A fantastic-sounding new game was announced for the P500 list from GMT Games in yesterdayās monthly update.
Red Flag Over Paris sounds great. Fort Sumter is one of my faves, and this sounds like a worthy successor to it. And another game for me and my co-worker at lunch!
Oath is all the way live.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2074786394/oath-chronicles-of-empire-and-exile/description
Coin 13 just got announced, and itās a doozy. Set in the Martian revolts of 2025, I believe itās the first coin game with a completely fictional setting. And what a setting too! Iāll be keeping an eye on this one and pumping any news Iām sure
That certainly intrigued me!
Not enough to buy it because I donāt have players to play COIN games.
But itās an interesting move.
Iām on board. The new card design looks good.
The Shadow Planet looks promising. Launches tomorrow.
My Fatherās Work launches on the 27th, AMA here:
Just read the GMT Games April update, and got really excited.
Combat Commander: Europe is on the P500 list for a 5th reprint!
Some details on my blog (including lots of drooling on my part)
New COIN just dropped.
Iām waiting for the inevitable āwhite designer designing a game about Japanā backlash, but I hope theyāve done a lot of good research.
GMT Games usually does (though the misstep with the game about colonial Africa does make me pause sometimes).
Edit: Either that, or itās a Japanese-American designer named Joe, which I guess is certainly possible!
As long as the subject is treated with respect, why should there be backlash?
Sometimes itās reflexive. There was for John Company, albeit you sort of expect that sort of thing on twitter, everythingās a āhereās my response to your terrible takeā on there of late. Weeaboos usually get a pass.
I agree with you.
But not everybody does.
Iām missing your point. What specific backlash are you referring to?
Nothing organised, but there was some responses on Twitter like this: https://twitter.com/radicalbytes/status/1377421691639357444 and on BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2633851/questions-about-john-company that I found to be knee-jerky.
And speaking just generally, there are people (on Twitter mostly) that if you do a game about another culture without actually consulting somebody from that culture, you will get roundly criticized by those people
Where? Can you provide examples? Iām not on Twitter, so I donāt see that.
The first response is a farcical attempt to start a movement or a boycott and it went nowhere, because the poster was trying to rabble-rouse. The BGG post you cited wasnāt knee-jerky at all. It was very well thought out and written, and a very good discussion developed (I appreciated your posts as well). Taken altogether, the anti-JC gamers made some good points, especially the guy on BGG. But Iām still going to purchase the 2nd Edition, and I feel sure most if not all of the KS adopters will, too. However, if these posts give a slight nudge to Wehrle to be extra-careful and cover his bases, I donāt see that as a problem.
Compass Games, on the other hand, seems to quite enjoy publishing games on controversial subjects or with controversial titles and showing no sensitivity whatsoever.