With different companies doing their best to reopen while still keeping their workers safe during the pandemic, several have started to be able to announce new releases. In this case, it's Ares Games
With different companies doing their best to reopen while still keeping their workers safe during the pandemic, several have started to be able to announce new releases. In this case, it's Ares Games who's happy to say that their upcoming releases for both King & Assassins Deluxe Edition and Hard City will be available in just a couple weeks, hitting store shelves June 5th.
From the article:
King & Assassins: Deluxe Edition is a refreshed and streamlined edition of the asymmetrical fantasy game of strategy and deception for two players, designed by Lukasz Wosniak and originally published in 2013. This new version features a bigger box, larger, double-sided board with new, stunning artwork of a medieval city, and a set of 23 masterfully sculpted miniatures in 15 varieties.
Hard City is a “one vs All” game in which one player takes the role of the evil mastermind Doctor Zero, while all the other players become brave Officers of the Hard City Police Department. The game also include rules for solo play. The game is divided into episodes that form a full story of a struggle between the officers and the evil mastermind, with a mechanism of cutscenes and characters representing a whole array of pop culture archetypes, known to every movie geek.
A game can be the best game ever created, but if it can't get into the hands of players, what good is it? That's why distribution is such a big deal. And if you are an English-speaker and you've been
A game can be the best game ever created, but if it can't get into the hands of players, what good is it? That's why distribution is such a big deal. And if you are an English-speaker and you've been wanting to get some of Hexy Studios' games, you'll want to turn an eye towards Ares Games, as they've entered into a distribution partnership.
From the announcement:
Ares Games and Polish Hexy Studio announce a partnership to distribute the English edition of Hexy Studio’s games in the United States and non-European countries. The first games to launch will be the tactical adventure game Hard City and game of pretense and deceit Slyville, due to release in retail in Spring 2020 (after the fulfillment of Hard City’s Kickstarter rewards).
The evil Doctor Zero is flooding the streets with his hordes of mutant zombies. It's up to the police force of Hard City to stop him. That's what's going on in the retro-80s board game Hard City up on
The evil Doctor Zero is flooding the streets with his hordes of mutant zombies. It's up to the police force of Hard City to stop him. That's what's going on in the retro-80s board game Hard City up on Kickstarter now. Grab your neon, spandex, and other 80s tropes and head over to the campaign.
From the campaign:
Designed by Marek Raczyński and Adam Kwapiński, Hard City is a tactical adventure board game in a unique new retro setting, heavily inspired by B-class action movies and the atmosphere of the 1980s era! One of up to five players takes the role of Doctor Zero - an evil mastermind sending mutants to the streets and trying to take control of the metropolis, while others play as brave Hard City Police Officers fighting to stop him!
The campaign is over its funding goal. So it's on through stretch goals for the next 11 days.
It's Saturday! Woo! What cannot be accomplished on such a day as today!?I know what I'll be doing. I'll be here at CMON Expo, hobnobbing with gaming media. Some of them I will now feature here on toda
It's Saturday! Woo! What cannot be accomplished on such a day as today!? I know what I'll be doing. I'll be here at CMON Expo, hobnobbing with gaming media. Some of them I will now feature here on today's Review Roundup.
Today we have: Hard City, Destiny Aurora: Renegades, Castle Von Loghan, Meeple Circus, Karuba: The Card Game, Hardback, Yummy World: Party at Picnic Palace, Lucidity: Six Sided Nightmares, Rising Sun, Darwin's Choice, Feudum, and AW Miniatures 28mm Samurai.
theMCGuiRE review takes a look at Castle Von Loghan a brand new game currently on kickstarter (at this time of video release). Here you get to travel through time to save humanity at all cost! It's a great mix of adventure, looting and story driven decisions! I really like this title and very much hope its funded through the kickstarter.
After a brief hiatus of a few months we are back with another edition of Parental Guidance. This is the article series where I play game with my parents, and then my mother chimes in with her thoughts on the games, giving you the perspective of how fun the game is for a non-gamer. As usual, the goal is to help you find new and interesting games you can play with not only your family, but friends as well. By now you should know the drill. So I’ll just get right into the good stuff.
The game includes a single deck of about 100 cards, which feature colorful food-themed characters from the Yummy World license. During each of the game’s three rounds, players will collect cards from a center display. This display is made up of three rows of about 10 cards each, most of which are dealt face-down.
Each player-dreamer in Lucidity will be presented with a player board having multiple locations for dice. Each of these spaces matches a certain side of a die and represents different roll outcomes. The four colors of dice in the game feature these sides in different proportions and configurations.
At its core, Rising Sun is not a complex game. Over three seasons (rounds), players are trying to earn the most victory points by making alliances and conquering the most territories they can. They do this through hiring forces, gaining succor from the gods, and making alliances for the best possible outcomes.
Darwin’s Choice is a card based, evolutionary engine building game where players are tasked with playing cards to build species that are well adapted to continuously changing environments and have a competitive advantage over their opponents. Darwin’s Choice is a card game by Treexeratops for 2-6 players that takes about 45 minutes to play. It plays best with 3 or 4 players.
Hard City is a one-versus-many game of mutants, cops and lots of donuts, all soaked in so much 80’s action movie nostalgia that you can almost hear the synth soundtrack. One player takes on the role of Doctor Zero and his hordes of mutants (don’t call them zombies) while one to four players will control HCPD’s finest. You’ll play one of a selection of scenarios over a minimalist board that can be adorned with abandoned cars, barrels bursting with toxic ooze, civilians and weapon crates. For the police, it’s all about spending your precious donut action points to move, shoot and save civilians, whereas Doctor Zero is presented with a selection of action cards that allow him to do some quite frankly terrifying things with his army of mutants. Each scenario is objective based and the first player to seven victory points is the winner.
There’s no getting around it, Feudum is a complicated game. It took me a couple of days of studying the rulebook, watching videos, running through practice games, and perusing the rules forums on BGG before I felt comfortable enough to teach the game. The individual rules weren’t hard to understand; there are just so many of them. Rather than rehash them here, a broad overview should suffice. You have been exiled from your home and find yourself in a new land with strange little trees. In order to ingratiate yourself to the Queen, you can get involved with the local guilds, tend the land, or feed monastic beads to chickens, amongst other things. The winner is the player who becomes the most venerated in all the land, which, as the rulebook states, is just another way to say the player with the most victory points wins.
I have recently been putting together a couple of forces for Seven Swords (The Samurai version of Dux Britanniarum from Too Fat Lardies). To this end I have been using lots of models from my collection (rather than simply buying new models).
I had bought several different packs of Sengoku period miniatures from AW Miniatures – here are my thoughts on them:
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