Game Session | Con Day | Game Title | Game System | Game Company | Game Type | GM | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friday | Lords of Waterdeep/w Scoundrels of Skullport | Lords of Waterdeep | WotC | Board | Atomic Squash | In Lords of Waterdeep, a strategy board game for 2-5 players, you take on the role of one of the masked Lords of Waterdeep, secret rulers of the city. Through your agents, you recruit adventurers to do on quests on your behalf, earning rewards and increasing your influence over the city. Expand the city by purchasing new buildings that open up new actions on the board, and hinder - or help - the other lords by playing Intrigue cards to enact your carefully laid plains. |
| 1 | Friday | Roll for the Galaxy | Roll for the Galaxy | Rio Grande Games | Board | Atomic Squash | Roll for the Galaxy is a dice game of building space empires for 2–5 players. Your dice represent your populace, whom you direct to develop new technologies, settle worlds, and ship goods. The player who best manages his workers and builds the most prosperous empire wins! |
| 1 | Friday | Among the Stars | Among the Stars | Stronghold Games | Board | Atomic Squash | Among the Stars takes place in a war-ravaged galaxy where the warring alien races have declared peace in the wake of a threat with the potential to destroy them all. An Alliance is established to build space stations throughout the galaxy in order to promote trade among the races, strengthen diplomatic relations, and defend against this impending threat. Each player takes the role of one of those races trying to build the greatest space station. Through card drafting, the players select locations, and use these to build their station, scoring victory points based on the placement. The construction lasts four years, and alien race with the most points at the end wins. |
| 1 | Friday | Paradox (Play with the Designer) | Paradox | Split Second Games | Board | Brian Suhre | In the near future of Paradox, a space-time disturbance called The Quake is fracturing entire worlds’ timelines and removing these worlds from existence. Two to four players take on the roles of scientists working quickly to repair these worlds’ connections to their past, present, and future by making new time strands — however, every repaired connection ripples through time and fuels the Quake to fracture more worlds. When the storm’s power fades, the most successful scientist will be hailed as a hero throughout the multiverse. |
| 2 | Friday | Circus Imperium | Circus Imperium | FASA | Board | Atomic Squash | 10th Annual Race for the DieCon Cup! Compete for the coveted recognition as the Atomic Squash Circus Imperium Champion. Circus Imperium is a tongue in cheek chariot racing game loosely based on FASA's RPG Renegade Legion. Players attempt to complete three circuits while keeping their chariots and drivers intact. The main challenge is maneuvering around the bends while attempting to disable or block your opponents. The game has some brief miniature rules and provisions for all sorts of carnage. Maneuvering cards also add a bit of randomness to the race. Not for the serious strategist, but all in all a nice fun diversion. Get Ready to Whip the Beasts! |
| 2 | Friday | Quadropolis | Quadropolis | Days of Wonder | Board | Atomic Squash | Each player builds their own metropolis in Quadropolis (first announced as City Mania), but they're competing with one another for the shops, parks, public services and other structures to be placed in them. |
| 2 | Friday | Orleans | Orleans | Tasty Minstrel Games | Board | Atomic Squash | During the medieval goings-on around Orléans, you must assemble a following of farmers, merchants, knights, monks, etc. to gain supremacy through trade, construction and science in medieval France. |
| 2 | Friday | Firefly | Firefly | Gale Force Nine | Board | Atomic Squash | In Firefly: The Game – based on the popular Firefly television series created by Joss Whedon – players captain their own Firefly-class transport ship, traveling the 'Verse with a handpicked crew of fighters, mechanics and other travelers. As a captain desperate for work, players are compelled to take on any job — so long as it pays. Double-dealing employers, heavy-handed Alliance patrols, and marauding Reavers are all in a day's work for a ship's captain at the edge of the 'Verse. Firefly: The Game is a high-end thematic tabletop board game from Gale Force Nine (GF9) and the first in a series of tabletop hobby board games and miniatures games from GF9 set in the Firefly Universe. |
| 2 | Friday | Coldwater Classic (Play with the Designer) | Coldwater Classic | Bellwether Games | Board | Brian Suhre | It's the start of the Coldwater Classic, a world-renowned fishing tournament in the north Atlantic, and you’ve secured your spot as a competitor in the finals. There’ll be folks from every continent competing to take home the Coldwater Crown, but you like your odds of winning. You were raised on these waters. You know how and when the fish like to bite, you know the best bait to use, and, most importantly, you know how to balance your catch of Shore, Lake and River fish to win. Will you be able to bring home the title to the Coldwater Classic or will the heavier fish yield to your competitors’ lures? |
| 2 | Friday | My Village | My Village | Stronghold Games | Board | Atomic Squash | A new chapter opens in the Village chronicles! In this standalone game, each player is in charge of his very own village, controlling its entire fate. Known places and characters conjoin with new mechanisms to make up a gaming experience that feels so familiar and is yet so different from Village! |
| 3 | Saturday | T.I.M.E Stories | T.I.M.E Stories | Asmodee | Board | Atomic Squash | The T.I.M.E Agency protects humanity by preventing temporal faults and paradoxes from threatening the fabric of our universe. As temporal agents, you and your team will be sent into the bodies of beings from different worlds or realities to successfully complete the missions given to you. Failure is impossible, as you will be able to go back in time as many times as required. |
| 3 | Saturday | Favor of the Pharaoh | Favor of the Pharaoh | Beizer Games | Board | Atomic Squash | Favor of the Pharaoh tasks players with building a dice-rolling engine—not to mention adding and manipulating dice—in preparation for a final roll-off between all players to gain the Pharaoh's favor and win the game. |
| 3 | Saturday | 51st State | 51st State | Asmodee | Board | Atomic Squash | The world you know no longer exists. There is no government. No army. No civilization. The United States has collapsed, and now thirty years after the war started, new powers finally try to take control over the ruined country, try to establish a new order, try to control others and create a new country, a new state: the 51st State. |
| 3 | Saturday | Steam Time | Steam Time | Beizer Games | Board | Atomic Squash | It's the year 1899, and strange phenomena are being observed in places like Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt. Time goes crazy, and newly discovered crystals have exhibited strange properties that allow for the creation of fantastic apparatuses. |
| 3 | Saturday | Coldwater Classic (Play with the Designer) | Coldwater Classic | Bellwether Games | Board | Brian Suhre | It's the start of the Coldwater Classic, a world-renowned fishing tournament in the north Atlantic, and you’ve secured your spot as a competitor in the finals. There’ll be folks from every continent competing to take home the Coldwater Crown, but you like your odds of winning. You were raised on these waters. You know how and when the fish like to bite, you know the best bait to use, and, most importantly, you know how to balance your catch of Shore, Lake and River fish to win. Will you be able to bring home the title to the Coldwater Classic or will the heavier fish yield to your competitors’ lures? |
| 3 | Saturday | Mombasa | Mombasa | R&R Games | Board | Atomic Squash | In Mombasa, players acquire shares of chartered companies based in Mombasa, Cape Town, Saint-Louis, and Cairo and propagate trading posts of these companies throughout the African continent in order to earn the most money. |
| 4 | Saturday | World's Fair 1893 | World's Fair 1893 | Foxtrot Games | Board | Atomic Squash | The World's Fair of 1893 in Chicago was a spectacular international exhibition that showcased many great achievements in science, technology, culture, and entertainment. Acting as organizers of the fair, players work diligently to increase their influence throughout the fair and obtain the grand exhibits that will be put on display. The organizer who has earned the best reputation when the fair begins will emerge the victor. |
| 4 | Saturday | Castles of Mad King Ludwig (w/Secrets) | Castles of Mad King Ludwig (w/Secrets) | Beizer Games | Board | Atomic Squash | In the tile-laying game Castles of Mad King Ludwig, players are tasked with building an amazing, extravagant castle for King Ludwig II of Bavaria...one room at a time. You see, the King loves castles, having built Neuschwanstein (the castle that inspired the Disney theme park castles) and others, but now he's commissioned you to build the biggest, best castle ever — subject, of course, to his ever-changing whims. Each player acts as a building contractor who is adding rooms to the castle he's building while also selling his services to other players. This session includes the use of the "Secrets" expansion. |
| 4 | Saturday | Terra Mystica (w/Fire & Ice) | Terra Mystica (w/Fire & Ice) | Z-Man Games | Board | Atomic Squash | Terra Mystica is a game with very little luck that rewards strategic planning. Each player governs one of the 14 groups. With subtlety and craft, the player must attempt to rule as great an area as possible and to develop that group's skills. There are also four religious cults in which you can progress. To do all that, each group has special skills and abilities. This event includes the Terra Mystica: Fire and Ice expansion. |
| 4 | Saturday | Paradox (Play with the Designer) | Paradox | Split Second Games | Board | Brian Suhre | In the near future of Paradox, a space-time disturbance called The Quake is fracturing entire worlds’ timelines and removing these worlds from existence. Two to four players take on the roles of scientists working quickly to repair these worlds’ connections to their past, present, and future by making new time strands — however, every repaired connection ripples through time and fuels the Quake to fracture more worlds. When the storm’s power fades, the most successful scientist will be hailed as a hero throughout the multiverse. |
| 4 | Saturday | Zombicide: Black Plague | Zombicide: Black Plague | Cook Mini or Not | Board | Atomic Squash | Zombicide: Black Plague takes the zombie apocalypse into a fantastical medieval setting! The arcane powers of the Necromancers have unleashed a zombie invasion in the age of swords and sorcery, and it's up to your group of straggling survivors to not only stay alive during these dark times, but to take back the realm and punish those responsible for the apocalypse! |
| 5 | Saturday | Trickerion: Legends of Illusion | Trickerion: Legends of Illusion | Mindclash Games | Board | Atomic Squash | Trickerion is a competitive Euro-style strategy game set in a fictional world inspired by the late 19th century urban life and culture, spiced with a pinch of supernatural. Players take on the roles of rival stage illusionists, each with their own strengths and characteristics. They are striving for fortune and fame in a competition hosted by a legendary magician, looking for a successor worthy of the mighty Trickerion Stone, which is fabled to grant supernatural power to its owner. |
| 5 | Saturday | Eldritch Horror | Eldritch Horror | Fantasy Flight | Board | Atomic Squash | Eldritch Horror is a cooperative game of terror and adventure in which one to eight players take the roles of globetrotting investigators working to solve mysteries, gather clues, and protect the world from an Ancient One – that is, an elder being intent on destroying our world. Each Ancient One comes with its own unique decks of Mystery and Research cards, which draw you deeper into the lore surrounding each loathsome creature. Discover the true name of Azathoth or battle Cthulhu on the high seas. |
| 5 | Saturday | Coldwater Classic (Play with the Designer) | Coldwater Classic | Bellwether Games | Board | Brian Suhre | It's the start of the Coldwater Classic, a world-renowned fishing tournament in the north Atlantic, and you’ve secured your spot as a competitor in the finals. There’ll be folks from every continent competing to take home the Coldwater Crown, but you like your odds of winning. You were raised on these waters. You know how and when the fish like to bite, you know the best bait to use, and, most importantly, you know how to balance your catch of Shore, Lake and River fish to win. Will you be able to bring home the title to the Coldwater Classic or will the heavier fish yield to your competitors’ lures? |
| 5 | Saturday | Battlestar Galactica | Battlestar Galactica | Fantasy Flight | Board | Atomic Squash | Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is an exciting game of mistrust, intrigue, and the struggle for survival. Based on the epic and widely-acclaimed Sci Fi Channel series, Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game puts players in the role of one of ten of their favorite characters from the show. Each playable character has their own abilities and weaknesses, and must all work together in order for humanity to have any hope of survival |
| 5 | Saturday | Ticket to Ride | Ticket to Ride | Days of Wonder | Board | Atomic Squash | Atomic Squash 5nd annual Ticket to Ride Tournament. Look for more details at Board Gaming HQ. Round robin tournament, with final table. Test your Ticket to Ride Skills against the best that DieCon has to offer. |
| 5 | Saturday | King of Tokyo | King of Tokyo | IELLO | Board | Atomic Squash | In King of Tokyo, you play mutant monsters, gigantic robots, and strange aliens – all of whom are destroying Tokyo and whacking each other in order to become the one and only King of Tokyo. Round Robin Tournament Winner takes all. Prizes provided by Iello. |
| 6 | Sunday | Orleans | Orleans | Tasty Minstrel Games | Board | Atomic Squash | During the medieval goings-on around Orléans, you must assemble a following of farmers, merchants, knights, monks, etc. to gain supremacy through trade, construction and science in medieval France. |
| 6 | Sunday | World's Fair 1893 | World's Fair 1893 | Foxtrot Games | Board | Atomic Squash | The World's Fair of 1893 in Chicago was a spectacular international exhibition that showcased many great achievements in science, technology, culture, and entertainment. Acting as organizers of the fair, players work diligently to increase their influence throughout the fair and obtain the grand exhibits that will be put on display. The organizer who has earned the best reputation when the fair begins will emerge the victor. |
| 6 | Sunday | 51st State | 51st State | Asmodee | Board | Atomic Squash | The world you know no longer exists. There is no government. No army. No civilization. The United States has collapsed, and now thirty years after the war started, new powers finally try to take control over the ruined country, try to establish a new order, try to control others and create a new country, a new state: the 51st State. |
| 6 | Sunday | Steam Time | Steam Time | Beizer Games | Board | Atomic Squash | It's the year 1899, and strange phenomena are being observed in places like Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt. Time goes crazy, and newly discovered crystals have exhibited strange properties that allow for the creation of fantastic apparatuses. |
| 6 | Sunday | Paradox (Play with the Designer) | Paradox | Split Second Games | Board | Brian Suhre | In the near future of Paradox, a space-time disturbance called The Quake is fracturing entire worlds’ timelines and removing these worlds from existence. Two to four players take on the roles of scientists working quickly to repair these worlds’ connections to their past, present, and future by making new time strands — however, every repaired connection ripples through time and fuels the Quake to fracture more worlds. When the storm’s power fades, the most successful scientist will be hailed as a hero throughout the multiverse. |
| 6 | Sunday | Iron Dragon | Iron Dragon | Mayfair | Board | Atomic Squash | From the box: "Iron Dragon™ takes railroading games where they have never gone before -- to a land filled with elves, cat-people, trolls and magic. Genetically engineered dragons pull trains across dangerous and unexplored territory. Connect cities, fight off forest creatures, and explore the underground to build a railroad empire. |
| 7 | Sunday | Atomic Squash Board Game Bonanza | Various | Various | Board | Atomic Squash | Join the Sunday Tradition. Miss one of the games you want to try? Friends too lame to play a board game with you? Want to try something from the DieCon games library. Hey I'm here till close. Sit and play a few of your favorites to wrap up the weekend. Starts in session 7 and wraps up when the convention closes. |
| 7 | Sunday | Coldwater Classic (Play with the Designer) | Coldwater Classic | Bellwether Games | Board | Brian Suhre | It's the start of the Coldwater Classic, a world-renowned fishing tournament in the north Atlantic, and you’ve secured your spot as a competitor in the finals. There’ll be folks from every continent competing to take home the Coldwater Crown, but you like your odds of winning. You were raised on these waters. You know how and when the fish like to bite, you know the best bait to use, and, most importantly, you know how to balance your catch of Shore, Lake and River fish to win. Will you be able to bring home the title to the Coldwater Classic or will the heavier fish yield to your competitors’ lures? |
| 8 | Sunday | Atomic Squash Board Game Bonanza | Various | Various | Board | Atomic Squash | Join the Sunday Tradition. Miss one of the games you want to try? Friends too lame to play a board game with you? Want to try something from the DieCon games library. Hey I'm here till close. Sit and play a few of your favorites to wrap up the weekend. Starts in session 7 and wraps up when the convention closes. |