New Game Round-up: Experience Wrath of the Dragons, Explore Labyrinth, Expand Nations & Englishify 6 Nimmt

New Game Round-up: Experience Wrath of the Dragons, Explore Labyrinth, Expand Nations & Englishify 6 Nimmt
Board Game: Wrath of Dragons
• At just over a week until Gen Con 2015 opens, I'm still running across news of games that will debut at the show and adding them to BGG's Gen Con 2015 Preview. The latest entrant is Wrath of the Dragons from Keith Rentz and Catalyst Game Labs, and I have little information about this self-described "resource destruction" game other than the following:

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In Wrath of Dragons, each player assumes the role of a dragon that, over the course of many centuries, flies into different regions of the Old World to lay waste to settlements, scorch fields, snatch livestock, take gold, and capture nobles. After six centuries have passed, the devastation, destruction, and fear that the dragons have caused is scored, and the dragon that earns the most victory points wins!
Board Game: 6 nimmt!
Board Game: No Thanks!
Board Game: Saboteur
Board Game: Saboteur 2 (expansion-only editions)
• Another surprise Gen Con 2015 appearance comes courtesy of Mayfair Games, which has signed a deal with German publisher AMIGO Spiel for the release of four titles in English: 6 nimmt!, No Thanks!, Saboteur, and Saboteur 2.

Charles Rice with Mayfair says that these editions are identical to the AMIGO versions, other than the rules being in English and the boxes bearing the Mayfair logo. (I'm not sure whether this will be the anniversary edition of 6 nimmt! or the regular one; in either case it's keeping the 6 nimmt! name.) Mayfair says it will have a few hundred copies of each title at Gen Con 2015, with the games reaching U.S. stores not long after the convention.

• Via the Muppet fan site Tough Pigs comes word of a game license for Jim Henson's 1986 film Labyrinth, which is remembered mostly for the scenes of David Bowie in tight pants — or at least that's what my wife tells me. The publisher in question, River Horse, offers this statement about the game license: "We can't, at time of writing, tell you much more about it at the moment, but rest assured that the film is a firm favorite here at River Horse and we are very excited to be making the game."

Board Game: Nations
Lautapelit.fi and designers Håkansson x2 and Rosén x2 are working on Nations: Dynasties, a large expansion for Nations that adds twelve new Nations with Dynasties to the base game while including Dynasties for the B-sides of the base game Nations. Furthermore:

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Two additional new concepts are included: Turmoil (which makes Stability more dynamic) and Natural Wonders (which creates very hard choices and new types of interaction). Together with the new, more advanced Progress cards, the replayability is increased significantly. This expansion is recommended when you are experienced with the Expert cards of the base game.
Co-designer Rustan Håkansson has posted rules and card texts for Nations: Dynasties on BGG and invites feedback and proofreading. Says Håkansson, "When I did the same for the rules of Nations: The Dice Game, the quality of the rules were greatly increased. My hope is that with help on this we can get it ready for Essen; it is starting to get tight." He notes that this expansion fits inside the base game box, so it will be sold shrinkwrapped instead of in a box to keep the cost down.

• And speaking of Nations: The Dice Game, Håkansson notes that an expansion for this game has been making the rounds of blind playtesting. "It makes the game a lot harder and increases variation significantly", he says.

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