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New Game Round-up: Avoid a Cat, Stretch the Animals, and Clear Your Name

New Game Round-up: Avoid a Cat, Stretch the Animals, and Clear Your Name
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• Have you seen Simon Tofield's animated shorts of Simon's Cat on YouTube? I have not, but millions of others have, including Samuel Mitschke and Randy Scheunemann from Steve Jackson Games, who have now designed Simon's Cat: The Card Game, due out in 2016. In this simple card game, you try not to catch Simon's attention in order to avoid Blame. That is all.

• Upper Deck Entertainment has published a long illustrated preview of Legendary: Secret Wars – Volume 2, due out Dec. 9, 2015, that highlights a new mastermind, two villains who can become a mastermind, new heroes, new keywords, and a fluffy pink cat.

• We also have some details of Ryan Miller's Pack of Lies from Upper Deck, which was announced at Gen Con 2015 and is described somewhat below:

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Pack of Lies takes place in a "noir fantasy" world that is based around lies and deceit. Each player is on a grim quest to clear their name. They must gather a gang of characters that will either use treachery and deceit or bash some skulls until they get to the truth.

The gameplay of Pack of Lies lets players choose to either work with or against other players to clear their name throughout the game; whatever best suits their purpose at any given time. The characters in the game can also help out a number of players at once. Be careful, though — the fate of a character within the game is sure to affect multiple players in the game.

Work with or against the different factions within the city including The Church, The Cops, The Syndicate/Mob, Enchanters, and Dragonclan.
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• Portal Games has picked up the English-language rights for My Happy Farm, a game about feeding ever-lengthening animals from Mysterium designers Oleksandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko that first appeared in English in 2013 from the now-defunct 5th Street Games. For this edition, due out Q1 2016, Portal has tweaked some of the rules and artwork.

• Were Airfix military models a part of your young life? They weren't a part of mine as (1) I wasn't brought up in the UK and (2) I didn't play with military toys, but Chris Birch of Modiphius Entertainment had a far different experience from mine, playing with them over and over again and eventually developing rules to play games with them.

Now Birch, along with Alan Paull and Nick Fallon, have designed Airfix Battles, due out April 2016, to serve as an introductory World War II game. The game includes die-cut cardboard components, giving you the option of integrating Airfix models of your own into the missions presented in the box. Modiphius plans to release additional Force Decks and the more involved Airfix Battles Collector's Edition in mid-2016.

Board Game: Airfix Battles: The Introductory Wargame

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