Game: Age of Steam Expansion - Eastern US & Canada

Thread: Re: Availability?

clearclaw — 2007-12-15T23:00:05+00:00

djflippy wrote:
Has anyone seen this expansion offered at an online site?

Yes, but only 80 copies were printed and it is thoroughly OOP.

Thread: Availability?

djflippy — 2007-12-15T22:37:19+00:00

Has anyone seen this expansion offered at an online site?

Thanks,

.k

Thread: Age of Steam Eastern USA & Canada session report

dedefortin — 2007-01-09T05:20:10+00:00

Reading of the rules for this new AoS expansion was exciting since there was some new mechanics of play that seemed to add great interation between players. In this expansion you put this new map side by side of the Rust belt map, so the result is a huge map. The main new rule is about the track building limitation. In turn 1 each players can build 1 track, in turn 2 each players can build 2 tracks and so on. You also have to start on the eastern cities and the only way to get production on cities is by using the production action. Martin, Marc-André, Adrien, Nathalie and Pierre would try this map tonight.

Marc-Andre and Pierre started the game with no additional shares . Nathalie won the locomotive action and shipped twice for 2 income in round 1 in the Boston area. Martin began in New York, Marc-Andre in Washington, Adrien in Philadelphia and Pierre in Norfolk. The players didn't take many shares in the subsequent rounds since Pierre and Marc-Andre put pressure on them since they had 2 or 3 less shares than them but with almost the same score. The game was becoming very tense in round 3 since many areas were packed with many players around the main cities. Nobody dared to take many shares to cross the expensive mountainous area even if there was many goods available on the western side of the mountain. There was still some goods to the east and most players were doing nice shippings without spending too much. On round 3, Adrien had the turn order action but he betted over this action to be sure to get the important urbanization actin from Nathalie and this was tough on her. We tought Nathalie wouldn't never recover from this but she did great in the next turns to connect Toronto via Syracuse and she was able to get back in the game. On turn 4 Pierre began to block the southern part of the map for himself and he did well since Marc-Andre went west later. Martin had a nice break when he was able to connect Harrisburg and take the last exit from Marc-Andre who had choosen loco instead of first build. At the end of turn 5 there was still no players who had cross the mountains but then the pressure grew as the eastrn cities were almost empty of goods. On turn 6 players began to make more money but they wouldn't still take too many shares to build very long links, Martin had another break in turn 6 when Nathalie had to give up her link toward Pittsburgh so he was able to connect this important city. Martin had enough big shippings in the end to win over Pierre but bya close margin.

Money was tight all game long for everyone and we stayed almost entirely on the new map. We were so afraid to spend too many shares that it took a long time before we had enough money to build over the mountains. The interaction was great and we had to give many income to other players in order to make intersting shippings. The production action was choosen 5 times in this game, that's a new high for our group. We also liked the interurban links between cities and the mechanic in which the more player there is and the more you have to pay. We're anxious to try this map soon since the strategies may be different. Will someone dare to cross the mountains earlier ?
I even think that it can sustain easily 6 or 7 players but we'll have to try it. Very good map with new mechanics that work great on this map, it's well balanced and the replayability seems great.

Final scoring:
Martin: 88
Pierre: 85
Nathalie: 77
Adrien: 72
Marc-André: 63

Thread: Re: Rough Rules Summary from Danish Site...

stray_flux — 2006-12-19T05:05:07+00:00

John Bohrer wrote:
They are incomplete. It would be great if you could tell us what is missing?

Thanks,
Mike

Thread: Re: Anyone speak Danish?

CortexBomb — 2006-12-06T23:42:20+00:00

Well, since no one else seems to be overly interested, I've started doing a weak translation using online tools...here is the rough summary of what is posted...the actual page is not a review at all, but almost a pure rules summary. I would, frankly, be amazed if there are more rules than are listed on the page, but anyone who has a copy of this expansion can feel free to chime in if I'm missing anything here...

This is what I have gleaned so far:

3 cubes are placed in each city at the start of the game.

Players start with 5$ and 1 share issued (hence, alternative income/shares display)

Marketing: Allows a player to ship a good normally, but, once each shipment, they can pass through a city of the same colour without having to deliver that good.

Engineer: does not exist.

Production: the player taking this draws 2 goods cubes and then places them directly onto the board.

Urbanization: when you place a new city on the board, it is immediately stocked with 2 cubes.

Player networks must start in one of the eastern cities: Quebec, Boston, New Haven, New York, Trenton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Wilmington, Charleston or Savannah. Players' networks must be contiguous until someone (or they?) reaches Pittsburgh, Wheeling, or Toronto.

...jernbanespor thing...as far as I can tell it says that track building restrictions go up with the round. The first round you can buy 1 piece of track, the second 2, &c. This continues until round 8, which, from that round to the end of the game, the limit remains 8 pieces of track.

Interurban tracks can be built between two cities The first player to build one has to pay 2$. Subsequent players can also build the same link, the cost being 2$ plus 1$ for each other player already there.

If a town is urbanized that already has player track running through it, those links are maintained.

...cubes in Pittsburgh. I think this says that Pittsburgh receives cubes (1 per round like many maps?). It definitely says that the only way other cubes can arrive on the board is via Production.

(Der trækkes én kube, der placeres i Pittsburg. Ingen andre byer modtager varer med undtagelse af hvis man anvender aktionen produktion.)

The rest of the rules are standard AoS.

Thread: Re: Anyone speak Danish?

John Bohrer — 2006-12-06T22:26:54+00:00

They are incomplete.

Thread: Re: Anyone speak Danish?

Doomfarer — 2006-12-06T18:43:11+00:00

CortexBomb wrote:
Doomfarer wrote:
I'm too lazy to do it but there are lots of other Danes around. You could try to offer some for it.

If that's what it takes I'd be willing to offer some gold up for the translation... :shrug:

Sorry, I didn't mean I'd do it for just that someone else might do it. Seems the rules are incomplete anyway?

Thread: Re: Anyone speak Danish?

CortexBomb — 2006-12-06T18:24:39+00:00

Doomfarer wrote:
I'm too lazy to do it but there are lots of other Danes around. You could try to offer some for it.

If that's what it takes I'd be willing to offer some gold up for the translation... :shrug:

Thread: Re: Anyone speak Danish?

John Bohrer — 2006-12-06T03:45:54+00:00

You are not missing much, he left out a bunch of the rules.
Mange Tak!

Thread: Re: Anyone speak Danish?

boomtron — 2006-12-05T22:36:41+00:00

I saw this awhile back, and used this translator to check it out:

http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php...

Not too good, though.

Luke

Thread: Re: Anyone speak Danish?

Doomfarer — 2006-12-05T22:29:49+00:00

I'm too lazy to do it but there are lots of other Danes around. You could try to offer some for it.

Thread: Re: Anyone speak Danish?

SatanicEssence — 2006-12-05T20:31:31+00:00

Mmmmmmm.....danish.....

Thread: Rough Rules Summary from Danish Site...

CortexBomb — 2006-12-05T19:52:52+00:00

A rules summary of this map has appeared on the web, but it is written in Danish...

http://www.germangames.dk/Beskrivelser/Age%20of%20Steam%20Ea...

Are there any native speakers here who would be kind enough to translate what is written there? There is hardly any information available on this map yet, and I'm curious to know what this reviewer has written about it...

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Frouvne — 2006-10-29T13:12:40+00:00

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Frouvne — 2006-10-29T12:59:06+00:00

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Frouvne — 2006-10-29T12:58:54+00:00

New Turn Marker

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Goodsound — 2006-09-05T16:38:08+00:00

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