Leder Games, the makers of Root and Oath, are coming out with a new game whose preorder opens on August 1st. It's called Ahoy and it looks great, and hopefully cheaper than either Root or Oath? But with all the fun artwork and spirited design and asymmetrical gameplay that Leder are known for. I've read the design diaries on their website and it's clear that they put their usual care and craft into every stage of the process, and like, that's swell. Still you'd better be cheap than Root or Oath, I friggin mean it.
AEG, the makers of Mystic Vale, came out with a pirate game last year called Dead Reckoning (nothing to do with the Mission Impossible movie coming out next year, it's a nautical term for a method of determining your position based on direction and speed.*) I saw it on Kickstarter but ultimately decided not to back it, hoping to instead pick it up in stores or something when it came out. Only it never came out in stores, and might've been a Kickstarter exclusive thing or something?, but it's coming back onto Kickstarter again on the 9th. This one's also got a lot of neat ideas in it, plus a solid-looking integration of AEG's same patented Card Crafting system that we saw in Mystic Vale.
Also like, I never got around to buying Stonemaier's revamp of Libertalia when it came out earlier this year? I thought I was tighter on money than I really was, and, oh well. I actually saw a copy of the original 2012 edition of the game in a Local Game Shop in Montana when we went there a few months back, and would totally have bought that in a heartbeat had I not known that Stonemaier was coming out with their own revisit. Now of course I'm thinking I wouldn't mind having both..., but oh well. If I'm looking into both others next month, I may as well make August the time to (swash)buckle down and get myself a copy of Libertalia: The Winds of Galecrest. Yo ho.