New Game Round-up: Deity Dice Battles, A Remade Mad City, and All Creatures Big and Small and Back on the Table

New Game Round-up: Deity Dice Battles, A Remade Mad City, and All Creatures Big and Small and Back on the Table
Board Game: Fleecing Olympus
Board Game: Carcassonne: Expansion 8 – Bridges, Castles and Bazaars
Board Game: Anchors Aweigh!
Board Game: Cacao: Diamante
Passport Game Studios normally imports and distributes titles from European publishers (thus the name "Passport"), but in Q3 2018 it plans to release the original game Fleecing Olympus, a 3-6 player game from Eric and Cecilia Hyland that features the following setting:

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Ages ago, Zeus won control of Mount Olympus in an epic dice battle against Hades. Now, after ages of toiling in the underworld, Hades has finally convinced the other gods and goddesses that the time has come to challenge Zeus for control of the throne. As one of these powerful deities, you possess great power and the drive to make Olympus your own, but will luck also be on your side?

In Fleecing Olympus, players take turns using their deity's powers, rolling dice, and using powerful card abilities in an effort to steal golden gems from other players. When the game ends, the player holding the most gems becomes the new ruler of Mount Olympus and wins the game!
• The updating of the Carcassonne line continues in English with the anticipated August 2018 release of Carcassonne: Expansion 8 – Bridges, Castles and Bazaars from Z-Man Games. The publisher also has U.S. releases coming that month for two titles originally released from Germany publisher ABACUSSPIELE: the Cacao: Diamante expansion for Phil Walker-Harding's Cacao, and Carlo A. Rossi's Anchors Aweigh! a real-time tile-grabbing game in the vein of Galaxy Trucker in that you need to prepare your ship for all that you might encounter.

Board Game: Mad City
• The Kane Klenko real-time tile-laying game Mad City, which Mayfair Games released in 2014, is being reborn in 2018 as Kaosmos from French publisher Gigamic, with the title debuting at Gen Con 2018 in August ahead of its retail release in Q3 2018. Here's an overview of the new setting, without details yet of the tweaked gameplay:

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Through five game rounds, each player tries to build and optimize their personal nine-tile galaxy in a limited time. You must rearrange your planets into different zones while trying to keep your asteroid path as long as possible. Kaos cards challenge each player to adapt to a new rule each round. At the end of the game, your weakest zone score is added to your asteroid path score to determine the winner.
Professor Evil: Architects of Magic is an expansion for the 2017 release Professor Evil and The Citadel of Time from Matthew Dunstan, Brett J. Gilbert, and French publisher Funforge, but what it is and when it might be out are currently unknown.

• Hanno Girke of Lookout Games has teased the following on Facebook:


From gallery of W Eric Martin


Yes, Uwe Rosenberg's Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small is coming back to print in 2018, with this "Big Box" edition including the base game, the two expansions (More Buildings Big and Small and Even More Buildings Big and Small), and shaped wooden components for the workers and resource tokens. Girke says that this new edition might reach the UK in time for UK Games Expo at the start of June 2018 and might reach the U.S. for Gen Con 2018 in August, but if not, then you can be assured that they are on their way from the manufacturer to retail outlets.

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