http://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/ 2007-07-26T17:47:37Z over-blog.com Atom 1.0 Generator http://accel6.fdata.over-blog.com/99/00/00/01/img/avatar.png Age of Steam expansion designers and avid players Alban Viard and Michael Webb discuss news, sessions, expansions, and new prototypes. http://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-22337528.html 2008-08-29T13:28:04Z 2008-08-29T12:03:00Z Alban http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-205265.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/1/19/91/33//Aos-Team-Logo-1-copie2.jpg" /> AoS Team is pleased to announce a pair of bonus releases for 2008: Age of Steam Expansion - Washington DC / The Berlin Wall and the Age of Steam Box #1. AoS Team has heard the cries of North American AoS fans, and are also pleased to announce that these releases will be [...] http://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-21010430.html 2008-07-17T12:39:49Z 2008-07-17T11:17:00Z Alban http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-205265.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/1/19/91/33//bbg2.jpg" /> 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 [...] http://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-20465305.html 2008-06-15T15:35:41Z 2008-06-15T15:33:00Z Michael http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-205265.html The subject line is a question that I've seen asked a bit on Boardgamegeek lately, so I thought I would do up a brief post on it here during this lull in playtesting. I can obviously not speak for the other designers, even Alban on this point, but I can give you the inside scoop on what is [...] http://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-20163452.html 2008-06-04T15:04:26Z 2008-06-04T15:02:00Z Michael http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-205265.html I originally tried to post this yesterday, but instead of typing it up in a separate program like Notepad, I foolishly wrote it directly into the Overblog form, and the system decided to temporarily crash and eat my post when I tried to put it up. On Monday afternoon, less than 24 hours [...] http://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-20108308.html 2008-06-02T17:47:36Z 2008-06-02T17:38:00Z Michael http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-205265.html I managed to get in a playtest of Metro Pittsburgh last night. I foolishly forgot to bring my digital camera along, so I have no pictures to post, but I can give a brief report of how the game went: The central urbanization mechanic works almost exactly as I expected it to. In our [...] http://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-20070793.html 2008-06-01T14:19:46Z 2008-06-01T14:02:00Z Michael http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-205265.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/1/19/91/33/Metro-Pitt/PittRoughCutSmall.jpg" />I know it's been quite some time since I posted anything on the blog, but I haven't been playing any Age of Steam, or any board games period. Work has kept me busy, and the Stanley Cup playoffs kept me even busier. Now that Summer is here though, I finally have had the opportunity to do some [...] http://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-15593038.html 2008-01-13T02:23:10Z 2008-01-13T01:36:00Z Michael http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-205265.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/1/19/91/33/CCCP/CCCP1.5.jpg" />So, as I detailed in the last entry, there were some clear issues with the CCCP map after the first playtest, the most glaring ones being the weak east, the not as compelling as I would like auction, and the not-yet-satisfactory goods growth pattern. All of these were addressed for playtest [...] http://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-15413389.html 2008-01-07T18:15:22Z 2008-01-07T17:57:00Z Michael http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-205265.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/1/19/91/33/CCCP/Playtest1A.jpg" />Playtesting time again...Michigan has fallen by the wayside, but over my vacation I came up with a new way to use the split level engines from Montreal and fashioned a map of the Soviet Union to go with them. The core concept here was to make the second number in the engine restrict [...] http://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-15372340.html 2008-01-06T18:30:09Z 2008-01-06T18:22:00Z Michael http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-205265.html Well, it has been quite a while, but I finally had a break from school for a few weeks, and in that space of time I played a tonne of Age of Steam, including two plays of my new Soviet Union prototype. The quick run through of the non-Soviet stuff: The new Ted Alspach 1 and 2 [...] http://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-14457429.html 2007-12-15T16:58:23Z 2007-12-08T16:07:00Z Michael http://www.over-blog.com/profil/blogueur-205265.html <img src="http://idata.over-blog.com/1/19/91/33/CCCP/CCCP-For-Web.jpg" />Well, sorry for the lack of updates everyone, but I haven't had an opportunity to play Age of Steam since my last post, and I haven't had much time to do design work either, as life at university is keeping me extremely busy. I just wanted to throw out some design rumblings now though, [...]