New Game Round-up: Discover New Friends for Imperial Settlers, New Villains in Fear Itself & New/Old Solar Cycles in Sky Tango

New Game Round-up: Discover New Friends for Imperial Settlers, New Villains in Fear Itself & New/Old Solar Cycles in Sky Tango
Board Game: Imperial Settlers: Why Can't We Be Friends
• Well, how about that? BGG.CON has apparently become a "release" con, at least to some degree — that is, a convention at which publishers feel its worth their time to debut new items. To wit, designer Ignacy Trzewiczek of Portal Games has announced that Imperial Settlers: Why Can't We Be Friends, the first Empire Pack for Imperial Settlers, will debut at BGG.CON 2014 before being released in Europe in December 2014 and in the U.S. in January 2015.

As for the contents of this expansion, it includes new common cards for the central deck, new cards for each of the base game's four factions, and two new cards for use in the solo game with some factions. One new effect found on the cards is "open production", an ability that allows an opponent to visit your building for the resource produced there while giving you the worker who made that trek. Hope you can put him to use once again!

Upper Deck Entertainment's next expansion for its Legendary deck-building game system is Legendary Villains: Fear Itself, due out in February 2015. This 100-card expansion is based on the "Fear Itself" storyline from Marvel Comics, and it consists of one new adversary group; one new commander; three new plots; and six new allies from The Worthy: Kuurth, Mul, Skirn, Nerkkod, Greithoth and Skadi. No, I don't know who they are either. For the most part, my knowledge of Marvel Comics history stopped in the mid-1980s.

Board Game: Dungeon Fighter
IELLO has picked up the license for Dungeon Fighter and plans to bring the base game and its expansions back to print in early 2015.

• This announcement is a mystery item as Looney Labs releases a holiday gift each year — sometimes a rules PDF of a new game, sometimes promo cards for existing games, and sometimes something weeeeeird. For 2014, the item is something physical, and you can sign up for that free something on the Looney Labs website. Last day to sign up is today, Nov. 13, 2014!

Board Game: Sky Tango
• F2Z Entertainment, owner of the Z-Man Games and Filosofia brands, has announced that those publishers will release English and French versions of Jacques Zeimet's Sonne und Mond — first released in 2012 by Drei Hasen in der Abendsonne — on the North American market in 2015 under the name Sky Tango. Here's an overview of the setting and gameplay:

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In Sky Tango, you trace the cycles of the moon and the sun by creating series of cards that illustrate the passing of time. Eclipses can appear and ruin your paths, but don't let them discourage you for the sun and moon will always reappear. Will your solar and lunar cycles lead you to victory?

In game terms, the deck of cards consists of numbered sun and moon cards (some of which feature animals) as well as eclipse cards. Players place the cards in stacks in ascending order, either in front of themselves or in front of others. When a stack is five cards high, it can be removed and scored for points. Stacks can be interrupted by eclipse cards, which in turn can be covered by the appropriate sun or moon cards. Playing a card with an animal allows a player to play again, which is sometimes advantageous, but sometimes not. The player who removes the most cards from play wins!
• As noted in May 2014, Z-Man Games picked up Holger Bösch's Black Stories — a game consisting of murder mysteries that players try to reconstruct by asking questions that allow only "yes" or "no" answers — for release in a new English edition, and now the company is surveying Facebook users to determine the game's final name.

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