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Videos from Gen Con 2014: The Battle at Kemble's Cascade, Chimera, Pandemic: Contagion, Level 7 [Invasion] & Warmachine: High Command – Faith & Fortune

Videos from Gen Con 2014: The Battle at Kemble's Cascade, Chimera, Pandemic: Contagion, Level 7 [Invasion] & Warmachine: High Command – Faith & Fortune
Board Game: The Battle at Kemble's Cascade
• One of the great things about recording game demonstrations at a convention is that in many cases the game's designer will be on hand to talk about the work first-hand, as was the case at Gen Con 2014 where Swedish designers Anders and Olle Tyrland were showing off The Battle at Kemble's Cascade from Z-Man Games on a near-constant basis. (I happened to run into them at the airport when I arrived in Indianapolis on Wednesday night, and they looked halfway to the grave — being on Swedish time following many hours of travel — but by Thursday morning they had rebooted and were running at full energy.)





Board Game: Chimera
• I previewed Chimera in April 2014 after playing a prototype a few times, but at Gen Con 2014 designer Ralph Anderson was on hand to show off the game himself. Alas, I didn't have time to play him to see whether I've learned anything about the game in a few playings. Conventions are work, after all...





Board Game: Pandemic: Contagion
• The Z-Man block was rounded out by designer Carey Grayson, who explained Pandemic: Contagion, which turns the standard Pandemic world on its head by making viruses of the players.





Board Game: Level 7 [Invasion]
• Another awesome thing about conventions are the fab shirts that publishers and manufacturers create for their employees and demo crew, such as the Level 7 [Invasion] shirt worn in the video below by designer Will Schoonover from Privateer Press. I asked David Carl from Privateer Press about the shirts as we were both in the BGG booth while this demo was taking place, and I believe he gave an estimated cost of $80 per shirt.





Board Game: Warmachine: High Command – Faith & Fortune
• Aside from knowing the price of his shirt, Carl also knows about Privateer Press' Warmachine: High Command – Faith & Fortune, which is both a standalone game in the Warmachine universe and an expansion for other High Command deck-building games.

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