Essen 2008 : a new set of maps

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...

Why aren't any new expansions being released for AoS?

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...

AoS: Metro Pittsburgh Playtest #2 Notes

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...

Brief Notes on the first playtest of AoS: Metro Pittsburgh

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...

AoS: Metropolitan Pittsburgh

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...

AoS: cccp Playtest #2

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...

AoS: cccp Playtest 1

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...

Scads of AoS

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...

Random Update / Design Idea

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...

Puerto Rico

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...