Board Game News: News Collective 5

Published January 1, 2016

X-Wing is a tactical ship to ship combat game in which players take control of powerful rebel X-wings and nimble Imperial TIE Fighters, facing them against each other in fast-paced space combat. Featuring stunningly detailed and painted miniatures, X-Wing recreates Star Wars ’ exciting space battles. Select your crew, plan your maneuvers, and complete your mission!

With each X-Wing expansion pack a new ship is introduced for the game’s 3 factions – Imperial, Rebel, and Scum. Now the Imperial and Rebels are quite well know but the smugglers, bounty hunters, and pirates thought well this isn’t fair and they decided to join the fight with heavily customized ships.

You can read here about the in depth detail of this interesting little ship G-1A Starfighter.

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Venom Assault – VENOM Assault is an 80’s cartoon-inspired cooperative deck building game for 1-5 players, ages 14 and up. You and your fellow tacticians will aid Freedom Squadron by recruiting the best and brightest soldiers to join your team. Your multinational force has one purpose: Defeat VENOM before they unleash havoc upon the world. You’ll need to assemble the most elite personnel and vehicles before you battle the forces of evil using a unique dice-based combat system. Finally, once your decks have been assembled, you are ready to take the fight to VENOM before their sinister plan is completed!

Avignon: A Clash of Popes – Avignon: A Clash of Popes is a quick influence manipulation card game in which the two players are rival candidates for Pope in the 14th century. Players gain influence by petitioning members of the medieval Church, such as Cardinals, Nobles, and Knights, and using the characters’ unique powers to pull the character cards over to their side of the table (their congregation), or force an opponent to push cards towards them. The first player to get three characters into their congregation wins.

Tiny Epic Western – Poker meets worker placement in this artfully crafted 30 minute board game for 2 to 4 players. TINY box, EPIC gameplay, EVERY TIME!

Dragon Keeper – Dragon Keeper is a game for 2 to 4 players in which they assume the role of former adventurers in the pay of a dragon to protect his treasure. Dragon Keeper is characterized by a very simple and therefore very accessible game turn. This simplicity and the progressive reduction of choices ensures a very good game flow despite the tactical and strategic features of the game. Since the set-up is different for each game, an infinite replayability is ensured. In addition, the cleverness of the points counting system allows players to change strategy in the course of the game, which, associated with the hidden objective of each player, results in tense games with some twists.

Nova Aetas – Nova Aetas is a tabletop miniatures wargame set in an alternative Renaissance world. Inspired by classic Japanese tactical RPGs such as ‘Final Fantasy Tactics’ and ‘Tactics Ogre’, in Nova Aetas you will battle enemies controlled by a sophisticated Artificial Intelligence. With every challenge you will be presented with meaningful choices that will change the course of game events. Nova Aetas will captivate you with its high detailed miniatures and its high quality components.

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