New Game Round-up: More Fields to Explore, Monuments to Build, and Castles Upon Which to Panic

New Game Round-up: More Fields to Explore, Monuments to Build, and Castles Upon Which to Panic
Board Game: Fields of Arle
Time to clean house — my inbox house, that is — with many short announcements:

• In mid-August 2016, Frank Heeren from Feuerland Spiele announced that a three-player expansion for Uwe Rosenberg's Fields of Arle will be released in 2017. My edited description:

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This expansion introduces ships and tea as new resources as the people from East Frisia are very fond of their black tea, a special blend that is mixed only in that region. Players will be able to dig ditches as an alternative way to dry the bog and to speed up agriculture and sheep breeding. Also new buildings will be introduced.

The game for three players lasts seven half-years, and players each start with two crafting developments/improvements. This expansion also works with the two-player game!
• Designer Alexander Pfister tweeted on August 25, 2016 that in two months, Longsdale in Revolt — the first expansion to Oh My Goods! — will be available for playing. No other details right now.

Steve Jackson Games has delayed the release of the sixth edition of Car Wars until 2017, but it has given an update on what's different in this edition.

From gallery of Photodump
• Publishing partners IDW Games and Pandasaurus Games have a new Kevin Wilson title in the works for release in Q4 2016 or Q1 2017. Here's an overview of Escape from 100 Million BC:

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In Escape from 100 Million BC, players take the roles of stranded time travelers who are hurrying to reassemble their ship because a nearby volcano is about to blow. There are also dinosaurs to dodge, time rifts to close, and historical figures to round up who got caught in the wake of the passing time ship. Each player has unique abilities and stats which will aid in repairing the time ship. Players must be careful not to disrupt the timeline too much or the volcano will detonate, wiping out proof of the expedition altogether.
• Pandasaurus Games has also released a short description of Scott Almes' StarFall, due out in November 2016 and previously described as having a Knizia-like bidding system:

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The night is still, cloudless and dark. An oasis of interstellar magic lies beyond the stratosphere: countless stars, burning comets, planets, ivory moons, nebulae and perhaps even a beastly black hole or two. It's all up there for the finding. At the Royal Hinterland Observatory, endless elaborate sky formations are within reach of discovery—but you have to lay claim before your fellow astronomers nab the glory for themselves. StarFall is a clever game of wits, bidding and quick thinking in which the aim is to obtain the most impressive portfolio of cosmic curiosities.
Board Game: Cyclades: Monuments
Cyclades: Monuments, an expansion for Cathala and Maublanc's Cyclades due out Q4 2016 from Matagot, consists of ten monument miniatures and ten associated monument cards that will allow you to "build temples dedicated to Zeus or Poseidon's glory, a great university to Athena, or a citadel from which Ares will watch down, with each of these new buildings giving you a unique power to achieve victory".

Fireside Games will release Castle Panic: Engines of War, a third expansion for Castle Panic, in November 2016, with this expansion adding a helpful engineer who can build catapults, ballistas, and barricades to help defend against monsters now using a siege tower, a war wagon, and a battering ram while recruiting help from a shaman, a breathtaker, and goblin saboteurs.

• This tweet stands on its own:

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