(or here’s a list of what launched yesterday that might deserve a closer look)

Project: Catapult Feud: Hydra

Designer: Kristian Fosh (Catapult Feud)

Artist: Damien Mammoliti (Brass: Birmingham, Brass: Lancashire, Tyrants of the Underdark)

Publisher: Vesuvius Media (Catapult Feud, Dwar7s Fall, Pacific Rails Inc.)

Genre/Mechanisms: action/dexterity, events, expansion, medieval, movement template

Player Count: 2

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “Catapult Feud: Hydra Expansion adds a fireball launching Hydra to the game. This expansion requires Catapult Feud to play. During setup, place the Hydra in the middle of the battlefield, at an equal distance between players. If you are also using the Volcano Expansion, then place the Hydra to the side of it. Shuffle the Hydra Cards and place them in a pile, face down, next to the Hydra.

Catapult Feud is a game of last person standing. Your objective is to knock down all your opponent’s troops. The game is played in a series of rounds. During a round, starting with the youngest player, everyone takes a turn. Each player’s turn is divided into four phases: Tactics, Aim, Fire and Cleanup. Perform these phases in order, finishing each one before moving to the next. When all players have had their turn, the round finishes. You keep on playing round after round until there is only one player with troops on the table.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $44

All-In (w/shipping): $207

Campaign Ends: 1/17

Game Ships: Sep. 2022

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 812% with 19 days to go.

Project: Master Sweets FF

Designer: Tihomir Yunakov

Artist: Viktoria Gosheva

Publisher: Board Games Yunak (Master Sweets: Second Edition, MasterSweets)

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, cooperative game, hand management, player elimination, set collection, variable player powers

Player Count: 1-5

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: “In the elimination game ‘Clash of Sweets,’ each player creates their own unique cookbook and tries to steal their opponents‘ recipes. This reveals other players’ culinary secrets, and their cookbook becomes less unique. After the last recipe from a player’s cookbook is stolen, the player leaves the game. The last surviving player with recipes that have not been revealed is the winner. In the cooperative variant ‘Sweets Workshop’ a member of royalty has taken notice of the various masters of sweets, and wants them to make incredible desserts for her birthday. Players must combine their efforts and team up in order to exactly fulfill all of the royal’s requirements. Each player holds the cards in their hand facing the other players, who must provide clues about the player’s cards.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $41

All-In (w/shipping): $49

Campaign Ends: 1/14

Game Ships: Sep. 2022

Funding Status: Currently at 30% with 15 days to go.