New Game Round-up: Foragers, Fallen, Star Trek: Attack Wing and Road/Kill Ultimate Car Combat

New Game Round-up: Foragers, Fallen, Star Trek: Attack Wing and Road/Kill Ultimate Car Combat
Board Game Publisher: Dr. Finn's Games
• While dropping word that an advance copy of his Gunrunners has arrived – with the bulk of the shipment due in June 2013 – designer Steve Finn of Dr. Finn's Games has announced his next release, which is titled Foragers.

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The Natufian culture, situated on the Levant during the Epipaleolithic period (akin to the european Mesolithic), were a semi-sedentary hunting and foraging society that is supposed to be one of the first civilizations to domesticate dogs and have something as close as possible to an agricultural system. In Foragers, after the death of the previous Leader, there'll be a natural competition to decide who'll take on its role. Each player take on the role of an ancient forager, guiding and directing his tribe during his time as Leader of the Hunt, a temporary status to access his ability to lead and provide for the tribes.

There are two ways to become the official Leader and win the game: by accumulating the most Hunt Points or by collecting a certain number of gazelles.
More details about the gameplay in the description on the BGG page linked to above. Undoubtedly this game will make its way to Kickstarter once Gunrunners starts showing up at the doors of backers.

Board Game: Fallen
• New U.S. publisher Watchtower Games has announced its debut release: the card and dice game Fallen from designers Tom W. Green, III and Stephen C. Smith. Here's a summary of the gameplay:

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In Fallen, two players battle deep within a dungeon. One player takes on the role of the Hero, exploring the twisting halls and deadly chambers of the labyrinth. Another player takes on the role of the Dungeon Lord, summon terrifying creatures and wielding dark magics.

The adventure is brought to life through an array of cards and dice. As they explore the dungeon, Story Cards describe the rooms and challenges the Hero will face. When a battle erupts or a trap is sprung, Challenge Dice are rolled to see who is victorious. The adventure culminates in epic battle between the Hero and the Dungeon Lord with only one player left standing.
Tom Green gives a broader overview of the game in this developer diary, posted on both BGG and the Watchtower Games website:


As with Foragers, Fallen will head to Kickstarter for funding in the near future.

From gallery of W Eric Martin
• Maybe this entire post should be pre-Kickstarter reports on new games? For example, new publisher The Infinity Gate plans to launch a Kickstarter project soon for Road/Kill Ultimate Car Combat and in anticipation the publisher has developed a "Kickstarter beta-site", otherwise known as a "website". Here's a game description from the publisher:

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Road/Kill Ultimate Car Combat is a 2-5 player table-top strategy game of fun and furious futuristic car combat that can be played in under an hour. It is the pinnacle of smash'em-up car games, loaded with sweet looking customizable high-quality minis, tons of guns’n’gear and fast-moving play tactics. This game is first-class and like nothing else on the market today.

Battle cars are easily designed on a template and customized to meet each player’s preference for speed, offense and defense. Once designed, cars are constructed by snapping together a wide variety of parts. You can be ready to play in minutes!
Good plan by the publisher to get out in front of the Steve Jackson Games' Car Wars revamp that will likely hit Kickstarter later in 2013.

Board Game: Star Trek: Attack Wing
• Okay, time for something along a more traditional publishing path, specifically an update on Star Trek: Attack Wing, which I first covered on BGGN in March 2013. WizKids Games plans to debut this game at the Gen Con game convention in August 2013, and co-designer Andrew Parks has been posting monthly descriptions of game elements on the BGG page, to date covering the shield system, the captains and crew, and how cloaking affects movement. In addition to the starter set, WizKids has announced eight expansion packs:

-----Federation U.S.S Reliant Expansion Pack
-----Federation U.S.S. Enterprise Expansion Pack
-----Romulan I.R.W. Valdore Expansion Pack
-----Romulan R.I.S. Apnex Expansion Pack
-----Klingon I.K.S. Gr'oth Expansion Pack
-----Klingon I.K.S. Negh'var Expansion Pack
-----Dominion Kraxon Expansion Pack
-----Dominion Gor Portas Expansion Pack

No details at this point about what's in each expansion pack, but I suspect an absence of banana soufflés in those boxes.

• As for other licenses in its publishing arsenal, WizKids plans to release a "Connect with Pieces" puzzle-building game, a "Shuffling the Deck" card game, and a HeroClix mini-game for two July 2013 film releases, Pacific Rim and The Lone Ranger.

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