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Gen Con 2015 XIII: Favor of the Pharaoh, Suburbia 5★, One Night Ultimate Vampire, Noble Treachery, Crowns and Axes, & The King's Armory

Gen Con 2015 XIII: Favor of the Pharaoh, Suburbia 5★, One Night Ultimate Vampire, Noble Treachery, Crowns and Axes, & The King's Armory
Board Game: Favor of the Pharaoh
• While we intended to focus on newly released games while broadcasting game demonstrations at Gen Con 2015, Ted Alspach of Bézier Games apparently did not get the message — or he did receive it, then crumbled it up and did what he wanted to anyway. In either case, here's an overview of Tom Lehmann's Favor of the Pharaoh, a reworking of To Court the King that Bézier will debut at Spiel 2015 in October.





Board Game: One Night Ultimate Vampire
• Alspach also shilled heavily for his One Night Ultimate Vampire, co-designed with Akihisa Okui. That guy is absolutely shameless.





Board Game: Suburbia 5★
• Thankfully Alspach did have one new Gen Con release to feature on the BGG cameras, thereby somewhat justifying our time in Indianapolis. Here's a ninety-second rundown of Suburbia 5★, the second expansion for the tile-laying game Suburbia.





Board Game: Noble Treachery: The Last Alliance
• Garrick Shurts from Great Northern Games presented a nice overview of Jay Meyer's Noble Treachery: The Last Alliance, which was released at the end of 2014 and therefore new by our standards of not previously being available at Gen Con.





From gallery of RiffRaff14
• That said, Shurts also explained the basics of the forthcoming Crowns and Axes, which Great Northern Games plans to Kickstart for a 2016 release. We have only ourselves to blame for such violations of our rules.





Board Game: The King's Armory
• One of the things that we all noticed at Gen Con 2015 was the lack of long games. Everything seemed to top out at sixty minutes — ninety minutes, tops! — and while that's perfect for my tastes, not everyone feels the same way. Thus, The King's Armory from John Wrot! and Gate Keeper Games was a standout with its 120-minute playing time, while also having a solo play option for those who want the option of solitaire play.

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