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Spiel 2015 IX: Grand Austria Hotel, Hengist, SteamRollers, Otter Nonsense, Argo & Dojo Kun

Spiel 2015 IX: Grand Austria Hotel, Hengist, SteamRollers, Otter Nonsense, Argo & Dojo Kun
Board Game: Grand Austria Hotel
• Going in to Spiel 2015, gamers undoubtedly had high expectations for Grand Austria Hotel, the annual big box title from Lookout Games, given that the designers are Virginio Gigli — part of the Acchittocca group behind Egizia and Leonardo da Vinci — and Simone Luciani — co-designer of both Tzolk'in and The Voyages of Marco Polo. Here's an overview to show you some of the game in action:





Board Game: Hengist
• It would hardly be a year in Essen if Lookout Games didn't have a title from Uwe Rosenberg, and that title is the two-player game Hengist, which continues the Lookout 2p line that launched in 2012 with Rosenberg's Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small.





Board Game Publisher: Lookout Games
• In case you missed seeing two releases from Lookout that debuted at Gen Con 2015, here's the two-minute recap of Trambahn and Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King.





Board Game: Dojo Kun
• Italian publisher Yemaia has released only a couple of titles — Al Rashid and Hyperborea (as a co-publication with Asterion) — but they've attracted attention with the look of both releases, and that attention continued at Spiel 2015 with Roberto Pestrin's Dojo Kun, which challenges players to compete in martial arts tournaments as the head of one of four dojo.





Board Game: Argo
• At Spiel 2015, Belgian publisher Flatlined Games presented a prototype of Argo by Bruno Faidutti and Serge Laget to con attendees.

Flatlined had hoped to have Argo published in time for the convention, but plans didn't fall into place, which seems to be a common thing for this design as it was first entered in the BGG database in 2005 and still has yet to see print. Flatlined now plans to relaunch a Kickstarter funding project for Argo before the end of 2015.





Board Game: SteamRollers
• With Argo on the sidelines but little time left on the clock and the booth space already paid for in Essen, Flatlined decided to take a different approach for this fair and produced low-quantity, hand-assembled editions of two games, with one of those being Mark Gerrits' SteamRollers, a dice-drafting game in which you build a railroad network and deliver goods.





Board Game: Otter Nonsense
• The other title was Otter Nonsense from Flatlined Games' Eric Hanuise, with this design being a hand-management, screw-your-neighbor game in which you want to empty your hand to score points.

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