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Anthony Boydell
United Kingdom
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Everyone loves promotional expansions!
You do...he does...and even him (points) - he likes promos too, especially those ones you can only get from big shows!
Oh yes! How we all adore these joyful exercises in collectibility, marketing and drool-eliciting delight. How the world of incontinence pants loves us for these 'must-have' products!
Being a very...VERY important person in the world of games, I am often privy to advance news and specialist rumors, such as the following nuggets with which to whet your already slavering appetites!
Are you sitting comfortably (and with paper to hand)? Then, I'll begin...
Power Grid: Charred Remains
(base price: 8, picture shows a badly-burnt body beneath the lines running between two pylons). This latest offering not only shows you the dangers of kite-flying on National Grid property, but also allows you to either a) use it as a city to be powered in a turn OR b) skip paying the cost of one link when Build-ing through a city occupied by another (not you) player - in both cases, it is removed from the game when 'used'. 2F Games are mooting the printing of a scratch 'n sniff version for October.
Thunderstone: OMFG!
More creatures and traps from those clever AEG folks - in this expansion expect monsters that are un-killable, traps that make you discard your entire deck and one particularly nasty new action option that literally sets fire to the Village. Not for the faint-hearted.
Key Market: Guildy (with Barbara Streisand and Barry Gibb)
An album of beautiful, soft-rock ballads providing the perfect accompaniment to resolving positional ties, placing people on 'square apples' and promoting your workers. Highlights include the title track 'Guildy', 'Workers In Love', 'Market Like A Memory', and the bonus track: 'Evergreen (except during Winter)'
Race for the Galaxy: The Disappointing Nebula
Another full-size box opens to reveal 11 new cards and a tile with a picture of a nebula on. Startlingly sparse.
Cuba: Missile Crisis
Eggertspiele further enhance their now-classic, er, classic with a couple of extra ships ('Suspicious Fishermen','Submarine with dinghy glued to the Coning tower') and buildings ('Bunker','Massive Missile Silo','Salsa Club' etc). When the Kennedy card is revealed, players have 8 minutes to resolve the crisis using their citrus fruits before the entire game-board is swept from the table onto the floor.
Dominion: Direct Debit Form
A pack of 10 identical Kingdom cards that can be handed around, filled in and then submitted to your Bank for processing. Henceforth, any and every Dominion expansion can be yours without the tedium of having to go out and buy it.
Zooloretto: Seal Cub
Another single-tile expansion for this money-printing machine. The first player to fill their 6-space enclosure takes the Seal Cub. The second player to fill their 6-space enclosure takes the seal cub, beats it to a bloody pulp and removes it from the game.
Paperclip Railways: The Giant Magnet
As alluded to in a previous post, Surprised Stare will be selling enormous, C-shaped magnets at Essen Spiel with which to monumentally fuck-up any in-progress game of P.C.R.
Agricola: Farmers of The E.C
A single deck of 24 cards themed around the 58th anniversary of the European Economic Community. The many delights on offer this time include Occupations such as 'French Customs Official', 'Sanitation Inspector', 'Form-Filler','Sheep Worrier', 'Artificial Inseminator', 'Obnoxious Bureaucrat' and 'Daughter with 6 Fingers on Each Hand'. The Minor Improvements are just as disastrous with cards like 'Foot and Mouth Virus', 'Butter Mountain', 'Underground Abattoir', 'Horse Wife', 'Insufficiently Spacious Chicken Barn','Fois-Gras Funnel' and 'Illegal Firearm'.
Age of Steam: Colonic Irrigation
Another of those quirky fan-maps made incarnate. Brown cubes are placed all over the snaking board and players get bonus points for building the most efficient system of villi and/or shipping the most materiel 'off the board'. The graphics are repellent.
Ticket to Ride:Just Dexter
A serial killing train driver removes one player per round from the game. Messy, but 'on theme'.
Tichu: Bless You!
It's a handkerchief, basically. With a picture of a Chinese Dragon on it.
Discworld: Ankh-Morpork: CMOT Dibbler Actual, bona fide real Rat-on-a-Stick
(Subject to availability)
Has anyone else heard any rumours (unlikely, as you're bound to be far less important and informed than me but, hey, let's toss that one out there)?
Add yours to the comments area hereafter.
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