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Arcane Wonders Ape Games Ares Games Alliance Game GAMES ALLIANCE GAME DISTRIBUTORS ARES GAMES DIVINITY DERBY Ready to place bets on a race of mythological proportions? Zeus has invited you, along with other divine friends from across the Multiverse, for GAMES a little get–together on Mount Olympus. After a legendary lunch and a few pints of Ambrosia, you start wagering bets on which mythic creature is the fastest - and the only way to know for GAME TRADE MAGAZINE #211 certain is to summon all those creatures GTM contains articles on gameplay, for an epic race, with the Olympic “All- previews and reviews, game related father”, Zeus, as the ultimate judge! fiction, and self contained games and In Divinity Derby, players assume the game modules, along with solicitation role of a god (Anansi, Horus, Marduk, information on upcoming game and Odin, Quetzalcoatl, and Yu Huang the hobby supply releases. Jade Emperor), betting on a race among GTM 211 ...................................$3.99 NOT FINAL ART mythological flying creatures. Scheduled to ship in September 2017. AGS AREU004 .............................................................................................. $39.90 ART FROM PREVIOUS ISSUE GALAXY DEFENDERS: FINAL COUNTDOWN The end of the war is imminent - let’s start the Final Countdown! Expand the Galaxy Defenders agency’s army with APE GAMES these powerful, new agents - Scandium, Vanadium, and Xeno-Warrior - and unleash their unique classes, powers, and items! Plus, take the battlefield to the Third Dimension with new Doors and Windows Stand-up tokens! Also included is an additional set of custom Galaxy Defenders dice. Scheduled to ship in September 2017. AGS GRPR008 ............................. $39.90 LAST FRIDAY: RETURN TO CAMP APACHE Only Evil Can Stop Evil! In the DARK IS THE NIGHT wake of the tragic Camp Apache massacre over a decade ago, an Hunt or be Hunted! A hunter has set up ancient Evil is awakening - again - camp in a dark and dangerous forest. In MAJOR GENERAL TO RESERVE IT FOR YOU! RETAILER LOCAL ASK YOUR SEE ON THESE PAGES, YOU ARE INTERESTED IN WHAT IF YOU one that the neighboring village of the middle of the night, she’s awakened Well, there you go getting yourself Spring Forest have laid to rest and by a guttural grow in the darkness, just involved in a Time War! Fortunately, tried to forget for years: a Demon outside the light of her small campfire... you have the best generals in history on who can enter your dreams and twist again! Now, she’ll need keen wits and your side! Unfortunately, so does your them into horrible nightmares! The sharp aim with her crossbow to survive the opponent! Claim the most territory on the citizens need help, but the Marshall night! Dark is the Night is an asymmetric, battlefield in Major General: Duel of Time! who long ago was “Predestined” to two-player game of hunt-or-be-hunted. 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Van Helsing and Sherlock Holmes, NOT FINAL ART your contraband to the Black Vampires and Imps, Queen Victoria and the Baker Market, fulfill special orders, and Street Irregulars meet in London After Midnight, a WWW.GAMETRADEMAGAZINE.COM much more! Scheduled to ship in thrilling mash-up of Victorian mystery and horror September 2017. stories. Scheduled to ship in September 2017. PSI AWGDTE01SNX1 ..................................................................................... $24.99 AGS ARCG005 .............................................$14.90 JUL 2017 1 ASMADI GAMES GAMES CONAN: STYGIA EXPANSION INNOVATION: ARTIFACTS OF INNOVATION: ECHOES OF THE Far to the South of Conan’s home lies a HISTORY (THIRD EDITION) PAST (THIRD EDITION) dry, arid land where a rugged people This fourth expansion to Innovation This first expansion to Innovation adds eke as much of a life as they can out of features unique artifacts from the ages, 110 new cards to the game, including five the sands. The environment is not the only such as the Declaration of Independence. new special achievements. Scheduled to danger in these lands, however, as there These cards feature very powerful dogma ship in June 2017. is a darker, more sinister power at work. effects, but are difficult to wield. Scheduled ASI 0151 ...................................$20.00 Now the dead rest uneasily beneath the SECRETS to ship in June 2017. sands and monstrous beasts devour men From renowned designers Bruno ASI 0154 ...................................$20.00 like cattle as the great and powerful watch Faidutti & Eric M. Lang, players in on, eternally. Delve deep into the sands of Secrets are heads of a spy agency Stygia, through undead crypts and hordes seeking to recruit the best elements. of undead abominations to uncover the But, in the shadow of the Cold War, real evil that lurks beneath this sunburnt it’s hard to know friend from foe. Find land with the Stygia expansion for Conan: your teammates, fool your enemies, The Boardgame. Scheduled to ship in and become the most influent agency. September 2017. But, beware the Hippies - they could ASM CON23 .............................$59.99 very well save the world! Scheduled to ship in September 2017. ASM SEC01 ......................... $24.99 INNOVATION: FIGURES IN THE SAND (THIRD EDITION) INNOVATION: CITIES OF DESTINY This second expansion to Innovation adds (THIRD EDITION) historical figures from throughout the ages With Cities of Destiny, the third expansion - people who were innovative! Scheduled for Innovation, players can now add to ship in June 2017. cities to their civilization-building efforts. ASI 0152 ...................................$20.00 Scheduled to ship in June 2017. ASI 0153 ...................................$20.00 INNOVATION: DELUXE JAMAICA: THE CREW EXPANSION IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN WHAT YOU SEE ON THESE PAGES, ASK YOUR LOCAL RETAILER TO RESERVE IT FOR YOU! RETAILER LOCAL ASK YOUR SEE ON THESE PAGES, YOU ARE INTERESTED IN WHAT IF YOU EXPANSIONS BOX SET The Crew expansion introduces a set of Invent your way to an empire! Innovation is 20 new characters, each with a special a card-driven journey through humanity’s power, designed to bring more variety ideas and advancements from prehistory all and excitement to your games of Jamaica. the way to the Internet. Can you claim enough The characters may be hired when you’re SPLENDOR: CITIES OF achievements before technology moves able to pay for the fee of a harbor, and SPLENDOR EXPANSION past you? This Deluxe Edition of Innovation they’re “loaded” like any other resource, Cities of Splendor introduces four includes all four expansions produced in the following the same rules. Scheduled to complete expansions, each accentuating Third Edition format. Scheduled to ship in ship in September 2017. and highlighting a different aspect June 2017. ASM JCA02 ...............................$24.99 of Splendor. ‘Towers’ allow players ASI 0155 ...................................................................................................... $70.00 to reserve additional cards, ‘special powers’ introduce a new layer of engine building, ‘cities’ give players a new goal to strive towards, and a ASMODEE range of exciting development cards add spice to any game. Scheduled to ship in September 2017. CAPTAIN SONAR: ASM SPL02 .......................... $39.99 UPGRADE 1 EXPANSION This first expansion for Captain Sonar adds LOONY QUEST: new elements to your games of fierce, manned, THE LOST CITY EXPANSION submarine combat, including five new scenarios, The Arkadia tournament is now over, but the two brand-new weapons, and different ways to play king’s exiled evil brother Vadoor has caught the Captain and Radio Operator roles. Twenty new the five adventurers and is sending them far large role sheets (five for each scenario) expand away. To save the kingdom, our heroes must your games of Captain Sonar into new regions, flee a pirate ship and find the legendary while two new special weapons increase the tension sunken city of Spectra, inhabited by a and variation between games, providing new tactics hitherto-unknown, ancient tribe of Loonies WWW.GAMETRADEMAGAZINE.COM to utilize in destroying your foes. Scheduled to ship who appear to have come from another in September 2017. galaxy! In The Lost City, the first expansion forLoony Quest, players discover five new ASM CPT02 .............................................. $24.99 worlds and strive to master the previously unseen challenges of this 32-level content pack! JUL 2017 A 3D-pyramid spaceship turns up the fun factor as you travel through secret passages that let you reappear in another location on the level. Scheduled to ship in September 2017. 2 ASM LQ02 ...................................................................................................
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