tribes’ board set up. Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
Designer Bruno Cathala, who Days of Wonder is bringing to GenCon to demo the game, explained his affection for the game: “After designing a series of smaller games, my inner-self began to insist that I work on something bigger and more substantial. While I’ve already played the prototype hundreds of times, it’s still the game I want to play most often. So please don’t hesitate to come to play with me at festivals–I never grow tired of Five Tribes.”
Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
Five Tribes is for 2 to 4 players, ages 13 and older and takes approximately 40-80 minutes to play. It includes 30 Tiles depicting the Sultanate of Naqala; 4 Player sets with Camels and Turn Markers; 90 Wooden Meeples (Yellow Viziers, Red Assassins, Green Merchants, Blue Builders and White Elders); 12 Palm Trees & 10 Palaces; 22 Djinn cards; 54 Resource cards; 96 Victory Coins; a Scoring Pad; 5 Djinn & Turn Order Summary Sheets; 1 Betting Order & 1 Turn Order Tracks; and a Rules Booklet.
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Fantasy Flight Games Announces ‘Blood Bowl’ Expansion
Thursday, June 26th, 2014
Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
Reported late last week via ICv2.com, Fantasy Flight Games is preparing the Blood Bowl: Team Manager Foul Play Expansion for a Q3, 2014 release. Foul Play is a lowdown, cheating expansion that adds three new teams from the Putrid Players Guild in a new subdivision of the Team Managers’ Union. The newcomers include the disease-spreading Nurgle’s Rotters, the anarchic Chaos Dwarves of the Zharr-Naggrund Ziggurats, and the cheating Goblins of The Lowdown Rats.
Nurgle’s Rotter Cards. Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
Stadium Cards. Photo courtesy of ICv2.com.
Another addition to the BBTM game provided by the Foul Play Expansion is the introduction of stadiums, which provide the right treacherous environment for this most corrupt of all sports. Venues like the Nehekara Death Dome, The Ogham Stonefield, and Castle Waldenhof, not only present entirely different playing surfaces, but also different rules, since certain skills are outlawed in some venues.
The Foul Play Expansion comes in a colorful box that contains 10 stadium cards, 65 Bridge-size card for players and Spike/Magazine cards, 58 small cards split between Staff Upgrades, Team Upgrades, and Penalty cards, 23 cardboard tokens, and 1 rulesheet.
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Gale Force 9 Announces ‘Firefly’ Board Game Expansion
Monday, June 23rd, 2014
Gale Force 9 has announced the September release of the Blue Sun, a major expansion for its popular Firefly Board Game, according to hobby news website ICv2.com. TheBlue Sun expansion allows players to explore the dangerous realm of “rim space.” The Blue Sun Expansion is geared for experienced players of the Firefly board game that is based on Joss Whedon’s ill-fated outer space “western,” which won the hearts of fans, but not those of network execs, during its short run on the Fox Network.
Players utilizing the Blue Sun Expansion will be able to incorporate the Breakin’ Atmo game booster as well as the Pirates & Bounty Hunters Expansion. The Blue Sun Expansion is recommended for experienced players of the Firefly game — players who wish to explore new realms and confront the deadly Reivers in the Burnham system.
The Blue Sun Expansion, which comes in an attractive 10” x 10” x 2″ game box, and will include a new 10″ x 20″ board expanding the realms for space for exploration (including Rim Space, the Blue Sun System, and the Burnham System), plus two new ships, two new leaders for players to play as, two new Job contacts and a new supply planet, Meridian, capital of the Blue Sun system.
Some preview copies of the Blue Sun Expansion may be available at GenCon Indy.
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Visit Battleground Games & Hobbies TODAY for FREE RPG Day!
Saturday, June 21st, 2014
FREE RPG DAY TODAY AT BATTLEGROUND GAMES & HOBBIES!
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Privateer Press Announces ‘Iron Kingdoms Unleashed’ RPG
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
According to hobby news website ICv2.com, in early 2015 Privateer Press plans to ratchet-up the level of violence in its fantasy RPGs with the launch Iron Kingdoms Unleashed, a self-contained, hyper-aggressive role-playing game that is set in the wilds of western Immoren (Immoren is the continent that is the setting for Privateer’s Iron Kingdoms RPG as well as its Warmachine and HORDES miniature games). Iron Kingdoms Unleashed will be both a complete game unto itself and fully compatible with the Iron Kingdoms Full Metal Fantasy Roleplaying Game, though Unleashed will have sharper, more feral edge to it.
Iron Kingdoms Unleashed will offer players a wide range choices for their fantasy surrogates ranging from Trolls, to Farrow, Gatormen, Bog Trogs, Pygmy Trolls, Nyss, humans, Warlocks, Tharn Ravengers, and more. Careers open to players include (among others) Mistspeaker, Bokar, Bonegrinders, and Monsterhunter. In addition to a large number of playable characters, Iron Kingdoms Unleashed will also include a wide range of monsters for players to do battle with in this extremely aggressive fantasy RPG in which bloody encounters look like they will be extremely frequent. Over 100 pages of the Iron Kingdoms Unleashed Core Rulebook, which is due out in early 2015 and contains all the elements necessary to play, will be devoted to detailing the powers, habits, and occasional weaknesses of the game’s many monsters.
The recently announced Iron Kingdoms Full Metal Fantasy: Monsternomicon supplement for the Iron Kingdoms Full Metal Fantasy RPG, which is due out in September, and which contains vital information on 40 different monsters, will be fully compatible with the new Iron Kingdoms Unleashed RPG.
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Stronghold Games Announces New Edition of Popular Board Game ‘Medina’
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
Stronghold Games announced last week that it will release a new edition of the critically-acclaimed board game Medina in November, according to hobby news website ICv2.com.
The game was designed by Stefan Dorra (Amazonas, The Bucket King, Buccaneer) in 2001, nominated for several European awards, and was originally published in the US by Rio Grande Games. The strategy and city-building game takes place in 1822, in the city of Medina. Players build large palaces and renovate the city wall, as they improve and expand the city. Players get points for finishing buildings, building the largest buildings of a certain color, and connecting buildings to the city walls.
The new edition features a double sided board, as well as nearly 200 wooden pieces, tiles, four player screens, a score block, and a rulebook with updated game play. The game is for 3 -4 players ages 10 and up, and plays in 60-90 minutes.
Stronghold is releasing a slew of new games in the second half of 2014, including Diamonds, Among the Stars and others – all available at your local Battleground Games & Hobbies!
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