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Wargame T Shirts based on Military History:  Army of Northern Virginia, Potomac, Napoleonic Flags, Ancient Rome, 7th Cavalry.

I’ve always wanted to have some cool T shirts based on my favorite hobby:  wargaming.

We found a great new supplier that can make good quality shirts, quickly and lots of variety.  We are working on a series of Napoleonic shirts now.  Next we are going to start on WWII shirts.

Don’t see what you want?  Let us know.  We’ll make it!

You can check out all of our new shirts here.

The all new expansions are almost ready for release!  Our first Print Run has been sold out for awhile now.  We thought this would make a great time to re-tool and update to keep everything consistent.

We have samples of the new pieces now.  We are expecting our first shipment of new pieces this week, so Supremacy will be back!

Here is the first Sneak Peak of the all new pieces:

We tried to match to the existing colors as best we could.  They are very close.

The armies are the same design but much bigger.  They are thicker and much easier to grab.  The edges are now smooth so they stand up easily.

We liked how one side is flat and smooth while the other is convex.  It is a subtle difference.  This will allow for possible advanced / optional rules later.  It essentially makes the pieces double sided, so you could designate multiple strength steps, Fresh/Spent, out of fuel status, etc.

They are sized to easily accommodate stickers also!  Since they stand up, we could have hidden rotating strength, HQs, Paratroops, etc.  I don’t know if Supremacy is meant for all those things but it’s nice to have options later.

The new Navies are patterned after the Zumwalt destroyer silhouette:

And yes, the new Armies stack neatly on the Navies for sea transport.

These are some of the new expansion pieces:  Carriers, Fighters, MBTs, Stealth Bombers.  We tried to keep them all together in a consistent Supremacy style:  sleek, minimalist, mod.  This is what many people prefer.

There is another crowd out there though…   The one that wants Minis!!!

Don’t worry, those are just around the corner.  We wanted to get the basic expansion rule sets out their first.  Over the next several months we are going to be working on production molds for A&A style minis to replace these basic pieces, for those that want them.  If all goes well, we should have those out by this summer.

We’ve been working on this expansion for quite some time now. We could have rushed it out the door long ago but it just didn’t feel right.  I might be too much of a perfectionist sometimes.  In this case, I’m glad I held out.  What resulted is really spectacular and well worth the wait. 

We really liked the ‘idea’ of the old Fortuna Deck: Add random events into the world.  True.  Often times random events can trigger world conflict.  I also think people were looking to the Fortuna deck to ‘fix’ the broken market.  Moving the market around at random loosened things up and gave players more chances to buy and sell.  In the old design, it did help. 

Well, the market is fixed now. It doesn’t need random moves.  What else did the deck do?  Apart from random market moves, it added natural disasters.  This sounded like fun to us at first.  In practice it gets old real quick.  How many massive typhoons, earthquakes, etc.  can hit per turn?  Seriously. 

Finally, we had a burst of inspiration: Why not use the Fortuna deck to control the Minor countries?  They just sit there and do nothing but get invaded.  In the real world, the actions of Minor countries can often prompt the Superpowers to act.  They trigger all kinds of world conflict, even war. 

So the new ‘deck’ controls the actions of Minors. Tin pot dictators pop up in Minor countries with varying degrees of annoyance.  They might just build up their army.  They might decide to seize all factories under their control.  They can actually invade their peaceful neighbors and seize those factories.  They can acquire ICBMs from the black market.  There can even be outbreaks of deadly pandemic viruses.  Perfect. 

We had one last improvement: we converted the ‘deck’ into dice!  So it’s not a deck at all really.  They are Fortuna Dice. 

We were inspired by a bit of old technology:  Kriegsspiel Dice.  It is amazing how much critical info can be packed onto a few tiny cubes.  No charts.  No tables. No rules.  Nothing to look up.  They are smaller, lighter and faster to use than a deck of cards.  A quick toss and bam, there’s the result. 

Sometimes the Old and Unimproved ways are simply much better.    

This is so cool!!!!!!!!

The clouds are done.  They are still in China but they are finished.  Our rep sent us a pix.

These turned out even better than we imagined!!!!  Panda is doing an excellent job.  I was a little worried that they might be too light in color to contrast well with the map.   These turned out perfect!  Still translucent to look trippy but dark enough to  be practical.   I can’t imagine anything better.

This is really going to be the Epic edition of Supremacy.

The dice are done!  They look amazing.  Individually engraved.  Gold eagles.  Custom colors.  The pips were actually the toughest part.  White dice come standard with black pips.  Very hard to get custom blue pips to match the blue dice.  The end result is worth it.

Dice worthy of Supremacy!

The Measure of a Great Game

Supremacy was always kind of a counter culture product.  It reminds me of Apple or Volkswagen.  It zigged  while the rest of the market zagged.  The measure of a great game is not how many complex rules they can cram into a 100 page rulebook.  The measure of great graphics is not how many competing colors they can fit into highly detailed, high res images cluttering up an overly busy board.  Supremacy was and is based on the concept of minimalism.  Less is more.  It is that way by design.  More rules and pieces do not make a game more realistic.  Don’t be fooled by its seeming simplicity.  In many ways, Supremacy is more realistic at modeling international conflict, trade, economics, politics and warfare than many so-called ‘simulations’.  Though the rules are simple, the strategic possibilities and layers are very complex. Fans of the original get this.

Our graphics guy is not ‘mediocre’.  He is brilliant!  The graphics look clear and stark on purpose.  That is the theme of the entire game.  Supremacy’s focus is grand strategic, not micromanaging minutiae.  New people comparing Supremacy 2020 to current market standards for board games maybe surprised.  This is not your run of the mill Euro/RPG board game.  Don’t mistake the stark, minimalistic style for cheap and unfinished.  Look at the diehard commitment to this game from people who saw it in the 80’s.  And that is in spite of the ‘flaws’ it had then!  How many games on the shelf today will be remembered like that 30 years from now?  There are no custom molded zombies, (not that those aren’t cool) but this is a game that will become a favorite and classic.  It has tremendous replay value.  The new random card opening gives players a unique strategic puzzle to solve every game:  Different weaknesses.  New opportunities.  This is a game you will play over and over.  Every Supremacy game ends with players discussing why they did what they did and what they plan to do in the next game.  🙂