New Game Round-up: A New Age for Conan, New Landscapes for Elder Sign & New Ships for Firefly

New Game Round-up: A New Age for Conan, New Landscapes for Elder Sign & New Ships for Firefly
Board Game: Age of Conan: The Strategy Board Game
Board Game: Age of Conan: The Strategy Board Game – Adventures in Hyboria
Ares Games has made deals with both Fantasy Flight Games and Conan Properties International that put the remaining inventory of the first English-language edition of Age of Conan: The Strategy Board Game in its possession and allow it to proceed with plans for an expansion from original designers Roberto Di Meglio, Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello. Here's an overview of Adventures in Hyboria, the name of which might change prior to a Kickstarter funding campaign due to start in October 2014 ahead of a Q2 2015 release date:

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Adventures in Hyboria casts a strong spotlight on Conan himself, giving a new dimension to his role in the game and adding new elements to give more character and more flavor to each Kingdom. More specifically, this expansion adds new Kingdom cards to the base game and new Story and Adventure decks of cards.
Di Meglio notes on BGG that "the expansion will also include some 'rules tweaks' to the original, but the most important change is the entirely new Conan sub-system." Thus, two Conan-based games will be looking for funding as Monolith's Conan: Hyborian Quests from Frédéric Henry is headed to KS in early 2015. Curious...

Board Game: Elder Sign: Gates of Arkham
• Speaking of FFG, Fantasy Flight Games has announced a new expansion for Elder Sign, with Gates of Arkham due out in Q1 2015. Here's what you'll find in the box:

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The struggle against the Ancient Ones spreads out of the museum and into the haunted city of Arkham in Elder Sign: Gates of Arkham. Adventures take place in over twenty locations including Velma's Diner and the Curiositie Shoppe, Arkham Asylum, and the Uninvited Isle. Meanwhile, gates to Other Worlds open throughout Arkham, destabilizing time and space.

In this expansion, four new Ancient Ones threaten humanity and eight new investigators join the quest for elder signs. Investigators can also now acquire skills that give them lasting advantages. Memberships in either the brutal Sheldon Gang or the mysterious Silver Twilight Lodge help investigators complete tasks and grant them added rewards. It will take all the skills, resources, strength, and sanity you can muster to prevent the Ancient Ones from awakening – and to stay alive in the rough streets of Arkham.
Board Game Publisher: Treefrog Games
• While providing an update for the availability of Mythotopia and Onward to Venus at Spiel 2014 (as noted in BGG's preview), designer Martin Wallace of Treefrog Games said, "Each copy of the limited edition of Mythotopia will contain two replacement counters for A Study in Emerald (William Morris and Wilhelm Steiber). We will also provide CoolStuffInc and Gameslore with replacement counters. We will post more on how to get replacements at a later time."

Wallace added, "The third in the subscription series, Ships, will be produced in 2015, hopefully in the first quarter."

• In February 2015, Gale Force Nine plans to release Firefly: The Game – Resin Ships (MSRP $50), a set of six models from Firefly: The Game "that have been re-mastered and produced in high detail resin so that you can customize your own ships and give them your unique paint schemes".

Board Game Accessory: Firefly: The Game – Customizable Ship Models

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