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SPIEL 2016 X: Portal Games Portfolio — First Martians, Alien Artifacts, Imperial Settlers: Aztecs, Robinson Crusoe, Stronghold: Undead, Cry Havoc: Aftermath, and Neuroshima Hex! Death Breath

SPIEL 2016 X: Portal Games Portfolio — First Martians, Alien Artifacts, Imperial Settlers: Aztecs, Robinson Crusoe, Stronghold: Undead, Cry Havoc: Aftermath, and Neuroshima Hex! Death Breath
Board Game: Imperial Settlers: Aztecs
• Portal Games had a phenomenal booth at SPIEL 2016 that was probably three times the size of its booth the previous year, and in addition to celebrating the opening of a division in Germany that will now release its own titles in German (instead of licensing them to other publishers), Portal Games also had plenty to share about what's coming in 2017.

In the seven videos below, none longer than 2:35, Ignacy Trzewiczek displays master "elevator pitch" skills for both the newly released and the newly anticipated titles in Portal's catalog, starting with Imperial Settlers: Aztecs, which debuted at SPIEL 2016.




Board Game: Neuroshima Hex! 3.0: Death Breath
• The other new expansion debuting at the fair was Neuroshima Hex! Death Breath, which features a faction that you might think twice about killing.





Board Game: Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island
• The second edition of Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island also debuted in Essen at SPIEL 2016, with the gameplay being the same as in the original game while everything else had been revised.




From gallery of Photodump
• Stronghold: Undead is also getting a second edition, following on the heels of the second edition of the Stronghold base game in early 2016.




Board Game: Cry Havoc: Aftermath
• Cry Havoc: Aftermath, an expansion for Gen Con 2016 darling Cry Havoc, brings new skills and buildings to the table for each faction to provide mroe variety of play.




Board Game: First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet
• First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet, which I first previewed in February 2016, is nearing completion in terms of the design and should be released in the first half of 2017.





Board Game: Alien Artifacts
• Alien Artifacts from Marcin Ropka and Viola Kijowska is a 4X-style game that Portal Games will demo at BGG.CON 2016 in November to start the buzz machine ahead of the game's release at Gen Con 2017.

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