We are very happy to announce that we are planning to release a new set of three expansions. These expansions will come in the same triangular boxes than last year. They will only be available for the ESSEN fair in October for many reasons, some of which were discussed in Michael's last article. An additional factor is a lack of time: we simply do not have the time necessary to sell maps beyond ESSEN. As a result, only 120 numbered boxes will be available. The maps will be printed on paper identical to that which was used for the Moon/Mars expansion, heavy plasticized paper.
The first expansion will occur in Chile. We are very proud to release this expansion because it has been difficult to find a printer who is able to make two big heavy plasticized paper at a decent price for a small print run. As you know Chile is a long, narrow country with huge
mountains. This expansion bestows an important role upon the yellow cubes, which represent gold.
Because Chile is twice as large physically as a standard expansion, we have produced two other expansions that fit on the back:
The first one will take place in Egypt and features many innovative rules, including a nice mechanism where flooding occurs on one part of the map.
The second will take place in CCCP. We have developed a completely different expansion than Michael's which changes the victory condition for the game in a new and depthy way. We will see how Communism will conquer the heart of Russia...
We think that this new set is nicely balanced, with small alteration of the basic system with the Chile expansion, medium modification with the CCCP and large modifications with the Egypt expansion.
We would like to thank John Bohrer who always support our work and Martin Wallace who authorized again the use of the artwork.
This set has to be picked up on Thursday between 10 to noon during the Essen fair on the Winsome booth. The price of this numbered set is 30E.
You have to pre-order this set before the fair as past years by sending an email to ageofsteam08ATyahoo.fr . We will bring few copies of our last expansions(The Moon/Mars and NYC/WiI) for 15E each.
Hope you will enjoy again
Alban