Game Salute CEO Dan Yarrington shared details on some of Game Salute’s more high profile upcoming releases.
 
King’s Forge will release in Q3. Two to four players compete to become the next royal blacksmith by crafting four items on the King’s list.  Players must roll dice which represent the raw materials to forge the items required.  The game includes 91 D6s, 32 craft cards, 19 gather cards, 4 black market tiles, 4 shop tiles, 4 wood disks, 2 reference cards, 1 first player anvil, and a rulebook.  MSRP will be between $45 and $50.00.  Two expansions, King’s Forge: Queen’s Jubilee and King’s Forge: Unnecessary but Totally Cool Game Board are also planned.
 
Game Salute will also release Tiny Epic Kingdoms from Gamelyn Games this fall.  Designed by Scott Almes (Kings of Air and Steam, Martian Dice), the Kickstarter for the strategy “4x/Euro” microgame raised $286,972 from 8,979 backers.  Impressive, considering the game has a $16/$24 price point.  The “4x/Euro” is explained as “eXpand, eXplore, eXploit and eXterminate” a complexity that “usually only shows up in games that cost $50+ and take 2 hrs+ to play,” according to the Kickstarter.  The game contains 13 faction cards, 7 territory cards, a tower card, 1 action card, 45 player pieces, 5 gray shields, 5 green stars, 5 yellow corn, 5 red ore, 1 first player tower and 2 war dice.  The $24 deluxe edition was a Kickstarter exclusive.
 
In November, Alien Frontiers: Outer Belt, an expansion for the dice rolling, worker placement game Alien Frontiers is planned.  Alien Frontiers, according to Yarrington, is Game Salute's best selling strategy game. "That's definately our flagship for gamer-games'," he said, adding that the base game should be back in print again in time for the release of the expansion.

Designed by Tory Niemann and Randall Bart, the Outer Belt expansion was advertised as a print-n-play beta test as part of the Alien Frontiers 4E Kickstarter.  Players venture into the outer belt, a ring of asteroids past Maxwell’s moon, to harvest rare metals, lost ships, and alien relics.  The game comes with an Outer Belt side board, 22 Asteroid cards, 1 Territory tile, and 3 Dock Cover chits.  As an expansion, it requires the base game to play. The game is for 2-6 players, ages 13 and up.
 
For fans of Sebastian Bleasdale and Richard Breese’s Keyflower (see “'Princess Bride' Games”), Yarrington teased a new expansion for the game which should premiere in Spiel in Essen in October.