Age of Steam expansion designers and avid players Alban Viard and Michael Webb discuss news, sessions, expansions, and new prototypes.
Not much Age of Steam news for me to talk about recently, as I've been busy doing school work (i.e.: teaching 4 discussion sections here at Michigan State and reading 3 books a week for my own work) but I did find time to participate in a podcast with the Metagamers specifically about Age of Steam.
The direct link is here:
TheMetagamers_Episode12
In the show we mainly discuss basic Age of Steam principals / strategy, which is probably old hat for most of the people reading, but there you have it.
In random other news, I'm nearly ready to do up a prototype map for Michigan again, though it's hard to say when that will actually happen. I'm also pleased to hear that John Bohrer is going to release another pair of AoS maps this Essen, including another 3 player one, based in my favourite US city, Pittsburgh. The Southern US also sounds interesting, as it will feature 14 white goods cubes (cotton), and I'm intrigued to see how that will work. I have to admit, I'll probably be tempted to use both the white cubes from the Southern US with the green cubes from NY Subway to create a super AoS fan variant at some point :-)