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The Village Square: October 22, 2018

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Steeled for the long haul
In November, CMON will release the Armistice Edition of popular challenging cooperative game The Grizzled. The new edition takes players through a campaign starting with boot camp and on through nine different missions, with results in one affecting play in the following missions. And it comes with neat pre-painted minis, replacing the former game’s standees.
Source: https://www.cmon.com/product/the-grizzled/the-grizzled-armistice-edition

It’s a festival
Pandasaurus Games announced they will release Mebo’s Portuguese festival game Arraial at Essen and in the States early next year. The family friendly design is a fast, Tetris style, tile-laying game.
Source: https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/41610/pandasaurus-brings-arraial-festival-u-s

Where the tiles roam
Z-Man Games announced Carcassonne: Safari to release later this year. What are animals from the African Savannah doing in France? Well, it’s a new twist on the evergreen tile-laying design!
Source: https://www.zmangames.com/en/news/2018/10/17/announcing-carcassonne-safari/

Life of a patrician
New Ravensburger and Stefan Feld release Carpe Diem will hit U.S. shelves in November. Seize the day by making your villa more impressive than the Jones’ (or their Roman counterparts) by building fish ponds and servant quarters. Yeah, that’s right!
Source: https://www.ravensburger.com/alea/spiele/carpe-diem/index.html

Blowing around
Arcane Wonders announced Onitama: Way of the Wind will release in mid-November. The expansion to the two-player abstract designs adds the wind spirit which is impassable and cannot by affected by players, but will move about the board affecting them, anyway!
Source: http://www.arcanewonders.com/october-highlight-onitama-way-of-the-wind/

I Robot Revolutionary
Next month Atlas Games will release Cogs and Commissars, a highly contentious, take-that, drafting card game of robotic insurrection. Amass your people’s army of various classes to foment revolution!
Source: http://www.atlas-games.com/product_tables/AG1430.php

Sneak peek
Plaid Hat Games’s latest preview of soon to release Guardians, the deck-drafting superhero tactical card game. This article looks at Ronin and Whiplash.
Source: https://www.plaidhatgames.com/news/947

Big and little little expansion
Upper Deck will release Ant Man, a mini expansion to Legendary next month. It features the titular character, The Wasp, and new heroes, villains, schemes and masterminds to jump into the size-changing microverse!
Source: http://upperdeckblog.com/2018/10/legendary-ant-man-card-preview-welcome-to-the-microverse/

Colonizing North American shelves
Lucky Duck Games announced it will distribute Ganymede this side of the Pond. The Splendor style game of space colonization is originally from Sorry We Are French.
Source: http://www.dicetowernews.com/ganymede-comes-with-a-lucky-duck/55283

Start thinking of your escape now
ThinkFun announced development on a third Escape the Room title. It’s a ways off (mid-2019?), but you can get updates from the link below.
Source: https://www.thinkfun.com/escapetheroom/coming-soon/

Upcoming Board Game Conventions
November 1-4. Midwest GameFest. Independence, Missouri.
November 8-11. Gamehole Con. Madison, Wisconsin.
November 9-11. ConQuest Avalon. Sacramento, California.
November 9-11. U-Con. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
November 15-18. Chicago Toy & Game Fair. Chicago, Illinois.
December 27-30. CAP-Con. Atlanta, Georgia.

Visit casualgamerevolution.com for more convention listings.

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