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Treefrog Games: Emerald Polished, Ships Incoming, Invaders Printed, Discworld Lost & Brass Attacks

Treefrog Games: Emerald Polished, Ships Incoming, Invaders Printed, Discworld Lost & Brass Attacks
Board Game: A Study in Emerald (Second Edition)
• While bouncing from one convention to the next (and preparing for the next couple of cons), I often run behind on posting everything that I'd like to post, such as a rundown of the latest from designer Martin Wallace and his Treefrog Games.

In mid-May 2015, Wallace announced details of the second edition of A Study in Emerald, which contains streamlined rules that he hopes will "help those folks who found the first version a tad complicated. Although the game is simpler, it still retains the feeling of paranoia from the first version. What I have done my best to do is remove inconsistencies and reduce the number of available actions to the minimum." The artwork in the second edition is completely new, and says Wallace, "Please note that the game comes without a free poster." A Study in Emerald, for those who aren't aware, is derived from a Neil Gaiman story in which Sherlock Holmes and the creations of H.P. Lovecraft co-exist.

Wallace expects the game to ship from the manufacturer in September 2015, which would make the game a Q4 2015 release. Phalanx, Asterion, Arclight, Ediciones MasQueOca and Schwerkraft will release versions of the game in their respective countries in languages appropriate for those countries.


Board Game: Ships


Board Game: Ships
• At about the same time, Wallace released a detailed overview of Ships, which follows Automobile and Aeroplanes in his transportation trilogy and the game board of which certainly calls Automobile to mind. The Ships page on the Treefrog Games website features an extensive summary of the gameplay, along with images of galley, sail and steamer cards, with those three types of ships representing the three ages in which the game takes place.

In March 2015, Mayfair Games had announced that it would not produce the standard edition of Ships, so now both the standard and the limited edition will be released by Treefrog, with the game currently expected to be manufactured in Q3 2015.

Board Game: Moongha Invaders: Mad Scientists and Atomic Monsters Attack the Earth!
Board Game: Brass: Lancashire
• In mid-June 2015, Wallace announced that the second edition of Moongha Invaders: Mad Scientists and Atomic Monsters Attack the Earth — which was funded via Kickstarter in November 2012 — had been printed and will be shipped to the U.S. and elsewhere within the next two months, after which they'll be sent to KS backers.

• Not everything has been moving toward production for Treefrog, however. Author Terry Pratchett died in March 2015, and in early June 2015 Wallace stated that Treefrog no longer has "the licence to produce Discworld: Ankh-Morpork or The Witches. I'm sorry to disappoint those fans looking forward to the next game, just one of those things."

• Finally, on June 22, 2015, Wallace posted a long note on the Treefrog Games website stating that Eagle-Gryphon Games "no longer have the rights to Brass", despite EGG planning to launch a Kickstarter for a deluxe version of Brass on July 16, 2015. Rick Soued, CEO of EGG, has responded on BGG, stating that "Eagle Games has an entirely valid and up-to-date contract with Martin for the publication rights to Brass and he is well aware of that", to which Wallace has responded with an excerpt of the contract. Much armchair lawyering is underway in this thread should you care to participate.

(Wallace named Soued as "owner of Eagle Gryphon, FRED and Funagain" in his original post. Nick Medinger from Funagain has stated that Soued "no longer owns any part of Funagain. This has been true for almost 2 years now. I say this as the guy who runs the daily operations of Funagain." Thus ends my participation in this discussion.)

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