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It's New Game Friday David Wiley (Cardboard Clash) is here to tell us about the new games.
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The Pawn's Gambit
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GRIMLORE Profane Truths, Case File #48: Margaret Lane, Widowed Journalist
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Rust & Revenue: Historic Map Pack No. 1
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Battle Pages: Kingdom of Polyeen
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Power Creep: Scarab, Uptown 2134
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Dangerous Space: Archivist Four, Deliver Mission
https://www.pnparcade.com/collections/new-games
The Pawn's Gambit
The Pawn’s Gambit is a chess-inspired card game of strategy, adaptability, and tactics. Each round, players battle to seize control of Imbalance Cards and disrupt their opponents’ Played Pieces to their advantage.
A card game inspired by, but quite different in feel and gameplay from, Chess. This one has fast, dynamic gameplay triggered by the playing of cards (face-down) during the round, Imbalance cards that change the conditions for played pieces, and Opening Cards that set a strategy for the round as well as providing unique abilities. If you enjoy punchy, thinky gameplay with good art, then you won’t want to miss out on The Pawn’s Gambit.
GRIMLORE Profane Truths, Case File #48: Margaret Lane, Widowed Journalist
Marge’s story so far: At a Chicago gala, widowed journalist Marge Lane stumbles into a clandestine rite and is abducted with librarian Thomas Brant to star-mapped chambers. Navigating atrium, ethered causeway, and a living sigil gate, they coordinate under trance pressure, exploit and elder’s blind spot, banish Ghozz’ra, and escape, changed, watchful, unmoored. Back in Arkham, Dr. Vance’s device folds space; alleys warp, vats hum equations, and a chapel-turned-lab points a telescope inward. Margaret finds a ledger of unraveling minds, confronts a robed ex-colleague bearing the glyph “Joxy”, then her own star-eyed double. After a rooftop clash, she awakens with two sextants and fractured time, drawn toward the Crawling Chaos.
Another massive map returns as GRIMLORE winds down. There’s a lot of great stuff here to talk about, including four unique threats spread throughout the game. However, if you are new to GRIMLORE, I didn’t want to miss the chance to share about the game system itself: You get special hints for puzzles, which might help solve things for the secret words, but all you need to do in the game is form real words, regardless of what they are, in order to play the game. That might sound easy, but you have to manage how to juggle those letters you earn via rolls each round, taking out threats as you try to complete each case file. If you haven’t taken the GRIMLORE plunge, you’re missing out on one of the consistent hits this year.
Rust & Revenue: Historic Map Pack No. 1
Historic Map Pack #1 takes Rust & Revenue on the road, offering four new real world inspired maps for players who want fresh puzzles without relearning the game. Build across the Southeast USA, the rocky coast of Maine, the United Kingdom, and Germany, each with its own track costs, hub layouts, and gentle rules wrinkles that lean into local history. Short lines, new share tasks, and a few subtle ways to pressure your network will push you toward different company mixes and timing decisions enhance the experience of the original.
Elevate your experience in Rust & Revenue by grabbing this map pack! There are four new maps contained in here, and the designer was even kind enough to recommend an order for playing them in regards to complexity. New to the gane? Don't fret! The maps can even be used for your first games of Rust & Revenue (purchase of the base game also required, though!) and ignore the company powers or variants. Speaking of variants, you'll have a more dynamic bot option which is preferred by the designer, a press-your-luck market mechanic, as well as a share dumping equivalent with the Sanction Pass. Don't miss out on this pack for an excellent game.
Battle Pages: Kingdom of Polyeen
Merchants and artisans fill the streets with glass, crystal and threads of great renown.
A new Kingdom has arrived on the scene, and with it comes a new hero: Edwin. He may look humble with his pitchfork, but don’t let that deceive you! He can target any enemies in his region, which must be grassland. But more than that, he boosts all dice placed in his region by letting them generate an extra gem. That’s leadership which has ripple effects of usefulness that should help you to master the challenges confronting Polyeen.
Power Creep: Scarab, Uptown 2134
Just when things seemed to be leveling out, a new evolution threatens to throw things into chaos.
Scarab is here this week to wreak undead havoc throughout Uptown. His Creep track is incredibly remarkable in the worst possible way. It is bad enough knowing you’re going to take a loss of 2 health from traitors at the midpoint, but shortly after that there’s a New Evolution that you are going to despise. This makes you take a damage for each defeated threat with a blank adjacent space, meaning you’re going to spend a lot of extra time moving through these structures or pay the price…
Dangerous Space: Archivist Four, Deliver Mission
When the Solar Church takes an interest in a junker, watch out. That usually means this ain’t no average dive. Good thing Sunshine has psionic abilities!
The Archivist Four is back to close out our year in Dangerous Space, and he’s got some fun skills. His Risk Taker one is pretty common, which is nice in letting you bump a die by 1 when marking a dangerous space - something to help combat the Elite Stowaway potentially making you re-roll your highest die. However, the real fun comes from his Telekenesis, letting you pick a number prior to your Threat Roll and possibly ignore an adjacent door/trap. That can come in handy as you seek to deliver the Kit before you take too much damage!
https://www.pnparcade.com/collections/new-games
Button Shy Game of the Week: Battlecrest Eterna Overlord Set
The Vault has been opened. Within its cavernous treasure chambers waits a danger only whispered about: the Exarchy’s immortal guardian, Eterna. Defeating this threat requires consummate teamwork, even between bitter rivals.
What is better than more Battlecrest in your Button Shy collection? How about a big boss for you to tackle, either ramping up the solo challenge level or making the gameplay into a cooperative experience? By using this, you have a brand new map to fight through and, over time, Eterna will get Empowered to destroy structures and, depending on your difficulty, perhaps even boost the power level of this big boss. Do you have what it takes to take down the Overlord? Find out today!
BattleCrest: Deadrock Base Game
A former criminal soars through a blinding, cloudless sky. An enigmatic relic-hunter moves warily across the storm-swept desert. In the brutal wastes of Deadrock, danger lurks in every direction and only the toughest fighters can survive.
An exciting new base game which has a beautiful set of map cards, and two new heroes. The set provides the gameplay you hopefully already know and love, but if not, in a nutshell: BattleCrest is a 2-player dueling game where characters move around a map, manipulating their card row to move, trigger abilities, and deal damage. The neat aspect is that cards flip upon use, and each side is different – and there's icons that can boost your moves if you time things right. This map introduces Stun and Heal as abilities to trigger, and one of the heroes even has three forms that rotate as you use its abilities.
Battlecrest: Expansion Collection #5
Somewhere along the line, you made a dangerous enemy. The Exarchy themselves have sworn vengeance upon you. Now their chosen champion stalks you at every step. Prepare yourself for the fight of your life as you face the mighty Imperator.
This expansion collection adds two new hero sets along with Solo Imperator III to your BattleCrest horde. At this point we can safely call it a horde of products, right? If you have everything BattleCrest (and why shouldn’t you?) there’s a ton of content to mix and match, allowing near-endless replay value as you adjust matchups and maps. Thrasher should be an interesting hero, using a mix of tactics and power to best her foe but she comes with a reduced max health. Dowdran might be my favorite hero so far in the game,with the ability to Burn map bonuses and turn them into Hazards. Burn, baby, burn!
Check out the new Button Shy releases here:
https://www.pnparcade.com/collections/new-games
Game of the Week: Battlecrest: Fellwoods Base Game on sale for just $2!
Shots ring out in the overgrown forest. A rugged pirate festooned with weapons of war, stomps into view. He scans the nearby treeline with practiced rigor. In the gnarled canopy above, a celestial goddess calls for an ancestral blessing. With a divine roar she drops to the ground below, swinging her ornate staff with the strength of a thousand lifetimes at her waiting target…
This game is a genuine delight as a small skirmish game. The premise is simple: kill your opponent’s hero before they kill yours. You may have a minion at your disposal to help, and there’s some map cards that can trigger extra effects for those adjacent to their sides. However, the neat thing is the open information, and the use of your abilities and how they’ll flip when refreshing so you’re constantly changing with what you can do. Attacking uses a card. Defending does as well. This provides two new heroes and a new map at your disposal and is a perfect entry point, but is also an excellent addition to those who already have and love Battlecrest.
Check out Game of the Week here: https://www.pnparcade.com/collections/game-of-the-week