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        <title><![CDATA[All Things AoS]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Age of Steam expansion designers and avid players Alban Viard and Michael Webb discuss news, sessions, expansions, and new prototypes.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Paris/Moscow Expansion, the ESSEN10 releases]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Age of Steam box + Washington DC/Berlin Wall]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-22337528.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alban]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Essen 2008 : a new set of maps]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-21010430.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alban]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why aren't any new expansions being released for AoS?]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-20465305.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[AoS: Metro Pittsburgh Playtest #2 Notes]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Brief Notes on the first playtest of AoS: Metro Pittsburgh]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[AoS: Metropolitan Pittsburgh]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-20070793.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[AoS: CCCP Playtest #2]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-15593038.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:36:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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.... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[AoS: CCCP Playtest 1]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:57:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Scads of AoS]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-15372340.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:22:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Random Update / Design Idea]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-14457429.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:07:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Puerto Rico]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:36:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Cette apres midi, je n'avais trop envie de me mettre dans mes copies et comme ludovic faisait le malin sur les forums du monde entier avec la nouvelle carte en solo d'age of steam, j'ai été contrainds d'ouvrir l'une de mes boites pour voir de quoi il... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alban]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hobbies during vacations....]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:37:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[My team of testers are more than only testers for my ideas to expand Age of Steam. They help me to developp what coule be a simply good idea into a tremendous idea (specially in New york in the building phase, in the moon to improve the black side system... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alban]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[A fly to Pittsburgh...]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am always exited when i open the caracteristic boxes of the winsome games particularly when they contain a new expansion for my favorite game : Age of Steam (Did i tell you that i find my forth copy of the basic game last week for 35e ?...) This expansion... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alban]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[New York, Mississippi, and Iraq Sessions/Mini-Reviews]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-12614738.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Tonnes of Age of Steam play last weekend for me, as I visited both of my old gaming groups on the west side of Michigan. I don't have the energy for full session reports, but here are my thoughts on the three new to me maps that hit the table in the order... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Metagamers - Age of Steam Podcast]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-12333439.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Comments about Egypt]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[After one dozen games of my new Egypt expansion, some elements can be fixed up. First i thought that two pyramids of 14 cubes was too many goods on the board for a setting phase. If you add 12 cities with 2 cubes , there will be more than 28+24 = 52!!... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alban]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Spain/Portugal (Steam Brothers): Initial Play Notes and Thoughts]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-11849568.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of playing the Spain map by the Steam Brothers last night with my regular play group, this being the last session prior to my move up to East Lansing, after which my AoS playtime is going to be greatly diminished. For those who aren't... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Egypt, first tests]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we travelled Egypt for the second time. My favorit players , Brice, Guillaume , Mathieu were at home for a good cause : adjust the first rules of this expansion... My first idea is to flood the left side of the Nile in the first turn, the right... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alban]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[AoS - Michigan (More Ideas, Progress)]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-11701857.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The design bug bit me again in the shower yesterday, so I did some more preliminary design ideas for Michigan, and I'm at the point now where I might do a rough draw of the map up and start toying with the mathematical design of the map and expenses.... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Webb]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[my last work...]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-11687432.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[As you know, i have too much ideas for expansions to develope them even with my job... But, i imagined last night new ideas that didn't work in my India expansion, about water and flooding... Probably these ideas could work very well in another country... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Session in Iraq]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-11681261.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[During summer holidays, i have plenty of time to play with my friends at my favorite game Age of Steam, even to imagine new expansions . But today, we want to come back in Iraq, to adjust the bonus rule of black cubes (oil). Brice (purple), Guillaume... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[AoS - Michigan, initial concept]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-11660182.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Even though I, at one point, intended Montreal to be my only Age of Steam expansion, I realized after it was complete that I had a lot of discarded ideas that were good enough to re-use, or re-implement in a future map. AoS - Michigan started as a stock... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Webb]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[My Netherlands expansion]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-11616528.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[(coming soon) Far before John Bohrer published his Netherlands expansion, i designed my Netherlands expansion... Why the Netherlands... Germany, France, Itali, South of England, some US maps were already designed at the end of 2004, so the last country... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alban]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Curse of Inca Gold in Chili]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://ageofsteam.over-blog.com/article-11604191.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I like excursions. With one of my best friend, every summer, we go in french montains to make sport. But french montains are not very high. I dream to go in Chili... Age of Steam can easyly go every where, particularly in Chili. The size and the global... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alban]]></dc:creator>
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