[Deptheads] Games the Dealers should have on hand for Gateway 2012

[Eric Burgess]

Paiva,

This is mostly for you but the others can read as they see fit:

Antoine Bauza - Obviously, he'll be running lots of 7 Wonders. They should
all order a lot of the Cities and Leaders expansions. Cities will have JUST
come out so they better make sure they order plenty and bring them. It's a
great expansion and we already got a pre-release copy for the library so
it's going to get exposure. There are also events for Hanabi (which is a
huge impulse-buy kind of game), Hurry'Cup (less demand but there will be
some), Ghost Stories (there will be plenty of interest in it and its two
expansions), Takenoko (new, cute and likely to be one people buy for a
signature).

Days of Wonder also sent additional copies of Antoine's Mystery Express. I
don't know that they want to go wild with this game that got mixed reviews.
But it will be showcased so bringing along the store copy makes good sense.

Asmodee - In addition to Antoine, Stefan Brunelle from Asmodee will be
on-hand running demos in the VIP area. He will focus on Takenoko, City of
Horror, Seasons (going to be HOT!) and possibly Dungeon Twister Prison. The
dealers should bring all their Asmodee stock and perhaps order more on the
Antoine titles. I'm serious on Seasons - that is going to be a hit game and
they should be ready for it. Also - they could have sold a dozen copies of
Eclipse if they'd had them last time. They should stock up on this red-hot
title. I'm checking with Stefan to make sure he brings one but there's at
least one but we have a 101 session on the schedule, too.

Indie Boards and Games - They are sending a copy of Flash Point that we'll
let people play and then we'll give away a copy to one of the people who
checked it out. The game is hot (pardon the pun) right now and they should
have them on-hand.

Village and Belfort - Tasty Minstrel has generously provided multiple
copies to us and we'll give two of each away during the course of the
weekend (prizes for the tourneys and a couple to giveaway on Twitter). Seth
will be there promoting them so it's a good idea for them to have copies
on-hand.

Gamewright - Some great new games we'll be demoing - notably Take it or
Leave it and Scallywags. They should have those on-hand.

Other hot games: New D&D board game, new Dominion, Ticket to Ride Asia Maps
(they have an adverts in the conbook), Few Acres of Snow, Wurfel Bohnanza
and 23 (both imports), Lords of Waterdeep, Castles of Burgundy, Cthulhu
Fluxx - all the GenCon releases - people will be looking for them.

...ERB
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