New Game Round-up: Science for Humanity, Churches for Carcassonne & Fluxx for the TableTop

New Game Round-up: Science for Humanity, Churches for Carcassonne & Fluxx for the TableTop
Board Game: Three Cheers for Master
• In April 2015, U.S. publisher Atlas Games plans to release Three Cheers for Master from Daniel Windfeld Schmidt, and the game description gives you a feel for the setting, if not the gameplay:

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Master has been blue lately. It's just not the same now that all lands known to evil have been conquered — and when Master's blue, it's the minions who suffer.

As a lieutenant in Master's army — a foreminion — it falls to you to cheer him up. Not the easiest task, even in the best of times. But then it hit you: What better way to cheer Master up than a cheerleading competition?

Whichever foreminion builds and scales the most impressive tower of war-hungry minions in Three Cheers for Master will surely win Master's heart. What could possibly go wrong?
Board Game: Three Cheers for Master

• On Facebook, Horrible Games has teased Dungeon Fighter: Rock and Roll, offering only this image and an April 2015 date (for release? for more information?).

From gallery of W Eric Martin

Board Game: Cards Against Humanity: Science Pack
• In late 2014, Cards Against Humanity released a 30-card Science Pack expansion for the 2014 Bay Area Science Festival, and now that pack is available through the CAH online store, with proceeds from sales funding a Cards Against Humanity Science Ambassador Scholarship for women who are pursuing college degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. On Think Progress, Jessica Goldstein describes the development of the Science Pack and the origins of the scholarship program.

• Another expansion pack being released for a long-lived best-seller is the Fluxx: International TableTop Day Expansion, which will debut on April 11, 2015, which happens to be International TableTop Day. What are the odds! This pack consists of five Keepers, four Goals, and one Action, and it's one of many promo things in the TableTop Day retail kit available to participating retailers.

Board Game: Fluxx: International TableTop Day Expansion

Carcassonne: Burgen in Deutschland is a mini-expansion for Carcassonne from German publisher Hans im Glück. Yes, another one! It's almost like people really like Carcassonne and keep buying lots of extra stuff for the game, which then encourages HiG to make even more. Almost. Here's an overview of this expansion, which is available through HiG's online shop only through April 11, 2015, with the expansion not available again until Spiel 2015 in October:

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At the start of the game, each player receives one (with 4-6 players) or two (with 2-3 players) of the double-sized castle tiles. During the game, a player can choose to place on their castle tiles instead of the regular tile in hand, with tile parts needing to match as usual; when the player places it, they can place a meeple somewhere on the tile. If the meeple is in the main castle, the tile counts as a cloister and is worth 12 points when completely surrounded. If a castle or road is completed during the game and part of that structure is on a castle tile, then the castle or road is worth 3 additional points, no matter who placed the tile.
Board Game: Carcassonne: Castles in Germany

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