The year is 1931, and the Soviet Union is forging ahead with its grand experiment: Stalin’s Five-Year Plan. The Party has declared that industry must expand, infrastructure must modernize, and the nation must surge toward self-sufficiency—no matter the cost. Across the vast Soviet landscape, railway planners work tirelessly to construct a transport network...
This map pair was released at Age of Steam Con 2025 in Kansas City. Wisconsin Cheeseheads by Justin Szczepanski - This map is set in Wisconsin known for the Green Bay Packers. That's it. Actually cheese too. And beer consumption. And lots of water. This map features cheese cubes, which are actually not great because everyone has cheese. It also features...
This map was put together to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of Heavy Cardboard podcast, a podcast about heavy boardgames. The city and town names used on this map are boardgames featured or discussed in Heavy Cardboard podcasts. This map is intended to be fairly open with plenty of space for route building and goods availability. The Heavy Cardboard...
This expansion puts players as the presidents of comedian training schools in Osaka. Each color of cubes represents a different type of comedy, and the black cubes represent the staff. If cubes are delivered and there is not staff present to support the show, less income is received. Additionally, extra money can be received if the performer can enjoy the...
In this expansion map, the players are researchers in a chemical laboratory, creating Benzene-based aromatic compounds. A research phase is added before cube production in which players can exchange cubes they have delivered to move up on a research track. The track includes spaces for gaining additional cubes, cash, points, or unlocking certain locomotive...
Age of Steam: Fukuoka is an expansion map for Age of Steam which introduces an area majority mechanic. The board is divided into four areas, and when a player delivers a cube, they take a track ownership disc from that route and move it to one of the special boxes tracking the majorities for any of the regions the route passes through. A neutral player...
Manhattan 1929 is a fan-made Print & Play Age of Steam expansion map for 3-5 players, designed by Clef Haworth. To simulate the stock-market crash of 1929, the game features "crashing" cities, which effectively become colorless Cities devoid of cubes once its empty column is rolled during the Goods Growth phase. Each time this occurs, all players...
A global warming inspired semi-modular expansion map for Age of Steam. Due to the climatic impact, the island undergoes changes. As the game progresses, the glaciers in the northern part of the island melt and grassy fields with small ponds take their place. Forests start to spread in the southern parts of the island, which need to be cleared for tracks or...
This semi-modular expansion map has a Ski Resort theme. The main cities (chair lifts) appear on the base map. The board grows organically outward by using the Urbanization Action which adds map tiles. The map tiles have new cities (gondolas) on them as well as a variety of features such as towns (warming huts) and grass (non-skiable terrain) which provide...
A Stonehenge inspired semi-modular expansion map for Age of Steam. The board starts out incomplete with an empty central ring of hexes. The map tiles have the 'new cities' on them and are themed as sacred hexes. Each player may deliver one offering (good) to the central alter during the course of the game (when it becomes reachable from a placed map tile)....