Found some neat stuff about the upcoming Legendary Expansion : Fantastic Four. (release date 10/22/13)
Turns out the Two Masterminds in the deck are Galactus and Mole Man....
The 20 fight is impressive...but you can counter that with the Cosmic Threat which lets you pick a hero color and for every card of that color you play this turn, Galactus strength drops by 2. So when building your hand during the game focusing on a color will be very important vs. Galactus.
Also Silver Surfer has a new ability called Focus.
Guess that if you reach the "6" recruit that kicks off the "Focus" ability. Betting you do not get to use the recruit at that point...but we shall see.
So some of you know we are upgrading our home. Taking the 25 year old doublewide off the full foundation and putting up a two story colonial modular home. A new "Hat" as it were for the Gamers Bullpen. Here are the Floorplans...needless to say we are very excited and hope to be in our new home by Thanksgiving.
Our foundation is actually 52' so we took these plans and added 8' to each side in various places (Larger bedrooms pretty much.) There is actually a little addition on to these plans as well, we have a small 12' x 12' room where the mudroom / bullpen stairway used to be. There will be an archway from the dining room to this new "Sun room". Anyway...Bullpen access will now be in the center of the house.
On to the Game updates.
Dreadball Season 3 stuff should be here "Soon" hopefully before the end of the month.
Kingdom Death: Monster has been pushed back to Q1 2014 at least. I have no issues with this...it is a huge game...New price on the Box will be between $150 and $200, glad I dropped the $100 on the kickstarter. Still thinking about Magnetizing the whole game, making the players minis upgradeable as they upgrade their characters in the game....we shall see though. Rated R game...not one for the kiddos.
Legendary Fantastic Four is due out in October...looking forward to that. Got to play 3 games this past weekend of Legendary with 5 players...only won one of the games. Still good times were had.
Played a round of Robinson Crusoe with the kids...unlike Legendary...the ages 12+ suggestion on the box is there for a reason...will be a couple of years before I break this one out again with my 9 year old daughter....much longer for my 5 year old son.
Forbidden Island is still a hit with the kids. Glad I grabbed this one...
Warhammer 40K on the backburner...boxed up and packed away until the new house is finished.
First two upcoming Expansions for Legendary, the Marvel Co-Op deckbuilding game.
The first of which is the Fantastic Four set, 100 Cards...Due out Oct 22nd. Adds the Fantastic Four, and Silver Surfer as Characters, plus Galactus as a Mastermind with none other than a 20 attack! Kinda makes Apocalypse with is 12 look like a kitten.
2nd is the just announced at GenCon, SpiderMan Expansion. No Details other than Carnage as a Mastermind and the Spidey in it will be a lot tougher than the one in the original game. February release date planned.
Next is a New Legendary box that is not Marvel based....Legendary Encounters. Roughly the same engine but not exactly the same. Based in the Aliens Universe....Ripley, Apone, Hudson, Hicks, etc. vs the Aliens. Game Producer has said you can use the Heroes or Colonial Marines in the other Legendary games. So You want Nick Fury to lead a new squad of "SHIELD Marines" against Kingpin you can...or put Colossus, Wolverine, Rogue, Storm and Cyclops against the Alien Queen (Brood anyone) you can do that too. Not fully interchangeable, sounds like the only thing that can be swapped about is the Hero decks...still that is pretty neat.
Finally the game that is on my Most wanted list. I spent quite some time watching the Gen Con live feed from Board Game Geeks looking for other games that might fit well with the family and the gaming group. Came across this one that came out last year. Robinson Crusoe, Adventure on the Cursed Island.
Fully co-op, 1-4 players, survival game. Game is busy with a lot going on...cards, cubes, dice, hextiles, deckbuilding (in a bad way). Has been said it is VERY challenging to win...making LoTR co-op game seem easy. Also no cutthroat version if one player dies, the game is over. No hoarding food for yourself. 6 Scenarios in the box, each with their own theme (Crusoe/Castaway, Swiss Family Robinson, Volcano Island, Cannibal Island, Cursed Island, and the one that I'm forgetting) Plus two more scenarios online (King Kong, and Explore the Galapagos).
YouTube review that gives the basics of the game...
That's all for now...
Link to one of the best reviews / setups of Robinson Crusoe on the net.
Ever since I tried The Lord of the Rings board game by FFG I've fallen for Cooperative board games. Being on the lookout for any new one that may strike my interest, the interest of my gaming group, or even the interest of my Wife and Kids (now 8 and 5 years old).
I have Kingdom Death: Monster on the way...pretty sure that will be a non-starter for the Kiddos and Wife. I have numerous Dreadball teams having gotten one for each of the kids. Still they are a few years from really enjoying Dreadball. Then I discovered "Legendary" the new Deck building card game by Upperdeck.
Basics of the game work like this, 1-5 players take on the game. There is a Mastermind Villain that the heroes are trying to take down. This Mastermind has a Scheme (Read as what nefarious plot they are trying to achieve). They also have other Villains and Henchmen assisting them in their goals. Opposing them are 5-6 heroes.
The players play these Heroes but not in the way that you would initially think. This is a Deck "Building" Game. So with the expansion there are 32 playable heroes, 31 different ones and Wolverine get 2 versions...well because his is Wolverine. Each of these heroes has 14 cards. So the players select the 5 heroes they want to use and all of those cards go into a "Hero Deck" All the players get their own personal deck which starts with a 12 SHIELD agent / trooper cards that can be spent to recruit the "Hero" cards that come into play. So as these Heroes are recruited, they are added to that players personal discard pile. When their current player's deck is empty they reshuffle all their discarded cards to restock their draw deck.
There is a high replay value as with the Dark City expansion there are 9 Mastermind villains with 16 Schemes, 13 villain groups, and 6 Henchmen groups. Which can be randomized, or even pre-selected if you wanted to re-create a major Marvel storyline (Avengers movie, Inferno, Legacy Virus, Civil War...etc)
Here are a list of the Heroes currently in the game...
Black Widow
Captain America
Cyclops
Deadpool
Emma Frost
Gambit
Hawkeye
Hulk
Iron Man
Nick Fury
Rogue
Spiderman
Storm
Thor
Wolverine (X-Men)
Angel
Bishop
Blade
Cable
Colossus
Daredevil
Domino
Elektra
Forge
Ghost Rider
Iceman
Iron Fist
Jean Grey
Nightcrawler
Professor X
The Punisher
Wolverine (X-Force)
In October the next small release comes out "Fantastic Four" which will is rumored to have 5 heroes, 2 schemes, 2 masterminds, a villain group and a henchmen group. Those are rumored to be Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Thing, Human Torch, and Silver Surfer. Rumor has it they plan on one Major and two minor releases every year, and they have plenty of heroes left...
Avengers (Black Panther, Ms. Marvel, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Wonder Man, Tigra, Mockingbird, Wasp, Ant Man / Giant Man / Yellow Jacket)
Others (Spider Woman, Moon Knight, War Machine, She Hulk...)
Guardians of the Galaxy (bet the are a small set release to go along with the movie next year)
The Box says ages 14+...though after watching a couple of videos of the gameplay, I'm fairly certain my 8 year old can handle it. My 5 year old, will play with Dad, or have a hand of his own face up for me to help him with. Should be getting the game in a couple of days Here is a video of the basic gameplay...looking forward to flipping some cards with you.
