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You can choose to add any combination of the three new options included in Exodus. Crave more white-knuckle space dog-fighting? Incorporate the Cylon Fleet option. The Conflicted Loyalties option introduces new Loyalty Cards that will test even the most trustworthy allegiances. Finally, relive the emotional turmoil of the hit television series with the Ionian Nebula, which pits players against the various conflicting personalities aboard Galactica.

To simulate the tension of the era due to fog of war, players alternate placing secret orders on their armies in order to bluff, mislead and misdirect their opponents. These concealed orders make it difficult to deduce an opponent's plans and are used to hide a player's true intentions and objectives. Players then reveal and resolve the issued orders. They can then disrupt their opponent's moves, cut off supply, and much more. Once orders are resolved, the next turn begins.

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Units are represented by wooden blocks. Battles are fought with no dice, but with a simple and quick combat system. Action cards are pivotal to the game in that they allow players to either modify how many orders they may issue, add army reinforcements or modify a battle’s resolution.

Queen Games' Fresco had players mix colors of paint in small doses to complete restoration of a fresco. With Pastiche, coming from FRED Distribution in Q1 2011, designer Sean D. MacDonald – who self-published The Crow and The Pitcher through his NoMADS Games in 2009 – takes color blending and makes it the heart of his game. Players need to recreate artistic masterworks, and to do that they can't get away with using blue for teal – they need to do the work required to get the real stuff and make believers out of all who view the pastiche. (Nevermind that you can't recreate The Birth of Venus with only three colors – you just need to ensure that you have the right colors on hand for the important bits!

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To start the game, each player receives four palette cards with secondary colors; two commission cards showing an artwork, the colors needed to reproduce it, and a point value; and two hex tiles that show dabs of primary colors in each corner and in the center. A three-hex tile bearing primary colors on the corners is placed in the center of the playing area.

On a turn, a player adds one hex tile to the board, collecting either the primary color showing on the tile just placed or one palette card of the appropriate color for every color blend created. Take a look at the game's back cover to see how these tiles look during play:

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If you had placed the rightmost tile, for example, you could either take one yellow card or collect one orange card and one violet card. The three-color combinations created when three hexes meet at a corner create more specialized colors – which may or may not be what you need in hand to complete a commission. Even if you don't get what you want, though, you can trade palette cards with other players or exchange three cards of the same color for one black, white, secondary or tertiary color from the color bank. Hand in a black and white for a gray; exchange yellow and brown for bisque. The palette of colors available is big, so make the most of it.

A player can then trade one commission card for another or complete any number of commission cards by discarding the appropriate color cards. To end a turn, a player discard down to eight color cards in hand and draws a new hex tile.

Each commission card is worth a certain number of points, and once a player reaches a certain point total the game ends immediately. This player doesn't necessarily win, though, as players score bonus points if they've completed two works by the same artist; they also score for the paints in hand that can be applied toward their personal commission cards. The painter with the most points wins.

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The Hobbit is a game of strategic bidding and chance. Taking on the roles of the stoic dwarves, players need to guide Bilbo Baggins from the Shire to the Lonely Mountain and end the game with the most treasure. During their journey they will fight goblins, battle wargs, escape the Mirkwood elves, and eventually reach Laketown. Players must plan their journey wisely, bidding for their turn sequence to move Bilbo Baggins further along the game path.

Note, this board game is an entirely new design, with no relation to the other game (of the same name) published by FFG in 2002.

Game Overview:
Urban Sprawl is a game for 2-4 players. Urban Sprawl abstractly models the growth of a town into a thriving city into a teeming metropolis.

Players assume the roles of entrepreneur, tycoon and politician -- each helping in the development of a hypothetical "Anywhere, USA." Wealth and Prestige will be earned and spent throughout the game. Buildings will rise only to later be demolished for better and larger fare.

Throughout the game players will gather valuable Permits. These will result in either a wealthy Investment or the foundation of a new building Contract. Players will strive to become dominant in one or more building Zones in order to acquire beneficial political offices.

All of this eventually leads to the end game - a vibrant metropolis that is revered around the world - when the player with the most Prestige will be crowned the winner.

Game Play:
The grid of streets on the board provides the framework for building the small town. The buildings will be placed within the grid and identified with control markers (wooden cubes) to show each player’s contribution to the growing urban area. Each building’s value is determined by the cumulative Wealth and Prestige values of the block in which is it constructed.

At the start of a player’s turn he may discard one or more Building Permit cards from hand as "Investments," gaining Wealth in doing so. Next that player gets 6 "Action Points" (APs) with which to spend on any of the the following activities:

• Acquiring new Building Permit cards from those available to choose;
• Constructing new buildings from those currently available;
• Acquiring a "Favor" -- a Building Contract that only that player can build.

Each activity carries with it a variable cost in APs, depending on where the chosen card lies on the board.

Once a player has spent his APs it’s time for a quick reset phase in readiness for the next player’s turn. It is during this phase that events can occur, elections can be held for the various political offices, and players receive payouts in Wealth and Prestige. Wealth payouts provide funding for new buildings while Prestige payouts provide victory points.

Generally, players will be trying to build in areas that provide better payouts. Players are also looking to construct more buildings of a particular "zone" - Government, Residential, Industrial or Commercial - in order to help them win an election, as the politicians each confer a special ability to the player holding the office. Many of the buildings also provide a one-time bonus as they are built, and players can benefit from construction in the right neighborhoods.

Throughout the game, the values of the buildings will generally increase as the town grows into a city and then a large metropolis. Neighborhoods that were once valuable can become run down and new city centers spring up as the urban areas sprawl out across the grid.

When the game ends, players will conduct a final scoring of each Prestige row, earn points based on accumulated Wealth, and score bonus points for political offices held -- after which the player with the highest Prestige total wins the game.

Playing time is about 45 minutes per player.

Game Development by Kai Jensen

Components:
one game board
four player mats
144 wooden cubes in four player colors
four wooden cylinders in four player colors
one orange wooden pawn
165 cards:
• 54 in the Building Permit deck
• 37 in the Town deck
• 37 in the City deck
• 37 in the Metropolis deck
four sheets of die-cut tiles:
• 128 buildings
• 24 Vocations
• 6 Politicians
• 1 Contractor
• 6 Wealth markers
• 3 Prestige markers
• 1 Active Player marker
• 1 Extra Favor marker