Trains, Plane-like Vehicles, and Auto-Mo' Wolves from Bézier Games

Trains, Plane-like Vehicles, and Auto-Mo' Wolves from Bézier Games
Board Game: Silver
Board Game: Silver Bullet
Was this post title a stretch? Indeed it was, but I made that stretch anyway for whatever payoff it might have provided you, which might have been none at all.

In any case, with GAMA Expo 2020 opening today — and BGG's livestream coverage of that show starting on Tuesday, March 10 — U.S. publisher Bézier Games has announced three new titles, with one of them releasing at each of its three largest shows for the remainder of the year.

At Origins Game Fair 2020, Bézier will debut Ted Alspach's Silver Coin, the third title in its Silver series of card games following Silver itself and Silver Bullet. Like those earlier two titles, Silver Coin is for 2-4 players, is built on the mechanisms of CABO and the public domain card game Golf, and can be combined with the other Silver titles. Here's an overview of the game:
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Your village has been overrun by savage werewolves, which are represented by the number on each of the cards that make up your village. To get rid of these fanged fiends faster than the neighboring villages, use your residents' special abilities and your powerful secret weapon: a silver coin.

Call for a vote when you think you have the fewest werewolves, but be careful as everyone else gets one more turn to save their own village first...

Board Game: Silver Coin

Silver Coin is a fast and engaging traditional card game with a werewolf twist! Everyone starts the game with five face-down cards, with everyone being able to see two cards of their choice. Cards are numbered 0-13, with the number showing how many werewolves the character on that card attracts, and each character (number) has a different special power.

On a turn, you draw the top card of the deck or discard pile, then either discard it to use the power of the card (but only if it came from the deck), discard it without using the power (ditto), or replace one or more of your face-down cards with this card; you can replace multiple cards only if they bear the same number, and you must reveal the cards to prove this, being penalized if you're wrong.
Sample cards in Silver Coin include the Golem (#11) that lets you swap the top card of the discard pile with one village card, the Huntress (#6) who lets you turn one card face down and another card face up, and the Curator (#2) who can turn a card 90º or discard a card that's already been turned.

Board Game: Silver Coin

Board Game: Whistle Stop
• Gen Con 2020 will see the debut of Whistle Mountain from Scott Caputo (whose game Whistle Stop was released by Bézier in 2017) and Luke Laurie, who's best known as co-designer of The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire. While Whistle Mountain is a standalone game, it takes its setting from where you might have ended a game of Whistle Stop:
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Take your company's massive profits from all of that railroading and invest them in new technologies, deep in the Rocky Mountains where there is an abundance of resources. Your workers build crazy arrays of scaffolds and machines, upgrading your abilities and collecting resources. As you build with the help of your airship fleet — from blimps and dreadnoughts to hot air balloons — the mountain's melting snow causes the water below to rise higher and higher, putting workers in danger and increasing the tension on the dynamically-changing board.

Board Game: Whistle Mountain

Because the resources you gather are determined by what players build, each game evolves differently, resulting in endless replayability. You have to choose between acquiring new abilities and enhancements for your airships and workers or building all sorts of contraptions as quickly as possible in order to achieve victory on Whistle Mountain.
• To close the year, at SPIEL '20 Bézier Games will release another title from company co-owner Ted Alspach, the 1-4 player tile-placement game Maglev Metro, which has a playing time of 60-90 minutes. Here's an overview of the game:
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Utilize state-of-the-art magnetic levitation technology to build a metropolitan rail system, transporting workers and robots beneath the city. Replace aging Manhattan and Berlin subway systems with newer, faster, quieter technology. Enhance your rail system's abilities so that your passengers arrive at their destinations first.

Board Game: Maglev Metro

Efficiency is your key to success in this pick-up-and-deliver, tile-laying, engine-building game. Transparent tiles allow your route to overlap your opponents' tracks, winding you along from station to station. Robots efficiently upgrade and adjust your abilities, leveraging unique goals to maximize points. By the end of the game, the game board has morphed into a modern subway map, with brightly-colored routes connecting stations all over the city.

Maglev Metro contains two unique maps, with more scheduled for release in 2021.

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