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17 Aug
Posted by David Miller as Card Games, Miniatures, Modern Board Games, RPGs
Some of the games that sold out at the show: Revolution and The Stars Are Right from Steve Jackson Games, Eclipse Phase from Catalyst, Heroes of the World from Asmodee, Battelstar Gallactica Pegasus expansion from Fantasy Flight Games, but not the Pathifinder RPG from Paizo! Despite an extremely long line on the first day, hundreds were left Sunday afternoon.
Timestreams from Bucephalus Games is a multiplayer card game of time travel. Two boxes just released—one with Medieval and Modern Day card decks, one with Stone Age and Future Tech. Available in December will be Renaissance and Industrial Revolution.
Coming soon from Bucephalus will be Dogfight, an abstract strategy game with a wood board and historically accurate, die cast metal, model fighter planes from World War II.
From Fantasy Flight Games:
Catalyst still committed to Battletech and Shadowrun but expanding with casual board games and new RPGs and miniatures games. Eclipse Phase is an RPG with a grim but not hopeless transhumanist setting. Leviathans is a miniatures game set in an alternate history Earth with flying ironclad war ships (got me on that one!). Merchants is a light resource management and selling game from Reiner Knizia.
Rush n’ Crush is a combat and racing game from Rackham and AEG. It’s set in the AT-43 universe, is playable by up to 6 people, and has Arcade (basic) and Overdrive (advanced) rules versions. Expansions with more cars and jumps should be available in December.
Even better than all the games were the people I got to spend time and game with: Ben Clark, Don Dehm, Derek Rex, Dirk Solko, Jeff, Will, Zandra, Jim, and Brian! Thanks Boyd, I think it was, for pointing out a curious fact—amazing that for thousands of games played in the board games rooms, we didn’t see a single loose gaming piece on the floor!
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David-
I had a great time with you at the show! Thanks, too, for attending a couple of my seminars, although I suspect that Mike Gray, Richard Borg, Reiner Knizia or anyone else on the panel was a bigger draw!
Things I noticed at the show:
-overheard several people saying they hadn’t bought anything yet on Saturday evening. But…
-exhibitors I talked to were happy with sales
– big lines on Thursday and Sunday for onsite registration. No lines on Friday and Saturday.
-not sure there were any “breakout” games from the show, although many did well.
Ben