Age of Steam expansion designers and avid players Alban Viard and Michael Webb discuss news, sessions, expansions, and new prototypes.
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!!...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
