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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Fluxx, due out in the first half of 2019, follows the release of Star Trek Fluxx and Star Trek: The Next Generation Fluxx in mid-2018. Those latter two titles could be combined with the Bridge expansion, but it's not clear yet whether DS9 Fluxx can be bolted on to one or another of those titles — not that it will stop people from trying, of course. Here's teaser text for this release from the publisher: "Work alongside Benjamin Sisko, Quark, Jadzia Dax, Worf and all your other favorite space station personnel while you try to gather Gold-Pressed Latinum and study The Wormhole — but watch our for nasty Surprises and Creepers like the Founders and the Jem'Hadar."
• Star Trek pops up again in ChronoTrek, which is scheduled to debut at Gen Con 2019 in August. Anyone who has played Andy Looney's Chrononauts will find the gameplay familiar in this release, although everything else will differ. An overview:
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In ChronoTrek, a time-travel game similar to Chrononauts but set in the Star Trek universe, each player becomes a Star Trek character with a unique identity and a secret mission. During the game, players travel backwards and forwards through history, doing all those things people have always dreamed of using time travel to do: Visiting the great moments of the past, peeking into the future, collecting up artifacts, coming to grips with the paradoxes of time travel, and of course, changing pivotal events and altering the course of history itself.
Explore the history (and alternate history!) of the entire Star Trek universe in this version of Chrononauts. Try to alter history to restore your specific timeline! Maybe you need to ensure that the Federation gets founded, or just retrieve the Orb of Time and some tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Explore the history (and alternate history!) of the entire Star Trek universe in this version of Chrononauts. Try to alter history to restore your specific timeline! Maybe you need to ensure that the Federation gets founded, or just retrieve the Orb of Time and some tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
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In Time Breaker, you work for the security division of the Time Repair Agency. A Time Breaker has gotten loose, and you must apprehend them before they do any serious damage to the space-time continuum. Soon they will begin closing down the time doorways we need to use to pursue them. The agent who brings in this perp will get a promotion, and thus win. Quick everybody, into the time machine!
• Funforge has signed deals with Roxley to release French versions of Brass: Lancashire and Brass: Birmingham and with Awaken Realms to release a French version of Nemesis. Expect this trio of big boxes to hit the market in Q2 2019./pic4468129.png)
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In 2025, the first settlers arrived on Mars! The base camp was already settled and now, during the next fifty years, a group of very brave people from private space exploration companies are establishing a major colony ruled by a terrestrial organization, the OMDE (Organization for Mars Development and Exploration).
As a chief astronaut from a private space exploration company, you want to be a pioneer in developing the biggest, most advanced colony on Mars, achieving the OMDE mission goals as well as your company's hidden agenda. By bringing in and managing settlers, you can explore, mine, build, power, and upgrade buildings. You will lead the construction and assembly of greenhouse farms, water compounds, O₂ factories, power generators, and mines. The goal of humanity on this new planet is to learn how to value water, air and the the things we need to live more than money — and in the end, become a self-sufficient colony independent of any terrestrial organization. Do you dare to take part in mankind's next biggest conquest?
As a chief astronaut from a private space exploration company, you want to be a pioneer in developing the biggest, most advanced colony on Mars, achieving the OMDE mission goals as well as your company's hidden agenda. By bringing in and managing settlers, you can explore, mine, build, power, and upgrade buildings. You will lead the construction and assembly of greenhouse farms, water compounds, O₂ factories, power generators, and mines. The goal of humanity on this new planet is to learn how to value water, air and the the things we need to live more than money — and in the end, become a self-sufficient colony independent of any terrestrial organization. Do you dare to take part in mankind's next biggest conquest?
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• Following that, on March 7, 2019 comes a KS for Age of Steam: Deluxe Edition, which has graphics anew by Ian O'Toole, six maps (including the original "Rust Belt" map from the game's 2002 debut), and a contentious publication history.
To summarize seventeen years of AoS design disputes in a few lines: Age of Steam appeared in three printings from Martin Wallace's Warfrog Games in "May 2002, October 2002 and November 2004", according to John Bohrer of Winsome Games, with Martin Wallace's name on the cover. (Two years earlier, Bohrer had claimed that a "Winsome edition of Age of Steam" also existed. This statement appears to refer to a prototype/development copy sold or given to some Winsome customers at SPIEL '01, with this item being depicted by Mik Svellov here.) Wallace claimed that Warfrog had paid Winsome "to do development work on the game", which meant that Warfrog owned the material, while Bohrer has claimed "the rules are Copyright J. Bohrer 2002, 2004" as noted on the rulebooks themselves. Eagle-Gryphon Games released a new edition of Age of Steam in 2009 with no designer credit on the front of the box, and Wallace was upset that this edition existed, regarding this edition as "stolen property".
The cover shown below, verified by both EGG and artist Ian O'Toole, is the final cover of this edition of the game and does not feature a designer credit, as on the previous edition.
• Finally, for now, in May 2019 EGG will Kickstart a second edition of Richard Launius' Defenders of the Realm.
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