New arrivals for March 4th, 2015

The new products continue to come necessitating this mid-week posting of new releases.

Eight-Minute Empire: Lost Lands by Red Raven Games

Wanderers from afar bring tales of the strange and powerful in distant lands. Set out to find lost heroes, creatures, and cities as you build your kingdom in this first expansion to Eight-Minute Empire: Legends! Eight-Minute Empire: Lost Lands adds even more variety and depth to the game, including:

New “Lost” card faction with unique powers
New Heroes
Components for a fifth player
Double-sized island on a folded board
Player boards
Faster gameplay as players now select cards simultaneously from separate hands passed to the left each turn

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Warhammer Diskwars overview

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Today was a Marvel Dicemasters event at the store and even though I wasn’t playing I was helping run it for Sentry Box. While I was there I asked Bill to come down and introduce me to the Warhammer Diskwars game from Fantasy Flight.

Diskwars is a product that I was intrigued by when it was first announced but I passed it by during its initial releases. The reason was that the promotional material that FFG released made it look very character focused and less about troops and war machines. It wasn’t until the release of the second expansion, adding the Vampire Counts and a smattering of Skaven and Dark Elves, that I was able to see that it was more troop oriented and had a very good range of units and factions.
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