The Hotness
Games|People|Company
Eclipse
Gunship: First Strike!
Mage Knight: Board Game
Midnight Men
Agricola: Die Bauern und das liebe Vieh
Hawaii
Star Wars: Battle of Hoth
Wiz-War
Ora et Labora
Rex: Final Days of an Empire
Snowdonia
Barbarian Prince
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
Twilight Struggle
War of the Ring
Agricola
7 Wonders
A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (second edition)
Dominion
7 Wonders: Cities
Kingdoms
A Few Acres of Snow
Risk Legacy
Arkham Horror
Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization
Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin
1812: The Invasion of Canada
Dixit: Journey
Elder Sign
D-Day Dice
The Castles of Burgundy
Le Havre
Kingdom Builder
Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game
Race for the Galaxy
Cosmic Encounter
Dominant Species
Dungeon Petz
Battlestar Galactica
Power Grid
Mansions of Madness
Last Will
Twilight Imperium (third edition)
Nexus Ops
Agents of SMERSH
Puerto Rico
Star Trek: Fleet Captains
Kairo
Core Worlds
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
%name%
Alderac Entertainment Group 2009 Products at Essen
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Recommend
33 
 Thumb up
1.00
 tip
 Thumb up
Just a collection of everything we will have at our booth at Essen this year. Please be sure to stop by and say hi, and of course play some games!

We are at booth 9-70.
Your Tags: Add tags
Popular Tags: 2009 [+] Essen [+] CCG [+] Fun [+] Alderac [+] [View All]
1. Board Game: The Adventurers: The Temple of Chac [Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:604]
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Temple plundering excitement!

Essen Show Price - 40€
7 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
Todd N.
United States
Medford
Oregon
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
This one looks really neat.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Sat Jul 4, 2009 8:04 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
There is no language on any of the gameplay components except for the rulebook, which is in English.
1 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:57 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Andreas Giese
Germany
Essen
NRW
Great!
...and thanks for the quick reply (on a Sunday surprise )!
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Edited Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:51 pm
  • Posted Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:51 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Marcel
Germany

mbmbmbmbmb
Another question(s) concerning the prepainted minis.

Will they be available at Essen 2009, too?
And if so, how much will they cost?
Or is the Box at Essen a special one with prepainted minis included?

Thanks in advance!
1 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Wed Oct 7, 2009 8:09 am
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Prepainted minis will be at Essen, as to the sales method I'll have to talk to our owner and he's out on a business trip today. I'll get the answer as soon as I can.
1 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Wed Oct 7, 2009 3:32 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
2. Board Game: Infinite City [Average Rating:6.35 Overall Rank:1329]
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
AEG's new city building tile game will premiere at Essen!

Essen Show Price - 30€
3 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • 0 comments
3. Board Game: Thunderstone [Average Rating:7.33 Overall Rank:143]
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Discover the Thunderstone before the evil Doom Knights in this exciting deck-building fantasy game.

Essen Show Price - 40€
7 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
Stephan Rasmussen
Denmark
Odense C
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Why the higher price tag on this one?

It seems to be a card game which are usually lower priced..
1 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:58 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Michail Giannis
Greece
Petroupoli/Athens
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Too expensive for a card game. Why so high prices???
1 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Edited Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:57 am
  • Posted Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:56 am
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
I'm generally not one to debate prices with customers, as I'm not the one who sets them for our company. But I will provide a comparison:

An 85 card starter deck of a CCG runs about 10-11€.

Thunderstone is 550 cards, as well as extra cards for noting XP, a sorting tray, etc. It's almost double the amount of cards you'd get in a CCG for the same price (and with the CCG you probably wouldn't be through buying!).

So anyway, take that for what its worth to you. I can't tell anyone what is or isn't expensive, that's a personal decision.

2 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:51 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Joachim Pehl
Germany
Daubach
Rheinland-Pfalz
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Let us compare it with Dominion.

Dominion has a MSRP of 30 € in Europe (Of course you can get it cheaper, but this will most likely also be true for Thunderstone after its release).


so we have a difference of 10 €.

Where does it come from.


1. Dominion has a bigger print run than Thunderstone (a sure bet, multiple languages, Spiel des Jahres multiple big publisher behind them)
2. Dominion has less cards (500 to 550) (given that should only result in some pennys)
3. Artwork, dominion has iirc 33 artworks, 25 Kingdom cards + trash + 3coin + 3vp + curse. Thunderstone has 38 kingdom cards (monsters, treasure, village) + artworks for basic village items each monster deck has more than one artwork (judging from the available pictures). Imo, this is the main reason behind the price, artwork is expensive.


40 € is expensive, but imo it is fair compared to Dominion. Of course this is just a little asumption on the available infos.


5 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Thu Oct 1, 2009 6:15 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
4. Board Game: Legend of the Five Rings [Average Rating:7.10 Overall Rank:541]
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
We wouldn't be AEG with L5R, would we?
1 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • 0 comments
5. Board Game: Arcana [Average Rating:6.33 Overall Rank:1494]
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Compete for the control of Cadwallon against other guilds in this exciting card game.

Essen Show Price - 20€
2 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • 0 comments
6. Board Game: The Isle of Doctor Necreaux [Average Rating:5.80 Overall Rank:3898]
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Team up to defeat Doctor Necreaux in this pulp card gaming adventure.

Essen Show Price - 20€
2 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
john hubbard
United States
toledo
Ohio
this one is lots of pulp serial fun
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:42 am
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
7. Board Game: Rush n' Crush [Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:1374]
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Racing action, brought to you by Rackham and AEG.

Essen Show Price - 40€
6 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
Rob Robinson
England
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
My shadow's shedding skin. I've been picking my Scabs again
badge
Forty six and two are just ahead of me
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Been a massive fan of the PnP version of Rush N' Crush for the past 5 years, and have had umpteen brilliant sessions with it. The retail version is surely the cherry on the cake.
2 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:45 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
8. Board Game: Abandon Ship [Average Rating:6.36 Overall Rank:1807]
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Make sure your rats survive the SS Nvrsinks!

Essen Show Price - 25€
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
john hubbard
United States
toledo
Ohio
another great family style gateway game
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:44 am
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
9. Board Game: Monkey Lab [Average Rating:6.16 Overall Rank:3099]
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Plot your daring escape and save the other monkeys!

Essen Show Price - 25€
2 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
john hubbard
United States
toledo
Ohio
great light-weight gateway game, and really monkeys just make everthing better
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:43 am
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
10. Board Game: Straw [Average Rating:6.14 Overall Rank:2430]
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Don't break the camel's back!
2 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
Ben Harris
United States
Beaverton
Oregon
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
This is an awesome, light filler. A must own!
5 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Thu Jul 9, 2009 11:52 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
11. Board Game: Tomb: Cryptmaster [Average Rating:6.93 Overall Rank:1396]
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Tomb returns with Tomb: Cryptmaster, including new monsters, new heroes, updated rules, and two all new maps! Also features new Overlords that add a new challenge to every game.

Essen Show Price - 45€
4 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
Pantsu Panic
United States

Georgia
shake
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:20 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
17 comments [Hide]
Post Comment
Daniel Cain
United States
Olympia
Washington
Board Game Villian
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
I've never added so many games to my wishlist at one time. Holy smokes some of these look like they could be completely and utterly awesome. Can't wait to see them at GenCon.

LA
3 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:59 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Stephan Rasmussen
Denmark
Odense C
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Before reading this list I had already picked out The Adventurers, Arcana and Thunderstone as must tries this year. Congratulations and wishes for a great Essen spiel 2009
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:58 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Todd Rowland
United States
Mobile
Alabama
designer
publisher
I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Stradk wrote:
Congratulations and wishes for a great Essen spiel 2009


Thank you very much! Please ask for Todd when you come by the booth and say hi, I'd like to meet a lot of the people here on the Geek.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:52 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Jan Ivanauskas
Germany
Siegen
Unspecified
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
There goes another 150 Euros of my budget...

... what about a bonus for people who buy more games.
1 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Edited Wed Oct 7, 2009 1:57 pm
  • Posted Wed Oct 7, 2009 1:56 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Joachim Pehl
Germany
Daubach
Rheinland-Pfalz
Avatar
mbmbmbmbmb
Dreamdealer wrote:
There goes another 150 Euros of my budget...

... what about a bonus for people who buy more games.


Agreed, I'm in the same boat.
 
 Thumb up
 tip
 Thumb up
  • Posted Wed Oct 7, 2009 10:11 pm
    • Choose your Dice
      • Roll
      • Comment (Optional)
    • Reply
    •  
    • Quote
Front Page | Welcome | Contact | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Advertise | Support BGG | Feeds RSS
Geekdo, BoardGameGeek, the Geekdo logo, and the BoardGameGeek logo are trademarks of BoardGameGeek, LLC.