SPIEL 2016 XIII: Barcelona: The Rose of Fire, Crisis, Pax Renaissance, Bios: Genesis, Russian Railroads: American Railroads, and First Class: Unterwegs im Orient Express

SPIEL 2016 XIII: Barcelona: The Rose of Fire, Crisis, Pax Renaissance, Bios: Genesis, Russian Railroads: American Railroads, and First Class: Unterwegs im Orient Express
Board Game: Barcelona: The Rose of Fire
• This overview video of Barcelona: The Rose of Fire that BGG recorded at SPIEL 2016 is under eight minutes long, but co-designer Francesco Nepitello runs through a lot of information and detail in that time, such as Devir's commissioning of the game from him and Marco Maggi, the huge amount of time spent on the game's graphic design, and the inherent gameability of Barcelona itself.





Board Game: Crisis
• A country in Crisis — can you use your workers to rebuild businesses and get the economy moving again? LudiCreations Kickstarted this design by Pantelis Bouboulis and Sotirios Tsantilas, and it ran out of copies before SPIEL 2016 ended.





Board Game: Pax Renaissance
Phil and Matt Eklund invite you to take the role of an influential European banker who will finance kings, sponsor travel, and otherwise try to influence the future of Europe in Pax Renaissance from Sierra Madre Games.





Board Game: Bios: Genesis
• A second new title from SMG at SPIEL 2016 was Phil Eklund's Bios: Genesis, a game that attempts to recreate the dawn of organic life in its most basic forms, with players representing proteins and worrying about how to absorb and store energy.





Board Game: First Class: All Aboard the Orient Express!
• Helmut Ohley, co-designer of Russian Railroads, and Hans im Glück, publisher of same, have combined once again to release a new train-based game: First Class: Unterwegs im Orient Express, a card game in which players use the base cards and two of the five modules included in order to build a rail network on a quest for fame points.





Board Game: Russian Railroads: American Railroads
• Speaking of Russian Railroads, new player boards await in Russian Railroads: American Railroads to provide new strategies for a familiar game.

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