Concordia - Due At Your FLGS This Month

An English version of Mac Gerdts' Concorida, a highly competitive economic board game set during the glory days of the Roman Empire, should be released by Rio Grande Games sometime this month. A 2-5 player Euro-style game, Concordia only has 4 pages of rules and takes a little bit over an hour and a half to play.

In Concordia, players head powerful Roman families who send colonists out to other cities of the Roman Empire to produce key economic items such as food, wine, clothes, and tools. Although Concordia does not involve wars or military conquests, it is a highly competitive game as players compete to gather cards to gain Victory Points. Strategy goes beyond having a well-developed plan of your own, but also requires that you keep an eye out for what your competitors are doing.

Concordia boasts two different mechanisms to ensure two games will never be the same: key action cards that are shuffled between games and a modular game board design. One side shows the entire Roman Empire, with 30 cities for a 3-5 player game. The other side shows just the Italian peninsula, with 25 Roman cities for a 2-5 player game.

An elaborately produced game, Concordia includes 75 houses, 15 sea colonists, 15 land colonists, 5 scoring makers and 80 individually shaped units of goods (190 wooden pieces); 65 personality cards, 5 player aids, 1 Concordia and 1 Praefectus Magnus card (72 cards); numerous cardboard pieces (storehouses, city tokens, bonus markers, coins); plus a two-sided game board, rule book, and a historical information booklet.

Quantum Board Game - Coming To The US In Q4

After an agreement between Seattle-based Passport Game Studios and Funforge, Eric Zimmerman's Quantum board game will finally make it to North America. While still at the prototype stage and with the title Armada d6, Quantum won the 2012 Game Design Award at the IndieCade Festival of Independent Games.

Quantum uses an area control mechanic and modular game boards that can be arranged in one of the 30 layouts that come with the game (or in any number of new configurations) to create a fascinating and infinitely variable game that combines both military and economic (building) strategies.  Each player is a fleet commander from one of four factions of humanity struggling to control a sector of space. Players win by constructing Quantum Cubes - massive planetary energy extractors. Each time a player constructs a Quantum Cube, he or she can expand her fleet, add a new ability, or make a special move.

With elegant mechanics, infinite scenarios, and easy-to-learn rules leading to deep gameplay,  Quantum is a one-of-a-kind game of space combat and strategy that will appeal to both hard-core and casual players.

Ticket To Ride Takes You To Paris

Next year will be the 10th Anniversary of the original release of Ticket to Ride. To celebrate, Days of Wonder is hosting a year long series of tournaments to determine the top players in the world and crown a new Ticket to Ride World Champion! Now through the summer of 2014, regional tournaments will be held throughout the world to determine qualifiers to play in National Championship events. The National Champions will then be invited to Paris in September 2014 for the Ticket to Ride World Championship and a chance to win the Grand Prize - an unforgettable trip for two to Asia on the Orient-Express!

Local tournaments will include prizes for the winner as well as participation prizes for everyone at the event.

If you are in Puerto Rico, Bad DM recommends you contact The Gaming Pit, in Guaynabo. The owner tells us that they will start running Ticket to Ride demo nights and weekend tournaments sometime between the end of October and beginning of November.