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SPIEL 2018 Previews: Solenia, Lincoln, Wendake: New Allies, and Quartermaster General: The Cold War

SPIEL 2018 Previews: Solenia, Lincoln, Wendake: New Allies, and Quartermaster General: The Cold War
Board Game Publisher: PSC Games
The BGG team recorded two hundred or so game overview videos in our booth at Gen Con 2018, but we also snuck out of the booth a few times to eat, use the restroom, buy a game or two, and yes, record even more game overview videos, such as this quartet of preview videos for titles you'll see debut at SPIEL '18.

Let's start with Martin Wallace's two-player game Lincoln that's coming from PSC Games and Worthington Games. This game was Kickstarted in mid-2018, and during that time Marco Arnaudo uncovered what seemed to be a surefire path to victory for the Confederacy on a preview copy of the game. I know that further development has ensued since that KS campaign, and for this video I focused solely on the overall design of the game, with Wallace providing details of the history from which the design evolved.





Board Game: Quartermaster General
• Okay, this item debuted at Gen Con 2018 instead of being previewed there, but we didn't shoot an overview in the BGG booth, so you get to see it now, with designer Ian Brody showing off the Quartermaster General: Prelude expansion that is meant to be played prior to Quartermaster General to push players into a variety of opening positions and therefore broaden that game experience.





Board Game Publisher: Griggling Games, Inc.
• Brody also preview the next title in the Quartermaster General series — Quartermaster General: The Cold War, with this being a three-sided game that can actually be played by 3-6 players since the deck for each side can be broken into two decks. The Western Bloc deck, for example, can be split into separate U.S. and UK decks. PSC Games and Brody's Griggling Games will release this title in October.





Board Game: Wendake
Board Game: Wendake: New Allies
• Danilo Sabia's Wendake debuted at SPIEL '17 from the Italian publishing team of Placentia Games and Post Scriptum, and while the game is only now hitting the U.S. market through Renegade Game Studios, the original publishers already have an expansion heading to press for release at SPIEL '18. Here's an early look at what you'll find in Wendake: New Allies:





Board Game Publisher: Pearl Games
• We'll close this batch of previews with an overview of Sébastien Dujardin's Solenia, which had been announced with the title "Sun Moon". Artist Vincent Dutrait has mostly put the finishing touches on the look of this Pearl Games release, and now you can see a bit of it in action ahead of its debut in October 2018.

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