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Pavlichenko

This is a one vs. everybody hidden movement game in which one player is a sniper trying to take care of the opposing force of soldiers before they can figure out where the sniper is and capture her (Pavlichenko was a legendary female sniper from WW2).
The action takes place on a customizable hex board and the sniper may do one of three actions each turn; move, shoot or reload. The sniper also has one time use cards to help her out in her quest. For their own part, the soldiers can move or search the area on each turn. When a soldier searches, they draw a card which is rarely helpful, sometimes hurtful, and often times neither. Three cards can be turned in to create a bunker behind which a soldier is safe from sniper fire.
If the Sniper kills all of the soldiers, she wins. If the soldiers find (land on) the Sniper, they win.

(As of now, unnamed and unthemed, but playable)

I need to work on this pitch, as I am not sure I can do it without the main component visible.

Set collection and engine building. A six segmented, rotating wheel with six different colors is the main component. To begin the game, 18 colored cubes (randomized from a bag) are placed on the wheel on their individual colored segments. Each player is assigned one of the segments as their home segment.

On a player's turn they may perform one of the following actions
-take ALL of the cubes from their own home segment
-take two cubes from two different segments
-purchase a point card (marked with the cube colors and amounts required to purchase) All worth 1,2,3 or 4 points
-Purchase a 2:1 trade card
-trade 2:1 with any 2:1 card that they own (cards allow trade of 2 of a specific color for any cube on the wheel)

At the beginning of the 2nd and all subsequent turns, the wheel is reseeded with 6 random cubes and the players blind bid for the right to be the first player (This bid is paid with cubes from their own stock)

Play continues until one player reaches 15 points

That is a fair point. The engagement comes from doing battle over selected jury members, but also in the first round where the draft happens. All of the evidence, witnesses and jury cards come out at once, and you have to make decisions about what to keep OR throw away before you pass your hand to your opponent. Seeing a juror that would be great for you, but also one that would be even better for your opponent, come out at the same time makes for a tough decision. Add to that that you may get an AWESOME piece of evidence, or a great witness, but you also get a juror that just can't be sat. It is all about making the right decision with the cards that you are presented with.

Yes. Statistics are important once you get to discovery, but getting there is another part of the game as well.

Thank you for your input. I am constantly struggling to keep my feelings out of the process and listen to the people who have played the game. Having a blind allegiance to my own work will make for an unsuccessful game in the long run.

The draft is what decides which cards are in play. When you select a card, you can add it to your deck OR discard it from play. This draft continues until twelve jurors have been selected. Once the jury is in place, witness and evidence cards, the ones that mitigate the dice rolls for each individual juror, are played. This is done in a draw and play manner. This promotes a back and forth "tug o' war" if you will. Players need to decide whether they will challenge a particular juror or let it go an focus on others.
Maybe I neglected to mention that the witness and juror cards are played on individual jurors. Thus, there could be a juror that is VERY beneficial to the defense at the beginning, but has become more "in play" as the discovery process goes on. The end result is that there will be some jurors who are mere formalities during the dice roll, and others that really could go either way.

I guess, in essence, this game boils down to a back and forth battle to affect the dice for the deliberation.
I hope that clears it up a little. I will post pictures of the cards so you can see how the numbers work. That is, if I can figure out how to post a picture here...