Essen 2006 Canonical List
W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Ideally this list will include every title released at Spiel 2006, organized by rating average so that the cream will rocket to the top, knocking aside all the lesser games on their way up.
Much of the initial info on this list comes from the good folks at Boardgamenews.com. Add new games to the list as they're announced and added to BGG, and please include the designer and publisher at a minimum.
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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Designer: Vladimír Chvátil
Publisher: Altar Czech Republic
Advance your civilization from building pyramids to flying in space (preferably not in pyramids since they're not aerodynamic).
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Kristof Tersago
Belgium
Sint Truiden
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Designer: Friedemann Friese
Publisher: 2F-Spiele/Rio Grande Games
Another expansion of a great game.
I'll buy without a question.
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Sure.
Netherlands
Rijen
Noord Brabant
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Designer: Alan R. Moon
Publisher: Days of Wonder
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Sure.
Netherlands
Rijen
Noord Brabant
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Designers: Wolfgang Kramer & Richard Ulrich
Publishers:
- Benelux: White Goblin Games & Quined Games
- France: Ystari Games
- Germany, Switzerland, Austria: Pro Ludo
- Spain: Excalibur
- Italy: Nexus Editrice
PoF reprint. New art, new characters, new expansion. As the Dutch version is scheduled for the SpellenSpektakel (1 week after Spiel), I suspect there will be publishers introducing it at Spiel.
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Board Game: Imperial
[Average Rating:7.72 Overall Rank:43]
Nils Meissner
Scotland
Edinburgh
Lothians
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Designer: Mac Gerdts
Publisher: Eggert-Spiele/Rio Grande
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Michael Webb
The People's Republic of Ann Arbor
Michigan
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Ted Alspach's second AoS map pair will debut at Essen. This time around the theme is unorthodox to say the least, though: one map features a "Disco Inferno" while the other sees the players delivering souls from hell to heaven.
Interesting new mechanisms in each of these...
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Board Game: Shogun
[Average Rating:7.70 Overall Rank:42]
W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Designer: Dirk Henn
Publishers: Queen/Rio Grande
The game system from Wallenstein heads east (or west since we live on a globe) to 15th-16th century Japan.
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Michael Webb
The People's Republic of Ann Arbor
Michigan
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The first map pair released by JC Lawrence on Ted Alspach's Bezier Games label is also going to be there.
The Sun and London both have some new wrinkles, London in terms of track building costs, and the Sun in the way that players build the map before playing, create cities by track placement, and can move cities around during the course of play via urbanization.
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Board Game: Kaivai Expansion
[Average Rating:7.68 Unranked]
[Average Rating:7.68 Unranked]
Sure.
Netherlands
Rijen
Noord Brabant
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Designers: Anselm & Helge Ostertag
Publisher: Pfifficus Spiele
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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Designer: Ian D. Wilson
Publishers: JKLM Games/Lookout Games/Z-Man Games
An 18XX game set in Russia, with German distribution handled by Lookout and American distribution by Z-Man. Only 300 copies are slated for North America.
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Angelo Porazzi
Italy
Milano
Unspecified
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Designer: Angelo Porazzi
Publisher: Angelo Porazzi Games
A special "10 Years Edition" of Warangel, this 2006 release will include an A4-format English rulebook and reference sheets. Also available at Essen 2006, a "Create YOUR Warangel" service that will sell armies already mounted on painted wooden blocks.
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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Designer: Richard Borg
Publisher: Days of Wonder
Only a demo for the new C&C-system from Borg and Days of Wonder, but you might be able to pick up a promo figure.
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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Designer: Urs Hostettler
Publisher: Fata Morgana Spiele
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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Designer: Stefan Feld
Publisher: Alea
Alea continues its tradition of showing a prototype of next year's Nürnberg release. I highly enjoy both Roma and Rum & Pirates, so I'm looking forward to the next Stefan Feld title.
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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Designer: Han Heidema
Publisher: Winsome Games
Riding the rails in the Netherlands, there's no place better.
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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Designers: Régis Bonnessée & Guillaume Blossier
Publisher: Tilsit
The expansion allows players five and six into the game.
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Sure.
Netherlands
Rijen
Noord Brabant
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Designer: Stefan Stadler & Michael Rieneck
Publisher: Kosmos
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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Designer: Sébastien Pauchon
Publishers: Ystari Games/Rio Grande
Supposedly a family game about acquiring goods and building store fronts, but already a couple of nice ratings on the Geek.
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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Designer: Richard Breese
Publisher: R&D Games
The R&D version will match the first edition of Reef Encounter, while What's Your Game? and Z-Man Games will likely publish a version that matches the graphics of the current edition.
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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Designers: Bruno Cathala & Ludovic Maublanc
Publisher: Hurrican
Yay! This fine limited-edition game, in which one player is Jack the Ripper and the other tries to deduce his identity among the eight characters on the board, is now being released in a larger print run by Hurrican. No word on a North American distributor yet, but copies will be at Essen.
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Big Woo
Scotland
state:
running out of space...
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Designer: Michail Antonow
Publisher: Clemens Gerhards
Previously released in a small print-run by 3-Hirn Verlag, but newly presented at Essen by Clemens Gerhards as a deluxe wooden version.
Inspired by Hex, the famous Piet Hein/John Nash connection game, but introducing a majority control element as players no longer connect sides by a string of playing stones, but instead try to make a chain of majorities in the cells that are surrounded by placing points. It's a chain of controlled cells that needs to link 2 sides of the board to trigger a win, not one made by stones.
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A Spotlight on Games
United States
Bay Area
California
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by Phil Eklund/Sierra Madre Games
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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Designer: Reiner Knizia
Publisher: Kosmos/Fantasy Flight
The legendary missing ninth tribe for Blue Moon.
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W. Eric Martin
United States
Apex
North Carolina
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Designer: Klaus Teuber
Publisher: Kosmos
The seventh expansion for the Settlers two-player cardgame, which features Artists and Benefactors.
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Board Game: Taluva
[Average Rating:7.14 Overall Rank:242]
Sure.
Netherlands
Rijen
Noord Brabant
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Designer: Marcel-André Casasola Merkle
Publisher: Hans im Glück
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