Fantasy Flight Games' Line-up for April 2012

U.S. publisher Fantasy Flight Games has announced its April 2012 release schedule, which consists of two big announcements and the usual assortment of expansion packs for its line of Living Card Games.

Announcement #1: FFG will release a card game called Infiltration from designer Donald X. Vaccarino – he of Dominion fame – with the game being set in the cyberpunk world of FFG's Android. Here's a description of the game from the publisher:

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It is the future, and beneath the flickering glow of the sprawling New Angeles skyline, immense corporations seek every advantage in the burgeoning field of synthetic humanoid technology. On the brink of a revolutionary innovation, CyberSolutions Inc. is poised to become the next global powerhouse, threatening the profits of well-established conglomerates Haas-Bioroid and Jinteki – but unfortunately for CyberSolutions, security at their New Angeles branch has just been compromised.

Set in the dystopian future of Android, Infiltration is a tense card game of futuristic larceny in which two to six players take the roles of thieves, competing to steal valuable secrets from a highly secured corporate facility.

The most vital information lies deep within the complex, but each step inward takes you farther from escape. Worse yet, corporate mercenaries are closing in! How long will you push your luck as you avoid security patrols, surpass rival thieves, and try to download the most data before the building is locked down?

Okay, calling that a description of the game is misleading, but FFG hasn't said anything about the game play yet. Expect a series of previews related to that in March or April when the game nears release.

We've come a long way

from a boy and his dog...

Announcement #2 is the introduction of a new faction for Dust Tactics, and while normally FFG releases one or two items for this game each month, for April FFG is unloading a half-dozen items related to its newly unveiled "Sino-Soviet Union" faction all at once. Here's the list of what's on offer:

-----• Dust Tactics: Operation "Zverograd"
-----• Dust Tactics: KV47 Walker
-----• Dust Tactics: SSU Airborne Transport
-----• Dust Tactics: SSU Command Squad
-----• Dust Tactics: SSU NKVD Battle Squad
-----• Dust Tactics: SSU NKVD Close Combat Squad

More on the Sino-Soviet Union and the components represented in these expansions in this FFG news item.

Finally, here's a round-up of expansion packs for FFG's line of Living Card Games:

-----• A Game of Thrones: The Card Game - Valar Morghulis
-----• Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game - Ebla Restored
-----• The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game - The Long Dark
-----• Warhammer: Invasion - Fragments of Power