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With messages about games;
Not too old, I hope
I've been paring my inbox down to almost nothing in order to prepare for 2017 and respond to certain people — you know who you are! — in a more timely manner. While doing that, I've run across many links to games that I sent myself throughout the past year, some of which are still relevant as the games have been released only recently or are still forthcoming, such as:
• Bryan Merlonghi's Cutthroat Kingdoms from Alderac Entertainment Group is a 90-150 minute game for 3-6 players who all want to vie for a place on the throne, as one often does in games. An overview:
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In Cutthroat Kingdoms, you take on the role of a leading lord or lady of one of the six eminent Houses in the Kingdom of Aurum — a grim fantasy world fraught with danger, intrigue, and plague. You must use your armies to claim territories, gather wealth, recruit hirelings, and hire mercenaries as you pursue your nefarious plots and jockey for power. Political intrigue and assassinations abound, and powerful strategic alliances are offset by bloody conflicts. Most importantly, will you strive for domination alone, or tie your fortunes to another house through a well-placed political marriage?
Cutthroat Kingdoms is a competitive game that features marriage-alliance team mechanisms in which strategic planning and decisive military moves can swing the course of the Kingdom. Changing territories and events make each game unique. Open negotiation, deal-making, and tabletalk are all encouraged — nay, necessary to win!
Cutthroat Kingdoms is a competitive game that features marriage-alliance team mechanisms in which strategic planning and decisive military moves can swing the course of the Kingdom. Changing territories and events make each game unique. Open negotiation, deal-making, and tabletalk are all encouraged — nay, necessary to win!
• Shadow Games is set in the world of Steamforged Games' Guild Ball, with 2-6 players acting as team representatives will do anything possible in order to recruit a new star player to their guild.
• In the 2017 release Panda Pursuit from Matt Loomis, Isaac Shalev, and Grey Fox Games, players use their custom dice to move an escaped panda, their zookeeper, or a shared photographer around in order to get pics of the panda, collect food, or give it bamboo to keep it happy. Pandas — an audience favorite in the game industry since 2007.
• Shalev and Loomis also have Seikatsu coming from IDW Games, as noted on Facebook in August 2016 but only now added to the BGG database. By chance we recorded an overview of Seikatsu at the 2016 Origins Game Fair when the game had not yet been signed, so you can learn about this tile-laying perspective game straight from the sources:
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