Age of Steam expansion designers and avid players Alban Viard and Michael Webb discuss news, sessions, expansions, and new prototypes.
Hi all, I'm going to be posting semi-regularly on this blog with Alban now, and hopefully we'll be able to create enough content to make this an interesting stop for Age of Steam fans. My main interest in Age of Steam is as a fan, I've played the game...
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Montréal Métro is the second expansion that takes place in a city instead of a country. The first one was London. The designer is a very well known age of steam fan in US, Mickael Webb. He was working on it since one year, and we can imagine all the good...
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Coming soon I was coming back from ESSEN05 with the latest Winsome games and I was very impatient to play the Netherlands expansion from John Bohrer. I read the rules in my hotel in ESSEN and i was surprised by so many changements. So an age of steam...
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The Iraqi expansion story begins in July 2005. I don't know if i was inspired by the actuaity or not, probably inconsciously. I was checking the different type of hexes in the game age of steam, plains, hills,montains, rivers,forests (in my Brazil expansion,...
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Sometimes stupid ideas create good expansion. I was coming back from Ludovic Gimet's association with a defeat at Age of Steam in the Netherlands (not John Bohrer's expansion, but one of mine not yet published). As you probably know, he always plays the...
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A short "making of " of this tremendous expansion (not yet finished) My first idea was to create a more difficult expansion than the others previously published by Warfrog and John Bohrer. As i am fond of Sci Fi, i immediatly think at a Moon expansion....
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As i imagined my next expansion in Iraq, i was looking for someone who can illustrate my package Brian Barling is a brilliant cartoonist who works for the CS monitor in USA and is also a wargamer who likes to play the frenchies... He draws many cartoons...
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War in Iraq expands the game in the iraqi desert. As you could imagine, desert hexes are expensive $3. The originality of this map is oilfields (3) that product oil (black cubes). Only the enginneer can build next to oilfield. There is also a new special...
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War in Iraq Diese Age of Steam Erweiterung spielt in der Wüste des Iraks. Der Krieg ist vorbei und viele lukrative Ölfelder wurden entdeckt. Das Ziel des Spielers ist es das Öl nach USA und Europa zu befördern um Geschäft zu machen. Die US Armee wird...
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