New Game Round-up: New Cards in Mage Knight, Ferengi in Star Trek: Galactic Enterprises, and Water Dinos in Dinosaur Island

New Game Round-up: New Cards in Mage Knight, Ferengi in Star Trek: Galactic Enterprises, and Water Dinos in Dinosaur Island
Board Game: Mage Knight: Ultimate Edition
WizKids has announced that in September 2018 it will release Mage Knight: Ultimate Edition, a collection that includes the Mage Knight Board Game by Vlaada Chvátil; The Lost Legion, Shades of Tezla, and Krang Character expansions; "comprehensive integrated rules text"; five new cards; and miniatures with alternate paint jobs, with this 14"x14"x5" box selling for $125. This edition will have versions available in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese, with those versions not necessarily being released in Sept. 2018.

Already own everything MK-related but want the new rulebook? Zev Shlasinger from WizKids says, "We have made rules online for all the games we have published since my tenure at Wizkids, and Mage Knight Ultimate Edition will not be different." As for availability of the new cards, he says, "I make no promises, but if they were to become available probably not for six months to a year after the initial release."

Board Game: Star Trek: Galactic Enterprises
• WizKids has removed Blade Runner 2049: Nexus Protocol (announced here) from its list of game releases so I've removed the game listing from the BGG database since the title won't exist, but the publisher has added another licensed title in that same June 2018 release slot: Star Trek: Galactic Enterprises from Christophe Boelinger. Here's a summary of the gameplay:

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On the Deep Space 9 station, Ferengi wheel and deal legal and illegal items in order to accrue the most profit because as you know, a Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all (Rule of Acquisition #18).

In Star Trek: Galactic Enterprises, 3 to 8 Ferengi buy and sell their wares, trying to monopolize a particular item for greater profit. However, once other Ferengi get those same items for sale, it becomes a matter of negotiation: Do you work together to gain the same profit, or do you agree to cooperate, then sell at a lower price to steal all the profit for yourself? After all, opportunity, plus instinct, equals profit (Rule of Acquisition #9).

Be wary of special action cards that can mess with the business of other Ferengi. The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife (Rule of Acquisition #48). The Ferengi who has earned the most profit becomes the First Clerk!
I'm guessing that this is a new version of Boelinger's 2002 auction and negotiation game Fantasy Business, but we'll need more details to know for certain. Something to ask about at the 2018 GAMA Trade Show, which opens today and which BGG will be broadcasting from starting on Tuesday, March 13.

From gallery of Photodump
• Another title we'll get an early look at in GAMA is Scott Rogers' Pantone: The Game, which Cryptozoic Entertainmentplans to release in the second half of 2018. An overview of this party game for 2-20 players:

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In Pantone: The Game, the player who is currently the artist chooses a character card, then designs a representation of that character using only color swatch cards. The other players subsequently take turns trying to guess who it is. If no one can guess the character during a round, a hint is given at the start of the next round, with each hint reducing the number of points awarded to both the artist and the player who correctly identifies the character. Whoever has the most points after each player acts as the artist three times wins.
Pandasaurus Games is heading back to Kickstarter for a new print run of Dinosaur Island from Jon Gilmour and Brian Lewis, and while there it's funding Dinosaur Island: Totally Liquid, an expansion co-designed with Ian Moss that adds components needed to play with up to five players, in addition to adding water dinosaurs to the base game, new parkboard extensions, executive worker meeples that give unique worker abilities to each player, a blueprints module that rewards players when they build certain park layouts, PR events that create hidden scoring opportunities, and more.

Dinosaur Island: Totally Liquid is due out in November 2018.


Board Game: Dinosaur Island: Totally Liquid

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