Portal Games announce a new faction for Imperial Settlers called Aztecs.

Here are the details straight off the web page for the Aztecs faction.

“Imperial Settlers: Aztecs, an expansion that requires the base game to play. The expansion includes a new faction board, the Aztecs faction deck, blessing tokens, and expansion cards for the original factions that complement the Aztecs abilities.

The Aztecs bring new rules and a new resource to the world of Imperial Settlers! Prayer actions and blessing tokens will bring religion to the world of Settlers. The Aztecs build temples, organize festivals and ceremonies to gain favors and be blessed! With this expansion all other factions will also be able to add religion and their own pantheon of gods to their Empires.“

So Aztecs becomes the sixth faction for the game, and the fourth expansion.

Not only that, but this weekend only you can pre-order the Aztecs faction for $20 plus postage instead of $30 plus postage. A ten dollar saving for those poor at maths. Here is the LINK if you are reading this in time.

I know need to get this to the table more.

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“Finally! The Streets of Commonville have come to bgg.” As The Rock would most likely say if he was a boardgame player, and had played the game.

You seen the playtest videos, and read my blog posts, and if you were lucky enough at the expo, played the game. Now there is at last a bgg page for the game where you can discuss the game, follow its progress etc.

You can find the page HERE

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Yesterday say the start of the next White Wizard Games Kickstarter project.

Due to hit October sometime (always take these estimated delivery dates with a pinch of salt, although White Wizard Games have been pretty good in hitting theirs in the past) Hero Realms is a deck building game using the Star Realms engine with some RPG elements thrown in.

Naturally I've backed the project not just for myself but also for Nath as well. I love Star Realms, Epic is a good game, so the track record for me is a good one (I've erased Cthulhlu Realms from TMG from my mind and history).

Within 24 hours they have hit their modest $100k target (at time of writing they are just shy of $145k) so stretch goals are starting to be unlocked like promo cards.

If you want to go see what all the fuss is about or back it, you can visit the Kickstarter page HERE

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Amongst the “mainstream” games restocks, and the new Yu-Gi-Oh stuff there was only one thing that caught my eye in the weekly propaganda broadcasts from the Esdevium empire.

This week sees the sixth and final data pack in the Mumbad Cycle for Android Netrunner. And I think,it's obvious by now how I feel about this game.

And that's it. So after the UK Games Expo and pre-Origins we, well me really, as this is a what interests me post, is getting a light week on my wallet.

Don't worry post Origins and GenCon they will be hitting our wallets big time.

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If I hadn't been at the tenth UK Games Expo and stalking Sam and Tom from the Dice Tower round the venue (write up of my experience coming naturally in a day or two time) I would have been telling you all about the new stuff hitting your FLGS (or it might be just a LGS) that caught my eye on Friday.

Well I'm back home now after an exhausting time enjoying myself. Having fun is such hard work.

Anyhow let's look at what Esdevium are throwing our way next week…

First up is something for the Magic the Gathering player, with Magic the Gathering: Eternal Masters.

A pack of these cards isn't cheap at £8.50!!!!!! Yep a regular booster is £3.50. I get that these are “reprints” of some hard to get cards from the archives. But still it's not as if you can use them in newer decks. One for the Magic die hard I think.

The only other thing that caught my attention is Imperial Settlers 3 Is A Magic Number. Disappointingly not available at the expo early. And this won't be the last time in the next week you will hear me moan about this. You have been warned!

So that's it for this week, with the caveat that this is the stuff that would interest me. There is other stuff coming out, Pokemon, RPG, games, accessories and expansions. However they don't interest me. So if you are remotely curious go visit the Esdevium website and have a butchers at their weekly PDF of new releases. Then come back and tell me what I missed, and why I should have mentioned it.

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If like me you pre-ordered the 51st State Complete Master Set from Portal Games you would have received three mysterious tiles. There was no clue to what these tiles were, how they were used in the game, just a QR code on the back of them taking you to the Portal site where there was no information.

After contacting Portal I was told all would be revealed about these tiles on the day the game was released to the world, along with additional solo variant rules that the pre-order Kickstarter-like stretch goals had triggered.

This week the 51st State Complete Master Set hit the shelves of your FLGS ( or just plain LGS depending on what your local one is like, The Hobbit Hole is definitely the friendly kind).

And as promised Portal Games have put up PDF files with the solo variant rules, and rules for using these mysterious tiles. You should be able to go straight to the Portal website page with these on by clicking HERE.

On a slightly related story, the 8/6/16 or next Wednesday if you like, is the street date that the next Imperial Settlers expansion 3 is a Magic Number hits the shelves of your FLGS. And I was like WTF? It's the UK Games Expo this weekend, and I won't be able to buy it there, but have to order it three days later!!! Wow poor timing.

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After a hiccup with their PDF last week, Esdevium have executed the gremlins, and once more are sharing with us mere mortals the gifts they will be bestowing on us in the coming week.

First up is the poorly supported but really excellent game Magic the Gathering Arena of the Planeswalkers and its only expansion Battle for Zendikar. This game really does warrant more love from Hasbro and gamers.

The updated Agricola is out, the number of players it supports has been reduced to four max, the family mode has been removed (getting its own release later) and it's priced reduced to £49.99.

The great small box game Harbour is also back in stock at £15.99.

The updated 51st State in the form of the complete Master Edition is also out next week for £39.99. Here is a BIG BIG hint for Jonathan, who I hope will be picking this up at the expo next weekend, the much anticipated expansion for Scoville, Scoville Labs is out. Some reasonably cheap Magic the Gathering deck boxes themed around the Planeswalkers are hitting the shelves.

And finally this one has peaked my interest so I'm going to have to go hunting for more info on it, a game called Blackhat is out at £37.99. Which surprise surprise is a game about hacking. So the theme alone has me intrigued.

So there you have it the stuff coming out next week that caught my eye.

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