Wizard Kings Shipping
Wizard Kings 2nd Edition is shipping now. It looks great and we are excited to hear what gamers think.
Translations of Columbia Games
A number of translations of Columbia Games have been posted to our website, ColumbiaGames.com
Quebec 1759 (French)
Napoleon (Japanese)
Crusader Rex (French)
Pacific Victory (Spanish)
EastFront 2 (Korean)
Dixie Unified Rules (French)
Eagles Waterloo Rules (French)
We are always accepting of translations and post them freely on our website.
Wizard Kings sold out
Wizard Kings 1st edition is now sold out. We are preparing to release a 2nd Edition and will have further news to report soon.
Frederick’s Fate
We regret to announce that the GamePlan title Frederick’s War has been cancelled. We have been unable to reach an agreement with the game’s designer.
WBC winners!
Results (in brief) from the Columbia Games events at the 2006 World Boardgaming Championships in Lancaster, PA.
War of 1812 had 24 players and winner was Scott Cornett.
Liberty had 30 players and winner was Todd Treadway.
Hammer of the Scots had 25 players and winner was George Seary.
Napoleon had 10 players and winner was Jim Miller.
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all participants
War of 1812 sold out
We have sold out of War of 1812!
Plans are afoot for new edition and are entertaining thoughts about how to revise it.
One of the prevailing ideas is to use large (24mm) blocks (like in Hammer of the Scots, Crusader Rex, etc.) and new label art.
We’re also contemplating making [optional] expansion units available when we print the stickers.
In other respects the game has been around a long time and it doesn’t seem necessary to change it.
Input is welcome on the forum or via e-mail.
Hammer of the Scots Pbem
The first PBeM tourney of Hammer of the Scots is in the books. Thirty one players vied for the dominance of the Scottish Nobles. This was a five round swiss tourney using the 2.0 rules. Players bid to play the English by bidding the number of years to play without Edward I.
Games were played on a website that handled the cards and the random draws of the blocks. There were fifty two games played and the English won twenty-eight of them. There were three draws and twenty-one wins by the Scots.
Hank Burkhalter was undefeated and was able to beat Rick Young in the battle of the unbeatens in the final round.
The final standings were: 1st – Hank Burkhalter, 2nd – Rick Young, 3rd – Chris Byrd, 4th – Jeff Mullet, 5th – Suzanne Tuch and 6th – George Seary
EastFront and EuroFront
Please pardon my long lag in posting news. We have been thoroughly involved in putting two exciting new projects to bed: EastFront 2 and the EuroFront maps. These are now being printed and will ship toward the end of this month.
I have quite a backlog of new postable material for our website including a new Wizard Kings scenario, a translation of the Hammer of the Scots rules (Spanish), the Dixie: Gettysburg full set and Eagles scenarios and more. Hence news should flow a little more often from this site…
Block game auto-ship
Some of you have requested that we bring back the autoship program for wargames which was phased out some time ago in favor of specific GamePlan preorders.
We’ve been told by these people that they just want all our new releases and don’t want to have to sign up for each game. We just can’t say no to someone who is such a fan of our block games….
If you want to automatically be signed up for a preorder for each new block game title, let us know and we’ll make it happen.
Of course an autoshipper still has the right to opt out of a specific title before it is shipped. And the money back guarantee still applies.
To join Wargame autoship, please email: grant@columbiagames.com.
Dixie Scenarios
DIXIE HISTORICAL SCENARIOS
The excellent historical scenarios for Dixie and Eagles which employ the entire card sets have been reposted online. They were originally released in the Canadian Wargamers Journal and appear on the Columbia Games website with permission from the editor. Thanks to Jeff Myers for re-creating the diagrams and his editing. The Bull Run and Shiloh scenarios are up now. Gettysburg and Eagles will follow soon.