It's New Game Friday David Wiley (Cardboard Clash) is here to tell us about the new games.
Here’s what is new this week:
- Four Against Darkness: The Beast Bulletin, Volume 1
- Four Against Darkness: The Beast Bulletin, Volume 2
- Captain for a Day
- HandQuest
- Dangerous Space: Dint, Retrieve Mission
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Four Against Darkness: The Beast Bulletin, Volume 1
A Collection of Monster Profiles for Four Against Darkness.
This collection provides 17 monsters, complete with images, background text, statistics, and more for use in your Four Against Darkness games. These monsters all come from some form of published 4AD material, so if you already have everything there isn’t something new-to-you to be found here, but these are able to be printed and collected into a binder, sorted by name or any other method you want to use to organize things. This way you’ll have these beasties in one easy-to-browse location, rather than flipping through books and supplements to find the right monster to encounter.
Four Against Darkness: The Beast Bulletin, Volume 2
A Collection of Monster Profiles for Four Against Darkness.
This collection provides 18 more monsters, complete with images, background text, statistics, and more for use in your Four Against Darkness games. Everything about the Volume 1 probably applies here, but you’ll want to snag this chance to have easy access to monsters of all types: vermin, minions, weird monsters, bosses, and more. Take on foes like the Undead Pirate Captain, Troglodyte Lizardmen, Zingram,Vampire Bats, and more in your future adventures!
Captain for a Day
Peter Pan recently seized command of The Jolly Roger, but his restless heart longed for adventures across Neverland and worlds beyond. Before even a week at sea, he knew he needed a trusted First Mate to take charge when he was away. To find the most capable, Peter devised a fiendishly fun contest. He ordered the Lost Kids to take turns as Captain of his vessel - a new Captain for each new day. Each Captain’s first task would be to decide which of the others should gain powerful advantages for their quest.
A game for up to 5 players, you’ll be completing actions, going on adventures, and gaining resources until the return of Peter Pan. One of the interesting aspects here comes from the Sunrise Meeting part of each round, where players make resource offerings and the captain for the round chooses one of them, gaining the offered resources while the player paying gets some benefits from the Deal card they acquired. Plan well and you’ll get some inbound resources churning each round, allowing you to build your engine to do bigger and better actions. Gain the most Command over the course of the game to be the winner, ready to take command of The Jolly Roger going forward!
HandQuest
Your goal will be to gather enough skills to achieve the most powerful attack on the final boss. The only problem is that you will not know which boss you are fighting until the very end…
A clever in-hand solo dungeon crawl game that will see you turning cards in the stack, and using them later for their symbols to help you overcome the threats and traps you might encounter along the way as you progress, inevitably, toward a showdown with the final boss in the deck. With clever manipulation of the right cards at the right time, plus a variety of characters to use who provide their own unique benefits, you’ll find plenty of game waiting for you in HandQuest.
Dangerous Space: Dint, Retrieve Mission
Dint’s studies in advanced astrophysics have sadly gone to waste as of late, but as soon as he has enough credits…see ya!
This week is going to be a bit of a fun challenge, as once again those Cocky Sentries are present on the map. They make it so you cannot mark a checkpoint in the room unless they’ve been attacked - and one of the rooms has two of them in there! Dint has some decent flexibility in how you build him up, letting him either move better, shoot with ranged, and more. Gear him up, and run through the gauntlet that is the Twinbeam, which will pose a nice challenge while trying to collect the databits.
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Game of the Week: Numbsters on sale for just $2!
When hungry Numbsters form a line, arrange them well and you’ll be fine. But when they all begin to munch, avoid the Mouth or you’ll be lunch!
A fun little game that is played in the hand or on the table, where you’re arranging numbers to get eaten each round without letting the mouth card reach the front of the pile. Not only is there the basic premise of a pair of sequential numbers, separated only by the mouth card, allowing cards to get consumed. However, each card also has a special power that’s active when it is at the front, opening up strategies that will change from turn-to-turn as you try and rearrange cards in order to last as long as possible. If you love small games with quick rules and a tiny footprint, you won’t want to miss this little solo game.
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Numbsters: Infinity
These Numbsters won’t stop eating! Make sure they’ve got plenty to munch on or they’ll turn their attention to you.
This is an interesting new expansion, adding in a new number as well as a new Mouth card. With the latter comes the real change…the game doesn’t end when the Mouth is on top, but rather once you can eat no more numbers. If there’s only 1 left, you win. If more than that, you lose. This opens up new layers of how to approach the game of Numbsters, which is a perfect addition to keep a small solo game like this fresh for even more plays.
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See you next week with more information on our newest print and play games!