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New Game Round-up: New Dungeon Run, New Ages of Industry & FFG in June 2011

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A short list today, but one packed with lots in a small space:

• Colby Dauch of Plaid Hat Games has updated the game listing for Mr. Bistro's Dungeon Run, detailing the game's setting and adding pics of the game's new look. Dungeon Run is scheduled for an August 2011 release.

Martin Wallace's Ankh-Morpork gets an early showing at Club Tremme before being available for play at, um, PLAY, an annual convention in Modena, Italy. Andrea Ligabue will preview Ankh-Morpork on BGG News in the near future following multiple playings at PLAY.

• Speaking of Martin Wallace, one new item that has popped onto the list of new and newish titles to look for at UK Games Expo 2011 in June is an expansion board for Age of Industry, specifically a double-sided game board with Japan on one side and Minnesota on the other. As Wallace noted on BGG in December 2010, "Both maps will have little twists on the original rules."

Fantasy Flight Games has unveiled its June 2011 release schedule, but rather than provide more details in this post, I'll instead link to all the game listings because, yes, they are already all live in the database:

A Game of Thrones: The Card Game - The Isle of Ravens
Arkham Horror: The Curse of the Dark Pharaoh (Revised Edition)
Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game - That Which Consumes
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The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game - Conflict at the Carrock
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Warhammer: Invasion – Legends
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Pegasus Spiele has released the rules for Stefan Feld's Strasbourg in English and German.

• Steve Jackson Games updates what might be include in its forthcoming giant box of Ogre.

• Designer Frederic Moyersoen has posted a pic from his next game to be released, Cherokee, a card game for 2-4 players. No, wait, now he's posted two more.

• Alliance Game Distributors is listing Paris Connection (Queen Games) as an April 2011 release and Queen's Lancaster, Mammut Jäger and Thebes Card Game as May 2011 releases.

• One other upcoming release with little info available on the game, this time for May 2011, is Deadlands: Invasion of Slaughter Gulch from Twilight Creations.
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...an expansion board for Age of Industry, specifically a double-sided game board with Japan on one side and Minnesota on the other. As Wallace noted on BGG in December 2010, "Both maps will have little twists on the original rules."

In the name of good taste, I will keep mum a very Gottfried-esque one liner here.
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Minnesota???
 
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April for Paris Connection? Cool.
 
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It's a cool place, you should check it out cool


Quite cold, in fact. robot
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>> Fantasy Flight Games has unveiled its June 2011 release schedule...

**sniff** soblue

I don't see Blood Bowl Team Manager in the lineup. I hope it's still coming.
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Minnesota???

Age of Industry surely includes Mining, Milling, and Manufacturing (err, the "three Ms") right?

EDIT: oops, didn't get my "3M"s right... Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing.
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Minnesota???

Age of Industry surely includes Mining, Milling, and Manufacturing (err, the "three Ms") right?


Well, the first of the 3Ms is "Minnesota". But Milling (and agriculture) was another very important industry for this state.

Iron ore was a huge industry in the first half of the 20th century in the "Iron Range" in northern Minnesota.
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liken@xtra.co.nz wrote:
Minnesota???

Age of Industry surely includes Mining, Milling, and Manufacturing (err, the "three Ms") right?


Well, the first of the 3Ms is "Minnesota". But Milling (and agriculture) was another very important industry for this state.

Iron ore was a huge industry in the first half of the 20th century in the "Iron Range" in northern Minnesota.


Amen, Minnesota Brother.

Now I want to add Age of Industry to my collection, as long as I could find this expansion board.
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Amen, Minnesota Brother.

Now I want to add Age of Industry to my collection, as long as I could find this expansion board.


Preach it, Minnesota Brother!
Being one of the notorious homers that most of us are, I am also now considering adding AoI to my collection once this expansion comes out. (Even though I've only played one game of Brass and lost terribly.)

Unless there is another Minnesota map out there for AoI, I heard through the grapevine that the designer is a local and that the map is quite good. I could chalk that up to homerism but obviously Mr. Wallace liked it. I look forward to hearing the reports about it come back from the UK Games Expo.
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Unless there is another Minnesota map out there for AoI, I heard through the grapevine that the designer is a local and that the map is quite good.

Could this be the map in question, or is there indeed another Minnesota map out there?
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Unless there is another Minnesota map out there for AoI, I heard through the grapevine that the designer is a local and that the map is quite good.

Could this be the map in question, or is there indeed another Minnesota map out there?


I just saw that and was wondering the same thing. Seems like it would be an awfully big coincidence if they're not related, but who knows?
 
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>> Fantasy Flight Games has unveiled its June 2011 release schedule...

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I don't see Blood Bowl Team Manager in the lineup. I hope it's still coming.


Yeah, yeah, yeah... Where's Tide of Iron: Pacific?
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Um... 5-player Chaos in the Old World?! Yes, please!


I find the new chaos cards far more interesting than having skaven between the gods of Chaos themselves.
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I was interested to see a game named Cherokee as it's part of my identity. I thought perhaps it would have something to do with the French and Indian War, as board gamers, including myself, love historical and conflict themes. Or perhaps it would be a clever play on the different clans or societies in our tribe's history. Alas, I was disappointed.

While I appreciate the artist's skill, stereotypical North American Indian imagery has been naively associated with the Cherokee name in a slapdash manner in this instance.

The staying power of Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstockings imagery and narrative with European inhabitants never ceases to bewilder me. When visiting Germany and Ireland some years ago, I was bemused to find Spanish-speaking buskers in city centers playing pan flutes, gathering crowds that were buying North American Indian knick-knacks you only find in tourist traps in the USA.

I can't fault the designer or game company for their naiveness regarding a tribe that still exists thousands of miles away. But I had to comment, because my mother and tribe members instructed me from a young age to disabuse people from the notion that all Indians had totem poles and lived in tipis. Our tribe's name has been much more grossly misappropriated for other commercial enterprises. I understand that the fantastical imagery and iconic caricatures will sell more units than staid regalia iconography. I'm not calling for a boycott here, or summoning up righteous indignation, I'm just pointing out a persistent misconception about our culture.

Best of luck to the designer in his future endeavors, but I would love to see more historical and factual imagery associated with our culture in games of the future should they use the name again.
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It is pasted on theme so don't be TOO offended my friend.
 
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SpaceCherokee wrote:
I was interested to see a game named Cherokee as it's part of my identity...
Our tribe's name has been much more grossly misappropriated for other commercial enterprises. I understand that the fantastical imagery and iconic caricatures will sell more units than staid regalia iconography....
Best of luck to the designer in his future endeavors, but I would love to see more historical and factual imagery associated with our culture in games of the future should they use the name again.


Always seems to be the way, alas. And boardgames seem more prone than other media to just automatically repeating the same old tropes without questioning them - at least other media have experimented with deconstructing themselves. Hopefully one day this will change, but I guess it won't be until/if board games become a much more popular medium.
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Also, Chaos and LotR - woo!
 
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It is pasted on theme so don't be TOO offended my friend.


I'm not taking offense. Just making a point. And I agree with other comments that there just isn't that much media out there to use otherwise.
 
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I was interested to see a game named Cherokee as it's part of my identity...
Our tribe's name has been much more grossly misappropriated for other commercial enterprises. I understand that the fantastical imagery and iconic caricatures will sell more units than staid regalia iconography....
Best of luck to the designer in his future endeavors, but I would love to see more historical and factual imagery associated with our culture in games of the future should they use the name again.
Always seems to be the way, alas. And boardgames seem more prone than other media to just automatically repeating the same old tropes without questioning them - at least other media have experimented with deconstructing themselves. Hopefully one day this will change, but I guess it won't be until/if board games become a much more popular medium.
This would be fantastic. I've always been frustrated with how broadly Euro-American perspectives pervade board games... I think the most ideal solution would be people designing board games that represent their own histories and cultures. While games like Inca Empire and Conquest of Paradise are excellent, they would be even more excellent if the designers had an historical connection to the peoples represented.
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