Designer Ed Beach Publisher GMT Games Players 2-6 Playtime 360 mins Suggested Age 12 and up Honors 2006 Charles S. Roberts Best Pre-World War II Boardgame Nominee 2006 Charles S. Roberts Best Wargame Graphics Nominee 2006 Golden Geek Best Wargame Nominee 2006 Walter Luc Haas Best Simulation Winner 2007 Golden Geek Best Wargame Nominee Additional Info 17392/here-i-stand http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/3224/here-i-stand/reviews Enhancements include: 6 brand new cards added to the deck, including Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Rough Wooing, and Imperial Coronation. Revisions to over 15 existing cards including Copernicus, Master of Italy, and Machiavelli to allow for more exciting in-game play and additional possibilities for diplomatic deals. A new Chateau construction table is now used to resolve France's Patron of the Arts home card plays. Several Virgin Queen rule updates are incorporated back into Here I Stand, affecting minor power activation, piracy, space trading, and foreign wars. For those of you who already have a P500 order in for the Reprint Edition of Here I Stand, your order is still good - you'll just be getting an upgraded version of the game for the same P500 price. And for those of you who want to order it on P500, we're keeping the same pricing as the previous reprint version, but giving you more value! So order away! For those of you who already own the game and don't want an entire new game, but would like to only update the new components, we are also offering a Here I Stand 500th Anniversary Edition Upgrade Kit for $35 Retail and $25 P500 pricing (+ shipping) that will allow owners of the existing game to enjoy this updated new version. The upgrade kit will include new card decks, a card of updated charts, six new power cards, a half sheet of new counters, and the new rules and scenario books. We hope you enjoy this cool new edition of Here I Stand via either the full new boxed game or the upgrade kit! Game Components: COUNTERS Four and a half full-color counter sheets CARDS 116 Strategy Cards MAPS One 22"x34" Mounted Mapsheet Player Aid Cards (11"x17" & 8.5"x11") Rules/Scenario Book One ten-sided die LIVING RULES ERRATA FAQ Scenario Book Changes Rulebook (2010 Reprint Ed.) Scenario Book Player Aid Cards Two-Player Rules ONLINE RESOURCES Designer's Here I Stand Home Page Tips For Playing Here I Stand for the First Time BPA Here I Stand Online Tournament Cyberboard Gamebox VASSAL Module - courtesy of Joel Koepp AWARDS Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Pre-World War II boardgame, 2006. Walter Luc Haas Award (Germany) for Best Simulation Game, 2006. Finalist, International Gamers Award for Historical Simulation, 2007. Finalist, The Boardgamegeek, Golden Geek Award for Best Wargame 2007. Nominee, Game Magazine for Historical Simulation Game, 2007. REVIEWS BoardGameBlogger (video) Alejandro Druichii's Video Review (Spanish) Deseret News Ludovico Martinengo (BGG) Pedro Perez (BGG) Michael Heitz (BGG) PUBLISHED: 2006,2010 DESIGNER: Ed BeachART DIRECTOR: Rodger B. MacGowanMAP & CARD ART: Mark SimonitchCOUNTER ART: Mark Simonitch and Rodger B. MacGowanPRODUCERS: Gene Billingsley, Tony Curtis, Andy Lewis, Rodger MacGowan, Mark Simonitch
