The Apathy of New Releases (April '13)

Between family life, daily blog postings, and actually getting to paint, I completely forgot that the next month's soliciations through Alliance, Game Trade Magazine was available.

Unfortunately, my column's title doesn't dissapoint me personally.  Apathy does that.

My Must Have List
In a post-tax return spending spree time, there's nothing that tickles my fancy

My Money is No Object ListI do have a couple of options here:

Koplow Games - Spotzee Dotzee $9.00 - Koplow is a survivor from ye olden days of gaming.  A family focused dice game?  Sure.  As a store, I'd see about a small rack of them.

Mayfair - Gangs of New York Board Game $35.00 - I love the concept, I just hope the mechanics are there.
Steve Jackson Games- OGRE Dice $6.95 -  You can never have enough OGRE dice!

My Imaginary Store List
For a second straight month, Alliance does a good job listing a lot of existing product again.   The only thing of note that I saw was the mother of all OGRE boxed sets was listed again, which means Alliance might have some inventory.  I sure as heck know it's not a reprint!

Antimatter Games
Deepwars  28mm underwater minis game. Mix Captain Nemo with the Little Mermaid, that's the feel I get from it.  I would love to know the difference between the Deluxe ($59.99)  versus Basic ($34.99) starter packs.  At least the rulebook goes for $29.99.

Asmadi
We didn't Playtest This At All  - card game for 2-10 players
We didn't Playtest This Either - standalone or expansion.
Card game of the month.  Get the equivilent of a display and sell like mad. By September the next big wacky card game is around and hopefully a solitary copy gets pushed to the back.

Asmodee
Formula De Expansion 4 - Buddh, India and a Baltimore street course.

Atlas Games
Ars Magica - Tales of Power

Catalyst
Battletech Field Manual 3145   $39.99
Shadowrun Crossfire                $49.95
Shadowrun Introductory Boxed Set $49.95
Shadowrun 5th Edition Core Rulebook  $59.99

Cryptozoic
The Walking Dead Card Game $15.00 - Another card game to get in five or six copies.  Hopefully this can be reordered when the next season is ready... and Christmas.

WORLD OF WARCRAFT TCG: TIMEWALKERS - REIGN OF FIRE - I usually mention this as CCGs usually sell and this still seems popular.  Big typo on the form though.  I really hope the boosters are $3.99 and the "Epic Packs" full of boosters and other accessories goes for $39.99
The Design Mechanism
Runequest Book of Quests $19.00
Runequest Monster Island $22.00
Holy Crap!  Runequest!


Evil Hat Productions
Spirit of the Century Race for the Hat Board Game  $30.00

Expeditious Retreat Press
Advanced Adventures #29 The Doom of Red Rauthim  $12.00

Fantas Flight Games
BLACK CRUSADE RPG: THE TOME OF EXCESS  $39.95

Goodman Games
DUNGEON CRAWL CLASSICS  #77: THE CROAKING FANE  $9.99

Louis Porter Jr Design
PATHFINDER: ENEMIES OF NEOEXODUS - FIRST ONES  $15.99
PATHFINDER: ENEMIES OF NEOEXODUS - FOLDING CIRCLE $15.99

Mayfair
Road Rally USA  $35.00

Mongoose
LEGEND RPG: THE SPIDER GOD’S BRIDE - Fully revised for the Legend RPG system,
The Spider-God’s Bride is a collection of ten blood-red, sword and sorcery adventures, inspired by the pulp era tales of Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. Venture in the footsteps of Conan
the Cimmerian, Satampra Zeiros of  Uzuldaroum, Imaro of Nyumbani, and other fabled thieves, reavers, and slayers! Scheduled to ship in June 2013. MGP 8302 ..............................$29.99
I swear this was solicited before, but it still sounds awesome!

Nevermore publishing
MARS NEEDS MECHANICS - London, 1873 — The Royal Academy of Space Exploration has announced its intention to launch a mission to Mars by year’s end. In its quest to claim, fully explore, and map the great red planet, the Academy is holding recruitment competitions for various positions on the crew. In Mars Needs Mechanics, players represent engineers and tinkerers from all over the Empire competing for a spot on the crew of the H.M.S. Victoria VII. Scheduled to ship in May 2013.................  $40.00


Osprey Publishing
THE NAZI OCCULT  by  Ken Hite
In the dark dungeons beneath Nazi  Germany, teams of occult experts delved into ancient and forbidden lore, searching for lost secrets of power. Ordered by Hitler to discover new weapons that he could unleash on his enemies, the occultists experimented with dark magics, mystical artifacts, and creatures thought only to exist in nightmare. This book tells the complete history of the Nazi occult programs, from their foundations in  Hitler’s early esoteric studies and the Nazi quests for the Ark of the Covenant, the Spear of Destiny, and the Holy Grail, through their experiments with lycanthrope  and zero-point energy. Scheduled to ship June 2013. OSP ..........................$17.95
Anything written by Hite is worth at least stocking, plus it's an amusing subject.
Paizo
PATHFINDER ADVENTURE  REIGN OF WINTER PART 5 - RASPUTIN MUST DIE  $22.99
PATHFINDER CAMPAIGN  SETTING: THE WORLDWOUND $19.99
PATHFINDER ITEM CARDS: ICONIC EQUIPMENT  $10.99
PATHFINDER MAP PACK: FOREST TRAILS $13.99
PATHFINDER PAWNS: BESTIARY 2 BOX  $39.99
PATHFINDER PLAYER COMPANION: PATHFINDER SOCIETY PRIMER   $12.99
PATHFINDER TALES: THE WIZARD’S MASK  by Ed Greenwood  $9.99
Oooh Ed Greenwood.  Worth a sale or two if your costumer base was out of diapers in the 80's and 90's
Reaper:
They continue to relase more product for their BONES lines, but they're not ignoring their metal lines.  I'd say with the huge BONES solicits, it's still 75% plastic/25% metal.  I was going to put the Chronoscope NOVA soldiers on my money is no object list as cheap bulk sci-fi soldiers/planetary police, but upon further inspection, they look like ass.  Their modern stuff is very hit and miss.


USAopoly
Big Bang Theory Clue!


Wizards of the Coast
MAGIC THE GATHERING CCG: MODERN MASTERS BOOSTER DISPLAY (24)  $167.76
Only WotC can reprint existing cards which should be relatively easy to obtain, but with new artwork and still sell millions. Perhaps not the normal cash cow, but budget some money for a case or seven.
Wizkids
PATHFINDER BATTLES: BUILDER SERIES - WE BE GOBLINS

Zveda
SAMURAI BATTLES MINIATURES
I finally saw a good quanity of Zveda at Cold Wars, and it certainly needs a good display.  The boxes are designed to just melt into the walls of other models the hobby shop offers. Of note here are the Ninja Attack playset at  $50 and the Samurai Battles offered again at $80.  A good display and some examples of the figures and this could be veeeerrrrryyyy profitable.