Age of Steam expansion designers and avid players Alban Viard and Michael Webb discuss news, sessions, expansions, and new prototypes.
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That's a along time ago, we did not make a serious update here!!! I found time to write few words about these last Essen releases this nights ! For Paris, I wanted to make something new. I had the real map of the districts of Paris and I thought it would...
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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...
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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...
Lire la suiteThe 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...
Lire la suiteI 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...
Lire la suiteI 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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
Lire la suiteWell, 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...
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