WizKids and Lookout Games to Partner on Agricola Mini-Expansions

WizKids and Lookout Games to Partner on Agricola Mini-Expansions
Board Game: Agricola (Revised Edition)
WizKids has announced a licensing partnership with Lookout Games for the publication of six Agricola Upgrade Kits in 2017, with each of these mini-expansions containing "five highly detailed pre-painted figures for use with the Agricola base game" as well as new cards designed by Agricola creator Uwe Rosenberg.

The figures are intended for use by one player during the game, and with six kits being released, each player in a six-player game can have their own unique set of figures. The cards are unique to each particular expansion.

From the press release:

Quote:
"We're excited to work with Uwe and Lookout Games to bring new content to the Agricola franchise," said Justin Ziran, president of WizKids. "Lookout Games brings a legacy of quality, style and innovative game play to the table and we couldn't be happier to enhance Agricola with detailed, pre-painted figural & gameplay content."

"We've been wanting to do painted figures for the family members for a while now and thought it would be great to couple them with new content for the game. We're excited to be working with WizKids to make this a reality," said Grzegorz Kobiela, editor at Lookout Games.
Functionally these Agricola Upgrade Kits seem modeled after the Pathfinder Battles: Iconic Heroes sets that WizKids released in 2015 and 2016, with each of those sets containing six or seven miniatures for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, with a new card specific to each character for use in the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game.

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