This is the Civ-lite card game that looks promising.

Aerodyniamics doesn't play much of a role when flying in space.

You do have to launch the pyramids, though, unless you build them while in orbit -- and the lack of progress on International Space Station probably hasn't been too inspirational.

Perhaps FTL travel is only possible in ships that are too big to break orbit.

Must buy for me.

I love Benelux!

...but I'm so afraid that Eindhoven -city of light- needs the 50-plant or else doesn't count

nice big cards and loads of new tickets which make the old family favourite come to life again.

Was this available for sale at Essen? I looked for it, but I couldn't find it.

René, I saw 1910 for sale at one vendor, but I wasn't looking for it there or elsewhere, so it might have been all over the place for all I knew.

I went to the DOW stand at about 7:10pm one evening, but they wouldn't sell it to me because they were cashing up. I bought it from a vendor instead (hall 12, near the doors), who had a more commercial attitude.

Darned! Just when I bought the German edition they come out with a Dutch version?!

If you are actually hoping to have this list accurately rate the NEW games from Essen, then this entry should be stricken as what is being released is a newer version of Princes of Florence, and I would expect that game should have its own listing and own set of ratings, just as has been done for the umpteen versions of Carcassone, Settlers, Age of Steam, and Ticket to Ride, etc.

There will be Polish version too from company named Lacerta.

Quined Games told me on Spiel in Essen that the release will be expected in Januari 2007

But i saw some art work and is looked fine

While I'm not a big fan of Wallenstein, the initial pictures of the board on this one makes it look like an improvement...due to water routes there aren't nearly as many corners to hide in, which means that you can attack areas more easily, and there should be more conflict between the players.

This is definitely a good thing.

I played it yesterday on Spiel in Essen and i was impressed! Very good game!

really nice layout... and indeed nice graphics from the artist

I didn't mean for Europeans. I meant for boardgames players.

You mean that it is mounted?

No.

Actually when I looked at some more map photos I saw it wasn't too bad. The image displayed with this geeklist is probably the most familiar, and I guess there are only so many ways to divide Poland.

The image displayed with this geeklist is from a prototype...

New huts, new currency, and a new way to start a festival!

Woo hoo! Fish for everybody!

No promo figures that I saw, but Richard Borg was on hand to explain the game and answer questions. Days of Wonder had both English and German demo copies on hand, and the game should be for sale in a few weeks. I liked my one playing, although there's a lot of details to remember about movement, battle dice, lore use, and so on. I would imagine the scenario book starts easy, then adds in more material, but I didn't fly thousands of miles to read a scenario book!

I see that you still throw away more waste plastic than you are left with in playing figures. I had it weighed some time ago; I believe the ratio was 40 grams of playing figures, and 90 grams waste. There was a rumour of a dimension error in the production - they could have made up for that with this expansion, adding the pieces for 1-4 players with it. But be honest, is this game so hot that you would want it to play with 5 or 6?

Kind Knut Michael Wolf of SpielBox send me this page where are listed Essen 2006 Novelties
http://www.spielbox.de/spielarchiv/sbmessen/sp062tab.php4
I see here Angelo Porazzi Games booth number is 9-28 the same as Essen 2005.
Hope to meet or re-meet you in person there
Ciao Angelo Porazzi

The Special Edition sold out early at Spiel, by mid-day Saturday at the latest. Congrats, Angelo!

This expansion is no longer listed in the coming releases from Kosmos. Guess folks have finally stopped buying Settlers products.

You guess wrong. They've incorporated those cards into the standard set, as it says on their website:

"Mit neuem Themenset "Künstler und Wohltäter"

(With new topic set “artist and benefactor”!)

The expansion was published as part of the special edition which contains the basic game with updated card text and this expansion.

The standalone expansion which is mentioned here was pushed back to a release date of spring 2007.

There were reports that the cards of the special edition would more easily bend than the previous editions (which is bad). Maybe they fix that for this standalone expansion and need more time for that...

Any word In an English version?

Well, Rick T has just odne a quick review of this on BoardGameNews. It sounds good. A sort of card passing element which remided me of Hearts, some placement based on cards (a bit Pompeji-ish) and a bidd to avoid rats (a bit like High Society). Not a lot new in Euros these days! But, having said that, the game looks good and sounds fun.

Seems to be getting some great early ratings on the "Fairplay" charts at Essen. Looking forward to seeing a few more comments and reviews on this one.

Looks like this one ended up receiving the best score on the Fairplay chart at the end of the convention, impressive!

I wrote an illustrated preview on the game:
http://www.gamepack.nl/gamepack/prev-ndame-E.html

Does anyone know anything about this game? Fascinating idea to make a boardgame of that novel...

note: I thought it was a bit of a waste to have a game about a cathederal where you don't really do anything at the cathederal. The wooden cathederal model was just a picture-esc round marker, which I thought was a bit pointless really.

Pointless or not, it adds to the atmosphere of the game. We don't play games for effectiveness, do we?

This was my favorite game of many good games (Leonardo Da Vinci, Hermagor, Mr. Jack, Ystaphan). It really does have a Caylus feel to it but the theme oozes very nicely from the beautifully produced game. This one will have legs...

Ooh, a Caylus feel to it. It must be mine!

Does anyone have confirmation of if and when this will be published for the second edition?

I believe Richard has said previously that the second edition is not completely confirmed yet, so no, no date has been set.

Not much to be concerned about though, he sounded rather confident that the expansion will be picked up, it's just a matter of when.

All of the copies of Reef Encounters of the Second Kind! and Fowl Play! have now (end of August 2006) been pre-ordered.


Some copies have been ordered by on-line retailers and you may be able to secure a copy through them if you are still looking for a copy.

I'm really hoping/looking forward to Z-Man publishing a version of this expansion that matches the artwork for the second edition, for those of us unable to get a copy of the first edition. Please Z-man, please!

The author one the "Best new Author" award in Goettingen last year

I'm not sure it's a family game. The rules are clear and it plays quickly, but there might be too much happening for a family game. I like it.

A game that I want to try. I must say though, that the "originality" of the dice rolling mechanism seems slightly over-done. It seems like a cousin of what went on in Tonga Bonga, to me.