Gone Cardboard News: Age of Steam Third Edition - Announced from Mayfair
Mayfair Games has announced the title of Martin Wallace’s Totally Renamed Train Game, and it turns out not to be that totally renamed after all. The new name is Age of Steam® Third Edition, and a small note at the bottom of the press release points out that “‘Age of Steam’ is a registered trademark of Martin Wallace.” Here’s most of the press release from Mayfair:
| Developed with updated color rules and beautiful new components, Age of Steam® Third Edition will deliver the ultimate railway game experience. Martin designed the new rules to make the game more approachable for beginners and casual gamers. Advanced rules for expert players will satisfy railway game enthusiasts looking for a more complex and challenging game.
Martin notes that the new game: “…is just as challenging as the original, but plays in a shorter time and is much more welcoming to new players…” Age of Steam® Third Edition will be fully compatible with earlier expansions, so owners of these products can still use all of their old maps. Old maps fit right on top of the new board. You won’t obscure the information and displays used in the third edition, for they appear around the edge of the new, larger game board. Improved components include double-sided track tiles and complete sets of track with printed town symbols, so no more town discs are required. The game will include two maps. One covers the northeastern U.S. and part of southeastern Canada and is suitable for three to four players. The other map covers Germany’s Ruhr Valley, the area around Essen. It’s suitable for four to five players. You’ll see that we’ve replaced the random introduction of new goods cubes with a new (basic and advanced rules) action called “City Growth.” Revised income reduction will smooth game play. To keep every game competitive, game leaders face increased maintenance costs and greater penalties for borrowing money. We’ll make all the rules available for download on our website with the release of the game. Mayfair Games will also be releasing guidelines for creating your own expansion maps. We hope to encourage third-party expansions by allowing the use of a “Seal of Approval.” We’ll invite prospective publishers of Age of Steam® expansions to contact Mayfair Games for our Seal of Approval guidelines. If all goes to plan, you’ll see Age of Steam® Third Edition toward the end of 2007! |
“If all goes to plan,” eh? Well, for now this game has been updated on Gone Cardboard.
Source: Mayfair Games
Posted by W. Eric Martin on May 18, 2007 at 01:00 PM in Game News, Gone Cardboard News / 2546
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Excellent! Posted by Jim Cote on May 18, 2007 at 02:40 PM | #
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Wow, can’t wait to see how this announcement fans the flames of the Martin Wallace - John Bohrer reprint war. Posted by Tim Phelps on May 18, 2007 at 03:15 PM | #
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Great name “Age of Steam® Third Edition” :-)
Posted by Mario Aguila on May 18, 2007 at 03:45 PM | #
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And I forgot it: to put the rules on line seems to me an excellent marketing strategy. The gamer’s community will thank for it Posted by Mario Aguila on May 18, 2007 at 03:47 PM | #
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I think the new (old) name will be confusing. Why not just pick something different. I realize that they want to capitalize on the “age of steam” name, but this sounds like a different game, so I think a new name would have been better. Posted by Jeremy Milum on May 18, 2007 at 09:31 PM | #
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Looking forward! Posted by Surya Van Lierde on May 21, 2007 at 04:38 AM | #
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We need a name for the metagame: How about Bohrer-Wallace: Duelling Designers? Posted by Mark Crane on May 25, 2007 at 01:15 AM | #
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