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After decades of exploration, disputes arise among the colonizing European nations over the discovered lands, resources and trade routes. Old-continent quarrels become new again in the colonies. At times, precarious moments of peace are maintained — until wars erupt again. Human greed is an eternal source of conflicts...
Archipelago: War & Peace introduces forty new beautifully- and individually-illustrated evolution cards: twenty character and twenty progress cards. These cards — which can be combined with the base game or used as a complete replacement — are more aggressive, interactive and (sometimes) drastic than the original ones, covering the major themes of war, peace, and trade, among others.
Players can also choose to draft a character card deck prior to the start of play, with all of the cards being dealt out among players and every one then taking turns adding a card from their hand to a central pile, passing the cards left, and doing this again until 20/21 cards have been chosen. Thus, the players create a new deck each game, with everyone having some knowledge of what's in it. One character card, The Archivist, is used only in draft or when playing with just the new cards as it allows players to access cards not in play. The card tray included with the expansion is designed to hold up to 90 sleeved cards.Archipelago: War & Peace introduces forty new beautifully- and individually-illustrated evolution cards: twenty character and twenty progress cards. These cards — which can be combined with the base game or used as a complete replacement — are more aggressive, interactive and (sometimes) drastic than the original ones, covering the major themes of war, peace, and trade, among others.
Archipelago: War & Peace will debut at the Festival International des Jeux in Cannes at the end of February 2014, where Boelinger will be demoing the new cards, and be available in Europe on March 14, 2014. Asmodee will distribute this expansion in North America, but I don't know a release date at this time.
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Mystery Rummy: Escape from Alcatraz started as a entry by Andrew Korson in a "themed rummy" design competition to be judged by Fitzgerald. "Escape from Alcatraz did not win," says Korson, "placing fifth overall, but Mike liked it enough to ask me to collaborate with him, with the intent of creating the next Mystery Rummy game. We worked on it in 2010/2011, resulting in U.S. Games agreeing to publish it." Years later, as sometimes happens with publishers and their plans to focus on this or that segment of their market, the game is finally coming to fruition. Once Fitzgerald finishes editing the rules and final artwork is available, I'll be able to tell you more about the game in its final incarnation.
As for the other Mystery Rummy titles, a representative for U.S. Games told me that it's trying to determine what kind of reprint schedule (one title, two, all of them?) makes sense based upon demand. Once it settles on a schedule, I hope to pass that info along to you.
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• Lion Rampant Imports has also announced a distribution deal for Reiner Knizia's Rondo, released by Schmidt Spiele at the end of 2012, with the game being available to retailers in North America right now.
• Asmodee expects to make Corto, Origin, Concept and The Builders: Middle Ages — all of which debuted in Europe at or around Spiel 2013 in October — available in North America in February 2014. Marc André's Splendor should be available in North America by the end of March 2014.
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