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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Lots of ground to cover this time:
• BGG user Scott Weber attended a Realms of Terrinoth event at the Fantasy Flight Games Event Center, and he reports that during the event FFG unveiled a new title set in the Terrinoth universe, a deck-building card game titled something along the lines of Rune Age. He gives a great overview of the game in his post and mentions that the release date given at the event was Q3 2011 – which suggests a Gen Con release in August.
• Even with Nightfall still in the wings awaiting its March 28, 2011 release date, Alderac's Todd Rowland has announced that an expansion – Nightfall: Martial Law – is due out June 2011. A second expansion is also in the works.
• White Goblin Games has released a hipper-than-thou video preview of its Get Nuts card game, which has a March 12, 2011 release date. The Dutch version of Matt Leacock's Forbidden Island – Het Verboden Eiland – comes out that same day. WGG notes that Rattus, Rattus: Pied Piper and Hotel Samoa will also be back in stock on that date.
In April 2011, White Goblin Games will release Piraten & Kooplui, the Dutch version of Merchants & Marauders, and a reprint of Jambo.
• In its February 2011 newsletter, Stronghold Games notes that niggling production details have pushed back the release of Confusion: Espionage and Deception in the Cold War yet again. From the newsletter: "Stronghold Games takes great pride in producing top-quality components, and though the last batch of samples we received were super-cool, they just weren't up to our standards. We've sent them back for a small tweak and redesign, and now expect them to be approved late this month." As a result, Stronghold is giving May 2011 as a tentative release date, with the game's preorder window opening in April.
As for other titles from Stronghold, the new version of Outpost is expected for Q3 2011 and the new version of Crude: The Oil Game for Q4 2011.
• To follow up this Feb. 9, 2011 post from Jeff Wolfe on BGG News, Looney Labs has shifted its release schedule for the rest of 2011. IceDice and the Aquarius-like Seven Dragons are still due for release on June 24, 2011. The new version of Treehouse – packaged like IceDice in a pyramidal zip bag and previously due out on the same date as that game – now has a U.S. street date of September 30, 2011. Another pyramid product will be released on June 24, however, the Looney Pyramid Booster; the Booster comes in two varities – rainbow (red, green, blue, yellow, black) and xeno (purple, orange, clear, white, cyan) – with three pyramids of varying sizes in each color. The Looney Pyramid Booster retails for $10.
• FRED Distribution has opened preorders on a handful of titles, starting with Richard Launius' Defenders of the Realm: Hero Expansion #1, #2 and #3 – each of which includes four new heroes that can mixed with those of the base game or used on their own or with other expansions. These sets also contain new Global Effects – half good, half bad – that can be mixed with those of the base game.
Two titles previously unannounced from FRED's Gryphon Games brand are Number Please! – a collection of games in which you roll dice and make equations – and Jacob Davenport's Mirror Mirror, in which you're trying to intercept a letter headed toward your beloved by using mirrored pieces that can spot the hidden identity of your opponent's pieces.
Two other titles coming from FRED – Pastiche through Gryphon Games and Railways Through Time through Eagle Games – are due out in the near future as the container carrying these games has arrived. Pergamon will be another Gryphon Games release in North America.
• Other new games hitting U.S. stores recently include Trollhalla, the new edition of Junkyard Races, Hive: The Ladybug, Age of Steam: Time Traveler, Tide of Iron: Fury of the Bear, and BattleLore: Code of Chivalry
• Mere days after announcing that the new edition of Stronghold is clearing customs and on its way to stores, Valley Games has announced that it will release Stronghold: Undead, possibly before the end of 2011.
• Polish design team Los Diablos Polacos has launched its own website in English and Polish to provide information about its projects. Previous releases include Boże Igrzysko – the four-player spin-off of Martin Wallace's God's Playground – and Conflict of Heroes: Price of Honour. Projects currently in the works are Teutons and Carolus, both coming from Phalanx Games Polska.
• New entries on BGG that might merit your attention include:
— War of Honor, a board game set in the world of Legend of the Five Rings
— Paperclip Railways, which will debut from Surprised Stare Games at the UK Games Expo in June 2011 in a limited edition.
— Pitch'n Dunk from flicking design king Daniel Quodbach.
— Battleship Galaxies, which looks like Hasbro's replacement for the Heroscape-buying "niche" market.
— China: The Embassies, a small expansion for this Michael Schacht design that will be sold through the BGG store.
— Race for the Galaxy: Alien Artifacts, the next arc in the RftG universe from Tom Lehmann.
— Conflict of Heroes: Blitzkrieg - France and the Lowlands 1940, coming from Academy Games in 2012.
— Schnappt Hubi!, a cooperative deduction game coming from Ravensburger that includes electronic bits along the lines of Wer war's?
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