As much as I’m disappointed that the PR expansion isn’t going to happen I’m glad they had the integrity not to shovel out a crappy PR expansion. They could easily make a quick buck based on the original’s good name.

Any word on Veritas?

Bas Luijten includes Veritas in his Essen 2008 Canonical Geeklist, Michael.

I second Alan’s words… now, it would be nice to know why… Is the explanation elsewhere?

Total speculation on my part, Robert, but we may never know.  Seyfarth tends to be relatively closed mouth about his games.  But yeah, I’d love to know what the approaches were for the expansion, more for my curiousity than because I think the game needs one.

Thanks Larry.

Bas also includes the Puerto Rico Expansion in the Essen Geeklist – or at least he did through today. Plans change, as do publishing schedules, so there’s no guarantee on Veritas. I asked Jay only about the next couple of months since there seems to be a backlog recently. I’ll check in again in a month or so and see what stands where.

Eric

And what about the Ra reedition originally rescheduled for this summer?

Wow! I wonder whether a possible Witch’s Brew SdJ win would shake things up. I’d hate to think that we might have to wait until Q3 (or later) for this year’s winner to make it to an English language edition…

A lot of disappointing delays in the past few days. Oh, well - I guess I can actually *save* some money for when things actually ship…

David, not only save some $, but now I have even more time to go back to the recent classics (Caylus Magna Carta, Notre Dame, etc) given the derth/slow-down of good game releases.

Robert, I hear you. We’re getting a chance to visit some titles that were missed and to revisit some classics (or at least, very good titles from the past). Got in a great game of In the Year of the Dragon last weekend and I suspect we’ll be playing a lot of older titles during the annual 4th of July gaming weekend.

David, in the past 7 days alone I’ve played: Caylus Magna Carta (nickel), In the Year of the Dragon (nickel), Phoenicia (nickel), and Race for the Galaxy (dime).

Has the Race for the Galaxy reprint slipped to August as well?  Or has it already happened?

what happened to Roma II??? thougth it was on the list for 2008 but now I don’t see it listed anyplace on gone cardboard?

Marc, Queen typically reveals no info on its upcoming releases prior to Spiel. Stefan Feld did give an interview on Brettspillguiden back in April 2008 which implied that Roma II was still on track for Spiel 08, something that Queen’s developer Bernd Dietrich had uncharacteristically suggested as well on BGG.

Having said all that, Jay just confirmed that he has no release date set for Batavia, which Queen released earlier this year. My guess is that Roma II will appear this fall, but the international version won’t come out until Spring 2009, as was the pattern with Airships and Eketorp from Spiel 07 to this year.

Eric

thanks for the update Eric.
I knew it had been on the list and it had piqued my interest.

marc