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W. Eric Martin
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Apex
North Carolina
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• Ystari Games will release an Olympos Expansion at Spiel 2011, and as Cyril Demaegd describes it, the expansion is along the lines of a Small World expansion as it is by no means essential to game play, but rather something extra.
"A game with those new tiles is really different from a game without them," he says. "For exemple if you introduce just Slavery – [Text: This discovery grants 1 Sword. When the player takes a territory away from someone else, he takes a new settler from the general stock and puts it in his personal stock.] – it has an impact on the game at different levels. The player with Slavery will solve all his problems with settlers. As a consequence he may concentrate on other bonuses, but will he do this as it will help his opponents? On top of this Slavery introduces new combo possibilities. For example it works really well with Medicine obviously, but there are other things less obvious."
The expansion includes new discovery and wonder tiles that can be mixed into those of the base game, as well as a set of objective tiles, two of which are chosen at random each game, should you choose to use this module. Olympos Expansion contains twenty tiles in all, and a bonus discovery tile will be available at Spiel 2011.
• The Lamont brothers have announced their Spiel 2011 release: Poseidon's Kingdom. Here's a game overview from Gordon and Fraser:
Quote: Poseidon has lost his treasured trident, and your friends have disappeared while trying to find it. It turns out they have been captured by evil Hans the Kraken. Suckers! The Kraken plans to make a nice stew out of them. Can you prise open his tentacles, release your friends, and defeat him? You had better hope so. Oh, it's probably not a good time to mention the shark...
The game features cool animal bits, waves that crash dice on the beach, and terrible fish puns, with only one thousand copies of the game being available. The preorder price for Poseidon's Kingdom is €45. To preorder a copy from Fragor Games, email fragorpreorder@yahoo.co.uk; place "Poseidon's Kingdom – E" if you plan to pick up the game in Essen, and "Poseidon's Kingdom – (country)" if you want the game mailed to you. Regarding shipment, Gordon Lamont says, "We will know shipping costs nearer mid-October."
• Moonster Games has posted rules for Spiel 2011 release Hattari in English, French and German.
• White Goblin Games has announced Spiel 2011 preorder packages with free mini-expansions for just about every title appearing at the show.
• Chris James and Stratus Games are organizing Eruption Preview Nights, along the lines of the Eminent Domain Preview Nights in which a retailer receives an advance copy of the game and shows it off to all the cool kids before anyone else has a chance to play the game. If you're a retailer, or want to encourage a retailer to sign up, head to this news post on GameSalute.com for details.
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