DieCon 17

Atomic Squash Game Schedule

Last Updated : 05/23

Game Session

Con Day

Game Title Game SystemGame Company Game TypeGMDescription
1 Friday 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.
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 Parfum Parfum Queen Games Board Atomic Squash Who will be the most successful perfumer? Parfum takes the players to the wonderful world of fragrances. Using ingredients like vanilla, lavender or violets, the players distill precious essences in order to create unique perfumes. Only the player catering to their clientele's preferences will be able to sell their perfume. Each customer favors a specific fragrance which must be contained in a flask to induce them to buy it.
2 Friday Circus Imperium Circus Imperium FASA Board Atomic Squash 11th 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 A Feast of Odin A Feast of Odin Z-Man Games Board Atomic Squash Using the central board in A Feast for Odin, players have to hunt, gather basic materials, refine those materials, develop their production-buildings, build/buy ships, and raid settlements. The resulting earnings are placed on the players' board in the best possible pattern to produce income and (later) victory point
2 Friday Ice Cool Ice Cool Brain Games Board Atomic Squash Ice Cool is a flicking game in which each round one of the players takes the role of the Hall Monitor (also called "the Catcher") – his aim will be to catch each other penguin and get points for that. The others (also known as "Runners") will try to run through several doors, thus gaining fish (that give them points) on their way. When either the Hall Monitor has caught each other penguin once or any of the others has gone through all 3 doors that have fish on them, the round is over. Each player will take the role of the Hall Monitor once and at the end of the game the winner will be the one with the most points on their fish cards.
2 Friday Roll Player Roll Player Thunderworks Games Board Atomic Squash In Roll Player, you will compete to create the greatest fantasy adventurer who has ever lived, preparing your character to embark on an epic quest. Roll and draft dice to build up your character’s attributes. Purchase weapons and armor to outfit your hero. Train to gain skills and discover your hero’s traits to prepare them for their journey. Earn Reputation Stars by constructing the perfect character. The player with the greatest Reputation wins the game and will surely triumph over whatever nefarious plot lies ahead!
3 Saturday Great Western Trail Great Western Trail Stronghold Games Board Atomic Squash America in the 19th century: You are a rancher and repeatedly herd your cattle from Texas to Kansas City, where you send them off by train. This earns you money and victory points. Needless to say, each time you arrive in Kansas City, you want to have your most valuable cattle in tow. However, the "Great Western Trail" not only requires that you keep your herd in good shape, but also that you wisely use the various buildings along the trail. Also, it might be a good idea to hire capable staff: cowboys to improve your herd, craftsmen to build your very own buildings, or engineers for the important railroad line.
3 Saturday Orleans w/Invasion Orleans Tasty Minstrel Games Board Atomic Squash In the city of Orléans and the area of the Loire, you can take trade trips to other cities to acquire coveted goods and build trading posts. You need followers and their abilities to expand your dominance by putting them to work as traders, builders, and scientists. Knights expand your scope of action and secure your mercantile expeditions. Craftsmen build trading stations and tools to facilitate work. Scholars make progress in science, and last but not least it cannot hurt to get active in monasteries since with monks on your side you are much less likely to fall prey to fate.
3 Saturday Coldwater Classic Coldwater Classic Bellwether Games Board Brian Suhre Its 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?
4 Saturday Caverna: The Cave Farmers Caverna: The Cave Farmers Mayfair Games Board Atomic Squash Following along the same lines as its predecessor (Agricola), Caverna: The Cave Farmers is a worker-placement game at heart, with a focus on farming. In the game, you are the bearded leader of a small dwarf family that lives in a little cave in the mountains. You begin the game with a farmer and his spouse, and each member of the farming family represents an action that the player can take each turn. Together, you cultivate the forest in front of your cave and dig deeper into the mountain. You furnish the caves as dwellings for your offspring as well as working spaces for small enterprises
4 Saturday Paradox Paradox Split Second Games Board Brian Suhre In Paradox, players take on the roles of scientists from other worlds fighting a massive space-time disturbance called the Quake that is threatening planets in both space and time. Using temporal matrixes (devices that weave new Strands of time) players research anomalies in the World’s timeline and manipulate energy to create new Strands; when they have created enough of the proper Strands, they repair breaches in the space-time continuum. However, every change made creates a ripple effect – the Quake jumps to another World, fracturing it and removing it from reality.
4 Saturday Potion Explosion Potion Explosion Cool Mini or Not Board Atomic Squash Dear students, it's time for the final exams of the Potions class! The rules are always the same: Take an ingredient marble from the dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color, they explode and you can take them, too! Complete your potions using the marbles you collect, and drink them to unleash their magical power. Remember, though, that to win the Student of the Year award, being quick won't be enough: you'll also need to brew the most valuable potions in Potion Explosion!
5 Saturday Ticket to Ride: Rails and Sails Ticket to Ride: Rails and Sails Days of Wonder Board Atomic Squash Ticket to Ride: Rails & Sails takes the familiar gameplay of Ticket to Ride and expands it across the globe — which means that you'll be moving across water, of course, and that's where the sails come in.
5 Saturday Colony Colony Beizer Games Board Atomic Squash In Colony, each player constructs and upgrades buildings, while managing resources to grow their fledgling colony. In a clever twist, dice are used as resources, with each side/number representing a different resource. Some resources are stable, allowing them to be stored between turns, while others must be used right away. Buildings provide new capabilities, such as increased production, resource manipulation, and additional victory points. Using dice-as-resources facilitates a dynamic, ever-changing resources management mini-game while players work to earn victory points by adding building to their tableau on their way to victory.
5 Saturday Mansions of Madness Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition Fantasy Flight Games Board Atomic Squash Mansions of Madness: Second Edition is a fully cooperative, app-driven board game of horror and mystery for one to five players that takes place in the same universe as Eldritch Horror and Elder Sign. Let the immersive app guide you through the veiled streets of Innsmouth and the haunted corridors of Arkham's cursed mansions as you search for answers and respite. Eight brave investigators stand ready to confront four scenarios of fear and mystery, collecting weapons, tools, and information, solving complex puzzles, and fighting monsters, insanity, and death. Open the door and step inside these hair-raising Mansions of Madness: Second Edition. It will take more than just survival to conquer the evils terrorizing this town.
5 Saturday Food Chain Magnate Food Chain Magnate Splotter Spellen Board Atomic Squash Food Chain Magnate is a heavy strategy game about building a fast food chain. The focus is on building your company using a card-driven (human) resource management system. Players compete on a variable city map through purchasing, marketing and sales, and on a job market for key staff members. The game can be played by 2-5 serious gamers in 2-4 hours.
6 Sunday Terraforming Mars Terraforming Mars Atomic Squash Board Atomic Squash In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things.
6 Sunday 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.
6 Sunday Planetarium Planetarium Game Salute Board Atomic Squash Matter swirls around a new born star, coalescing on the planetoids that orbit it. Planets evolve, grow and migrate in their orbits, forming a unique solar system by the end of every game. Planetarium is a game of creation, chaos and terraforming on the grandest scale.
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.
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.