New Release Round-Up 02 September 2009

Boardgame Round-Up

Fred distribution have released Railways of England and Wales by Martin Wallace. This railway game has two sets of rules as it can be played stand alone or as an expansion to the Railways of the World game. Players vie to be the first railway baron in England using typical railway game mechanics. Its a heavy game but 18xx players should have no problems. If you play Railways of the World its a worthwhile expansion giving you more value and some lovely components.

Musketeers by Gryphon games is a card game where players are trying to retrieve 3 gems for the Queen while the Cardinal and his guards are trying to stop them. It's a quick game that takes about 30 mins to play with some nice artwork.

The Stars are Right by Steve Jackson games is another card game, this time you are a cultist trying to summon the dark ones by aligning the stars and constellations. The cards are placed in a 5 x 5 grid and players must use lesser creatures to flip and swap these cards to align them in order to summon larger and larger creatures. Its a fun filler game that is bursting with Cthulhu Mythos.

RPG Round-Up

This week is fairly light on RPG releases after the recent flurry of pre-and-post Gen Con releases, but there's two welcome titles out, the first is The Vacant Throne from AEG, a source book for the Legend of the Five Rings which details the events and individuals of the Lotus and Samurai eras represented in the L5R CCG.

From White Wolf we have Night Horrors: Wolfsbane, for Werewolf: The Forsaken. What creatures exist that even werewolves fear? A source book featuring 29 monsters that turn the predator into the prey.

Miniatures Round-Up

War at Sea Flank Speed is the second expansion to the excellent Axis & Allies miniatures game, includes battleships, cruisers, submarines & aircrafts allowing battles on huge 30 x 40 battle maps.

CCG Round-Up

New collectors tins for Pokemon this week, including Rayquaza, Garchomp, Charizard! Ancient prophecy the new Yu-Gi-Oh expansions adds to the X-Saber cards and one of the legendary dragons, Ancient Fairy Dragon, resides in Ancient Prophecy.