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Standalone games
• Deadwood
• Red November (new edition in a larger box that no longer resembles the squishedness of the game's setting)
• Rune Age
• Ventura
Expansions for LCGs
• A Game of Thrones: The Card Game - Mask of the Archmaester
• Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game - Spawn of Madness
• Lord of the Rings: The Card Game - A Journey to Rhosgobel
• Warhammer Invasion: Fiery Dawn
Ventura is the real surprise in this batch of releases as I thought the game had been buried in the sands of time. Here's what I had written about the game in my Spiel 2008(!) report for BoardgameNews.com:
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Silvio Negri Clementi also talked a bit about Ventura, of which he is the co-designer with Alberto Menoncin. The short description is Risk crossed with The Settlers of Catan. Players have their own town and build up kingdoms on hexagonal tiles, taking resources and money from those tiles in order to hire and maintain troops and armies that can be used to attack others. Take control of an enemy town or be the first to score 30 VP from fighting armies and other activities and you win.
Clementi showed me lots of advance artwork at that convention and everything had sounded like the game was just over the hill, but apparently as with so much else in life, things happen. I know I got sidetracked after that show...Of course FFG has already announced a few more new releases in the past ten days, such as The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus (announcement), a free variant for Cadwallon: City of Thieves called "A Gamble in the Dark" (PDF) and more expansion packs for the various LCGs. Expect to see most of these items announced as August 2011 releases in the next few weeks.
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