The 'upcoming' page now claims the Secrets of Arkham expansion is expected 'Winter 2010". This normally wouldn't worry me except that the item BELOW it in the list on the FFG site says it is expected 'Winter 2009'. Potomac lists it as available March 30th. Anybody know more?

chicklewis said:

Since boxes seem to have popped up at gaming events or the new event centre or something (At least as a teaser, I saw a photo somewhere...) I assume that Potomac has it fairly accurate. But it's just speculation on my part...

Potomac is the man. I believe them before anybody on the topic of release dates. My guess is that it ships out to them on Tuesday, March 30. They'd have it a day maybe two later. So, even a pre-order is likely to arrive at your home maybe April 5, after the weekend.

well its 2010 and still winter for a few more weeks........

chicklewis said:

The Spanish edition is scheduled for March 26.I guess English edition does not take much longer

As far as I know it's been listed as Winter 2010 on the upcoming page the the whole time it's been there. It's simply a bit delayed now.

PearlJamaholic said:

This.

I am guessing its going to miss the winter of 2010 mark by a couple weeks and be "extremely early spring 2010" instead.

According to the FFG upcoming link, it says its on the boat to here so...I dont think the wait will be much longer. I saw the box myself at the FFG grand opening so I dont think there should be cause for alarm. IMO anyways.

[email protected] said:

Nobody expects the Spanish ... Edition!

(sorry, couldn't resist...)

Good one, jhaelen, made me laugh. Thanks for that.

Did a bit of digging on this tonight at the event center (and sat in front of the display case drooling over the box again, pawing at the glass to but touch its sweet cellophane surface...er... ). Apparently the likely release is going to be end of this month or early next month. CoC LCG releases usually hit around the end of the first week of each month it seems from my limited experience.

That and a new hint of a card inside by someone who has seen the card list. I didnt press him too much so as not to break NDA so he can keep his job, but some card associated with Rats (as part of the name. 'Rats in the Walls' perhaps? just my guess) he remarked as a card that stood out to him. Not knowing the full list of the CCG stuff, I am not sure if this is one of the cards from a previous set, but he did say that about 15 of the 50 cards are completely new and the others being a reprint (not counting the story cards)

Fifteen new cards would be super! I wonder if, instead, that means ten plus five altered reprints.

Long ago the names of two cards not yet spoiled were released - Feint and Diseased Sewer Rats.

It must be diseased sewer rats then.

Considering how his decks were highly competitive, and how he noted how impressed he was by it, that I would surmise its a fairly powerful card in the right context.

Spiffy rumors, keep 'em coming, HellFury !!

And thanks.

Chick

I heard that Armitage is reprinted as syndicate, and that the rumor is he falsified his research, that the cthulhu idol is actually carved from a dog bone from his yard.

The necromicon will be the same Goodenough image, but on toast. I heard melba.

And, I heard it from an illicit one handed games dealer who paid off the chimney sweep that works nights in Roseville, and this is deep background, the mi-go will be agency loyal neutral. But that's all I'm saying.

I'm I looking at THE SUN's page ??

Funny to read that Mi-Go's will be devoted to humans !!

Keep the rumors comming, this is really funny.

The Mi-Go make more sense in Agency anyhow...

(Although, mechanically they kind of fit Shub, flavourilly they are more Yog, though. And there are things to be said for them fitting Yog more than Shub mechanically as well, since they carry sometimes, which is very human faction, but when on monsters, generally Yog...)

Johnny forgot to mention that Cthulhu is a Syndicate card now. Because there everyone has his price, and even Cthulhu wants to go to a speakeasy sometimes.

I saw one of the new Secrets of Arkham cards today.

'Asylum for the Deranged'

It has interesting mechanics, though I am not sure how well it will work until it gets played a bit.

Oddly enough though, the new cards in this expansion have a different back than the current LCG. Perhaps they learned from changing so much around over the years and are going back to their CCG roots?

Here is a preview of the card:

Azathoth, the Tomato god with Lime has been studying at the cullinary institute and is ready to rule. Each player must use cilantro instead of parsley. Only Cafeteria Lady may commit. From Nuclear Chaos to Uptight Chef, believe it.

Secrets of Arkham reprints will certainly have some changes. Three confirmed reprints below, we discussed might see change. So why bring it up again. No reason. We may be just over a week away from getting our hands on Secrets of Arkham Expansion. Will Hydra and Mi-Go Surgeon be our only spoils?....

• Professor Armitage, Venerable Librarian Cost: 4 Skill: 3 Icons: III Investigator.
Heroic. Willpower. Action: pay 1 to choose and ready an exhausted Tome card.
Illustrator : Anders Finer AE U31

•The Necronomicon, The Book of the Mad Arab Cost: 4 Tome.
Action: exhaust and pay 3 to choose a character. Take control of that character until the end of the phase.
Illustrator : John Goodenough AE R55

•Azathoth, The Blind Idiot God Cost: 6 Skill:6 no icons Ancient One.
Response: after Azathoth enters play from your hand, each player must sacrifice all characters not named Azathoth and all support cards he controls. At the end of the turn, you are eliminated from the game.
Illustrator : Uwe Jarling FC R127

•Professor Armitage, Venerable Mi-Go - SY Cost: 4 Skill: 3 Icons: TTII Cultist. Phantom.
Villainous. Action: pay 1 to choose and ready an exhausted Mi-Go card.
Flavor text : "Skree! Graduated distance learning with speech machine. Bzzz..."

johnny shoes said:

Um... is that a real card? Armitage gets taken over by the Mi-Go?

Marius said:

In 'The Whisperer in Darkness' the Mi-Go worship Shub.

Those buzzing Mi-go do indeed worship Shub, the Black Goat of the Woods. Conversely, the remainder of the story is largely Yoggish. The invading fungi themselves are from Yuggoth. Other "faction" Yig and R'yleh and Hastur and big C get mention, but Whisperer Akeley experiences K'n-yan, Yoth, N'kai, Tsathoggua, Commorium, Klarkash-Ton, Yuggoth, the Black Stone, and the Hounds of T. Farmer Maggot Yog himself never emerges to chase hobbit Tsoggy out of his mushroom patch.